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NPHW 2024: How Global Health Experience Shaped CSTE AEF Fellow Hannah Gorman’s Journey to Epidemiology

CSTE

From Ethiopia to New York City to Washington State, AEF fellow Hannah Gorman is always focused on the health of the neighborhood shes currently in. Gorman uses these same techniques daily as a CSTE Applied Epidemiology Fellow (AEF) at the Washington State Department of Health. Todays NPHW daily theme is Healthy Neighborhoods.

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Infant Health Starts Before Conception

Exploring Health

The Role of Nutrition in Fetal Development and Beyond Development from fetus to child to adult depends on maternal nutrition and health long before conception. This is a time period of enormous potential, but also enormous vulnerability, says Melissa Young, PhD, associate professor of global health at Emory University.

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SPH Selects Winners of Dean’s Innovation Challenge

BU School of Public Health Blog

Dean Stein launched the competition on January 2, writing in his first message as dean, In 2025, the world needs the best work of public health more than ever [] We find ourselves at an extraordinary moment of challenge and opportunity.

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What Is a Global Health Professional?

Tulane Public Health Blog

Quality health care should not have borders. While healthcare organizations around the globe work to improve access to quality care, global health professionals work to bring together national and international efforts to address health inequity. The fields differ, however, in their area of focus.

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Ten Low-Cost Interventions to Provide Mental Health Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

BMJ Global Health

Mental health challenges are a growing concern in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), with over 75% of those needing mental health treatment receiving no treatment at all. Access to health, including mental health, is a human right.

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Building Bridges: How Community Leaders Foster Mental Health in Crisis Situations

BMJ Global Health

Despite the communication, transportation and challenges such as own trauma, these volunteer leaders have taken the role of providing the Mental Health Psychosocial Support ( MHPSS ) to the community. The challenges they have been facing highlight the need for support and investment in grassroots mental health initiatives.

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PLOS announces new Essay article type

The Official PLOS Blog

We are delighted to announce that a new ‘Essay’ article type is now available at PLOS Climate, PLOS Global Public Health , PLOS Mental Health and PLOS Water. PLOS Global Public Health ’s first published Essay , by Chase Yarbrough, Michael Miller, Mosala Zulu, Danielle Sharp, Afom T.