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13th Annual Institute for Global Health/GHI Event
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The 13th Annual Institute for Global Health/GHI Event took place on Tuesday, November 10th. Presented virtually, the event supports Northwestern's commitment to improving health worldwide. We heard from fellow global health leaders, faculty, and students who shared our recent achievements, global projects, and how the Institute is helping in the fight against COVID-19.
During the event, it was announced that The John R. Flanagan Charitable Foundation has made a five-year, $3 million commitment to establish the Dr. Robert L. Murphy Professorship in Emerging Infectious Disease. It’s the largest gift made to the institute since its establishment in the spring of 2019. At the end of the event, Drs. Robert Murphy and Robert Havey answered pandemic related questions submitted by attendees. You can watch a recording of the event here, and can read a story re-capping the event here.
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The Role of Race, Religion, and Partisanship in Misinformation about COVID-19
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The Institute for Global Health “First Friday” seminar series is held on the first Friday of each month, September through July, and features the research and ideas of outstanding global health leaders at Feinberg, the larger Northwestern community, and beyond.
On January 8th, our speaker was Professor James Druckman, PhD, Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern. Jamie's research focuses on political preference formation and communication, and his recent work recent work examines how citizens make political, economic, and social decisions in various contexts (e.g., settings with multiple competing messages, online information, deliberation). His timely presentation allowed for a discussion on the growing concerns about misinformation among the public, particularly investigating misinformation about COVID-19 and the role of racial/ethnic, religious, and partisan groups, and the severe consequences of misinformation spread.
Watch webinar here >>
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The Institute for Global Health's second annual Global Health Day event, titled Global Health in the Pandemic Era, was held on Friday, December 4th, and was an incredible success!
The virtual gathering featured seven poster breakout room sessions, totaling 42 poster presentations, highlighting the work and research of undergraduate, graduate, medical, and PhD students, 20 of which represent the work of esteemed faculty, staff, and trainees. We were honored to be joined by Dr. Lisa Hirschhorn, MD, MPH for a setting-the-stage lecture titled Implementation Research During COVID-19: How Can it Contribute to Achieving Equity in COVID-19 Vaccine Coverage?, which focused on the role of implementation research in achieving equity in the COVID-19 vaccine coverage. Our keynote presentation by Dr. Victor Dzau, MD, President of the National Academy of Medicine, titled Global Solidarity and Equitable Access to Vaccine for the Novel Coronavirus, reviewed the urgent call to actions to accelerate the development, production, and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, diagnostics, and therapeutics, and how lessons learned now may inform future development efforts.
IGH was proud to award seven student, faculty, and community members from all disciplines that presented posters on projects relevant to global health. To view the presentation recordings and all 2020 poster submissions and winners, visit us online here. You can also read more about the event's successes here.
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The Institute for Global Health would like to congratulate
the following members of our community!
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Collected below are a select handful of publications of which Global Health faculty have recently appeared.
Matthews, A., Doobay-Persaud, A., Rydberg, L. The Development of a Novel International Elective in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. November 2020
Agarwal A., Mohanan PP., Kondal D., Baldridge A., Davies D., Devarajan R., Unni G., Abdullakutty J., Natesan S., Joseph J., Jayagopal PB., Joseph S., Gopinath R., Huffman MD., Prabhakaran D. Effect of a quality improvement intervention for acute heart failure in South India: An interrupted time series study. Int J Cardiol. December 2020
Shannon, G., Neubauer, L. C., William, R., Doobay-Persaud, A. Reassessing Global Health Education in the Age of COVID-19. Academic Medicine. December 2020
Huffman MD., Patel A. Polypills - A Central Strategy for Improving Cardiovascular Health. N Engl J Med. January 202
Post LA., Argaw ST., Jones C., Moss CB., Resnick D., Singh LN., Murphy RL., Achenbach CJ., White J., Issa TZ., Boctor MJ., Oehmke JF. A SARS-CoV-2 surveillance system in sub-Saharan Africa: modeling study for persistence and transmission to inform policy. J Med Internet Rs. November 2020
Carter A., Akseer N., Ho K., Rothschild O., Bose N., Binagwaho A., Hirschhorn LR., Price M., Muther K., Panjabi R., Freeman MC., Bednarczyk RA., Bhutta ZA. A framework for identifying and learning from countries that demonstrated exemplary performance in improving health outcomes and systems. BMJ Glob Health. December 202
Post LA., Marogi E., Moss CB., Murphy RL., Ison MG., Achenbach CJ., Resnick D., Singh L., White J., Oehmke JF. Middle East and North Africa SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance: a longitudinal trend analysis. J Med Internet Res. December 2020
Liu D., Maki A., Maitland A., Meyer EM., Sorensen J., Galvin S. Enhancing Knowledge in Informal Settlements; Assessing Health Beliefs and Behaviors in Nigeria. Annals of Global Health 2020.
Liu Y., Li N., Yan N., Pan XF., Li Q., Micha R., Mozaffarian D., Huffman MD., Wang Y., Neal B., Tian M., Zhao Y., Wu JHY. Protocol for a randomized controlled trial to test the acceptability and adherence to 6-months of walnut supplementation in Chinese adults at high risk of cardiovascular disease. January 2021
Coleman J., Lloyd-Jones DM., Ning H., Allen NB., Kiefe CI., Wang EA., Huffman MD. Association between incarceration and incident cardiovascular disease events: results from the CARDIA cohort study. BMC Public Health. January 2021
Ridgway JP., Friedman EE., Bender A., Schmitt J., Cronin M., Brown RN., Johnson AK., Hirschhorn LR. Evaluation of an Electronic Algorithm for Identifying Cisgender Female Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Candidates. AIDS Patient Care STDS. January 202
Post LA., Issa TZ., Boctor MJ., Moss CB., Murphy RL., Ison MG., Achenbach CJ., Resnick D., Singh LN., White J., Faber JMM., Culler K., Brandt CA., Oehmke JF. Dynamic public health surveillance to track and mitigate the US COVID-19 epidemic: longitudinal trend analysis study. J Med Internet Res. December 2020
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The Institute for Global Health is pleased to offer support to affiliated Northwestern faculty for research in global health. The Global Health Research Catalyzer Fund is supported by the Feinberg School of Medicine's Global Health Initiative, which is generously supported by Northwestern Medicine Primary & Specialty Care, its patients, and Feinberg donors. Below are our most recent award winners.
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Phylodynamics and molecular epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in Nigeria
Principal Investigator: Ramon Lorenzo, PhD
SARS-CoV-2 in exhaled breath
Principal Investigator: Christina Zelano, PhD
Nigeria Sodium Study: Integrating into the African Food Composition Database
Principal Investigator: Mark Huffman, MD, MPH
Surgical Neonates in Low-Resource Setting: Baseline Nutrition and Outcome Assessment
Principal Investigator: Monica Langer, MD, MPH
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The Institute for Global Health is accepting applications through June 1st for research for affiliated Northwestern faculty.
To learn more and to apply, visit us online.
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The Institute for Global Health is pleased to offer support for affiliated Northwestern faculty projects, including, but not limited to, events, education, community engagement, or implementation projects. The Global Health Project Awards are supported by the Feinberg School of Medicine's Global Health Initiative, which is generously supported by Northwestern Medicine Primary & Specialty Care, its patients, and Feinberg donors. Below are our most recent award winners.
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Develop a telepathology program in promoting cervical cancer research and training in Nigeria
Principal Investigator: Jian-Jun Wei, MD
Improvement of peri-operative infectious complications in Ukraine
Principal Investigator: Vitaliy Poylin, MD
COVID-19 Infection Prevention and Control Awareness Campaign and Telehealth System in Liberia
Principal Investigator: Kara Palamountain, MBA
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The Institute for Global Health is accepting applications through June 1st for project support for affiliated Northwestern faculty.
To learn more and to apply, visit us online.
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Northwestern University Faculty Participate in Cardiological Society of India 2020 Conference
Several Northwestern Medicine faculty members from the Division of Cardiology participated in the Cardiological Society of India 2020 virtual conference. The Director of the Center for Global Cardiovascular Health, Mark D. Huffman MD, MPH, has had a long-standing collaboration with the Cardiological Society of India and their current President, Padinhare P. Mohanan MD, DM. Together, they led a team of investigators to conduct the largest randomized trial in cardiovascular medicine in India to date, The Acute Coronary Syndrome Quality Improvement in Kerala (ACS QUIK) study. The Institute of Global Health’s current post-graduate fellow in global health and third-year fellow in the Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Program, Anubha Agarwal MD MSc, shared her perspective at the virtual conference on leading a study on improving heart failure care in South India.
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COVID-19 Trends and Modeling Website Launched
Illinois COVID Modeling is a joint effort between Northwestern University (NU), the University of Chicago (UC), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) who have been modeling COVID-19 in Illinois since March 2020. In partnership with the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH), they use simulation models to predict trends in hospital usage and deaths at the COVID-19 Region level.
COVID-19 modeling at Northwestern is led by the Malaria and COVID-19 Modeling Team, which is led by Jaline Gerardin, PhD, an infectious disease modeling group with expertise in using models to inform policy. In addition to their COVID-19 work, they work with malaria-endemic countries to develop data-driven national strategic plans to reduce malaria morbidity and mortality.
Dr. Gerardin and Dr. Sarah Cobey will be presenting on their work with the State of Illinois on forecasting COVID-19 epidemic trends, predicting upcoming hospital capacity needs, and standing up a sentinel surveillance system as our "First Friday" speakers on Friday, March 5th at 12 p.m. CST. You can register to attend here.
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Institute for Global Health: First Friday Series
COVID-19: A Global Threat to the Nervous System
Igor J. Koralnik, MD
Archibald Church Professor of Neurology
Chief, Division of Neuro-Infectious Diseases & Global Neurology
Davee Department of Neurology
Director, Global Neurology Program
Global Health Institute
TOMORROW, February 5th, 12 p.m. CST
Register >>
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Institute for Global Health: First Friday Series
COVID-19 in Illinois
Jaline Gerardin, PhD
Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine
Northwestern University
Sarah Cobey, PhD
Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution
University of Chicago
Friday, March 5th, 12 p.m. CST
Register >>
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CUGH Virtual Conference 2021
Addressing Critical Gaps in Global Health and Development
March 12-14, 2021
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Health Equity Week 2021
Presented by the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University
Monday, April 26th - Friday, April 30th
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For more information on upcoming events, please visit us online.
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The Institute for Global Health would like to welcome the following individuals
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Sandra Ellis
Business Coordinator
Institute for Global Health
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Priya Tripathi, MS
Manager of Oversight and Compliance
Center for Global Cardiovascular Health
(Beg. March 1)
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The Institute for Global Health invites you to become a member. Members of the Institute for Global Health receive access to specialized resources and services that support research infrastructure. You are welcome to select a primary center affiliation based on your interest in collaboration, education, or research.
Only Northwestern faculty members will be listed on our website, however, all members will be added to our listserv and receive selected center communications.
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