A5071715782- Global Health and Surgery
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Global Health Care Issues
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Health and Conflict Studies
- Disaster Response and Management
- Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
- Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
- Advances in Oncology and Radiotherapy
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Global Security and Public Health
- Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Ultrasound in Clinical Applications
- Human Rights and Development
- Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
Harvard Global Health Institute
2015-2025
Harvard University
2015-2024
Massachusetts General Hospital
2015-2024
HealthPartners
2023
Center for Global Health
2012-2023
ORCID
2023
Boston University
2012-2021
MGH Institute of Health Professions
2018-2019
National Academy of Medicine
2017
University of Massachusetts Lowell
2017
Points• Historically, the impact of many health professional training initiatives in low-income countries has been limited by narrow focus on a small set diseases, inefficient utilization donor funding, inadequate scale up, insufficient emphasis acquisition practical skills, poor alignment with local priorities, and lack coordination.• Fortunately, several innovative have emerged over past five years sub-Saharan Africa.
Vanessa Kerry and colleagues discuss how to manage the unprecedented growth in demand for global health programs United States, Europe other high-income countries.
<b>Parsa Erfani and colleagues</b> argue that a temporary intellectual property waiver for covid-19 vaccines is vital to increase supply, achieve global herd immunity, advance health equity
Rapid growth in global health activity among US medical specialty education programs has lead to heterogeneity types of activities and training models. The breadth scope this is not well chronicled.Using a standardized search protocol, we examined the characteristics residency by number programs, clinical specialty, nature (elective, research, extended curriculum based field training), geographic location across seven different specialties. We tabulated programmatic discipline, region...
The Joint External Evaluation (JEE) is part of the World Health Organization's (WHO) new process to help countries assess their ability prevent, detect and respond public health threats such as infectious disease outbreaks, specified by International Regulations (IHR). How are faring on these evaluations not well known neither there any previous assessment performance characteristics JEE itself.We obtained data for 48 indicators collectively across 19 technical areas preparedness 55...
The operational cleavage between the US public health and medical care systems contributed to country's difficulty in containing community spread of COVID-19 pandemic's first months. We provide an overview independent evolution these two systems, drawing on case examples publicly available outcome data, demonstrate how three fundamental elements epidemic response-case finding, mitigating transmission, treatment-were undermined by lack coordination gaps disparities. propose policy initiatives...
Abstract Under international, regional, and domestic law, adolescents are entitled to measures ensuring the highest attainable standard of health. For HIV/AIDS, this is essential as lack many social economic protections disproportionately vulnerable effects disease. In countries, legal do not always ensure access health care for adolescents, including HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care. Using Rwanda an example, article identifies gaps, policy barriers, inconsistencies in protection that...
The World Trade Organisation's Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health (known as Doha Declaration) of 2001, subsequent Decision Interpretation Paragraph 6 reached in 2003, affirmed flexibilities available under Related Property Rights (TRIPS) to member states seeking protect public health. Despite these important clarifications, actual implementation measures improve access medicines remains uncertain. There are also concerns that so-called TRIPS-plus within many regional...
Abstract Background Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) continues to cause suffering and premature deaths in many sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries, where the disease is still endemic. RHD largely preventable determining its community burden an important critical step any prevention program. Methods We conducted a cross-sectional study of 5–16 years old pupils from 11 primary schools participating program 4 districts Tanzania, between 2018 2019. At school, all children were invited participate...
At first glance, medicine may seem unrelated to foreign policy, but in reality it is an unappreciated partner of diplomacy. In many parts the world, poverty, inequity based on ethnicity or sex, shoddy public infrastructure, and environmental degradation have resulted poor health as well political social instability. Poor health, turn, fuels vulnerabilities discord, illness diminishes productivity disrupts family structures. The United States, a major funder global initiatives, has...
What political, social, and economic factors allow a movement toward universal health coverage to take hold in some low- middle-income countries? Can we use that knowledge help other such countries achieve care for all?
<strong>Objective:</strong> Sierra Leone has one of the highest maternal mortality and infant rates globally. We share findings from a Midwifery Clinical Training Needs Assessment, conducted in 2021 as collaboration between Government Seed Global Health. The assessment identified existing needs gaps midwifery clinical training at health facilities various stakeholders' perspectives. <strong>Methods:</strong> descriptive utilized mixed methods, including surveys, focus group discussions...
To enumerate global health training activities in U.S. obstetrics and gynecology residency programs to examine the worldwide distribution of programmatic activity relative maternal perinatal disease burden.Using a systematic, web-based protocol, we searched for opportunities at all programs. Country-level data on disability-adjusted life-years resulting from conditions were obtained Global Burden Disease study. We calculated Spearman's rank correlation coefficients estimate cross-country...
Objective The purpose of this study was to determine the current work distribution health professionals from a public Ugandan medical school in period major donor funding for HIV programmes. We explore hypothesis that programmes initiated under unprecedented investments US President's Emergency Plan AIDS Relief have possibly facilitated drain healthcare workers public-health system countries like Uganda. Design Cross-sectional conducted between January and December 2010 survey graduates,...
Problem In many limited resource countries, medical and nursing school faculties are small understaffed, contributing to the sparse output of physicians nurses support country's health system. The World Health Organization declared that 37 African nations suffer a "critical shortage" practitioners. Approach Global Service Partnership (GHSP) is new program sends U.S. serve as faculty at schools in low-resource countries increase quantity quality graduates, thereby strengthening local systems....
Despite the exponential growth of global health partnerships (GHPs) over past 20 years, evidence for their effectiveness remains limited. Furthermore, many are dysfunctional as a result inequitable partnership benefits, low trust and accountability poor evaluation quality improvement practices. In this article, we describe theoretical model developed by seven experts. Through semistructured interviews an open-coding approach to data analysis, identify 12 GHP pillars spanning across three...