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Heat-Related Emergencies Are Soaring in the U.S. Can Hospitals Keep Up?
Medical providers and public health experts worry that the health care system is poorly equipped to handle the influx. The UW's Dr. Jeremy Hess, professor of environmental and occupational health sciences, global health and emergency medicine; and...
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NBC: New Map Finds 2 Billion People at Risk of Zika Virus
By Maggie Fox ...
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MPH Student from Nigeria Publishes Op-Ed on Cancer
"Do you know that according to the World Health Organization, deaths due to cancer in developing countries have surpassed the deaths due to HIV, malaria and tuberculosis combined? About 80% of deaths due to cancer worldwide occur in developing...
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Mental Health Partnership in Nairobi
The University of Nairobi recently received a Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI)-linked award focused on research training in mental health. This three-year award. led by Dr. Muthoni Mathai from the University of Nairobi and Dr. Jurgen...
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MATRIX
The mission of MATRIX to develop a range of acceptable, affordable, scalable and deliverable products to meet the unmet needs of women at risk of HIV and other infectious diseases. ...
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Irene Njuguna
Affiliate Assistant Professor, Global Health ...
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Improving weather forecasts by one degree could slash heat wave deaths
When temperatures are extreme, the accuracy of a weather forecast can be the difference between life and death. New research shows that even small errors in temperature predictions — as little as one degree Celsius — lead to more deaths, and that...
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Testing implementation strategies to improve delivery of PrEP for pregnant and postpartum women in Kenya
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I-TECH Namibia
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Launch Speedometer
This is a program to understand the enablers and inhibitors of fast launch and widespread scale of important health technologies in the developing world. ...