Tackling Hand Hygiene in Roatán, Honduras
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Hand hygiene is considered the cornerstone of infection control and prevention, a vital and practical approach with demonstrated impact on patient safety and quality of care for any health system. Cleaning one’s hands can substantially reduce potential pathogens being spread among patients and health care personnel.
Creating the Optimal HIV Clinic for the Homeless in San Francisco
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Madellena Conte, 2018-19 master's student writes about her capstone research project to better understand what San Francisco's homeless population wants from their healthcare.
UCSF-led Commission Sets Out Targets to Eliminate Tuberculosis within a Generation
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A world free of tuberculosis (TB) is possible by 2045, if increased political will and financial resources are directed towards priority areas including providing evidence-based interve
Master’s Alumnus Finds Path to FDA through Health Economics and Global Health Policy Training
IGHS News |
Harinder Singh Chahal, PharmD, MSc ’14, said he learned an important lesson when he entered the IGHS Master of Science program: “You have to find your own interests and path forward, but the program and the faculty are willing and ready to help you find that path.”
“Discovery” Sparks Movement to Reduce Impact of Preterm Birth in East Africa
IGHS News |
The UCSF East Africa Preterm Birth Initiative’s Discovery Research program is sparking a movement in Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda aimed at defeating the stubborn global epidemic of preterm birth, the largest killer of children under five.
Tragic Birth Sparks Obstetrician’s Pursuit of Global Health PhD
IGHS News |
Nicholas Rubashkin’s (MD, MA) interest in labor and delivery as a human rights issue began with a tragedy on a Mother’s Day early in his career as an obstetrician.
A Voice for Global Cancer Patients
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Global health master's students learn to become advocates for health causes and to make abstract theories become real for and important to others. Alex Keir writes about her personal experience with cancer and her mission to expand the cancer dialogue.
Hackathon Garners Innovative Ideas to Address Mosquito-Borne Diseases
IGHS News |
A wearable air-capture device was the winning idea at a hackathon to develop new tools to monitor and control outdoor-biting mosquitoes held December 5 to 7 at UCSF’s Institute for Global Health Sciences (IGHS).
Podcast: Person-centered Maternity Care in Low- and Middle-income Countries
IGHS News |
In a podcast with Anne Roca of The Lancet Global Health, Patience Afulani, PhD, MD, MPH, a member of the Maternal Newborn and Child Research Cooperative at IGHS, talks about her paper.
IGHS Global Strategic Information Awarded Multi-Year CDC Agreement to Aid Seven Countries in Monitoring Recent HIV Infections
IGHS News |
The Global Strategic Information (GSI) group has been awarded a multimillion-dollar, five-year cooperative agreement with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to implement routine testing for recent HIV infection to determine when, where and how participants contracted HIV/AIDS and to work with local partners to build capacity in laboratory and health information systems (HIS).
Modeling Better Public Policy
In the News |
Bay Area Organizations Introduce Bay Area Global Health Alliance
IGHS News |
As the world becomes increasingly connected, the goal to ensure that communities around the globe have access to better health becomes more urgent - and more achievable.
What the Climate Community Can Learn from Global Health
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The pace of recent human advancement is truly remarkable. Human life expectancy has increased more during my lifetime than during the previous 300,000-year history of our species.
UCSF HIV Doctor to Co-Chair International AIDS Conference, AIDS 2020
IGHS News |
Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH, UCSF professor of medicine in the Division of HIV, Infectious Disease, and Global Medicine will be the San Francisco co-chair of AIDS2020, the 23rd International AIDS conference.
Global health community steps up climate action
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Forum Calls for Action on Climate Change to Protect Health
IGHS News |
“Health is deeply connected with climate change in so many ways, and climate solutions and reducing climate change are among the most important things we can do to protect health now and in the future.”
Global Leaders Gather at ZSFG to Discuss Universal Health Care
IGHS News |
Ban, former UN Secretary-General of the United Nations, calls for a solution built on equity and fairness. “Universal health coverage (should) allocate according to people’s needs and the health system financed according to people’s ability to pay."
Malaria Specialist Chris White Named Co-Director of Malaria Elimination Initiative
IGHS News |
Chris White, malaria specialist and global health advocate with more than two decades of experience, has been named co-director of the Malaria Elimination Initiative (MEI) at the UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences.
Sometimes Nice Guys Finish First: Preferences for HIV Care in Zambia
IGHS News |
“You add clinics and you think everyone is going to come to get treatment. It’s not that simple.”
Capacity Building and Reciprocity: Successes from the UCSF-Anova Partnership in South Africa
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For nearly 10 years, the Anova Health Institute, UCSF’s Center for AIDS Prevention Studies and the Institute for Global Health Sciences have partnered to build the capacity of South African health researchers.
