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Causes and Costs of Global COVID-19 Vaccine Inequity

Guest Author Maddalena Ferranna

Start With the Basics: Handwashing

Fellow Lia Musumeci

The Potential and Pitfalls of AI and Cancer Information

Fellow Heather Sherr

Hospital Rooms to Hotel Rooms: NYC’s COVID-19 Response

Fellow Lia Musumeci

Rising Temperatures Increase Dengue Risk in the U.S.

Fellow Jude Sleiman

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03.26.2018 a group of cupcakes with medical symbols

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Clinical Pharmacy Innovations and Team-Based Healthcare

Clinical pharmacy specialists make significant contributions to patient care and are recognized as performing as well as physicians in managing chronic disease.

Guest Author Megan McCullough

02.09.2018 Graphic showing estimated P. falciparum and P. vivax malaria cases by WHO region

Preventing Malaria

Africa carries a larger burden of malaria than all other regions of the world combined. The most effective ways of preventing malaria, bed nets and indoor insecticide spraying, are more challenging than they sound.

Fellow Gilbert Benavidez

01.31.2018 a graph of different colored circles

Non-Communicable Disease in Low and Middle Income Countries

Non-communicable diseases, such as cardiovascular and respiratory disease, diabetes, and depression, cause 70% of deaths globally.

Fellow Gilbert Benavidez

12.01.2017 Graph of reaching ART 90% coverage by 2020 under two assumptions about future HIV transmission

The End of AIDS is in the Details

The United Nations’ Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has a goal to eradicate AIDS by 2030. One of the most difficult facets of reaching the end of AIDS, they say, will be knowing when we’ve gotten there.

Fellow Madeline Bishop

11.13.2017 A crushed cigarette

A “Micro-Ounce” of Cancer Prevention

Precision medicine holds great promise for managing and treating cancer. Yet an underfunded and underutilized breakthrough is already available: cancer prevention.

Guest Author Megan Healey

11.10.2017 Screenshot of main menu of storytelling intervention

Storytelling and African-American Veterans with High Blood Pressure

Would hearing another person’s story help increase adherence to treatment plans? A recent study assessed the effectiveness of DVD storytelling to decrease blood pressure of African-American veterans.