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Alzheimers Dement
December 2024
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Background: Asian Americans and Asian Canadians (ASACs) are the fastest growing minority group in the US and Canada. However, ASACs are under-sampled in Alzheimer's disease (AD) research. To address the need of culturally appropriate clinical protocols and community-based recruitment approaches for ASACs, the Asian Cohort for Alzheimer's Disease (ACAD), the first large dementia genetics cohort focusing on Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese, launched in 2021 to examine genetic and non-genetic risk factors for AD among ASACs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe personal and the national: Lessons learned in the aftermath of the October 7 attacks in Israel.
Psychiatry Res
December 2024
Departments of Psychiatry, Medical Education, System Design & Global Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1 Gustave Levy Place, New York, NY, United States. Electronic address:
On October 7, 2023, terrorist organizations led by Hamas, launched an extensive attack on Israel. Within days following the initial attack, there was a clear need to provide psychological support to individuals who were exposed to the horrors of the October 7 attacks. Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center - Ichilov, a tertiary medical center, launched an emergency mental health service to provide psychological first aid to the first-line victims of the war.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA collaborative approach to advancing research and training in Public Health Data Science-challenges, opportunities, and lessons learnt.
Front Public Health
December 2024
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States.
The unprecedented availability of increasingly complex, voluminous, and multi-dimensional data as well as the emergence of data science as an evolving field provide ideal opportunities to address the multi-faceted public health challenges faced by low and middle income countries (LMIC), especially those in sub-Saharan Africa. However, there is a severe lack of well-trained data scientists and home-grown educational programs to enable context-specific training. The lack of human capacity and resources for public health data analysis as well as the dire need to use modern technology for better understanding and possible intervention cannot be dealt with currently available educational programs and computing infrastructure, demanding a great deal of collaboration and investments within Africa and with the Global North This paper describes processes undertaken to establish sustainable research training programs and to train a new generation of data scientists with knowledge, mentoring, professional skills, and research immersion.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMalaria remains a major global public health issue, demanding significant resources from governments, health organizations, and international organizations toward its elimination as an endemic disease. In 2016, Sri Lanka achieved the remarkable feat of being declared "malaria free" by the World Health Organisation (WHO), after over a century of indigenous disease. To identify significant lessons of global importance in eliminating endemic malaria by reviewing literature on Sri Lanka's successful elimination campaign.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTowards Ending AIDS: The Additional Role of HIV Self-Testing in Thailand.
Glob Health Sci Pract
December 2024
International Health Policy Program, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand.
Background: In 2022, 10% of an estimated 560,000 people living with HIV in Thailand were unaware of their HIV status. A well-established HIV program is a solid platform for integrating HIV self-testing (HST) as part of efforts to end AIDS. We analyzed how HST was integrated into the national HIV program and became a benefit package.
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