Fifty-five DGHI-affiliated authors—including faculty, staff and alumni—shared new discoveries on a variety of global health topics in peer-reviewed publications this summer. Click on the article links below to learn more:
Joy Noel Baumgartner
- Global Qualitative Nursing Research – Perceptions of Adolescent Pregnancy among Teenage Girls in Rakai, Uganda
Gary Bennett
- Preventive Medicine Reports – Intervening during and After Pregnancy to Prevent Weight Retention among African American Women
- Translational Behavioral Medicine – A 6-Year Update of the Health Policy and Advocacy Priorities of the Society of Behavioral Medicine
Matthew Boyce (MSc-GH alumnus), Wendy Prudhomme-O’Meara
- BMC Public Health – Use of Malaria RDTs in Various Health Contexts across Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review
Drew Day (doctoral scholar alumnus), Jim Zhang
- JAMA Internal Medicine – Association of Ozone Exposure with Cardiorespiratory Pathophysiologic Mechanisms in Healthy Adults
Eric Finkelstein
- Social Science & Medicine – Applying Economic Incentives to Increase Effectiveness of an Outpatient Weight Loss Program (TRIO) – A Randomized Controlled Trial
Michael Freemark
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S. – Inkjet-Printed Point-of-Care Immunoassay on a Nanoscale Polymer Brush Enables Subpicomolar Detection of Analytes in Blood
Grace Huh (MSc-GH alumna)
- International Ophthalmology – Causes of Childhood Blindness in Ghana: Results from a Blind School Survey in Upper West Region, Ghana, and Review of the Literature
Brandon Knettel
- Journal of Personality Assessment – Attribution through the Layperson's Lens: Development and Preliminary Validation of an Inclusive, International Measure of Beliefs about the Causes of Mental Illness
Sara LeGrand, Joseph Egger
Jeffrey Moe
- Health Affairs – A Voucher System to Speed Review Could Promote a New Generation of Insecticides to Fight Vector-Borne Diseases
Manoj Mohanan
- Bulletin of the World Health Organization – Evaluation of a Social Franchising and Telemedicine Programme and the Care Provided for Childhood Diarrhoea and Pneumonia, Bihar, India
Charles Nunn
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B – Chronotype Variation Drives Night-Time Sentinel-Like Behaviour in Hunter–Gatherers
Subhrendu Pattanayak
- Ecology and Society – Costs, Cobenefits, and Community Responses to REDD+: A Case Study from Nepal
Brittany Ploss (MSc-GH alumna), Jihad Abdelgadir (MSc-GH alumna), Anthony Fuller (MSc-GH alumnus), João Ricardo Vissoci, Michael Haglund
- World Neurosurgery – Pilot Use of a Novel Tool to Assess Neurosurgical Capacity in Uganda
Brittney Ploss (MSc-GH alumna), Robert Malkin, William Reichert
- Annals of Biomedical Engineering – Part II: U.S.—Sub-Saharan Africa Educational Partnerships for Medical Device Design
Brittany Ploss (MSc-GH alumna), William Reichert
- Annals of Biomedical Engineering – Part I: The Emergence of Degree-Granting Biomedical Engineering Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa
Rae Jean Proeschold-Bell, Elizabeth Turner, Gary Bennett, David Eagle, David Toole
- American Journal of Preventive Medicine – A 2-Year Holistic Health and Stress Intervention: Results of an RCT in Clergy
Rae Jean Proeschold-Bell, John Schmitt, Nimmi Ramanujam
- PLOS One – Design and Preliminary Analysis of a Vaginal Inserter for Speculum-Free Cervical Cancer Screening
Kristin Schroeder, Anthony Saxton (MSc-GH alumnus), Christina Chao (MSc-GH alumna), Nelson Chao
- Journal of Global Oncology – Pediatric Cancer in Northern Tanzania: Evaluation of Diagnosis, Treatment, and Outcomes
Ryan Simmons, Liz Turner, Randy Kramer, Wendy Prudhomme-O’Meara
- Malaria Journal – A Longitudinal Cohort Study of Malaria Exposure and Changing Serostatus in a Malaria Endemic Area of Rural Tanzania
John Stanifer (MSc-GH alumnus)
John Stanifer (MSc-GH alumnus), Daphne Wang (MSc-GH alumna)
- Seminars in Nephrology – Traditional Medicines and Kidney Disease in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Opportunities and Challenges
Kayla Stankevitz (MSc-GH alumna), Truls Østbye
- Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine – Perceived Barriers to Healthy Eating and Physical Activity among Participants in a Workplace Obesity Intervention
Brittney Sullivan (doctoral certificate alumna), Coleen Cunningham
- Global Health Action – Barriers to Initiating Tuberculosis Treatment in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review Focused on Children and Youth
Georgia Tomaras, Guido Ferrari, Barton Haynes
- Nature Communications – Pentavalent HIV-1 Vaccine Protects against Simian-Human Immunodeficiency Virus Challenge
Elizabeth Turner, John Gallis
- American Journal of Public Health – Review of Recent Methodological Developments in Group-Randomized Trials: Part 1—Design
- American Journal of Public Health – Review of Recent Methodological Developments in Group-Randomized Trials: Part 2—Analysis
João Ricardo Vissoci, Nicole Toomey (MSc-GH alumna), Michael Haglund, Catherine Staton
- Traffic Injury Prevention – Road Traffic Injury in Sub-Saharan African Countries: A Systematic Review and Summary of Observational Studies
Melissa Watt, Alexis Dennis, Kathleen Sikkema
- AIDS and Behavior – HIV-Risk Behaviors and Social Support Among Men and Women Attending Alcohol-Serving Venues in South Africa: Implications for HIV Prevention
Gavin Yamey
- The Lancet Global Health – Financing of International Collective Action for Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness
Tatenda Yemeke (MSc-GH alumnus), Kathleen Sikkema, Melissa Watt
- Journal of Interpersonal Violence – Screening for Traumatic Experiences and Mental Health Distress Among Women in HIV Care in Cape Town, South Africa
Yousuf Zafar
