Global Health Connections
January 2022
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Bay Area Academics Offer National Pandemic Thought Leadership
Researchers and clinicians at the Bay Area's top universities have taken on a critical role as influencers and thought leaders over the past two years. In a San Francisco Chronicle article to mark the start of the new year, UCSF's Bob Wachter, George Rutherford, Monica Gandhi, and Jeanne Noble along with Jonathan Swartzberg from UC Berkeley all predicted relatively rosy forecasts for 2022, even as the newest wave of COVID-19 infections were threatening the capacity of our local hospitals. Stanford's Robert Siegel, by contrast, offered a more cautious tone, expressing concern about the likelihood that new variants will trigger another devastating wave. Beyond the Bay Area, national and international press seek out and welcome the expert advice and opinions of our member universities. Here's a sampling from the past month.
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UC Davis Vice Provost on Building Trust in Science
 Professor Jonna Mazet, vice provost of the Grand Challenges initiative at UC Davis, recently sat down with A Shot in the Arm podcast host Ben Plumley to discuss a multidisciplinary approach to building trust in science and the most significant lessons scientists have learned from the two-year battle against COVID-19. Watch or listen here.
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New Frontiers in Treating COVID-19
As Omicron relentlessly reaches all corners of the globe, Bay Area Global Health Alliance members continue to be at the forefront of innovating treatments that can lessen its deadly toll. Vir Biotechnology's monoclonal antibody Sotrovimab (developed in conjunction with GlaxoSmithKline) has been recommended by the World Health Organization for use with patients who have non-severe illness. Sotrovimab has been shown to be the only monoclonal antibody that works effectively against the Omicron variant. Pfizer's antiviral pill, Paxlovid, given in the first few days of an infection, was recently granted an EUA by the FDA, joining Merck's molnupiravir. Read more about the supply constraints here.
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Human-Centered Design in Global Health
Bay Area Global Health Alliance members Equalize Health, IDEO.org, JSI, PATH, and Population Services International contributed to Global Health: Science & Practice's special issue on Design for Health: Human-Centered Design Looks to the Future. It covers the integration of HCD into global health programming, measurements, and how design can help support interdisciplinary solutions. Read the articles here.
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How to Scale Digital Health Solutions
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated innovations in digital health, like Viamo's mobile telephone technology, which are helping bring healthcare to even the hardest-to-reach people around the globe. Viamo's platform allows for easy and effective communication through Interactive Voice Response (IVR), SMS, web app, Facebook messenger, etc. It is accessible to those with low literacy skills and basic phones. Learn more about how Viamo and others are scaling their innovations in this Devex article.
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Alliance Members Recognized for Achievements
We know our Bay Area Global Health Alliance members are global health leaders and innovators, so it is with great pleasure that we salute the following members for their recent recognition and awards:
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Devex Prescription for Progress
 Join us at Devex's Prescription for Progress on February 15. This annual conference brings together leaders across sectors working on technology and innovation to advance global health. For more information and to register, visit here.
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"With the end of the pandemic nowhere in sight, our actions to counter the trend need to acknowledge that all the SDG goals, and sustainable development as a whole, are at risk."
–Purnima Mane, BAGHA Board Member & Former President,
Pathfinder International Read the op-ed here.
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Upcoming events
- Funding Opportunities to Establish Mass Vaccination Sites [Sabin, Jan. 21]
- The Global Fund in the COVID-19 Era: Strengthening the Role of Communities in Health Systems [Friends of the Global Fight, Jan. 24]
- Big Ideas in Overdose Prevention for 2022 [PHI, Jan. 26]
- Digital Health: What's Needed for Success? [Resonance, Jan. 27]
- Innovators, Changemakers & Arc Benders: Community-Based Participatory Research: 23 Years Later [UC Berkeley, Jan. 27]
- The Exhaustion Epidemic: Examining the COVID-19 Burnout Crisis in Health Care [STAT, Feb. 7]
- Pandemic-Driven Challenges in Addressing Global Burden of Disease: A Pediatric Perspective [UCSF I Stanford, Feb. 9]
- Prescription for Progress [Devex, Feb. 15]
- Resilience with an Empathetic Digital Workforce, Ai4 Healthcare Summit [Soul Machines, Feb. 23]
- 5K Fun Run for Vaccine Equity [UCSF, Mar. 12]
- CUGH Satellite Sessions [CUGH, Mar. 21–25]
- CUGH 2022 [CUGH, Mar. 28–Apr. 1]
- Show of Hope [SF Community Health Center, Apr. 16]
- Stanford Global Health Research Convening, Rescheduled [Stanford, Apr. 18]
- 2022 Global Health & Innovation Conference [Unite For Sight, Apr. 21–22]
- Save the Date: 2022 Partner Summit [Americares, May 4]
- UC Global Health Day 2022 [UCGHI, May 7]
- One Health & Development for a World Under Pressure [Univ. of Guelph, May 9–11]
- Participatory Surveillance Conference, Cambodia [Ending Pandemics, Late 2022]
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Jobs
- Science Partnerships Lead I Hopelab, Jan. 30
- Lecturer Pool, Residential & Online Instruction I UC Berkeley School of Public Health, Feb. 14
- Digital Health Advisor I PSI
- Multimedia Designer I Soul Machines
- Finance & Operations Manager I Women in Global Health
- Rwanda Program Manager I Global Health Corps
- Development Associate I Global Health Corps
- Head of Research I Hopelab
- Associate or Full Professor, Ladder Rank, FT I UCSF, IGHS Dept. of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
- Senior Program Manager for Global Health Education I CIGH, Stanford
- Nigeria Program Director I WomenLift Health, Stanford
- Postdoc, Infectious Diseases, Environmental & Planetary Health, Global Health & Epidemiology I Stanford
- Various Openings I AbbVie
- Various Openings I CUGH
- Various Openings I ETR
- Various Openings I Global Health Corps
- Various Openings I IDEO.org
- Various Openings I JSI
- Various Openings I PATH
- Various Openings I Pathfinder
- Various Openings I PHI
- Various Openings I Seed Global Health
- Various Openings I Triangle Global Health
- Various Openings I UC Berkeley
- Careers in Global Health I UCSF
- Various Openings I UNICEF USA
- Various Openings I Viamo
- Various Openings I Zenysis
- Various Openings I Zipline
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Opportunities
- 2022 Fellowship for Inflammatory Dermatological Diseases [Pfizer, Jan. 24]
- Rx One Health Field Institute (Jun. 19–22) Application [UC Davis, Jan. 31]
- Global Health Media Fellowship [Stanford, Jan. 31]
- Planetary Health Postdoctoral Fellowship [Stanford, Jan. 31]
- CUGH-Pulitzer Center Global Health Video Competition [CUGH, Feb. 1]
- Planetary Health Summer Work Experience Program Application [UCGHI, Feb. 10]
- 2022 Untold Stories of Global Health Competition [CUGH, Feb. 15]
- Women's Health Gender & Empowerment Center of Expertise’s Internship [UCGHI, Mar. 4]
- Advances in Global Health Call for Papers [UCGHI, Apr. 1]
- Longitude Prize for AMR Innovation [UK Science & Innovation Network, Sep. 30]
- COVID Vaccine Ambassador Training: How to Talk to Parents, Coursera [John Hopkins Univ.]
- Submit to Notes from the Field [CUGH]
- Communications Intern [Friends of the Global Fight]
- Policy Internship [Friends of the Global Fight]
- IGOT Giving Campaign [UCSF]
- COVID-19 Training for Healthcare Workers Available in 5 Languages [Stanford]
- Healthcare Resources, Various (available in multiple languages) [Stanford Center for Health Education]
- Fellowships, Various [PHI]
- Fellowships, Various [UCSF]
- Fellowships, Various [CDC]
- Online Scientific Writing Course [CDC]
- JHU Funding Opportunities [Johns Hopkins University]
- NIH Global Health Funding [NIH]
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Publications
- Andrea L. Cathcart: The Dual Function Monoclonal Antibodies Vir-7831 and Vir-7832 Demonstrate Potent in Vitro & in Vivo Activity Against SARS-CoV-2 [Vir Biotechnology]
- Abdulrahman Jbaily: Air Pollution Exposure Disparities across Us Population and Income Groups
- Prabhat Jha: COVID Mortality in India: National Survey Data & Health Facility Deaths
- Seilesh Kadambari: Indirect Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Childhood Infection in England: Population Based Observational Study
- Alka Kanaya: Knowledge Gaps, Challenges, & Opportunities in Health & Prevention Research for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, & Pacific Islanders [Stanford]
- Joseph Lewnard: All-Cause Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Chennai, India: An Observational Study [UC Berkeley]
- Heather S. Lipkind: Receipt of COVID-19 Vaccine During Pregnancy and Preterm or Small-for-Gestational-Age at Birth—Eight Integrated Health Care Organizations, United States, December 15, 2020–July 22, 2021
- Stephen Luby: Impact of Community Masking on COVID-19: A Cluster-Randomized Trial in Bangladesh [Stanford]
- Stephanie S. Perez: Human Milk SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies up to 6 Months After Vaccination
- Mark Sagar: "I Felt Her Company": A Qualitative Study on Factors Affecting Closeness & Emotional Support Seeking with an Embodied Conversational Agent [Soul Machines]
- Anita Shet: Impact of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic on Routine Immunisation Services: Evidence of Disruption and Recovery from 170 Countries & Territories
- Lauren C. Shuffrey: Association of Birth During the COVID-19 Pandemic with Neurodevelopmental Status at 6 Months in Infants with & without In Utero Exposure to Maternal SARS-CoV-2 Infection
- Jack Stone: The Contribution of Unstable Housing to HIV & Hepatitis C Virus Transmission Among People Who Inject Drugs Globally, Regionally, & at Country Level: A Modelling Study
- Arthur W. Wallace: Association of the Patterns of Use of Medications with Mortality of COVID-19 Infection: A Hospital-Based Observational Study [PHI]
Looking for more peer-reviewed news?
Or peer reviews of COVID-19 research preprints?
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What we're reading
- A Texas Team Comes up with a COVID Vaccine That Could Be a Global Game Changer [NPR]
- Global Risks Report 2022 [World Economic Forum]
- Inequality a Factor in 21,000 Deaths per Day, Says Oxfam [Devex]
- Ten Humanitarian Crises & Trends to Watch in 2022 [New Humanitarian]
- Antibiotic Resistance Killed 1.2 Million People In 2019, Study Finds, A Leading Cause of Death [Forbes]
- Global Principles for Identifying Credible Sources of Health Information on Social Media [WHO]
- WHO & World Bank Urge Spending for UHC [Lancet]
- The WHO's New Pandemic Center Isn't Ready for Action [Foreign Policy]
- Is Precision Public Health the Future—Or a Contradiction? [Nature]
- FDA Approves First Injectable Treatment to Lower HIV Risk [Axios]
- What Botswana Can Teach the World About Solving a Health Crisis [US News & World Report]
- Tracking the UK's Controversial Aid Cuts [Devex]
- How Bad Research Clouded Our Understanding of COVID-19 [Vox]
- Lack of High School Education Predicts Vaccine Hesitancy [CIDRAP]
- Advocates Call For 22 Billion More mRNA Vaccine Doses to Ward off Global Omicron Threat [Washington Post]
- Hospitals Are in Serious Trouble [The Atlantic]
- Pope Francis Calls for Widespread COVID-19 Vaccination [The Hill]
- Fauci Says There Are 5 Stages of the COVID Pandemic—& We Are Still in Phase 1 [Fortune]
- The Pandemic's True Death Toll: Millions More than Official Counts [Nature]
- A National Strategy for the "New Normal" of Life with COVID [JAMA]
- Biden Officials Now Fear Booster Programs Will Limit Global Vaccine Supply [Politico]
- Biden's COVID Culpability [Axios]
- 3 Big Questions About the Biden Administration’s COVID Response in 2022 [STAT]
- What America Lost by Delaying the Vaccine Rollout [The Atlantic]
- At Least 9 African Countries Set to Produce COVID Vaccines, Africa's CDC Chief Says [The World]
- Plastic Pouches to Replace Glass Vials as COVID Vaccine Manufacturing Ramps up in Africa [The Telegraph]
- The Lost Girls of COVID [Bloomberg]
- Have Refugee Camps Escaped Mass COVID Infections? [VOA]
- COVID-19 Can Trigger Self-Attacking Antibodies [Science Daily]
- COVID-19's Devastating Effect on Tuberculosis Care—A Path to Recovery [NEJM]
- Three Doses of a Cheap, Common Antibiotic Batter—but Don’t Beat—Yaws, a Tropical Skin Disease [Science]
- Latin American Abortion Laws Hurt Health Care & the Economy [Scientific American]
- How Technology Can Revolutionize Women's Health Care [Devex]
- Rise in Missed Doses May Portend Return of Measles [Yale News]
- Estimation of the Global Prevalence of Dementia in 2019 & Forecasted Prevalence in 2050 [Lancet]
- We Studied the Sounds of Mosquitoes' Mating Rituals—Our Findings Could Help Fight Malaria [The Conversation]
- Trust Is the Key to Pandemic Recovery in Latin America, Report Says [Devex]
- Human-Centered Design in a Rwandan Hospital [Fast Company]
- Mapping Where HIV Hides Its Genes Suggests Cure Strategy [Science]
- In Burkina Faso, Trans People Self-Medicate in 'Dangerous' Transition [Thomson Reuters]
- NYC Vending Machines Will Give People Syringes, Opioid Overdose Treatment [The Hill]
- Philippine President Threatens to Arrest Unvaccinated Filipinos [Health Policy Watch]
- India Sends Vaccines to Afghanistan as Part of Humanitarian Assistance [VOA]
- Curfew in Delhi as India COVID Cases Surge [BBC]
- Are COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates the Next Step for African Countries? [Devex]
- Ethiopia Lifts Five-Month Suspension of Norwegian Refugee Council's Aid Work [The Guardian]
- Tigray: The Deliberate Destruction of a Health System [Devex]
- Sudanese Medics Shaken by Attacks on Hospitals Treating Anti-Coup Protesters [Reuters]
- Indonesia Survey Finds 85% of Population Have COVID-19 Antibodies [Reuters]
- Why Cuba's Extraordinary COVID Vaccine Success Could Provide the Best Hope for Low-Income Countries [CNBC]
- Watch: Report Warns of Impact of Pesticides on Public Health [Deustche Welle]
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