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Short-term engagements in global health – towards outcomes-based thinking


The growing popularity of short-term engagements in global health (STEGH) highlights why global health and development efforts must begin to refocus their planning around outcomes rather than interventions. STEGH typically ...
29 Jul
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The Jamkhed model: enabling communities to achieve health and development

Effective delivery of health services in rural areas remains challenging in most low- and middle-income countries (1). This includes rural India, where acute shortages of medical health professionals persist across ...
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24 Sep
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ChemoQuant: a web-based tool for improving access to cancer treatment in Africa

In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) more people die of cancer than malaria or tuberculosis each year.(1) The World Health Organization estimates that cancer deaths in the region will increase by 85% ...
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05 Feb
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Tackling the World’s Greatest Health Challenges Using Biometrics

Of the 1.1 billion people in the world who do not have a formal identity, 40% are children under the age of 18 and 78% are located in underdeveloped areas ...
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31 Jan
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Challenges faced by early career researchers in low and middle income countries – how can we support them?

Getting research published is a major milestone in a researcher’s career, but it often comes at the end of a journey fraught with challenges. In many low and middle income ...
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17 Jan
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The challenges of big data in low- and middle-income countries: from paper to petabytes

Generation of digital data has expanded exponentially over the last decade, inspiring visions of data-driven healthcare and precision medicine. But the promise of big data is tempered by today’s reality ...
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22 Nov
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What is new about seed funding in higher education research?

The concept of seed funding emerged from the world of investment finance, where investors commit an initial early-stage stake (seed) of funding to support the development of new concepts, products ...
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31 May
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Expanding genomic research in Africa: H3Africa 7th Consortium Meeting

The Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) consortium is an initiative of the Wellcome Trust (UK) and the National Institutes of Health (USA), in partnership with the African Society ...
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30 Oct
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Building African Capacity in Chronic Disease Epidemiology

With changing patterns of diseases in Africa, it is increasingly important to train young scientists in order to build research capacity across the continent. Research training is fundamental to enabling ...
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02 Oct
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Empowering African Scientists

The Wellcome Trust advanced course, Genetic Epidemiology in Africa, which was established by research scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute including Dr Manjinder Sandhu, Editor-in-Chief of GHEG, recently took ...
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20 Jul
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