A new study focusing on beverages targeted to children in Guatemala found that most were of poor nutritional quality. Published in Public Health Nutrition, this study analyzed package marketing strategies along with health claims and compared them with the actual nutritional content. These beverages, marketed for children, consisted of fruit drinks, milk, carbonated beverages, water, […]
By Rachel Bick, MPH ’18, Brown School and Philip Budge, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University Over 100 medical, pharmacy, and public health students and faculty gathered at St. Louis College of Pharmacy on December 1, 2017, to discuss the ever-changing landscape of global health study and service. […]
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women, as well as the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in women, with over half occurring in developing countries. Specifically, it is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in women in Trinidad and Tobago (T&T). Not only does T&T have one of the highest breast cancer mortality […]
The Global Health Center and Center for Community Health Partnership & Research recently hosted a screening of the HBO documentary “Clínica de Migrantes: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” Four Summer Research Program students had the opportunity to interview Steven Larson, MD, co-founder and executive director of Puentes de Salud; and Maxim Pozdorovkin, the film’s director. […]
The Global Health Center, headed by William Powderly, MD, is working with the Center for Gut Microbiome and Nutrition Research, directed by Jeffrey Gordon, MD, and a multidisciplinary team of Washington University faculty, staff and trainees in a gut microbiome initiative designed to address a range of scientific, regulatory, ethical, social, cultural, and policy considerations […]
In the first study to address cigarette packaging in low/middle-income country, researchers found that regulations mandated by the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in Guatemala have not been fulfilled. Read more about the study…
The Global Health Center at the Institute for Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis has awarded funding for a public health project. Joaquin Barnoya, MD, MPH and William G. Powderly, MD, from Washington University and Carlos Mejia, MD, from Roosevelt Hospital Guatemala were awarded $15,000 for their project proposal, “Cardiovascular disease risk, tobacco […]
Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) and e-liquids are readily available in Guatemala. While marketed as a way to sidestep the smoke-free law, these products are not regulated and do not contain warnings unlike like cigarette marketing protocols. Joaquin Barnoya, MD, MPH, associate professor of surgery, conducted the first study analyzing e-cigarettes and e-liquids in a low/middle income […]
Written by Robert Potter, graduate student, Molecular Microbiology, Gautam Dantas Lab, Washington University The 2017 Global Health & Infectious Disease Conference was a fascinating two-day event that featured captivating talks and posters from all categories of scientific personnel. Due to the overwhelming scope of the challenges facing global health, presentations hailed from a variety of technical […]
The 5th Annual Global Health and Infectious Disease Conference, Science to Solutions, was a great success. Thank you to everyone who joined us to present, listen, learn, and connect. Prizes were awarded for the best talk at the Trainee Oral Symposium on March 30 and best posters at the Conference on March 31. Best Poster in the […]
The 5th Annual Global Health and Infectious Disease Conference, Science to Solutions, was a great success. Thank you to everyone who joined us to present, listen, learn, and connect. Best Poster in the Category of Students Th17 Cells Confer both Systemic and Mucosal Protection Against Trypanosoma Cruzi Infection Catherine W. Cai1, Jennifer R. Blase1, Chris […]
Written by Taylor Hale, Campaign Organizer with Environment Missouri for the Defending Climate Progress Campaign Climate change is the biggest issue of our time. 2016 was the hottest year on record and the third consecutive year to set a new temperature high. In the Unites States, the burning of fossil fuels – oil, coal, and […]
Written by Sarah Wondmeneh, MD/MPH Candidate at Washington University in St. Louis In the late 1980s, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared commitments to globally eradicate dracunculiasis (guinea worm) and poliomyelitis. [1] The International Task Force for Disease Eradication has recommended additional diseases with eradication potential, including lymphatic filariasis, measles, mumps, rubella and cysticercosis. Although […]
Written by Nidhi Bhaskar, founder of ProjectNBYouth I walked out of the towering clinic in the small rural town of Hassan, India and almost collided into a small crowd of children sprinting in the opposite direction. Deeply engaged in their game of tag, they scarcely noticed me as I leapt back to avoid being trampled. […]
Written by Melissa Edmiston, MPH, Vice President of Operations for Mavuno Like many of us, I sat in MPH classes and learned the keys to program planning, implementation, and evaluation. I’m proud to say I can draw a logic model — the glorious one-page fits all diagram displaying exactly how a program will unfold — […]
Written by Jessica K. Levy, PhD, MPH, associate professor of the practice at the Brown School; and April Houston, OTD, MSCI, assistant professor in the School of Medicine Last year, the United Nations formalized their commitment to gender equality and women and girls’ empowerment by including it as one of their 17 Sustainable Development Goals […]
Written by Rumi Kato Price, PhD, MPE, professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine; and Porpong (Paul) Boonmak, student at the Washington University School of Medicine Did you know that, globally, severe episodic phase of major depression is judged even more disabling than untreated AIDS? The level of disability of severe major […]
The Lancet recently published the 2015 Global Burden of Disease Capstone papers including articles on global mortality, years living with disability, disability-adjusted life-years, risk factors for disease, and a baseline analysis of health-related sustainable development goals. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2015 (GBD 2015) brings together the most recent epidemiological […]
The Global Health Center has formed its 2016-17 Global Health Student Advisory Committee. The committee is comprised of student representatives from Arts & Sciences, Olin Business School, Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences, Engineering, Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement, McDonnell International Scholars Academy, the School of Medicine, Program in Physical Therapy, and the Brown School. The role of […]
Lora Iannotti, PhD, Associate Professor at the Brown School received funding to establish a Global Research Site in Haiti to work on malnutrition. “The goal of this award from the Global Health Center is to deepen already existing links in a resource-poor settings, in order to increase the involvement of Washington University faculty and students […]