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From GEMS to NeMO: Project on neonatal mortality monitoring wins Gates Grand Challenge Grant
12/01/2017
Alain Labrique and Nina Martin | The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health
For nearly two decades, Alain Labrique, Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Director of the Johns Hopkins Global mHealth Initiative has been working on ways to reduce the high rates of neonatal mortality experienced by populations across South Asia, with a focus on Bangladesh - a country where he was born and...
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CGH is launching a free online international travel prep course
07/10/2017
Nina Martin | The Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health
Preparing for a trip outside the US? Don't know where to find information about vaccines or visas? Worried about how to relate when you don't speak the language? The Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health (CGH) is now offering a free version of its international travel preparation course on Coursera. The objective of this course is equip both first-time and seasoned individuals with knowledge and resources to be...
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The Alliance for a Healthier World: New initiative to tackle global health equity
06/13/2017
Nina Martin and Sheridan Jones McCrae | The Center for Global Health and The Alliance for a Healthier World
Defining, measuring, and implementing diets and food systems that are sustainable for the planet and human health. Exploring efficient water re-use in communities with water scarcity. Promoting gender equity and justice. Expanding citizen science and innovation platforms for technologies that benefit low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). These are a few of the questions...
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Webinar on “Research Priorities for Differentiated Care”
06/06/2017
Charles Holmes, MD, MPH | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
At the recent ICAP Grand Rounds on May 23, 2017, Dr. Charles Holmes, Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and director of the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia, presented on the changing needs for HIV service delivery and research to achieve the goal of "90-90-90"* by 2020. In his presentation, Dr. Holmes discussed the reasons for revising approaches to HIV care and delivery,...
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Johns Hopkins Global Women’s Health Fellowship now accepting applications
05/15/2017
The Johns Hopkins Global Women’s Health Fellowship Program is a two-year postgraduate training program addressing critical women’s health issues and sustainable health solutions in low and middle income countries. A partnership between the Johns Hopkins Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and Jhpiego, the Johns Hopkins global health affiliate, this interdisciplinary fellowship will uniquely pair an Ob/Gyn physician with an advanced practice...
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Marching for Science
04/25/2017
Nina Martin | Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health
This past Saturday was Earth Day, and also the day that people participated in hundreds of "March for Science" events around the globe - including a team of scientists on Antarctica! According to the organizers' website, Saturday's march was "a celebration of science. It's not only about scientists and politicians; it is about the very real role that science plays in each of our lives and the need to...
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“Borders are beginning to be non-existent”: A profile of Fogarty Fellow Dr. Gilberte Bastien
04/17/2017
Nina Martin | Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health
The 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa devastated Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia: over 11,000 deaths were reported and over 28,000 total cases suspected or confirmed. Although the peak of the outbreak has passed, new cases continue to be confirmed, and the threat of another outbreak is ever present. Amidst this, life continues, and one question we need to ask is: what happens to those left behind?
The March/ April issue of...
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CUGH 2017: A call to remember that “all health is global health”
04/10/2017
Nina Martin | Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health
This past weekend students, faculty, international and NGO partners, and donors gathered at the 2017 Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) conference to share ideas and innovations, and reaffirm support for the essential role that global health has for human health as a whole. At the opening plenary session, panelists Mark Dybul, Trish Davidson, Victor Dzau, and Hester Klopper spoke of the need to strengthen health...
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Celebrating Global Health Day 2017
04/03/2017
Nina Martin | Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health
On March 30, 2017, The Center for Global Health (CGH) and The Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health celebrated Global Health Day 2017 with students, faculty, and friends. Global Health Day is an annual celebration of Johns Hopkins University’s innovative and collaborative work around the globe. The keynote speaker and guest was Ambassador Deborah Birx, US Global AIDS Coordinator and US Special Representative for...
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Why Secretary Tillerson Must Invest in Global Health: My View from Zambia
03/03/2017
Dr. Charles Holmes | Johns Hopkins University
Having just returned from four years of working in southern Africa, it is heartening to see that the hearings of now Sec of State Rex Tillerson have shined a light on the importance of the US relationship with Africa, even as others have expressed skepticism.
After working at the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) during the last two administrations, I moved to Zambia in 2012 to get sustained...