A5062345909- Global Health and Surgery
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Health and Conflict Studies
- Disaster Response and Management
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Ultrasound in Clinical Applications
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Global Health Care Issues
- Ethics in medical practice
- Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Infant Development and Preterm Care
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Neonatal Respiratory Health Research
- Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment
- Radiology practices and education
- Global Security and Public Health
- Global Healthcare and Medical Tourism
- Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
- Hospital Admissions and Outcomes
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
Harvard Global Health Institute
2014-2024
Harvard University
2009-2024
American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics
2024
University of California, Los Angeles
2024
Boston Children's Hospital
2014-2020
Boston Children's Museum
2018
Massachusetts General Hospital
2015-2016
University of California, Irvine
2016
<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...
This paper examines the institutional mechanisms supporting ethical oversight of human participant research conducted by United Nations (UN). The UN has served an instrumental role in shaping international standards on ethics, which invariably require all studies with participants. authors' experiences conducting collaboratively agencies, contrast, have led to concern that frequently sponsors, or participates in, participants not received appropriate oversight. It is argued place prevent...
Many NICUs have reached an inflection point where infant deaths following limitation of life-sustaining treatments outnumber those unsuccessful resuscitations, and many infants who survive continue to require intensive supports. Families such with serious illness may benefit from a standardized, process-oriented approach in decisional-support. Advance care planning (ACP), or communication that supports patients, their surrogate decision-makers, sharing values, goals, preferences for future...
Motivated by interest in enhancing their clinical experience and contributing to communities need, US medical resident physicians are increasingly keen train abroad.Guidelines needed help ensure that trainee, institutional, faculty engagement global health is ethically appropriate mutually beneficial for all involved.Supported the nonprofit organization Seed Global Health, WWAMI-University of Malawi/College Medicine partnership leverages long-term structure rotations Malawian American...
<strong>Background:</strong> Global health field assignments for medical and nursing professionals include a wide variety of opportunities. Many placements often involve individuals practicing in settings very different from their home environments, relying on professional experience to help bridge cultural clinical divides. <strong>Objectives:</strong> There is limited information about the individual factors that might lead successful longer-term global experiences non-disaster settings....
Explore associations between neonatal providers' perspectives on survival, quality of life (QOL) and treatment recommendations.Providers attending a workshop viability were surveyed about perceived QOL recommendations for marginally viable infants. We assessed estimated survival recommendations.In the 44 included surveys, estimates varied widely. Maximum care was recommended 80% time when anticipated high, versus 20% low (p < 0.001). Adjusted confounders, odds recommending maximum...
The Global Health Service Partnership (GHSP) is a public-private-partnership between Seed Health, US non-profit; Peace Corps, Government agency; and host country health education systems. program attempts to address the global shortage of skilled professionals by sending doctors nurses as medical nursing educators training institutions in Uganda, Malawi Tanzania.
We explore conceptions of responsibility and integrity in global health research practice as it is being carried out the academic setting. Our specific motivation derives from recent publication a study by clinical team involving delivery mental care services Ghanaian prayer camp. The was controversial on account camp's history human rights abuses therefore met with several high-profile critiques. offer more charitable evaluation Joining Forces study. analysis has three primary goals. First,...
BackgroundIn 2012, the US Peace Corps and Seed Global Health, supported by PEPFAR, developed Health Service Partnership (GHSP) to address extreme shortages of health-care providers in low-income countries. In 2013, GHSP placed 30 physicians nurses on faculties at medical nursing schools Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi support educational capacity development aimed long-term health system strengthening. offers privately funded debt repayment offset loan obligations reduces barriers...
Welcome to Annals of Global Health,Annals Health is a peer-reviewed, fully open access, online journal dedicated publishing high quality articles all aspects global health. The journal's mission advance health, promote research, and foster the prevention treatment disease worldwide. Its goals are improve health well-being people, equity, wise stewardship earth's environment. latest impact factor 3.64.Annals supported by Program for Public Common Good at Boston College. It was founded in 1934...
INTRODUCTION: Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has some of the highest rates maternal morbidity and mortality greatest shortages healthcare workers. To mitigate this problem Global Health Service Partnership (GHSP; Seed Health/Peace Corps) places US physicians nurses as volunteer faculty in SSA medical nursing institutions. The purpose study was to analyze program impact. METHODS: Between July 2013 June 2015, 8 Ob/gyn midwifery volunteers submitted reports on hours, students courses taught....