TAG’s 2022 Research in Action Awards will honor activists, scientists, and leaders in the fight to end HIV, tuberculosis, and hepatitis C around the world. Check it out to see Amita Gupta, GKII Co-Chair, receive her award.
To address the global burden of TB, an international collaboration led by Johns Hopkins Medicine has today been awarded up to $200 million in research funding over five years by USAID for the SMART4TB project.
Sunil Solomon: “Each of us brings a different skill set... The coalition is focused on translating what all of us find for clinical relevance to make sure that whatever we are doing is tailored toward improving the public’s health.”
Dr. Amita Gupta spoke to the Hindustan Times about the monkeypox outbreak. “Currently mass vaccination is not required. Instead, priority is recommended for contacts of cases..."
Fogarty International Center: Dr. Matt Robinson: "So sometimes you provide treatment for the worst possible scenario,” like prescribing antibiotics before identifying the cause of illness.
Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed that at least four people in Michigan, US, were infected with a version of the coronavirus observed mostly in minks during the first year of the pandemic.
PDF: Dr. Gauri Dhumal was interviewed for the Weill Cornell Medicine Center for Global Health's Female Global Scholars newsletter. It is part of the Women In Global Health Research Initiative.
The new vaccines may chip away at the number of Americans who have refused to be vaccinated up to this point, but their biggest value is likely to be global.
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Zeger and Robinson’s group developed and validated SCARP using data from electronic health records of COVID-19 patients in five Hopkins-associated hospitals.
Dr. Bollinger: "It is important to remember that any population health effort to address SDOH must also take into account racial discrimination—in society in general as well as in health care."
