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Best practices to integrate novel PrEP products into existing platforms for oral PrEP delivery
As part of a recent career mentoring award, Dr Heffron and trainees are working to develop a preliminary strategy for new PrEP products to be integrated into existing platforms for oral PrEP delivery. Primary collaborators include the Infectious...
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Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Kitts and Nevis
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Peer PrEP referral + HIV self-test delivery for PrEP initiation and among young Kenyan women
This pilot study and randomized implementation trial aims to develop and test a formalized model of peer PrEP referral enhanced with HIV self-test delivery to increase PrEP initiation among young Kenyan women at HIV risk. All research is being conducted...
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NBC: New Map Finds 2 Billion People at Risk of Zika Virus
By Maggie Fox ...
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Vaccines for Pregnant Women
Dr. Kochhar is helping set up a pregnancy registrary in one of the LMICs in Africa. She serves as the Co-Chair of the WHO Technical Advisory Group on GBS Vaccine Development; the WHO Expert Steering Committee on Safety Surveillance in Pregnancy in LMICs...
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MATRIX
The mission of MATRIX to develop a range of acceptable, affordable, scalable and deliverable products to meet the unmet needs of women at risk of HIV and other infectious diseases. ...
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Congratulations, 2017 Graduates!
On Wednesday, June 9, 2017, the Department of Global Health celebrated our tenth graduation since our founding in 2007. Over 150 students received degrees and certificates, including five graduates of the PhD programs, 43 graduates of the MPH program,...
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Heat-Related Emergencies Are Soaring in the U.S. Can Hospitals Keep Up?
Medical providers and public health experts worry that the health care system is poorly equipped to handle the influx. The UW's Dr. Jeremy Hess, professor of environmental and occupational health sciences, global health and emergency medicine; and...
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MPH Student from Nigeria Publishes Op-Ed on Cancer
"Do you know that according to the World Health Organization, deaths due to cancer in developing countries have surpassed the deaths due to HIV, malaria and tuberculosis combined? About 80% of deaths due to cancer worldwide occur in developing...
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Improving weather forecasts by one degree could slash heat wave deaths
When temperatures are extreme, the accuracy of a weather forecast can be the difference between life and death. New research shows that even small errors in temperature predictions — as little as one degree Celsius — lead to more deaths, and that...