Quarterly Newsletter | Winter 2024/25 | |
UCSF Receives CDC Grant as One of 10 National Regional Centers for Public Health Preparedness and Response
IGHS was awarded a five-year cooperative agreement to ensure the country is ready to meet any future health threats, from pandemics to extreme weather events.
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PhD student Muna Bashir (on left) and PhD Global Scholars Sima Naderi and Amira Adam (on right) in class | |
UCSF Global Scholars Program Provides Safe Space for Academics
| Global Scholars promotes academic freedom by assisting scholars from conflict areas to continue their research or studies at UCSF. Twenty-two scholars have been supported since 2021. | |
A researcher (on right) interviews a newly married woman for a pilot study focused on improving family dynamics, nutrition and family planning in Nepal. | |
Improving Young Women’s Nutrition and Health in Nepal | A new UCSF study by Nadia Diamond-Smith, PhD, MS, seeks to improve young women’s nutrition and health through a community-based intervention in Nepal. | |
Alliance Niyukuri, MD (on left), and Bienvenu Mbida, MD, in front of Mercy James Centre for Paediatric Surgery and Intensive Care in Blantyre, Malawi. | |
This Global Health Initiative Improves Patient Care in 13 Countries | CHESA fellows receive training, mentoring and funding for research and care. It’s all part of a plan to build the next generation of frontline providers from Burundi to San Francisco. | | |
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How One Alumnus Is Battling America’s Opioid Crisis | Emily Behar, PhD, MS, graduated from the PhD in Global Health Sciences program in 2019, a year when nearly 50,000 Americans died from opioid-involved overdoses. Now, she is using her degree to help curb America’s overdose crisis. | |
Kelly Taylor, PhD, MS, MPH, and Wanjiru Waruiru, MBA, MPH | |
Meet the Leaders Who Are Preparing for the Next Pandemic | Kelly Taylor, PhD, MS, MPH, and Wanjiru Waruiru, MBA, MPH, are directors of the UCSF Center for Pandemic Preparedness and Response and are busy preparing for the next pandemic threat. | |
UCSF team member, Petra Schaefer, demonstrates Power BI techniques to the team from Pakistan, with facilitators from Egypt joining in. | |
UCSF’s Global Health Security team co-organized an impactful 5-day Data Science for Epidemic Intelligence Regional Workshop in Amman, Jordan. Together with experts from MENA countries, they focused on building advanced skills in R and Power BI, enhancing data science capacity for respiratory and event-based surveillance, and fostering a strong community of practice. | |
Nicole Hobbs, MPA, Selected as IGHS Director of Finance and Administration | We welcome Hobbs, who brings 15 years of experience managing complex research centers and global health programs, most recently at UC Davis. | |
Lancet Commission Publishes New Report on Global Health
| The Lancet Commission on Investing in Health has published its third report, Global Heath 2050, which provides a roadmap to halving premature deaths globally by mid-century. Dean Jamison, PhD, MS, Richard Feachem, PhD, DSc, KBE, and Neelam Sekhri Feachem, MS, serve as commissioners. | |
Health and Human Rights Initiative Aids Refugee Mental Health | HHRI received a four-year sub-award from the Office of Refugee Resettlement for the Support for Trauma-Affected Refugees (STAR) Program, which supports medical providers in aiding refugees’ health. | |
Center for Tuberculosis to Develop Global TB Framework | Priya Shete, MD, MPH, Andrew Kerkhoff, MD, PhD, MS, and team received a two-year contract with Johnson & Johnson to develop a Global Framework to Enhance Demand, Access, and Seeking of TB-related Health Services (TB-DASH). | |
Cohen and Hemmerling Receive Grant for HIV Prevention Trial | Craig Cohen, MD, MPH, and Anke Hemmerling, MD, PhD, MPH, received a U01 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to conduct a first-in-human trial of genetically modified Lactobacillus jensenii (MucoCept) for the prevention of female HIV acquisition. | |
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Mastering the Art of Evidence Synthesis: A Workshop on Systematic Reviews
January 16 and January 17, UCSF Mission Hall 550
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UCSF Master of Science in Global Health Information Session
January 16, 5 to 6 p.m. PST
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A Bay Area Launch Event for the Lancet Global Health 2050 Report
January 22, 4 to 6 p.m. PST, UCSF Genentech Hall Byers Auditorium and online
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Developing a True Bidirectional Global Health Degree Between IGHS and Malawi University for Science and Technology
February 5, 12 to 12:50 p.m. PST, UCSF Mission Hall Room 1401 and on Zoom
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Postabortion contraceptive use among women in Nepal: results from a longitudinal cohort study. Reprod Health. 2024 Dec 24. Karki S, Puri MC, Magar AA, Foster DG, Raifman S, Maharjan D, Diamond-Smith N.
Exploring the long-term impact of a nurse-midwife mentorship intervention in Neno district, Malawi: a secondary data analysis of maternal and neonatal complications. BMC Glob Public Health. 2024 Nov 11. Rouse M, Mphande I, Mwale N, Kapira S, Sayenda M, Mvula MG, Openshaw M, Kapito E, Kutsamba M, Maweu D, Mitchell A, Dandu M, Muller A, Blair AH, Baltzell K.
Uptake of COVID-19 Vaccination and Related Factors Among People who Inject Drugs, San Francisco, 2022. AIDS Behav. 2024 Dec 10. Sadaat SI, Marr A, Mirzazadeh A, Suprasert B, Tate M, Wilson E, McFarland W.
Post-treatment duration of positivity for standard and ultra-sensitive Plasmodium falciparum antigen-based rapid diagnostic tests, a cohort study from a low-endemic setting in Namibia. EBioMedicine. 2024 Dec 09. Ntuku H, Whittemore B, Dausab L, Jang IK, Golden A, Sheahan W, Wu X, Slater H, Domingo GJ, Das S, Duarte E, Eloff L, Bousema T, Lanke K, Gueye CS, Prach LM, Raman J, Uusiku P, Katokele S, Gosling R, Greenhouse B, Mumbengegwi D, Hsiang MS.
Individual empowerment and community norm effects of engaging young husbands in reproductive health in rural India: findings from a pilot study. Reproductive Health. 2024 October 17. Diamond-Smith N, Vaishnav Y, Choudhary U, Sharma P, Kachhwaha A, Panjalingam T, Vallin J, Das D, Gopalakrishnan L.
Impact of socioeconomic determinants on outcomes of eight select conditions for which self-care is a modality for prevention and treatment: a scoping review. Current Medical Research and Opinion. 2024 October 24. Silva S, Csőke E, Ng C, Taylor S, Singh P, Sabharwal M, Foo A, Kee W, Wong R, Reid MJA.
Estimate of pediatric acute critical illness across resource-limited settings: the global paediatrics acute critical illness point prevalence study. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 2024 November. Kortz T, Holloway A, Asya Agulnik A, He D, Gordon Rivera S, Abbas Q, Appiah JA, Arias AV, Attebery J, Camacho-Cruz J, Caporal P, De Sa Rodrigues K, Fink E, Kissoon N, Lee JH, Lopez Baron E, Murthy S, Muttalib F, Nielsen K, Remy K, Teixeira Rodrigues A, Sakaan F Saint Andre-Vonarnim AV, Blackwelder W, Wiens M, Bhutta, A.
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