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SPH Plugs In: Our Favorites This Fall

BU School of Public Health Blog

The premise is “very encouraging,” says Idowu, who aspires to use her training in program management and global health to strategize with healthcare leaders, decision-makers, and providers to support holistic wellbeing, a vision of wellbeing that encompasses not only physical and mental health, but also spiritual and relational health.

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Anna Kramvis – A big job in a small world

Frontiers

Over time, I expanded my role to full-time and established my research entity, the HVDRU, in 2008. Despite causing more deaths than the former three diseases combined, HBV receives little attention and funding from global health policy makers.

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What You Need to Know About Tuberculosis

Gideon

317-326, 2008. x (2) “ Global Tuberculosis Report ”, World Health Organization, 2020. Online] (3) “ The Clock Is Ticking: World TB Day 2021 ”, World Health Organization, 2021. Online] (9) “ Global Health: Newsrooms: Global Health Topics: Tuberculosis ”, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Global Health, 2020.

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Epidemiology Terms: A Glossary of Epidemiological Words

Gideon

Specifically, prevalence data was used by global health experts and epidemiologists to track the overall number of cases and understand how the disease was spreading. Cases then declined again in the 1980s and early 1990s but rose to an average of 30 cases per year from 2001 to 2008.

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Yellow Fever: Past and Present

Gideon

Available: 10.1038/s41541-020-0205-6 (12) “ Yellow Fever “, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Global Health, 2018. Matton, “Yellow fever in Europe in 19th Century”, Ecological Aspects of Past Settlement in Europe. Bennike, pp. 211-222, 2002. (5) Available: 10.1001/jama.300.8.960 326-330, 2009.

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Why cuts to global AIDS relief threaten U.S. health, economic growth, and physical security

HEALTHBEAT

Bush takes part in a roundtable discussion on the PEPFAR AIDS program in 2008 at the Amana district hospital in Dar es Salaam. health Twenty-two years later, cutting PEPFAR funding has immediate harmful consequences. President George W. Cutting PEPFAR threatens U.S.

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“Remember Every One” Memorializing the More Than 1 Million Lives Lost to COVID-19 in the US

BU School of Public Health Blog

Public health communications and advocacy have been Keeves’ bread and butter since her days at SPH when she served as a teaching assistant for the Strategies in Public Health Advocacy course.