Sentences with phrase «global health r&d»

But even before all the data were in, the researchers began to suspect that their assumptions were wrong, says lead study author Kathryn Whetten, director of the Center for Public Health Policy at the Duke Global Health Institute in Durham, N.C. «The stereotype that many of us in the U.S. and Europe have of an institution is not what is being set up in less wealthy nations,» Whetten says.

Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative.

Farmer, a pioneer in global health, has a history of tackling big problems.

Academic: includes lectures by international leaders in the different fields of science diplomacy (energy, environment, climate, water, global health, nuclear nonproliferation, space, etc.), exclusive online learning tools, interactive case studies, and experiential learning through role - playing exercises and simulations.

The committee identified four priority areas encompassing the 14 recommendations for global health action:

Hans Rosling at a panel discussion on global health on July 1st, the last day of the Lindau meeting.

According to the World Health Organization, antibiotic resistant is one of the biggest threats to global health today and a significant contributor to longer hospital stays, higher medical costs and increased mortality.

A new study carried out by the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) and the Institute of Global Health of Barcelona (ISGlobal), a centre supported by «la Caixa» Foundation, associates for the first time mild obsessive - compulsive symptoms, which are present in a much higher percentage of cases than those that require specialized medical and psychological attention, to characteristics and specific alterations of the cerebral anatomy.

«Acute malnutrition is still a major global health problem.

The global health agency pledged to reduce the death toll — now running at 95,000 a year — by improving sanitation and strategically deploying an oral vaccine

In advance of this month's World Health Assembly and the G7 summit in June, world leaders should consider the establishment of a global biomedical research and development fund and a mechanism to address the dearth in innovation for today's most pressing global health challenges, according to Bernard Pécoul, from the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, Geneva, Switzerland, and colleagues in an Essay published in PLOS Medicine.

Now, an international team of scientists led by Stewart Cole's lab at EPFL's Global Health Institute have isolated, sequenced and analyzed the genomes of 154 strains of M. leprae from around the world.

Scientific American spoke with one of the study authors, Eric Finkelstein, an associate professor at Duke University's Global Health Institute and in the school's Health Services Research Program in Singapore, about why the extra helping of information did not influence ordering behavior.

The authors note that while large, international, multi-lateral funds exist for global health delivery, there is no significant pooled funding mechanism for research and development to complement existing but limited R&D funding for a wide range of diseases.

The study, which was recently published in Lancet Global Health, is based on a study of 130 pregnant women with fever.

The EID2 database used in the study was created by University researchers in the Institute of Infection and Global Health to bring a «big data» approach to emerging diseases.

Tachi Yamada is the president of the Global Health Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.Trained as a gastroenterologist, he leads the foundation's efforts to help develop and deliver low - cost, lifesaving health tools for the developing world.

maintain U.S. status and influence as a world leader in global health while adhering to evidence - based science and economics, measurement, and accountability.

Nearly 100 years later, the threat of another influenza pandemic looms large as the scientific and global health communities find ways to prepare for, and battle, future outbreaks.

The study, led by Dr Carri Westgarth from the University's Institute of Infection and Global Health, examined the demographic and behavioural factors that contribute towards owners reporting having a strong sense of encouragement and motivation to walk provided by their dogs, which the team call «the Lassie effect».

Achieve global health security.

COPD is expected to be the third largest cause of death globally by 2030, and it is important that we identify its key causes so that this burden can be reduced,» says study author Professor Shyamali Dharmage, School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Australia.

The Lililwan study, led by Aboriginal leaders from the Fitzroy Valley communities, The George Institute for Global Health and The University of Sydney, provides Australia's first comprehensive data on the prevalence of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in remote communities.

Warren is vice president, Human Resources and Global Diversity and Inclusion Center of Excellence at the global health care company that is based in Kenilworth, New Jersey, and known as MSD outside the United States and Canada.

A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine identifies global health priorities in light of current and emerging challenges and makes 14 recommendations for the U.S. government and other stakeholders to address these challenges, while maintaining U.S. status as a world leader in global health.

The U.S. government should maintain its leadership position in global health as a matter of urgent national interest and as a global public benefit that enhances America's international standing.»

«Global health leaders call for global biomedical research and development fund, mechanism.»

The similarities are fueling concern among global health experts that the U.S. could face its own Zika outbreaks — the question is when.

She has also worked on global health projects in Thailand and Kenya.

Now, she advises European Commission President José Manuel Barroso on scientific topics from global health to climate change.

It was organized by the Fellows» Global Health Affinity Group, led by Linda Mobula and Anjali Shastri, who are currently Fellows at the U.S. Agency for International Development and in the State Department, respectively.

The worldwide rise in diabetes rates has turned DR into a global health problem, with the number of cases expected to rise from 126.6 million in 2011 to 191 million by 2030 — an increase of nearly 51 percent.

Materials provided by O'Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law.

Founded in 1896, Roche has been making important contributions to global health for more than a century.

In patients with Chagas disease, the odds of being infected by the intestinal worm Strongyloides stercoralis increases by two-fold, according to a study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal).

An internationally - recognized scientist with more than 16 years of experience in translational immunoparasitology research and vaccine development for neglected tropical diseases, Bottazzi's major interest lies in the role of vaccines as control tools integrated into international public and global health programs and initiatives.

New Answers for Global Health: A magazine in collaboration with The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Carer Center and selected supporters to showcase the latest ingenuity in solving the world's most challenging health issues.

UNLEASHED The genetic tool CRISPR / Cas 9 has opened up gene drive technology to provide potential solutions for a multitude of problems in global health and ecology.

Reducing ship sulphur emissions cuts these other global health related impacts, too, avoiding about one - third of the annual cardiovascular disease and lung cancer deaths from shipping air pollution.

Materials provided by Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal).

With a growing consensus in the global health community that Hepatitis C (HCV) could be eliminated, a new report from the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University highlights a key missing element needed to achieving complete eliminationâ $ «adequate surveillance and monitoringâ $ «and explains how modest investments would improve lives and save money.

Trevor Mundel, president of global health at the Gates Foundation, talks to Scientific American editor - in - chief Mariette DiChristina about the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the efforts to create vaccine platforms for rapid responses to epidemics.

Since its inception in 2000, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has contributed nearly $ 8.5 billion to global health, with HIV and tuberculosis (TB) receiving $ 2.29 billion and other infectious diseases about $ 1.96 billion.

This development is widely considered a major threat to global health.

To address this massive global health problem, the U.S. Institute of Medicine formed a committee to create a set of tangible recommendations that would catalyze and focus action.

She recently received $ 297,000 from the Global Health Innovative Technology Fund to conduct this work.

Yet the disease, and the mosquitoes that carry it, were low on the global health priority list.

Global health experts believe the best way to reduce tobacco use is by stopping people starting to use tobacco, and encouraging and helping existing users to stop.

Recent global health campaigns focusing on HIV, TB and malaria have meant that people are increasingly surviving these illnesses and living longer.

Problems resulting from these deficiencies — such as blindness, anemia and death, particularly among children and women — are a major public health challenge,» said Dr. Saurabh Mehta, associate professor of global health, epidemiology and nutrition in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, and a senior author on this new research.