DGHI Research Roundup: June 2015

Eight DGHI faculty members, staff and affiliates recently shared new discoveries on a variety of global health topics in peer-reviewed publications. Click on the article links below to learn more:

Benjamin Anderson, Greg Gray

• PLOS One – Serological evidence and risk factors for swine influenza infections among Chinese swine workers in Guangdong Province

Gary Bennett

• Scientific Reports – Effects of Vitamin D supplementation on C-peptide and 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations at 3 and 6 months
• Nutrition & Diabetes – Impact of vitamin D supplementation on adiposity in African-Americans

Kelly Brownell

• The Lancet – Patchy progress on obesity prevention: emerging examples, entrenched barriers, and new thinking

Eric Green

• National Bureau of Economic Research – The returns to microenterprise support among the ultra-poor: A field experiment in post-war Uganda

Brandon Kohrt

• BMJ Open – Psychosocial interventions for disruptive behavioural problems in children living in low- and middle-income countries: Study protocol of a systematic review
• Current Psychiatry Reports – A public health approach to address the mental health burden of youth in situations of political violence and humanitarian emergencies
• Asia-Pacific Psychiatry – Child abuse, disruptive behavior disorders, depression, and salivary cortisol levels among institutionalized and community-residing boys in Mongolia
• Behaviour Research and Therapy – Therapist competence in global mental health: Development of the enhancing assessment of common therapeutic factors (ENACT) rating scale
• International Review of Psychiatry – Cross-cultural gene-environment interactions in depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and the cortisol awakening response: FKBP5 polymorphisms and childhood trauma in South Asia

Brandon Kohrt, Michel Landry

• American Journal of Public Health – Disability as an emerging public health crisis in postearthquake Nepal

Robert Malkin

• Medicine – Accurate dosing of antiretrovirals at home using a foilized, polyethylene pouch to prevent the transmission of HIV from mother to child

Subhrendu Pattanayak

• Proceedings of the National Academy of Science – Public health impacts of ecosystem change in the Brazilian Amazon

Jay Pearson

• Journal of Health and Social Behavior – Race-ethnicity, poverty, urban stressors, and telomere length in a detroit community-based sample

DGHI faculty, affiliates, and scholars: Want your publications listed in the monthly Research Roundup? Email the communications team with the citation or a link to the article!