Sentences with phrase «global health challenges»

Are there lessons for other social campaigns, such as those addressing other global health challenges, human trafficking, and climate change?

In addition to her passion for animal welfare, she has a special interest in community development and global health challenges for animals and people.

The aim of this work, in collaboration with Bjoern Peters and Pandurangan Vijayanand, is to characterize the immune response to dengue virus (DENV) and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), both of which represent major global health challenges.

Richards - Kortum's work brings together nanotechnology, molecular imaging, and microfabrication to address global health challenges by developing low - cost medical technologies — such as a portable microendoscope to diagnose and treat cervical cancer — for use on the ground in low - resource settings around the world.

Editor in Chief of the Cochrane Library David Tovey said, «This Cochrane Review addresses one of the most urgent global health challenges we face.

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.

Antibiotic resistance has been defined by the World Health Organization as one of the primary global health challenges of the twenty - first century, and its main driver is the overuse of antibiotics.

«Religious groups could expedite response to biggest global health challenges of 21st century: Faith - based groups are an underused health resource that could be key to achieving adequate health care for all, experts say.»

«Although many of these effects are already seen, their progression in the absence of climate change mitigation will greatly amplify existing global health challenges and inequalities,» they warn.

TRANSVAC is a new infrastructure project - funded by the European Commission in the context of Horizon 2020 - that aims to accelerate the development of effective vaccines urgently needed to address European and global health challenges with the ultimate goal to build an efficient and sustainable collaboration of experts and facilities to catalyse vaccine research in Europe.

The aim of this work, in collaboration with Bjoern Peters and Alessandro Sette, is to characterize the immune response to dengue virus (DENV) and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), both of which represent major global health challenges.

«The Budget provides resources to support the Global Health Security Agenda, increases funding to eradicate polio and other global health challenges, and creates a new Impact Fund for targeted global HIV / AIDS efforts,» the fact sheet states.

Dr Odile Leroy, Executive Director of the European Vaccine Initiative (EVI) and coordinator of TRANSVAC2, said: «The TRANSVAC2 activities will further strengthen the vaccine R&D infrastructure in Europe and will thereby accelerate the development of effective vaccines that are urgently needed to address global health challenges».

Virus infections are among the ten leading causes of death worldwide and represent a major global health challenge.

It energized Patel and others who were fighting to get mental illnesses recognized as a major global health challenge.

«New work aiming to stop diabetes, a major global health challenge.»

«Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases like Lassa fever are global health challenges, and the NIH has a long history of investing in global research to improve the health of people in the United States and around the world,» said NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. «The new Lassa virus data set will be valuable for understanding Lassa virus and developing medical countermeasures such as diagnostics, therapies, and

Lead researcher Prof Changjiang Dong, from UEA's Norwich Medical School, said: «Bacterial multi-drug resistance, also known as antibiotic resistance, is a global health challenge.

«Given the complexities of today's global health challenges, innovative discoveries are increasingly coming from the collaboration between disciplines, such as medicine and engineering, said E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA, Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs, UM Baltimore, and the John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor and Dean, University of Maryland School of Medicine.

«As editor of The Lancet, Richard Horton has demonstrated great leadership by providing a voice for scientists and shining a spotlight on the global health challenges we are facing, particularly in the developing world,» said Klag.

Our distinctive way of doing science is to harnesses the collaboration and creativity of some of the world's leading experts and foster their collaboration to generate basic discoveries that can be translated into out - of - the - box solutions to the global health challenges of our times.

At Merck, we remain committed to bringing the best that our science and innovation have to offer to solve the world's global health challenges.»