Bay Area Global Health Alliance Convenes Inaugural Board of Directors
IGHS News |
The Bay Area Global Health Alliance held its Inaugural board meeting on June 20, setting a milestone in bringing together a network of organizations to strengthen the Bay Area’s global health impact.
Learning From the Best About Malaria Eradication
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Having stayed locally for his capstone, Omar Sajjad had a unique opportunity to learn about malaria research by corresponding with and learning from some of the Malaria Elimination Initiative's faculty and affiliates.
Meet Rachel L. Kaplan, Trailblazing Researcher Fighting Transphobia
IGHS News |
Rachel Kaplan's interest in HIV and its impact on the LGBTQI+ community intersected with their love for the Middle East, leading Kaplan to undertake the first ever study on HIV treatment and prevention among transgender women in Lebanon.
What It Means to Practice Global Health: A Lesson from Uganda
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Master's student Annie Ahn writes about how working on her capstone research project in Uganda has changed her view of what it means to practice global health.
Accepting and Improving Menstrual Hygiene Management in India
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Throughout India, women often are restricted from entering places of worship, going to school and continuing their regular routines while they are menstruating. Many of these restrictions have been implemented and maintained because of superstitions and myths that a woman is dirty or impure when she is menstruating.
Algeria and Argentina Certified Malaria-free and Other News from the Malaria Elimination Initiative
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Ethical Complexities of Egg Donation in the US
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Egg donation (ED) for in vitro fertilization (IVF) has emerged as a popular form of treatment for infertility. Within the current body of research, there is an obvious need for studies on donor perceptions, long term health effects and experiences of the donation processes and beyond.
California TB Partner Named Controller of the Year
IGHS News |
Jennifer Flood, MD, MPH, chief of the Tuberculosis Control Branch at the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and a collaborator with the Institute for Global Health Sciences, has been named TB Controller of the Year by the Nati
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
IGHS News |
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
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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.
