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U.S. Heat Deaths Will Soar as the Climate Crisis Worsens
With three degrees Celsius of warming, U.S. deaths during extreme temperatures could reach 63,000 a year, researchers calculate. ...
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How to Boost Your Immune System During Cold and Flu Season
As the days shorten and people trade their tank tops and shorts for sweaters and tights, the turn of autumn signals another new beginning: the start of flu and cold season, and COVID winter number 3. ...
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Eteni Longondo (MPH, 2005) Named Head of Ministry of Public Health in DRC
Dr. Eteni Longondo (MPH, 2005) has been appointed head of the Ministry of Public Health in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). After studying medicine at the University of Kinshasa in his native DRC, Longondo received a Master of Public Health from...
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Funding for Fieldwork for Students & Trainees: Deadline Extended To March 30
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Most Women Use Vaginal Ring for HIV Prevention in Open-Label Study
In an open-label study of women in southern and eastern Africa, a vaginal ring that is inserted once a month and slowly releases an antiviral drug was estimated to reduce the risk of HIV by 39%, according to statistical modeling. In addition, the study...
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Heat Wave and Blackout Would Send Half of Phoenix to E.R., Study Says
New research warns that nearly 800,000 residents would need emergency medical care for heat stroke and other illnesses in an extended power failure. Other cities are also at risk. ...
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Global Health Students in Spotlight
Both Humanosphere and the School of Public Health have great stories on global health students. The School of Public health higlighted some of the Thomas Francis Jr. Global Health Fellows who work across the globe in different disciplines. Projects...
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Defining BCR Evolution during Immunization
The goals of this grant are to 1) investigate how adjuvants that activate different innate stimulatory pathways affect the maturation of germline VRC01-class BCRs towards their neutralizing potentials; and 2) understand whether and how the dose of our...
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I-TECH Receives DoD Contract to Strengthen Laboratories in Cambodia and Laos
Led by Department of Global Health Professor Robert Martin, I-TECH was recently awarded a three-year Department of Defense(DoD) contract totaling approximately $2.55 million to strengthen public health and clinical laboratories in Cambodia and Laos...
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Tina Mensa-Kwao on partnering with youth to improve their mental health care
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