DGHI Research Roundup: March 2019
March 29, 2019Forty-eight DGHI-affiliated authors—including faculty, staff and alumni—recently shared new discoveries on a variety of global health topics in peer-reviewed publications. Click on the article links below to learn more:
Gerald Bloomfield, Anubha Agarwal (global , Rebecca Lumsden (global health resident), Eric Velazquez
- Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography – Effects of a Cookstove Intervention on Cardiac Structure, Cardiac Function, and Blood Pressure in Western Kenya
Tamara Fitzgerald, Henry Rice
- World Journal of Surgery – Investing in all of Our Children: Global Pediatric Surgery for the Twenty-First Century
David Goodman (global health fellow), Nathan Thielman, John Schmitt
- BMC Pregnancy Childbirth – Using Fetal Scalp Stimulation with Doppler Ultrasonography to Enhance Intermittent Auscultation in Low-Resource Settings: A Diagnostic Trial from Tanzania
Tazeen Jafar, Eric Finkelstein
Brandon Knettel, Marta Mulawa, Elizabeth Knippler (global health undergraduate alumna), Kathleen Sikkema
Sara LeGrand, Kathryn Whetten
- AIDS and Behavior – Public Health, HIV Care and Prevention, Human Rights and Democracy at a Crossroad in Brazil
Osondu Ogbuoji, Gavin Yamey
- International Journal of Health Policy and Management – Aid Effectiveness in the Sustainable Development Goals Era; Comment on “'It’s about the Idea Hitting the Bull’s Eye’: How Aid Effectiveness Can Catalyse the Scale-up of Health Innovations”
Heather Parnell, David Eagle, Blen Biru (MS alumna), Kathryn Whetten, Rae Jean Proeschold-Bell
Journal of Positive Psychology – Putting Virtues in Context: Engaging the VIA Classification of Character Strengths in Caregiving for Orphans and Vulnerable Children across Cultures
Michelle Pender, Michael Merson, Shenglan Tang
- Journal of Global Health – Chinese Medical Teams in Africa: A Flagship Program Facing Formidable Challenges
Sallie Permar, Ernesto Ortiz, Axel Berky, William Pan
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health – Mercury Exposure and Poor Nutritional Status Reduce Response to Six Expanded Program on Immunization Vaccines in Children: An Observational Cohort Study of Communities Affected by Gold Mining in the Peruvian Amazon
Janet Prvu Bettger, Lijing Yan
- The Lancet Global Health – Barriers and Facilitators to Digital Health Collaboration between Academia and Industry: A Cross-Cultural Analysis
Nimmi Ramanujam
- Nature Scientific Reports – Exploiting Heat Shock Protein Expression to Develop a Non-Invasive Diagnostic Tool for Breast Cancer
Kevin Ramseur II (MS alumnus), Jessy Guler (MS alumna), Lauren Franz
- Pediatric Medicine – Caregiver Descriptions of Joint Activity Routines with Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in South Africa
Henry Rice, Tamara Fitzgerald
- BMJ Global Health – Teaching Patient Safety in Global Health: Lessons from the Duke Global Health Patient Safety Fellowship
Anthony Saxton (MS alumnus), Ernesto Ortiz, William Pan
- Annals of Global Health – Assessment of Two Diabetes Point-of-care Analyzers Measuring Hemoglobin A1c in the Peruvian Amazon
Gavin Smith
- BMC Infectious Diseases – Surveillance and Characterisation of Influenza Viruses among Patients with Influenza-like Illness in Bali, Indonesia, July 2010-June 2014
Catherine Staton
- BMC Conflict and Health – Cost-Effectiveness of Birth-Dose Hepatitis B Vaccination among Refugee Populations in the African Region: A Series of Case Studies
Dori Steinberg, Melissa Kay, Jasmine Burroughs, Gary Bennett
- Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics – The Effect of a Digital Behavioral Weight Loss Intervention on Adherence to the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Dietary Pattern in Medically Vulnerable Primary Care Patients: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Gayani Tillekeratne, Truls Østybe, Megan Reller, Christopher Woods
- American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene – Respiratory Viral Infection: An Underappreciated Cause of Acute Febrile Illness Admissions in Southern Sri Lanka
Gavin Yamey
- BMJ Global Health – Improving Resource Mobilisation for Global Health R&D: A Role for Coordination Platforms?
Faculty, affiliates, scholars and alumni: Want your publications listed in the monthly Research Roundup? Email the communications team with the citation or a link to the article! The sooner you email us, the better—we encourage you to let us know when your publication has been accepted.
