DGHI Research Roundup: March 2019

Forty-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

• BMC Nephrology – Family Dynamics in a Multi-Ethnic Asian Society: Comparison of Elderly CKD Patients and their Family Caregivers Experience with Medical Decision Making for Managing End Stage Kidney Disease

Brandon Knettel, Marta Mulawa, Elizabeth Knippler (global health undergraduate alumna), Kathleen Sikkema

• AIDS Care – Women’s Perspectives on ImpACT: A Coping Intervention to Address Sexual Trauma and Improve HIV Care Engagement in Cape Town, South Africa

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.