From Our November 2024 Connections Newsletter

• Mary Aleni: The State of Patient-Centered Care & Associated Factors at a Large Referral Hospital in Northwestern Uganda: Perceptions of Patients I Seed Global Health, UCSF*
• Aderaw Ateneh: COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Ethiopia: A Latent Class Analysis I PSI*
• Rony Bahatungire, Vanessa Kerry: Readiness to Manage Ebola Virus Disease Among Emergency Healthcare Workers in Uganda: A Nationwide Multicenter Survey I Seed Global Health*
• Eva Harris: Comparison of the Sensitivity & Specificity of Commercial Anti-Dengue Virus IgG Tests to Identify Persons Eligible for Dengue Vaccination I UC Berkeley*
• Jiyeong Kim: Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence-Generated Responses to Patient Messages I Stanford*
• Gabriela Montenegro-Benthancourt: Practices of Maize Handling & Nixtamalization to Reduce Fungal Toxin Exposure in Rural Guatemala I Maya Health Alliance*
• Kari C. Nadeau: Advocating for Planetary Health Is an Essential Part of Advocating for Children’s Health I Stanford*
• Peter Rohloff: Evaluating the World Health Organization’s HEARTS Model for Hypertension & Diabetes Management: A Pilot Implementation Study in Guatemala I Maya Health Alliance*
• Megan R. Schwarzman: Trends in NHANES Biomonitored Exposures in California & the United States Following Enactment of California’s Proposition 65 I UC Berkeley*
• Matthew Charles Strehlow: Evaluation of a Massive Open Online Course for Just-In-Time Training of Healthcare Workers I Stanford*
• Marcela M. Uhart: Epidemiological Data of an Influenza A/H5N1 Outbreak in Elephant Seals in Argentina Indicates Mammal-to-Mammal Transmission I UC Davis*
• Bin Zhou: Worldwide Trends in Diabetes Prevalence & Treatment, 1990–2022: A Pooled Analysis of 1108 Population-Representative Studies with 141M Participants I Maya Health Alliance*

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• Patience Afulani: Understanding How COVID-19 Affected Black Pregnant Women Early in the Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Survey I UCSF*
• Stephanie Bultema: Exploring How Health Equity Is Addressed in Accountable Communities of/for Health I PHI*
• James Chang, Natalie Myers: Modeling the Lifetime Impact of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery Training: Implications for Building Capacity in Global Surgery I ReSurge International*
• Roxana Daneshjou: Deep Learning-Aided Decision Support for Diagnosis of Skin Disease Across Skin Tones I Stanford*
• Joanne Delk: Intersectional Disparities in Outpatient Alcohol Treatment Completion by Gender and Race & Ethnicity I PHI*
• Elleni M. Hailu: Structural Racism, Mass Incarceration, & Racial & Ethnic Disparities in Severe Maternal Morbidity I UC Berkeley*
• Margaret Handley: Community Engagement in the Development of Health-Related Data Visualizations: A Scoping Review I UCSF*
• Andrew H. Herring: Emergency Department Access to Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder I PHI*
• Laura Jelliffe-Pawlowski: The Association of Gestational Age and Size with Management Strategies & Outcomes in Symptomatic Neonatal Tetralogy of Fallot I UCSF*
• J. Daniel Kelly: Long Covid Manifests with T Cell Dysregulation, Inflammation & an Uncoordinated Adaptive Immune Response to SARS-CoV-2 I UCSF*
• D. Scott LaMontagne: The Global Demand & Supply Balance of the Human Papillomavirus Vaccine: Implications for the Global Strategy for the Elimination of Cervical Cancer I JSI*
• Chloe Manchester: Supporting Evidence-Based Rotavirus Vaccine Introduction Decision-Making & Implementation: Lessons from 8 Gavi-Eligible Countries I JSI*
• Bethanie Maples: Loneliness & Suicide Mitigation for Students Using GPT3-Enabled Chatbots I Stanford*
• Michelle M. Mello, Neel Guha: Understanding Liability Risk from Using Health Care Artificial Intelligence Tools I Stanford*
• Ali Mirzazadeh: Prevalence of Acquired & Transmitted HIV Drug Resistance in Iran: A Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis I UCSF*
• Sam A. Okuonzi: Challenges & Priorities of Nursing Profession & Services in Uganda: A Qualitative Study for Strategic Planning, preprint I Seed Global Health*
• Doruk Ozgediz: Pediatric Emergency Surgery Course in Uganda: Long-Term Follow-Up & Insights from Further Dissemination I UCSF*
• John W. Peabody: A Randomized Controlled Study on Clinical Adherence to Evidence-Based Guidelines in the Management of Simulated Patients with Barrett’s Esophagus & the Clinical Utility of a Tissue Systems Pathology Test: Results from Q-TAB I UCSF*
• Hector P. Rodriguez: Collaborative Learning Among Health Care Organizations to Improve Quality & Advance Racial Equity I UC Berkeley*
• Kole T. Roybal: Naturally Occurring T Cell Mutations Enhance Engineered T Cell Therapies I UCSF*
• Starley Shade: Lessons Learned from Implementing a Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Curriculum for Health Research Professionals at a Large Academic Research Institution I UCSF*
• Rebecca Silvers, Teresa B. Kortz: A Research Definition & Framework for Acute Paediatric Critical Illness Across Resource-Variable Settings: A Modified Delphi Consensus I UCSF*
• Morgan H. Vien: A Scoping Review of Wildfire Smoke Risk Communications: Issues, Gaps, & Recommendations I UC Berkeley, Stanford*

From Our January 2024 Connections Newsletter

• Patience A. Afulani: Caring for Providers to Improve Patient Experience (CPIPE): Intervention Development Process I UCSF*
• Balizzakiwa, Thomas: Ensuring Continuity of Health Professions Training Amid a Global Pandemic: Lessons from the Uganda Safe Schools Initiative I Seed Global Health*
• Eran Bendavid: Global Population Profile of Tropical Cyclone Exposure from 2002 to 2019 I Stanford*
• Barbara Cohn, Laurie Havas: The Effect of Individual or Study-Wide Report-Back on Knowledge, Concern, & Exposure-Reducing Behaviors Related to Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals I PHI*
• Matthew S. Durstenfeld, Michael J. Peluso: Association of Nirmatrelvir for Acute SARS-CoV-2 Infection with Subsequent Long COVID Symptoms in an Observational Cohort Study I UCSF*
• Kristine A. Madsen, Dean Schillinger: Evaluation of Changes in Prices & Purchases Following Implementation of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes Across the US I UC Berkeley, UCSF*
• Bryan Tegomoh: Close the Gender Gap in Africa’s HIV Epidemic I UC Berkeley*

   

• Jie Ban: Association of Flooding Exposure with Cause-Specific Mortality in North Carolina
• KO Saunders: Vaccine Induction of CD4-Mimicking HIV-1 Broadly Neutralizing Antibody Precursors in Macaques
• Manuja Sharma: TBscreen: A Passive Cough Classifier for Tuberculosis Screening with a Controlled Dataset

*These publications were produced by members of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.

From Our December 2023 Connections Newsletter

• Caroline K. Gladden: Human Footprint Is Associated with Shifts in the Assemblages of Major Vector-Borne Diseases I Stanford*

• Vanessa Kerry: Ensuring Continuity of Health Professions Training Amid a Global Pandemic: Lessons from the Uganda Safe Schools Initiative I Seed Global Health*

• David N. Lunderberg: Assessing Residential PM2.5 Concentrations & Infiltration Factors with High Spatiotemporal Resolution Using Crowdsourced Sensors I UC Berkeley*

• Erin A. Mordecai: Tackling Climate Change & Deforestation to Protect Against Vector-Borne Diseases I Stanford*

• Julius Njogu: Assessing Acceptability & Effectiveness of a Pleasure-Oriented Sexual & Reproductive Health Chatbot in Kenya: An Exploratory Mixed-Methods Study I PSI*

• Belinda Wang: A Foundational Atlas of Autism Protein Interactions Reveals Molecular Convergence (preprint) I UCSF*

• Tony Wyss-Coray: Organ Aging Signatures in the Plasma Proteome Track Health & Disease I Stanford*

• Wei Wei: Inhaled SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine for Single-Dose Dry Powder Aerosol Immunization

• Danqi Wang & Holger Fröliich: Development of an Early Alert Model for Pandemic Situations in Germany

*These publications were produced by members of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.

From Our November 2023 Connections Newsletter

• Cyan Brittany Brown: Systematic Literature Review of the Barriers & Facilitators of Frugal Innovation for Surgical Care in Low-Income & Middle-Income Countries I Stanford*

• Roxana Daneshjou: Large Language Models Propagate Race-Based Medicine I Stanford*

• Elaine C. Flores: Climate Change, Mental Health, & Reproductive Decision-Making: A Systematic Review I Stanford, UCSF*

• Jay Holmgren: Changes in Physician Electronic Health Record Use with the Expansion of Telemedicine I UCSF*

• Peter Hotez, Angelle Desiree LeBaud: Yellow Jack’s Potential Return to the American South I Stanford*

• Ann Miller: Assessing Child Development Scores Among Minority & Indigenous Language Versus Dominant Language Speakers: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of National Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys I Maya Health Alliance*

• Elizabeth A. Pleasants: Self-Managed Medication Abortion Trajectories: Results from a Prospective Observational Study in Argentina, Nigeria & Southeast Asia I UC Berkeley*

• Arthur L. Reingold, Steven P. Luby: Masks During Pandemics Caused by Respiratory Pathogens — Evidence & Implications for Action I UC Berkeley, Stanford*
  

• Sonia S. Anand: Glocal Is Global: Reimagining the Training of Global Health Students in High-Income Countries

• Augustín Ciapponi: Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis of Deaths Attributable to Antimicrobial Resistance, Latin America

• Sameed Ahmed M. Khatana: Projected Change in the Burden of Excess Cardiovascular Deaths Associated with Extreme Heat by Midcentury (2036–2065) in the Contiguous US

• Maayan Levy: Serotonin Reduction in Post-Acute Sequelae of Viral Infection

• A. Michael Lincoff: Semaglutide & Cardiovascular Outcomes in Obesity Without Diabetes

• Vinko Zadjelovic: Microbial Hitchhikers Harbouring Antimicrobial-Resistance Genes in the Riverine Plastisphere

*These publications were produced by members of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.

From Our October 2023 Connections Newsletter

• Jerel M. Ezell: Climate Change & the Opioid Epidemic I UC Berkeley*

• Victoria Y. Fan, Stefano Bertozzi: The When Is Less Important Than the What: An Epidemic Scale as an Alternative to the WHO’s Public Health Emergency of International Concern I UC Berkeley*

• Kimberly M. Fornace: Zoonotic Malaria Requires New Policy Approaches to Malaria Elimination I PATH*

• Jenna E. Forsyth, Stephen P. Luby: Food Safety Policy Enforcement & Associated Actions Reduce Lead Chromate Adulteration in Turmeric Across Bangladesh I Stanford*

• Aditya Narayan, Jason R. Andrews: Prioritizing Persons Deprived of Liberty in Global Guidelines for Tuberculosis Preventive Treatment I Stanford*

• Peter T. Pellitier, Britt D. Wray: Embracing Climate Emotions to Advance Higher Education I Stanford*

• Meenakshi S. Subbaraman: Associations Between State-Level General Population Alcohol Policies & Drinking Outcomes Among Women of Reproductive Age: Results from 1984 to 2020 National Alcohol Surveys I PHI*

• Christina C. Tam: At-Risk Drinking in US Adults with Health Conditions: Differences by Gender, Race, & Ethnicity in the National Survey of Drug Use & Health, 2015–2019 I PHI*

• Sarah E. Zemore: Understanding the Shared Meaning of Recovery from Substance Use Disorders: New Findings from the What Is Recovery? Study I PHI*

• Sakiusa C. Baleivanualala: Molecular & Clinical Epidemiology of Carbapenem Resistant Acinetobacter Baumannii ST2 in Oceania: A Multicountry Cohort Study

• Mathieu Dubé: Spontaneous HIV Expression During Suppressive Art Is Associated with the Magnitude & Function of HIV-Specific CD4+ & CD8+ T Cells

*These publications were produced by members of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.

From Our September 2023 Connections Newsletter

• Alison M. El Ayadi: The Social, Economic, Emotional, & Physical Experiences of Caregivers for Women with Female Genital Fistula in Uganda: A Qualitative Study I UC Berkeley, UCSF*

• Carolina Batista: Testing in Times of COVID-19: Legacy & Unfinished Agenda I Baraka Impact Finance* 

• Jade Benjamin-Chung, Benjamin F. Arnold: Early-Childhood Linear Growth Faltering in Low- & Middle-Income Countries I Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCSF*

• Susana L. Matias: Breastfeeding Moderates Childhood Obesity Risk Associated with Prenatal Exposure to Excessive Gestational Weight Gain I UC Berkeley*

• Gretchen Newby, Michelle S. Hsiang: Testing & Treatment for Malaria Elimination: A Systematic Review I UCSF*

• Sara Singer, Stephen J. Downs: The ‘Product Environment’ Is an Important Driver of Health. It’s Time to Measure It I PHI*

• Émilie Bortolussi-Courval: Incentivizing an Exodus: The Implications of Recruiting Nurses from Low-Middle Income Countries to High-Income Countries

• Matthew M. Kavanagh: Increasing Compliance with International Pandemic Law: International Relations & New Global Health Agreements

• Bjorn Larsen: Global Health Burden & Cost of Lead Exposure in Children & Adults: A Health Impact & Economic Modelling Analysis

• Jonathan B. Parr & Jeffrey A. Bailey: Plasmodium Falciparum Resistant to Artemisinin & Diagnostics Have Emerged in Ethiopia

• Maxime Taquet: Acute Blood Biomarker Profiles Predict Cognitive Deficits 6 & 12 Months After COVID-19 Hospitalization

*These publications were produced by members of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.

From Our August 2023 Connections Newsletter

• Ludovic Bellier: Music Can Be Reconstructed from Human Auditory Cortex Activity Using Nonlinear Decoding Models I UC Berkeley*

• Barbara A. Cohn: Exposome Epidemiology for Suspect Environmental Chemical Exposures During Pregnancy Linked to Subsequent Breast Cancer Diagnosis I PHI*

• Erica R. Furhmeister: Evaluating the Relationship Between Community Water & Sanitation Access and the Global Burden of Antibiotic Resistance: An Ecological Study I UC Berkeley*

• Joseph K. Gaydos: Epidemiology of Skin Changes in Endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales (Orcinus Orca) I UC Davis*

• Stephanie Gras & Jill A. Hollenbach: A Common Allele of HLA Is Associated with Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection I UCSF*

• Paul J. McLaren: Africa-Specific Human Genetic Variation Near CHD1L Associates with HIV-1 Load I Stanford*

• Hector P. Rodriguez: US Practice Adoption of Patient-Engagement Strategies & Spending for Adults with Diabetes & Cardiovascular Disease I UC Berkeley*

• Meri R. J. Varkila: Use of Wastewater Metrics to Track Covid-19 in the US I Stanford*

• Váleri N. Vásquez: wMel Replacement of Dengue-Competent Mosquitoes Is Robust to Near-Term Change I UC Berkeley*

• Hong Chen: Association Between Particulate Matter (PM)2·5 Air Pollution & Clinical Antibiotic Resistance: A Global Analysis

• John Chen: Dual Pathogenicity Island Transfer by Piggybacking Lateral Transduction

• Steven K. Grinspoon: Pitavastatin to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease in HIV Infection

• Andrea L. Herrera: Experimental Acquisition, Maintenance, &Transmission of MRSA by the Common Bed Bug, Cimex Lectularius 

• Theresa Ryckman: Impact & Cost-Effectiveness of Short-Course Tuberculosis Preventive Treatment for Household Contacts & People with HIV in 29 High-Incidence Countries: A Modelling Analysis

• Sahana Sule: Communication of Covid-19 Misinformation on Social Media by Physicians in the US

*These publications were produced by members of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.

From Our July 2023 Connections Newsletter

• Jason Andrews: Global, Regional, & National Estimates of Tuberculosis Incidence & Case Detection Among Incarcerated Individuals from 2000 to 2019: A Systematic Analysis | Stanford*

• Abraar Karan, Michele Barry: Health Inequities Continue to Drive the Public Health Threat of Mpox I Stanford*

• Alan Karthikesalingam & Vivek Natarajan: Large Language Models Encode ClinicalKnowledge I Google*

• Yannai S. Kashtan: Gas & Propane Combustion from Stoves Emits Benzene & Increases Indoor Air Pollution I UC Berkeley, Stanford*

• Joseph A. Lewnard: Increased Vaccine Sensitivity of an Emerging SARS-CoV-2 Variant I UC Berkeley*

• Camillia K. Lui: Associations Between Early Childhood Adversity & Behavioral, Substance Use, & Academic Outcomes in Childhood Through Adolescence in a US Longitudinal Cohort I PHI*

• Caitlin C. Murphy: In Utero Exposure to Antiemetic & Risk of Adult-Onset Colorectal Cancer I PHI*

• Onika DV Noel: Underutilization of Intravesical Chemotherapy & Immunotherapy for High-Grade Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer in California Between 2006–2018: Effect of Race, Age & Socioeconomic Status on Treatment Disparities I PHI, UCSF*

• Minghao Qiu: Drought Impacts on the Electricity System, Emissions, & Air Quality in the Western US I Stanford*

• Stephen M. Shortell: The Better Care Plan: A Blueprint for Improving America’s Healthcare System I UC Berkeley*

• Joan Ballester: Heat-Related Mortality in Europe During the Summer of 2022

• Catherine R. Butler: Experiences of US Clinicians Contending with Health Care Resource Scarcity During the COVID-19 Pandemic, December 2020 to December 2021

• Rajan K. Chakrabarty: Real-Time Environmental Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 Aerosols

• Ruian Ke: Swift & Extensive Omicron Outbreak in China After Sudden Exit from ‘Zero-Covid’ Policy

• Bertalan Meskó: The Imperative for Regulatory Oversight of Large Language Models (Or Generative AI) in Healthcare

• Roger L. Shapiro: Broadly Neutralizing Antibody Treatment Maintained HIV Suppression in Children with Favorable Reservoir Characteristics in Botswana

• Giovanni Spitale: AI Model GPT-3 (Dis)Informs Us Better Than Humans

• Magnus Unemo: Genomic Surveillance & Antimicrobial Resistance Determinants in Neisseria Gonorrhoeae Isolates from Uganda, Malawi & South Africa, 2015–20

*These publications were produced by members of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.

From Our June 2023 Connections Newsletter

• Patience Afluani: Person-Centred Sexual & Reproductive Health: A Call for Standardized Measurement I UCSF*

• Pascal Geldsetzer: Causal Evidence That Herpes Zoster Vaccination Prevents a Proportion of Dementia Cases I Stanford*

• Peter Kilmarx, Jamie Bay Nishi: Increasing Effectiveness & Equity in Strengthening Health Research Capacity Using Data & Metrics: Recent Advances of the ESSENCE Mechanism I GHTC*

• Jaime Sepúlveda, Paul Wise: Delivering Humanitarian Health Services in Violent Conflicts I Stanford, UCSF*

• Britt Wray, Allison Phillips, Michele Barry: A Call to Action for Gender Equity in Climate Leadership I Stanford*

• Antoine Ardillon: Inappropriate Antibiotic Prescribing & Its Determinants Among Outpatient Children in 3 Low- & Middle-Income Countries: A Multicentric Community-Based Cohort Study

• Bruna Bellaver, Thrice A. Pascoal: Astrocyte Reactivity Influences Amyloid-β Effects on Tau Pathology in Preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease

• Carolyn T. Bramante: Outpatient Treatment of COVID-19 & Incidence of Post-COVID-19 Condition Over 10 Months (COVID-Out): A Multicentre, Randomised, Quadruple-Blind, Parallel-Group, Phase 3 Trial

• César Caraballo: Excess Mortality & Years of Potential Life Lost Among the Black Population in the US, 1999–2020

• Carrie J. Ngongo: Living with Obstetric Fistula: Learnings from Nine African Countries 

• Timothy M. Lenton: Quantifying the Human Cost of Global Warming

• Marvin Petersen: Brain Imaging & Neuropsychological Assessment of Individuals Recovered from a Mild to Moderate SARS-CoV-2 Infection

• Tanayott Thaweethai: Development of a Definition of Postacute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection

*These publications were produced by members of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.

From Our May 2023 Connections Newsletter

• Noel F. Ayoub: Comparison Between ChatGPT & Google Search as Sources of Postoperative Patient Instructions I Stanford*

• Hannah Bichkoff: Recovery & Resilience in the Canal Community: Economic Impacts & Solutions During the COVID-19 Pandemic I UC Berkeley*

• Seth A. Hoffman: Programmatic Effectiveness of a Pediatric Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine Campaign in Navi Mumbai, India I Stanford*

• Hannah Snyder: High-Dose Buprenorphine Initiation in the Emergency Department Among Patients Using Fentanyl & Other Opioids I PHI, UC Davis, UCSF*

• Britt Wray: A Call to Action for Gender Equity in Climate Leadership I Stanford*

• Ioannis Gallos: Randomized Trial of Early Detection & Treatment of Postpartum Hemorrhage

• Marie E. Heffernan: Targeted Vaccine Messaging to Promote COVID-19 Vaccines for Children & Youth

• Margaret A. Lampe: Achieving Elimination of Perinatal HIV in the US

• Charles C. Lanfear: Inequalities in Exposure to Firearm Violence by Race, Sex, & Birth Cohort from Childhood to Age 40 Years, 1995-2021

• Oyeronke Oyebanji: Empowering African Women Leaders Is Key for Health Equity

• John E. Snyder: Black Representation in the Primary Care Physician Workforce & Its Association with Population Life Expectancy & Mortality Rates in the US

*These publications were produced by members of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.

From Our April 2023 Connections Newsletter

• Barbara A. Cohn, Caitlin C. Murphy: In Utero Exposure to Anti-Emetic & Risk of Adult-Onset Colorectal Cancer I UC Berkeley*

• Margaret C. Fang: Assessment of the Risk of Venous Thromboembolism in Nonhospitalized Patients With COVID-19 I UCSF*

• Carlos F. Gould: Using High-Frequency Household Surveys to Describe Energy Use in Rural North India During the COVID-19 Pandemic I Stanford, UC Berkeley*

• Rajesh Gupta: Pandemic Preparedness Strategies Must Go Beyond Vaccines I Vir Biotechnology*

• Bethany Young Holt, Katherine Yang: Expanding the Pipeline for MPTs: Compounds with Potential Activity to Prevent or Treat HIV & Other STIs I PHI, UCSF*

• Rachel Morello-Frosch & Osagie K. Obasogie: The Climate Gap & the Color Line—Racial Health Inequities & Climate Change I UC Berkeley*

• Allan R. Wang: Human Habit Neural Circuitry May Be Perturbed in Eating Disorders I Stanford*

• Kasim Allel: Global Antimicrobial-Resistance Drivers: An Ecological Country-Level Study at the Human-Animal Interface

• Danielle Fitzpatrick: Combined & Progestagen-Only Hormonal Contraceptives & Breast Cancer Risk: A UK Nested Case-Control Study & Meta-Analysis

• Patricia J. Garcia: Corruption in Global Health: The Open Secret

• Akiko Iwasaki: Enhanced Inhibition of MHC-I Expression by SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Subvariants

• Mark M. Janko: The Impact of Sustained Malaria Control in the Loreto Region of Peru: A Retrospective, Observational, Spatially-Varying Interrupted Time Series Analysis of the PAMAFRO Program

• Kevin P. Josey: Air Pollution & Mortality at the Intersection of Race & Social Class

• Mohammed U. Khalid: Integrating Public Health Into Undergraduate Medicine in North America: A Systematic Review

• Joseph Kreitz: Programmable Protein Delivery with a Bacterial Contractile Injection System

• Fengyuan Liu: Non-White Scientists Appear on Fewer Editorial Boards, Spend More Time Under Review, & Receive Fewer Citations

• Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics & Human Health, Special Collection

• Patrick Pearson: White-Tailed Deer Serum Kills the Lyme Disease Spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi

• Carrie K. Shapiro-Mendoza: Sudden Unexpected Infant Deaths: 2015–2020

*These publications were produced by members of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.

From Our March 2023 Connections Newsletter

• J. Bress, J. Armas, E. Danziger: The Utilization of Clinical Decision Support Tools to Identify Neonatal Hypothermia & Its Associated Risk Factors: A Prospective Observational Study I Global Strategies*

• Andrew Y. Chang: What We Lost in the Fire: Endemic Tropical Heart Diseases in the Time of COVID-19 I Stanford*

• A. Nandkumar Chary, M. Nandi, P. Garcia: Qualitative Study of Pathways to Care Among Adults with Diabetes in Rural Guatemala I Maya Health Alliance, Stanford*

• L. Abascal Miguel, N. Diamond Smith, A. Kraemer Diaz: Evaluating the Impact of a Linguistically & Culturally Tailored Social Media Ad Campaign on COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Among Indigenous Populations in Guatemala: A Pre/Post Design Intervention Study I Maya Health Alliance, UCSF*

• Oladele Ogunseitan: The Environmental Justice Agenda for E-Waste Management I Stanford*

• David E. Olson: Psychedelics Promote Neuroplasticity Through the Activation of Intracellular 5-HT2A Receptors I UC Davis*

• Gilmar Reis: Early Treatment with Pegylated Interferon Lambda for COVID-19 I Stanford*

• Fareeha Safir, Jennifer A. Dionne: Combining Acoustic Bioprinting with AI-Assisted Raman Spectroscopy for High-Throughput Identification of Bacteria in Blood I Stanford*

• Nadine Skinner: The Use of Open-Source Online Course Content for Training in Public Health Emergencies: Mixed Methods Case Study of a COVID-19 Course Series for Health Professionals I Stanford*

• W.T. Story, W.F. Pyle, S. Martin: Reducing Inequities in Maternal & Child Health in Rural Guatemala Through the CBIO+ Approach of Curamericas I UCSF*

• Ashish Surraju, Fatima Rodriguez: Appropriateness of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Recommendations Obtained from a Popular Online Chat-Based AI Model I Stanford*

• Britt Wray: Psychological & Emotional Responses to Climate Change among Young People Worldwide: Differences Associated with Gender, Age, & Country I Stanford*

• Rahul Aggarwal: Cardiovascular Risk Factor Prevalence, Treatment, & Control in US Adults Aged 20 to 44 Years, 2009 to March 2020

• Marion Déjosez: Bat Pluripotent Stem Cells Reveal Unusual Entanglement Between Host & Viruses

• Seth W. Dickey: Two Transporters Cooperate to Secrete Amphipathic Peptides from the Cytoplasmic & Membranous Milieus

• Douglas M. Heithoff: A Broad-Spectrum Synthetic Antibiotic That Does Not Evoke Bacterial Resistance

• Catherine Kyobutungi: From Vaccine to Visa Apartheid, How Anti-Blackness Persists in Global Health

• Eriko Nara: Suppression of Angiotensin Converting Enzyme 2, a Host Receptor for SARS-CoV-2 Infection, Using 5-Aminolevulinic Acid in Vitro

• Zachary K. Sagawa: Safety & Immunogenicity of a Thermostable ID93 + GLA-SE Tuberculosis Vaccine Candidate in Healthy Adults

• Fred S. Sarfo, Mayowa O. Owolabi: Patient-Level & System-Level Determinants of Stroke Fatality Across 16 Large Hospitals in Ghana & Nigeria: A Prospective Cohort Study

• Brianna M. White: Exploring Celebrity Influence on Public Attitude Towards the COVID-19 Pandemic: Social Media Shared Sentiment Analysis

*These publications were produced by members of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.

From Our February 2023 Connections Newsletter

• Tracey Woodruff: A Science-Based Agenda for Health-Protective Chemical Assessments & Decisions I PHI, UC Berkeley, UCSF*

• Diane Chen: Psychosocial Functioning in Transgender Youth After 2 Years of Hormones I UCSF*

• Chris Collins: Leveraging the HIV Response to Strengthen Pandemic Preparedness I Friends of the Global Fight*

• Elaine Flores: Gender & the Environmental Health Agenda: A Qualitative Study of Policy, Academic, & Advocacy Perspectives in Peru I Stanford*

• Robert B. Gunier: Pregnancy Outcomes & Vaccine Effectiveness During the Period of Omicron as the Variant of Concern, Intercovid-2022: A Multinational, Observational Study I UC Berkeley*

• Patricia M. Johnson: Deep Learning Reconstruction Enables Prospectively Accelerated Clinical Knee MRI I Meta*

• Abraar Karan: Case Report: Monkeypox—Not Just a Rash I Stanford*

• Anu Kumar: Activism for Abortion Rights & Access Is Global: What the US Can Learn from the Rest of the World I Ipas*

• Bennett M. Liu: Racial & Ethnic Disparities in Geographic Access to Autism Resources Across the US I Stanford*

• Jennifer Miller, Michelle Mello: Metrics, Baseline Scores, & a Tool to Improve Sponsor Performance on Clinical Trial Diversity: Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study I Stanford*

• Alexandra M. Cardozo Pinto: Reasons for Reductions in Routine Childhood Immunisation Uptake During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Low- & Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review

• Nathalie M. Dumornay: Racial Disparities in Adversity During Childhood & the False Appearance of Race-Related Differences in Brain Structure

• Kristian Heggebø: Gendered Health Consequences of Unemployment in Norway 2000–2017: A Register-Based Study of Hospital Admissions, Health-Related Benefit Utilisation, & Mortality

• Bradley J. Langford: Antimicrobial Resistance in Patients with COVID-19: A Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis

• Marco Massimo: Haemorrhage of Human Foetal Cortex Associated with SARS-CoV-2 Infection

• Rocco Mazzolini: Rengineered Live Bacteria Suppress Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Infection in Mouse Lung & Dissolve Endotracheal-Tube Biofilms

• Greg Neely: Fibroblast-Expressed LRRC15 Is a Receptor for SARS-CoV-2 Spike & Controls Antiviral & Antifibrotic Transcriptional Programs

• Yang Pan: Characterisation of SARS-CoV-2 Variants in Beijing During 2022: An Epidemiological & Phylogenetic Analysis

• Alan T. N. Tita: Azithromycin to Prevent Sepsis or Death in Women Planning a Vaginal Birth

• Eric Topol, Anna E. Davis: Long COVID: Major Findings, Mechanisms & Recommendations

• Thomas P. Van Boeckel: Global Trends in Antimicrobial Use in Food-Producing Animals: 2020 to 2030

*These publications were produced by members of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.

From Our January 2023 Connections Newsletter

• Lucia Calderon: Air Concentrations of Volatile Organic Compounds Associated with Conventional & “Green” Cleaning Products in Real-World & Laboratory Settings I UC Berkeley*

• Julianne J.P. Cooley: Cervical Cancer Stage at Diagnosis & Survival Among Women ≥65 Years in California I UC Davis*

• Ashley Jowell: A Model for Comprehensive Climate & Medical Education I Stanford*

• Sophia T. Tan: Infectiousness of SARS-CoV-2 Breakthrough Infections & Reinfections During the Omicron Wave I UCSF*

• Barbra A. Dickerman: Comparative Effectiveness of Third Doses of mRNA-Based COVID-19 Vaccines in US Veterans

• Anna Dimitrova: Uncovering Social & Environmental Factors That Increase the Burden of Climate-Sensitive Diarrheal Infections on Children

• Fernando Gonzalez-Ortiz: Brain-Derived Tau: A Novel Blood-Based Biomarker for Alzheimer’s Disease-Type Neurodegeneration

• Jeffrey V. Lazarus: A Survey of COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance Across 23 Countries in 2022

• PREVAC Study Team: Randomized Trial of Vaccines for Zaire Ebola Virus Disease

*These publications were produced by members of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.

From Our December 2022 Connections Newsletter

• Idara Akpandak: Assessment of Herpes Zoster Risk Among Recipients of COVID-19 Vaccine I UCSF*

• Craig R. Cohen: Effect of a Multisectoral Agricultural Intervention on HIV Health Outcomes Among Adults in Kenya I UCGHI*

• Ian H. Gotlib: Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mental Health & Brain Maturation in Adolescents: Implications for Analyzing Longitudinal Data I Stanford*

• Varun Gulshan: Development & Validation of a Deep Learning Algorithm for Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy in Retinal Fundus Photographs I Google*

• Oladele Ogunseitan: Bending the Curve of the Electronics Revolution toward a Circular Economy of e-Waste I Stanford*

• PREVAC: Randomized Trial of Vaccines for Zaire Ebola Virus Disease I Merck*

• Jorge Saavedra, Stefano Bertozzi: Funding Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness, & Response Through Partnership Models I UC Berkeley*

• Julia Schaletzky: Discovery of SARS‐CoV‐2 Antiviral Synergy Between Remdesivir & Approved Drugs in Human Lung Cells I UC Berkeley CEND*

• Sinisa Bratulic: Noninvasive Detection of Any-Stage Cancer Using Free Glycosaminoglycans

• Eduardo I. Cardenas: Increased Il-26 Associates with Markers of Hyperinflammation & Tissue Damage in Patients with Acute COVID-19

• Victor Kande Betu Kumeso: Efficacy & Safety of Acoziborole in Patients with Human African Trypanosomiasis Caused by Trypanosoma Brucei Gambiense: A Multicentre, Open-Label, Single-Arm, Phase 2/3 Trial

• Minjung Lee: Parental Acceptance of COVID-19 Vaccination for Children & Its Association with Information Sufficiency & Credibility in South Korea

• David J. Leggat: Vaccination Induces HIV Broadly Neutralizing Antibody Precursors in Humans

• Qingyung Liu: Tuberculosis Treatment Failure Associated with Evolution of Antibiotic Resilience

• Amanda B. Payne: Reduced Risk for Mpox After Receipt of 1 or 2 Doses of JYNNEOS Vaccine Compared with Risk Among Unvaccinated Persons—43 US Jurisdictions, July 31–October 1, 2022

• Tao Xue: Estimation of Stillbirths Attributable to Ambient Fine Particles in 137 Countries

*These publications were produced by members of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.

From Our November 2022 Connections Newsletter

• Kristen Aiemjoy: Seroincidence of Enteric Fever, Juba, South Sudan I UC Davis*

• Aslam Khan: Majority of Pediatric Dengue Virus Infections in Kenya Do Not Meet 2009 WHO Criteria for Dengue Diagnosis I Stanford*

• Alandra M. Lopez, Steve Luby: Assessing Analytical Methods for the Rapid Detection of Lead Adulteration in the Global Spice Market I Stanford*

• Xammy Nguyenla: Discovery of SARS‐CoV‐2 Antiviral Synergy Between Remdesivir & Approved Drugs in Human Lung Cells I UC Berkeley CEND*

• Jane E. Sykes: Understanding Leptospirosis: Application of State-of-the-Art Molecular Typing Tools with a One Health Lens I UC Davis*

• Tori L. Cowger: Lifting Universal Masking in Schools—COVID-19 Incidence Among Students & Staff

• Kassoum Kayentau: Safety & Efficacy of a Monoclonal Antibody Against Malaria in Mali

• Jeffrey V. Lazarus: A Multinational Delphi Consensus to End the COVID-19 Public Health Threat

• Sam Moore: Retrospectively Modeling the Effects of Increased Global Vaccine Sharing on the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Thomas Ward: Transmission Dynamics of Monkeypox in the UK: Contact Tracing Study

*These publications were produced by members of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.

From Our October 2022 Connections Newsletter

• Carol S. Camlin: Providers’ Attitudes & Experiences with Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Implementation in a Population-Based Study in Kenya & Uganda I UC Berkeley*

• Craig R. Cohen: Advancing Global Health & the Sustainable Development Goals Through Transdisciplinary Research & Equitable Publication Practices I UCGHI*

• Jane Cover: Contraceptive Self-Injection Through Routine Service Delivery: Experiences of Ugandan Women in the Public Health System I PATH*

• Melanie S. Dove: Current Smoking & Risk of Coronavirus Infection & Illness in a Highly Controlled Challenge Study: A Re-analysis of the British Cold Study I UC Davis*

• Mary-Ann Etiebet: Maintaining Continuity of Care for Expectant Mothers in Kenya During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study of MomCare I Merck for Mothers*

• Erin M. Euliano: Translating Diagnostics & Drug Delivery Technologies to Low-Resource Settings I OmniVis*

• Jennifer R. Head: Effects of Precipitation, Heat, and Drought on Incidence and Expansion of Coccidioidomycosis in Western USA: A Longitudinal Surveillance Study I UC Berkeley*

• Florian A. Lempp: The Potent Broadly Neutralizing Antibody Vir-3434 Controls Hepatitis B & D Virus Infection & Reduces HBsAg in Humanized Mice I Vir Biotechnology*

• Omar Reva: Maturation & Circuit Integration of Transplanted Human Cortical Organoids I Stanford*

• Michael R. Springborn: Amphibian Collapses Increased Malaria Incidence in Central America I UC Davis*

• Charles C. Windon: Racial & Ethnic Differences in Amyloid PET Positivity in Individuals With Mild Cognitive Impairment or Dementia I UCSF*

• Kailu Yang: Nanomolar Inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 Infection by an Unmodified Peptide Targeting the Prehairpin Intermediate of the Spike Protein I Stanford*

• Claire E. Hastie: Outcomes Among Confirmed Cases & a Matched Comparison Group in the Long-COVID in Scotland Study

• Anirhuddha Hazra: Human Monkeypox Virus Infection in the Immediate Period After Receiving Modified Vaccinia Ankara Vaccine

• Pedros I. Más-Bermejo: Cuban Abdala Vaccine: Effectiveness in Preventing Severe Disease & Death from COVID-19 in Havana, Cuba; A Cohort Study

• Alexander J. Mentzer: Human Leukocyte Antigen Alleles Associate with COVID-19 Vaccine Immunogenicity & Risk of Breakthrough Infection

• Alicja Regina Rudnicka: AI-Enabled Retinal Vasculometry for Prediction of Circulatory Mortality, Myocardial Infarction & Stroke

• Stephanie N. Seifert: An ACE2-Dependent Sarbecovirus in Russian Bats Is Resistant to SARs-CoV-2 Vaccines

• Gemma Shireby: DNA Methylation Signatures of Alzheimer’s Disease Neuropathology in the Cortex Are Primarily Driven by Variation in Non-Neuronal Cell-Types

• A. T. Tarabochia-Gast: Flood Risk to Hospitals on the US Atlantic & Gulf Coasts from Hurricanes & Sea Level Rise

• Cody J. Warren: Primate Hemorrhagic Fever-Causing Arteriviruses Are Poised for Spillover to Humans

• Sarah Wulf Hanson: Estimated Global Proportions of Individuals with Persistent Fatigue, Cognitive, & Respiratory Symptom Clusters Following Symptomatic COVID-19 in 2020 & 2021

• Yuexiu Zhang: 5-Methylcytosine (m5C) RNA Modification Controls the Innate Immune Response to Virus Infection by Regulating Type I Interferons

*These publications were produced by members of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.

From Our September 2022 Connections Newsletter

• Maya Adam: “The Videos Gave Weight to Our Work”: Animated mHealth Videos & Tablet Technology Boost CHWs’ Perceived Credibility in Khayelitsha, South Africa I Stanford*

• Amanda Brewster: Effect of Social Needs Case Management on Hospital Use Among Adult Medicaid Beneficiaries I UC Berkeley*

• Desiree LeBeaud: Why Climate Action Is Global Health Action I Stanford*

• Germán Garabano: Open Tibial Fracture Treatment in Argentina: Reoperation Rates Following Surgical Management I UCSF/IGOT*

• Abraar Karan: Human Monkeypox Without Viral Prodrome or Sexual Exposure I Stanford*

• Skylar R. Hopkins: Evidence Gaps & Diversity Among Potential Win-Win Solutions for Conservation & Human Infectious Disease Control I Stanford, UC Berkeley*

• Sheri A. Lippman: A Community Mobilisation Intervention to Improve Engagement in HIV Testing, Linkage to Care, & Retention in Care in South Africa: A Cluster-Randomised Controlled Trial I UC Berkeley, UCSF*

• Chelsea L. Modlin, Michele Barry: An Online Ethics Curriculum for Short-Term Global Health Experiences: Evaluating a Decade of Use I Stanford*

• Celine Perier: Workshop-Based Learning & Networking: A Scalable Model for Research Capacity Strengthening in Low- & Middle-Income Countries I CEND, UC Berkeley*

• Lonnie R. Snowden: Racial & Ethnic Disparities in Health Status & Community Functioning Among Persons with Untreated Mental Illness I UC Berkeley*

• Ericka P. von Kaeppler: Establishing Sustainable Arthroscopy Capacity in Low- & Middle-Income Countries Through High-Income Country/LMIC Partnerships: A Qualitative Analysis I UCSF/IGOT*

• Chi Zhu: An Intranasal ASO Therapeutic Targeting SARS-CoV-2 I UC Berkeley*

• Ronen Arbel: Nirmatrelvir Use & Severe COVID-19 Outcomes During the Omicron Surge

• Ying Fu: A Humanized Nanobody Phage Display Library Yields Potent Binders of SARS CoV-2 Spike

• Jenny C. Jin: SARS CoV-2 Detected in Neonatal Stool Remote from Maternal COVID-19 During Pregnancy

• Sai Luo: An Antibody from Single Human VH-Rearranging Mouse Neutralizes all SARS-CoV-2 Variants Through BA.5 by Inhibiting Membrane Fusion

• Sean C. Murphy: A Genetically Engineered Plasmodium Falciparum Parasite Vaccine Provides Protection from Controlled Human Malaria Infection

• Siwen Wang: Associations of Depression, Anxiety, Worry, Perceived Stress, & Loneliness Prior to Infection with Risk of Post–COVID-19 Conditions

*These publications were produced by members of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.

From Our August 2022 Connections Newsletter

• Scott B. Biering: Genome-Wide Bidirectional CRISPR Screens Identify Mucins as Host Factors Modulating SARS-CoV-2 Infection I UC Berkeley*

• Sita S. Chandrasekaran: Rapid Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Saliva via Cas13 I UC Berkeley*

• Madelon L. Finkel, Michele Barry: What Do Global Health Practitioners Think About Decolonizing Global Health? I Stanford*

• Leonardo Martinez: Infant BCG Vaccination & Risk of Pulmonary & Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis Throughout the Life Course: A Systematic Review & Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis I Stanford, UC Berkeley, UC Davis*

• Kristin L. Stevens: Patient-Centered Climate Action & Health Equity I Americares*

• Aranka V. Ballering: Persistence of Somatic Symptoms after COVID-19 in the Netherlands: An Observational Cohort Study

• Carina L. Block: Prenatal Environmental Stressors Impair Postnatal Microglia Function & Adult Behavior in Males

• Immaculada Hernandez: Disparities in Distribution of COVID-19 Vaccines Across US Counties: A Geographic Information System-Based Cross-Sectional Study

• Richard L. Wu: Low-Dose Subcutaneous or Intravenous Monoclonal Antibody to Prevent Malaria

• Xiao-Ai Zhang: A Zoonotic Henipavirus in Febrile Patients in China

*These publications were produced by members of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.

From Our July 2022 Connections Newsletter

• Jason Andrews: Estimating Typhoid Incidence from Community-Based Serosurveys: A Multicohort Study [Stanford]*

• Jason Andrews: The International & Intercontinental Spread & Expansion of Antimicrobial-Resistant Salmonella Typhi: A Genomic Epidemiology Study [Stanford]*

• Jason Andrews & Steve Luby: Incidence of Typhoid & Paratyphoid Fever in Bangladesh, Nepal, & Pakistan: Results of the Surveillance for Enteric Fever in Asia Project [Stanford]*

• Kesia Esther da Silva: The International & Intercontinental Spread & Expansion of Antimicrobial-Resistant Salmonella Typhi: A Genomic Epidemiology Study [Stanford]*

• Anthony Fernández-Castañeda: Mild Respiratory COVID Can Cause Multi-Lineage Neural Cell & Myelin Dysregulation [Stanford]*

• Jay A. Pandit: Smartphone Apps in the COVID-19 Pandemic [Google | Stanford]*

• Manali I. Patel: Racial & Ethnic Disparities in Cancer Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic [Stanford]*

• Celine Perier: Workshop-Based Learning & Networking: A Scalable Model for Research Capacity Strengthening in Low- & Middle-Income Countries [CEND, UC Berkeley]*

• Erica Sedlander: If Fear of Infertility Restricts Contraception Use, What Do We Know about This Fear? An Examination in Rural Ethiopia [JSI]*

• Alexander A. Cohen: Mosaic RBD Nanoparticles Protect Against Challenge by Diverse Sarbecoviruses in Animal Models

• Kenneth H. Dinnon III: SARS-CoV-2 Infection Produces Chronic Pulmonary Epithelial & Immune Cell Dysfunction with Fibrosis in Mice

• Michael B. Hadley: Spatial Environmental Factors Predict Cardiovascular & All-Cause Mortality: Results of the SPACE Study

• Anita K. Kambhampati: Trends in Acute Hepatitis of Unspecified Etiology and Adenovirus Stool Testing Results in Children—US 2017–2022

• Martin Risch: Investigation of the Use of a Sensor Bracelet for the Presymptomatic Detection of Changes in Physiological Parameters Related to COVID-19: An Interim Analysis of a Prospective Cohort Study (COVI-GAPP)

• Matthew B. Ross: Women are Credited Less in Science than are Men

• Sissy Therese Sonnleitner: Cumulative SARS-CoV-2 Mutations & Corresponding Changes in Immunity in an Immunocompromised Patient Indicate Viral Evolution Within the Host

• Ariana M. Traub: Pediatric HIV Case Identification Across 22 PEPFAR-Supported Countries During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Oct. 2019–Sep. 2020

• Valeria S. M. Valbuena: Racial Bias & Reproducibility in Pulse Oximetry Among Medical & Surgical Inpatients in General Care in the Veterans Health Administration 2013-19: Multicenter, Retrospective Cohort Study

• Oliver J. Watson: Global Impact of the First Year of COVID-19 Vaccination: A Mathematical Modelling Study

*These publications were produced by members of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.

From Our June 2022 Connections Newsletter

• Suzan L. Carmichael: Ways Forward in Preventing Severe Maternal Morbidity & Maternal Health Inequities: Conceptual Frameworks, Definitions, & Data from a Population Health Perspective [UC Berkeley]*

• Andrew D. Kerkhoff: Integrating Rapid Diabetes Screening Into a Latinx Focused Community-Based Low-Barrier COVID-19 Testing Program [UC Berkeley]*

• Ada Kwan, Stefano M. Bertozzi: Respiratory Pandemic Preparedness Learnings from the June 2020 COVID-19 Outbreak at San Quentin California State Prison [UC Berkeley]*

• Anna Luan: Expansion of Reconstructive Surgical Capacity in Vietnam: Experience from the ReSurge Global Training Program [ReSurge International]*

• Amanda D. Perez: Superwoman Schema & John Henryism Among African American Women: An Intersectional Perspective on Coping with Racism [UC Berkeley]*

• Elizabeth A. Pleasants: Association Between Distance to an Abortion Facility & Abortion or Pregnancy Outcome Among a Prospective Cohort of People Seeking Abortion Online [UC Berkeley]*

• Olivia Solomon: Meta-Analysis of Epigenome-Wide Association Studies in Newborns & Children Show Widespread Sex Differences in Blood DNA Methylation [UC Berkeley]*

• Daniel Ayoubkhani: Trajectory of Long COVID Symptoms After COVID-19 Vaccination: Community-Based Cohort Study

• Vojtěch Bartoš: Communicating Doctors’ Consensus Persistently Increases COVID-19 Vaccinations

• Charles P. Larson: The Equity Tool for Valuing Global Health Partnerships

• Neil Jay Sehgal: The Association Between COVID-19 Mortality & the County-Level Partisan Divide in the US

*These publications were produced by members of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.

From Our May 2022 Connections Newsletter

• Katherine N. Clayton: PD-Lamp Smartphone Detection of SARS-CoV-2 on Chip [OmniVis]*

• Julianna Deardorff: The Critical Value of Maternal and Child Health (MCH) to Graduate Training in Public Health: A Framework to Guide Education, Research & Practice [UC Berkeley]*

• Desiree LeBeaud: Larval Source Reduction with a Purpose: Designing & Evaluating a Household & School-Based Intervention in Coastal Kenya [Stanford]*

• Robert Marty: The Evolution of the COVID-19 Pandemic Through the Lens of Google Searches (preprint) [Google]*

• Justin Reese: Risk of New-Onset Psychiatric Sequelae of COVID-19 in the Early & Late Post-Acute Phase [UC Berkeley]*

• Sayeed Al-Zaman: Prevalence & Source Analysis of COVID-19 Misinformation in 138 Countries

• Tobias Boettler: SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination Can Elicit a CD8 T-Cell Dominant Hepatitis

• Timothy Callaghan: Imperfect Messengers? An Analysis of Vaccine Confidence Among Primary Care Physicians

• Timothy J. Chapman: Antibiotic Use & Vaccine Antibody Levels

• Chen Chen: Global Prevalence of Post COVID-19 Condition or Long COVID: A Meta-Analysis & Systematic Review

• Francesco Di Gennaro: Long COVID: A Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis of 120,970 Patients

• Davis Fisman: Impact of Population Mixing Between Vaccinated & Unvaccinated Subpopulations on Infectious Disease Dynamics: Implications for SARS-CoV-2 Transmission

• Alejandro Jara: Effectiveness of Homologous & Heterologous Booster Doses for an Inactivated SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine: A Large-Scale Prospective Cohort Study

• Charles P. Larson: The Equity Tool for Valuing Global Health Partnerships

• Michael Nikolaou: Revisiting the Standard for Modeling the Spread of Infectious Diseases

• Francesco Pieri: Online Misinformation Is Linked to Early COVID-19 Vaccination Hesitancy & Refusal

• Jose Angel Regla-Nava: A Zika Virus Mutation Enhances Transmission Potential & Confers Escape from Protective Dengue Virus Immunity

• Zhebin Yu: Association of Short-Term Air Pollution Exposure with SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Young Adults in Sweden

*These publications were produced by members of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.

From Our April 2022 Connections Newsletter

• Elissa J. Hamlat: Association of Subjective Social Status with Epigenetic Aging among Black & White Women (UC Berkeley I UCSF)*

• Maya L. Iyer: Novel Diagnostic & Therapeutic Approaches to Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus 1A Hemorrhagic Disease in a Captive Juvenile Asian Elephant (UC Davis)*

• Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarek: End COVID-19 in Low- & Middle-Income Countries (Sabin Vaccine Institute I Stanford I UC Berkeley)*

• Andrew B. Pattison: Finding the Facts in an Infodemic: Framing Effective COVID-19 Messages to Connect People to Authoritative Content (Google I WHO Tech Task Force)*

• Arthur Reingold: Impact of 13-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine on Invasive Pneumococcal Disease Among Adults with HIV-US, 2008-18 (UC Berkeley)*

• Elina Reponen: Expert-Identified Practices for Achieving Measurable Performance Improvements with Lean Implementation (UC Berkeley)*

• Linda Rudolph: Health Benefits of Strategies for Carbon Mitigation in US Transportation, 2017‒2050 (PHI)*

• Venice Servellita: Neutralizing Immunity in Vaccine Breakthrough Infections from the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron & Delta Variants (UCSF)*

• Amanda K. Weaver: Environmental Factors Influencing COVID-19 Incidence & Severity (UC Berkeley)*

• Yinon M. Bar-On: Protection by a Fourth Dose of BNT162b2 Against Omicron in Israel

• Nele Brusselaers: Evaluation of Science Advice During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sweden

• Stephanie L. Foster: A Recombinant VSV-Vectored Vaccine Rapidly Protects Nonhuman Primates Against Lethal Nipah Virus Disease

• Caroline Junqueira: FcγR-Mediated SARS-CoV-2 Infection of Monocytes Activates Inflammation

• Benjamin P. Linas: Projecting COVID-19 Mortality as States Relax Nonpharmacologic Interventions

• Gui Liu: Prevalent HPV Infection Increases the Risk of HIV Acquisition in African Women: Advancing the Argument for HPV Immunization

• Jun Liu: Ebola Virus Persistence & Disease Recrudescence in the Brains of Antibody-Treated Nonhuman Primate Survivors

• Nicola K. Love: Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Gastrointestinal Infection Trends in England, Feb.–Jul. 2020

• Ingibjörg Magnúsdóttir: Acute COVID-19 Severity & Mental Health Morbidity Trajectories in Patient Populations of Six Nations: An Observational Study

• Elisabeth D. Riviello: Assessment of a Crisis Standards of Care Scoring System for Resource Prioritization & Estimated Excess Mortality by Race, Ethnicity, & Socially Vulnerable Area During a Regional Surge in COVID-19

*These publications were produced by members of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.

From Our March 2022 Connections Newsletter

• Michele Barry, Kristina Krohn: Training the Next Generation of Physician Communicators to Fight Health Misinformation (Stanford)*

• Ami Bhatt: Short- & Long-Read Metagenomics of Urban & Rural South African Gut Microbiomes Reveal a Transitional Composition & Undescribed Taxa (Stanford)*

• Emily Mary Gainor: Uncovering the Burden of Dengue in Africa: Considerations on Magnitude, Misdiagnosis, & Ancestry (UC Berkeley)*

• Michael Harvey: Structural Competency & Global Health Education (UC Berkeley I UCSF)*

• Tobias V. Lanz: Clonally Expanded B Cells in Multiple Sclerosis Bind EBV EBNA1 & GlialCAM (Stanford)*

• Ashley E. Mason: Metrics from Wearable Devices as Candidate Predictors of Antibody Response Following Vaccination Against COVID-19: Data from the Second TemPredict Study (UCSF)*

• Nicole Santos, Elizabeth Butrick, Rikita Merai, Dilys Walker: Implementing the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist Modified for Preterm Birth: Lessons Learned & Experiences from Kenya & Uganda (UCSF)*

• Gina Solomon: The Interplay of Environmental Exposures & Mental Health: Setting an Agenda (PHI)*

• Marina Antillon: Cost-Effectiveness of Sleeping Sickness Elimination Campaigns in Five Settings of the DRC

• Ken Cohen: Risk of Persistent & New Clinical Sequelae Among Adults Aged 65 Years & Older During the Post-acute Phase of SARS-CoV-2 Infection: Retrospective Cohort Study

• Gary Darmstadt: Effect of Sunflower Seed Oil Emollient Therapy on Newborn Infant Survival in Uttar Pradesh, India [Stanford]

• Gwenaëlle Douaud: SARS-CoV-2 is Associated with Changes in Brain Structure in UK Biobank

• Mario Fleischer: Pre-adolescent Children Exhibit Lower Aerosol Particle Volume Emissions than Adults for Breathing, Speaking, Singing & Shouting

• Luisa S. Flor: Quantifying the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Gender Equality on Health, Social, & Economic Indicators: A Comprehensive Review of Data from Mar. 2020–Sep. 2021

• Katryna A. Gouin: Identifying Higher-Volume Antibiotic Outpatient Prescribers Using Publicly Available Medicare Part D Data—US 2019

• Dieudonne Hakizimana: The Impact of COVID-19 on Malaria Services in Three High Endemic Districts in Rwanda: A Mixed-Method Study

• Yu-Hui Liu: One-Year Trajectory of Cognitive Changes in Older Survivors of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: A Longitudinal Cohort Study

• Shabir A. Madhi: Population Immunity & COVID-19 Severity with Omicron Variant in South Africa

• E. A. Murphy: Machine Learning Outperforms Clinical Experts in Classification of Hip Fractures

• Justin E. Silpe: The Bacterial Toxin Colibactin Triggers Prophage Induction

• Jenell Stewart: Comparison of Racial, Ethnic, & Geographic Location Diversity of Participants Enrolled in Clinic-Based vs 2 Remote COVID-19 Clinical Trials

• Kamala Thiagarajan: Pandemic Panic & Indiscriminate Prescriptions Drive India’s Antimicrobial Resistance

• John L. Wilkinson: Pharmaceutical Pollution of the World’s Rivers

*These publications were produced by members of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.

From Our February 2022 Connections Newsletter

• Andrew Y. Chang, Michele Barry: Mortality Along the Rheumatic Heart Disease Cascade of Care in Uganda (Stanford)*

• Anneka Christie: Encouraging Diversity & Sustainability in Veterinary Medicine Will Serve Society & Make Your Practice More Attractive to New Graduates (UC Davis)*

• Keith Humphreys: Responding to the Opioid Crisis in North America & Beyond: Recommendations of the Stanford–Lancet Commission (Stanford)*

• Anu Kumar: Five Years from Now, Who Will Be Setting the Global Health Agenda? (Ipas)*

• Eric Lebel: Methane & NOx Emissions from Natural Gas Stoves, Cooktops, & Ovens in Residential Homes (Stanford)*

• Yaya Li: The Presence of Neighbours in Informal Supportive Interactions Is Important for Mental Health in Later Life (UC Berkeley)*

• Kari C. Nadeau, Michele Barry: Climate Change & Global Health: A Call to More Research & More Action (Stanford)*

• Kari C. Nadeau: World Health Organization Global Air Quality Guideline Recommendations—Executive Summary (Stanford)*

• Ziad Obermeyer: The Potential for Bias In Machine Learning & Opportunities for Health Insurers to Address It (UC Berkeley)*

• Antimicrobial Resistance Collaborators: Global Burden of Bacterial Antimicrobial Resistance in 2019: A Systematic Analysis

• Gunther Fink: Mosquito Net Use in Early Childhood & Survival to Adulthood in Tanzania

• Alfonso C. Hernandez-Romieu: Prevalence of Select New Symptoms & Conditions Among Persons Aged Younger Than 20 Years & 20 Years or Older at 31 to 150 Days After Testing Positive or Negative for SARS-CoV-2

• Jun Liu: Ebola Virus Persistence & Disease Recrudescence in the Brains of Antibody-Treated Nonhuman Primate Survivors

• Jessica Manning: SARS-CoV-2 Cross-Reactivity in Prepandemic Serum from Rural Malaria-Infected Persons, Cambodia

• Tasleem J. Padamsee: Changes in COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Black & White Individuals in the US

• Steve Reiken: Alzheimer’s-Like Signaling in Brains of COVID-19 Patients

• Katharine S. Walter: The Role of Prisons in Disseminating Tuberculosis in Brazil: A Genomic Epidemiology Study

*These publications were produced by members of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.

From Our January 2022 Connections Newsletter

• Andrea L. Cathcart: The Dual Function Monoclonal Antibodies Vir-7831 and Vir-7832 Demonstrate Potent in Vitro & in Vivo Activity Against SARS-CoV-2 (VIR)*

• Alka Kanaya: Knowledge Gaps, Challenges, & Opportunities in Health & Prevention Research for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, & Pacific Islanders (Stanford)*

• Joseph Lewnard: All-Cause Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Chennai, India: An Observational Study (UCB)*

• Mark Sagar: “I Felt Her Company”: A Qualitative Study on Factors Affecting Closeness & Emotional Support Seeking with an Embodied Conversational Agent (Soul Machines)*

• Stephen Luby: Impact of Community Masking on COVID-19: A Cluster-Randomized Trial in Bangladesh (Stanford)*

• Arthur W. Wallace: Association of the Patterns of Use of Medications with Mortality of COVID-19 Infection: A Hospital-Based Observational Study (PHI)*

• Abdulrahman Jbaily: Air Pollution Exposure Disparities across Us Population and Income Groups

• Prabhat Jha: COVID Mortality in India: National Survey Data & Health Facility Deaths

• Seilesh Kadambari: Indirect Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Childhood Infection in England: Population Based Observational Study

• Heather S. Lipkind: Receipt of COVID-19 Vaccine During Pregnancy and Preterm or Small-for-Gestational-Age at Birth—Eight Integrated Health Care Organizations, United States, December 15, 2020–July 22, 2021

• Stephanie S. Perez: Human Milk SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies up to 6 Months After Vaccination

• Anita Shet: Impact of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic on Routine Immunisation Services: Evidence of Disruption and Recovery from 170 Countries & Territories

• Lauren C. Shuffrey: Association of Birth During the COVID-19 Pandemic with Neurodevelopmental Status at 6 Months in Infants with & without In Utero Exposure to Maternal SARS-CoV-2 Infection

• Jack Stone: The Contribution of Unstable Housing to HIV & Hepatitis C Virus Transmission Among People Who Inject Drugs Globally, Regionally, & at Country Level: A Modelling Study

*These publications were produced by members of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.

From Our December 2021 Connections Newsletter

• Michele Berry, Alison Phillips: Tackling the Ubiquity of Plastic Waste for Human & Planetary Health (Stanford)*

• Ayush Chayann: What’s Next in Design for Global Health? How Design and Global Health Must Adapt for a Preferable Future (Equalize Health)*

• Brian R. Englum: Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Diagnosis of New Cancers: A National Multicenter Study of the VA Healthcare System

• Michael Ganslmeier: The Impact of Weather on COVID-19 Pandemic

• Jodi Halpern: How Scientists Perceive CRISPR’s Translational Promise & the Implications for Individuals with Genetic Conditions (UCB)*

• Rachel R. Hardeman: Association of Residence in High-Police Contact Neighborhoods with Preterm Birth Among Black & White Individuals in Minneapolis

• Caroline Hickman: Climate Anxiety in Children & Young People &Their Beliefs About Government Responses to Climate Change: A Global Survey (Stanford)*

• Luke Laffin: Rise in Blood Pressure Observed Among US Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Byungkyu Lee: Substitution of Nonpharmacologic Therapy with Opioid Prescribing for Pain During the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Keith Martin: The Impact of Climate Change on Health: Reducing Risks & Increasing Resilience in the Era of COVID-19 (CUGH)*

• MP Montgomery: COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage Among Persons Experiencing Homelessness—Six US Jurisdictions, Dec. 2020–Aug. 2021

• Elisabeth Reithuber: THCz: Small Molecules with Antimicrobial Activity That Block Cell Wall Lipid Intermediates

• Andaleeb Sajid: mRNA Vaccination Induces Tick Resistance & Prevents Transmission of the Lyme Disease Agent

• Ting Shi: Risk of COVID-19 Hospital Admission Among Children Aged 5–17 Years with Asthma in Scotland

• Tara Tabibi: Human Papillomavirus Vaccination & Trends in Cervical Cancer Incidence & Mortality in the US

• Ashlynn Torres: State Laws Permitting Adolescent Consent to Human Papillomavirus Vaccination & Rates of Immunization

• Amy Vassallo: Assessing the Impact of Polio Supplementary Immunisation Activities on Routine Immunisation & Health Systems: A Systematic Review

*These publications were produced by members of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.

From Our November 2021 Connections Newsletter

• Hester Allen: Household Transmission of COVID-19 Cases Associated with SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant (B.1.617.2)

• Michele Barry: Tackling the Ubiquity of Plastic Waste for Human & Planetary Health (Stanford)*

• Jana Blazkova, Anthony S. Fauci et al: Distinct Mechanisms of Long-Term Virologic Control in Two HIV-Infected Individuals After Treatment Interruption of Anti-retroviral Therapy

• Barbara A. Cohn: SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Protection & Deaths Among US Veterans During 2021 (PHI)*

• Petra de Haas: Simple One-Step (SOS) Stool Processing Method for Use with the Xpert MTB/RIF Assay for a Child-Friendly Diagnosis of Tuberculosis Closer to the Point of Care

• Zeynep Ertem: The Impact of School Opening Model on SARS-CoV-2 Community Incidence & Mortality

• Milena Falcaro: The Effects of the National HPV Vaccination Programme in England, UK, on Cervical Cancer & Grade 3 Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia Incidence: A Register-Based Observational Study

• Anil Gupta: Early Treatment for COVID-19 with SARS-CoV-2 Neutralizing Antibody Sotrovimab (VIR Biotechnology)*

• Mona Khan: Visualizing in Deceased COVID-19 Patients How SARS-CoV-2 Attacks the Respiratory & Olfactory Mucosae but Spares the Olfactory Bulb

• Marios Koutsakos: Influenza Lineage Extinction During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

• B.Y.H. Lam: MC3R Links Nutritional State to Childhood Growth and the Timing of Puberty

• Shruti Magesh: Disparities in COVID-19 Outcomes by Race, Ethnicity & Socioeconomic Status

• David R. Martinez: A Broadly Cross-Reactive Antibody Neutralizes & Protects Against Sarbecovirus Challenge in Mice

• Marina Romanello: The 2021 Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health & Climate Change: Code Red for a Healthy Future

• Sudhvir Singh: How an Outbreak Became a Pandemic: A Chronological Analysis of Crucial Junctures & International Obligations in the Early Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Nicole Starr: Sustainability of a Surgical Quality Improvement Program at Hospitals in Ethiopia (Stanford)*

• Flaminio Squazzoni: Gender Gap in Journal Submissions & Peer Review During the First Wave of COVID-19. A Study on 2329 Elsevier Journals

• Leo Swadling: Pre-Existing Polymerase-Specific T Cells Expand in Abortive Seronegative SARS-CoV-2

• Abdullah M. Syed: Rapid Assessment of SARS-CoV-2 Evolved Variants Using Virus-like Particles (UCSF I UC Berkeley)*

• Stacy Wood: Novel Strategies to Support Global Promotion of COVID-19 Vaccination (Stanford)*

*These publications were produced by members of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.

From Our October 2021 Connections Newsletter

• Ayesha Ahmad: Urgent Health & Humanitarian Needs of the Afghan Population Under the Taliban

• Michele Barry: Health System & Patient-Level Factors Serving as Facilitators & Barriers to Rheumatic Heart Disease Care in Sudan

• Sebastian Contreras: Low Case Numbers Enable Long-Term Stable Pandemic Control Without Lockdowns

• Sara Dada: Learning from the Past & Present: Social Science Implications for COVID-19 Immunity-Based Documentation

• Sindew M. Feleke: Plasmodium Falciparum Is Evolving to Escape Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests in Ethiopia

• Thomas K. Greenfield: Childhood Experiences & High-Intensity Drinking Among American Indian & Alaska Native Adults: Findings from the 2000–2015 National Alcohol Surveys (PHI)*

• Susan D. Hillis: COVID-19-Associated Orphanhood & Caregiver Death in the US

• Alpha Kabinet Keita: Resurgence of Ebola Virus in 2021 in Guinea Suggests a New Paradigm for Outbreaks

• Shakkaura Kemet: “When I Think of Mental Healthcare, I Think of No Care.” Mental Health Services as a Vital Component of Prenatal Care for Black Women (Stanford)*

• Yiran E. Liu: All-Cause & Cause-Specific Mortality During & Following Incarceration in Brazil: A Retrospective Cohort Study (Stanford)*

• Wendy Prosser: Designing Supply Chains to Meet the Growing Need of Vaccines (JSI)*

• Shubha Rao: HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis Awareness & Referral to Providers Among Hispanic/Latino Persons—US, 2019

• Marina Romanello: Tracking Progress on Health & Climate Change in Europe

• Alice Taubes: Experimental & Real-World Evidence Supporting the Computational Repurposing of Bumetanide for APOE4-Related Alzheimer’s Disease (UCSF)*

• Mahdieh Danesh Yazdi: Long-Term Effect of Exposure to Lower Concentrations of Air Pollution on Mortality Among US Medicare Participants & Vulnerable Subgroups

• Ingrid Jarvis: Assessing the Association Between Lifetime Exposure to Greenspace & Early Childhood Development & the Mediation Effects of Air Pollution & Noise in Canada: A Population-Based Birth Cohort Study (UCB)*

*These publications were produced by members of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.

From Our September 2021 Connections Newsletter

• Michela Antonelli: Risk Factors & Disease Profile of Post-Vaccination SARS-CoV-2 Infection in UK Users of the COVID Symptom Study App

• Tessa J. Barrett: Platelets Amplify Endotheliopathy in COVID-19

• Tegan K. Boehmer: Association Between COVID-19 & Myocarditis Using Hospital-Based Administrative Data, US, Mar. 2020–Jan. 2021

• Katrin G. Burkhart: Estimating the Cause-Specific Relative Risks of Non-Optimal Temperature on Daily Mortality

• Daniel Chandramohan: Seasonal Malaria Vaccination with or without Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention

• Gongbo Chen: Mortality Risk Attributable to Wildfire-Related PM2·5 Pollution: A Global Time Series Study in 749 Locations

• Sumedha Gupta: Vaccinations Against COVID-19 May Have Averted Up to 140,000 Deaths in the US

• Philip R. Krause: Considerations in Boosting COVID-19 Vaccine Immune Responses

• Lancet: Worldwide Trends in Hypertension Prevalence & Progress in Treatment & Control, 1990–2019

• Weimin Liu: Predictors of Nonseroconversion after SARS-CoV-2 Infection

• Spyros Lytras: The Animal Origin of SARS-CoV-2

• Oscar A. Ortega-Rivera: Trivalent Subunit Vaccine Candidates for COVID-19 & Their Delivery Devices

• Sebastian Sandoval-Olascoaga: Eviction Moratoria Expiration & COVID-19 Infection Risk Across Strata of Health & Socioeconomic Status in the US

• Bethany Young Holt: Multipurpose Prevention Technologies: Opportunities and Challenges to Ensure Advancement of the Most Promising MPTs

*These publications were produced by members of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.

From Our August 2021 Connections Newsletter

• Heather Anderson: Redefining Urgency: Social Impact Leadership & Dynamic Resilience

• Michele Barry: Virtual Exchange in Global Health: An Innovative Educational Approach to Foster Socially Responsible Overseas Collaboration

• Moriah Bergwerk: COVID-19 Breakthrough Infections in Vaccinated Health Care Workers

• Kate Causey: Estimating Global & Regional Disruptions to Routine Childhood Vaccine Coverage during the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020: A Modelling Study

• Joe Parkin Daniels: HIV in the Amazon’s Indigenous Populations

• Yann Ehinger: Brain-Specific Inhibition of mTORC1 Eliminates Side Effects Resulting from mTORC1 Blockade in the Periphery & Reduces Alcohol Intake in Mice

• Kristen A. Eller: Facile Accelerated Specific Therapeutic (FAST) Platform Develops Antisense Therapies to Counter Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria

• Carey Farquhar: Capacity Building for Global Health Leadership Training

• Andrew Hammond: Gene-Drive Suppression of Mosquito Populations in Large Cages as a Bridge between Lab & Field

• Maxwell Tii Kumbeni: Prevalence & Factors Associated with Menstruation-Related School Absenteeism Among Adolescent Girls in Rural Northern Ghana

• Meghan Lyman: Transmission of Pan-Resistant & Echinocandin-Resistant Candida auris in Health Care Facilities

• William J. Ripple: World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2021

• Kieran Rustage: Initiation & Completion of Treatment for Latent Tuberculosis Infection in Migrants Globally: A Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis

• Jacob Wallace: Changes in Racial & Ethnic Disparities in Access to Care & Health Among US Adults at Age 65 Years

*These publications were produced by members of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.

From Our July 2021 Connections Newsletter

• Maya Adam: Design Preferences for Global Scale: A Mixed-Methods Study of “Glocalization” of an Animated, Video-Based Health Communication Intervention

• Paul D. Blumenthal: Challenges in Global Gynecology

• Keith Bowen: Virtual Exchange in Global Health: An Innovative Educational Approach to Foster Socially Responsible Overseas Collaboration

• Jonathan Bryant-Genevier: Symptoms of Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, & Suicidal Ideation Among State, Tribal, Local, & Territorial Public Health Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic—US, Mar.–Apr., 2021

• Marcia C. Castro: Reduction in Life Expectancy in Brazil after COVID-19

• Felipe J Colón-González: Projecting the Risk of Mosquito-Borne Diseases in a Warmer & More Populated World

• Tobias Deuse: Hypoimmune Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cell Therapeutics Treat Cardiovascular & Pulmonary Diseases in Immunocompetent Allogeneic Mice

• Tabea K. Kirschbaum: Targeting Hypertension Screening in Low- & Middle-Income Countries: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of 1.2M Adults in 56 Countries

• Pamela K. Meza: Changing the Landscape of Obstetric Resident Education in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Using Simulation-Based Training

• Hani Mowafi: Household Economic Impact of Road Traffic Injury versus Routine Emergencies in a Low-Income Country

• Toni S. Pearson: Gene Therapy for Aromatic L-Amino Acid Decarboxylase Deficiency by MR-Guided Direct Delivery of AAV2-AADC to Midbrain Dopaminergic Neurons

• Abu Bakarr Rogers: Equitable & Feasible Distribution of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines for All in Africa

• Karen Saylors, Jonna Mazet: Socializing One Health: An Innovative Strategy to Investigate Social & Behavioral Risks of Emerging Viral Threats

• Lauren M. Shapiro: Short Message Service-Based Collection of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures on Hand Surgery Global Outreach Trips: A Pilot Feasibility Study

• Zian H. Tseng: Sudden Cardiac Death & Myocardial Fibrosis, Determined by Autopsy, in Persons with HIV

• Alain Vandormael: Effect of a Wordless, Animated, Social Media Video Intervention on COVID-19 Prevention: An Online Randomized Controlled Trial of 15,163 Adults in the USA, Mexico, UK, Germany, & Spain

• Liuwei Wang: Environmental Fate, Toxicity & Risk Management Strategies of Nanoplastics in the Environment: Current Status & Future Perspectives

• Hannah Wild: Pediatric Casualties in Contemporary Armed Conflict: A Systematic Review to Inform Standardized Reporting

• Wilton B. Williams: Fab-Dimerized Glycan-Reactive Antibodies Are a Structural Category of Natural Antibodies

• Jingmin Zhu: COVID-19 Pandemic in BRICS Countries & Its Association with Socio-Economic & Demographic Characteristics, Health Vulnerability, Resources, & Policy Response

*These publications were produced by members of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.

From Our June 2021 Connections Newsletter

• Mikhaila Alegria: Reporting of Participant Race, Sex, & Socioeconomic Status in Randomized Clinical Trials in General Medical Journals, 2015 vs. 2019

• Fred J. Barker: Developing & Evaluating a Frailty Index for Older South Africans-Findings from the Haalsi Study

• Bruce M. Biccard: Patient Care & Clinical Outcomes for Patients with COVID-19 Infection Admitted to African High-Care or Intensive Care Units

• Joshua Borin: Trained Viruses Prove More Effective at Fighting Antibiotic Resistance

• Karin Bosh: Estimated Annual Number of HIV Infections, US, 1981–2019

• Andrew Y. Chang, Michele Barry: The Need to Expand the Framework of Environmental Determinants of Cardiovascular Health from Climate Change to Planetary Health: Trial by Wildfire

• Guillaume P. Chossière: Air Pollution Impacts of COVID-19–Related Containment Measures

• Adam Gaffney: Socioeconomic Inequality in Respiratory Health in the US, 1959 to 2018

• Alba Grifoni: SARS-CoV-2 Human T Cell Epitopes: Adaptive Immune Response Against COVID-19

• Robert B. Gunier: Fetal Cranial Growth Trajectories Are Associated with Growth & Neurodevelopment at 2 Years of Age: INTERBIO-21st Fetal Study

• Jessica L. Howe: Accessibility & Usability of State Health Department COVID-19 Vaccine Websites

• Nadine K Jawad: Refugee Access to COVID-19 Vaccines in Lebanon

• Sophia N Nesamoney: Gendered Effects of COVID-19 on Young Girls in Regions of Conflict

• F. Karim: Persistent SARS-CoV-2 Infection & Intra-Host Evolution in Association with Advanced HIV Infection

• Krutika Kuppalli: India’s COVID-19 Crisis: A Call for International Action

• Tihitena Negussie Mammo: Addressing Quality in Surgical Services in Sub-Saharan Africa: Hospital Context & Data Standardisation Matter

• Kasuen Mauldin: Performing Nutrition Assessment Remotely via Telehealth

• Bhavini Patel Murthy: Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Administration of Selected Routine Childhood & Adolescent Vaccinations—10 US Jurisdictions, March–September 2020

• Nambi Ndugga: Latest Data on COVID-19 Vaccinations Race/Ethnicity

• Sophia N Nesamoney: Addressing the Impacts of COVID-19 on Gender Equality & Global Health Security in Regions of Violent Conflict

• Joseph S. Puthumana: Risk Factors for Cooking-Related Burn Injuries in Children, WHO Global Burn Registry

• Marisa Reitsma: Stanford: Disparities in Reaching COVID-19 Vaccination Benchmarks: Projected Vaccination Rates by Race/Ethnicity as of July 4

• Mark Donald Reñosa: How Can Human-Centered Design Build a Story-Based Video Intervention That Addresses Vaccine Hesitancy & Bolsters Vaccine Confidence in the Philippines?

• William Sargent: Counting the Costs of Trauma: The Need for a New Paediatric Injury Severity Score

• Min Su: Comparing the Quality of Primary Care between Public and Private Providers in Urban China: A Standardized Patient Study

• Nathan I. Wood: Culinary Nutrition Course Equips Future Physicians to Educate Patients on a Healthy Diet

• Eric Wu: How Medical AI Devices Are Evaluated: Limitations & Recommendations from an Analysis of FDA Approvals

*These publications were produced by members of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.

From Our May 2021 Connections Newsletter

• Patience Afluani: Development of the Person-Centered Prenatal Care Scale for People of Color

• Patience Afulani: Inadequate Preparedness for Response to COVID-19 Is Associated with Stress & Burnout Among Healthcare Workers in Ghana

• Ayesha Appa: Drug Overdose Deaths Before & After Shelter-in-Place Orders During the COVID-19 Pandemic in San Francisco

• Archana Basu: A Cross-National Study of Factors Associated with Women’s Perinatal Mental Health & Wellbeing During the COVID-19 Pandemic

• David Berrigan: Measurement challenges for childhood obesity research Within & Between Latin America & the US

• Jessica Celentano: Mobilizing a COVID-19 Contact Tracing Workforce at Warp Speed: A Framework for Successful Program Implementation

• Simiao Chen: Climate & the Spread of COVID-19

• Mehreen S. Datoo: High Efficacy of a Low Dose Candidate Malaria Vaccine, R21 in 1 Adjuvant Matrix-M™, with Seasonal Administration to Children in Burkina Faso

• Raj Fadadu: Association of Wildfire Air Pollution and Health Care Use for Atopic Dermatitis & Itch

• Gemma A. Figtree: A Call to Action for New Global Approaches to Cardiovascular Disease Drug Solutions

• Dan Frampton: Genomic Characteristics & Clinical Effect of the Emergent SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 Lineage in London, UK

• Daniel Friedman: Effects of Different Types of Written Vaccination Information on COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the UK

• Jodi Halpern: Can Clinical Empathy Survive? Distress, Burnout, & Malignant Duty in the Age of COVID‐19

• Daniel Hunt: The WHO Global Diabetes Compact: A New Initiative to Support People Living with Diabetes

• Charles D. Murin: Convergence of a Common Solution for Broad Ebolavirus Neutralization by Glycan Cap-Directed Human Antibodies

• A.S. Murthy: Dermatology Has No Walls: A Perspective on International Exchange

• Claudia Nau: COVID-19 Inequities Across Multiple Racial & Ethnic Groups

• Calistus N. Ngonghala: Effects of Changes in Temperature on Zika Dynamics & Control

• Carolina Ornelas: Bridge the Gap: Reducing Inequity in Hospital Readmissions for African American Patients with Heart Failure Through Quality Improvement Initiatives

• Mike Reid: Assessing Testing Strategies & Duration of Quarantine in Contact Tracing for SARS-CoV2: A Retrospective Study of San Francisco’s COVID-19 Contact Tracing Program

• Mike Reid; How Will COVID-19 Transform Global Health Post-Pandemic?

• Mike Reid: Tackling TB & COVID-19: US Leadership Is Needed on Global Health, Now More Than Ever

• Mike Reid: World TB Day: A New Opportunity to Reimagine Workplace Health

• Kimberly A. Stanford: Incorporating HIV Screening with COVID-19 Testing in an Urban Emergency Department During the Pandemic

• Fiona Sylvies: The Impact of Pulse Oximetry & Integrated Management of Childhood Illness Training on Antibiotic Prescribing Practices in Rural Malawi

• Annabel X. Tan: Association Between Income Inequality & County-Level COVID-19 Cases & Deaths in the US

• Christopher Tessum: PM2.5 Polluters Disproportionately & Systemically Affect People of Color in the US

• Aline Uwimana: Association of Plasmodium Falciparum kelch13 r561h Genotypes with Delayed Parasite Clearance in Rwanda

• Katharine S. Walter: The Escalating Tuberculosis Crisis in Central & South American Prisons

• N. Ewen Wang: When Undoing Is Not Enough—Repairing Harms Inflicted on Immigrant Children

• Fengyun Yun: Knowledge About COVID-19 Among Adults in China: Cross-sectional Online Survey

   

*These publications were produced by members of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.

From Our April 2021 Connections Newsletter

• Zoë L. Grange: Ranking the Risk of Animal-to-Human Spillover for Newly Discovered Viruses

• Jean B. Nachega: Contact Tracing & the COVID-19 Response in Africa: Best Practices, Key Challenges, & Lessons Learned from Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, & Uganda

• Nistara Randhawa: Fine Scale Infectious Disease Modeling Using Satellite-Derived Data

• Altaf Saadi: Associations Between Memory Loss & Trauma in US Asylum Seekers: A Retrospective Review of Medico-Legal Affidavits

• Justina O Seyi-Olajide: Inclusion of Children’s Surgery in National Surgical Plans & Child Health Programmes

• Marcela Maria Uhart: Redefining Our Relationship with Nature to Avoid Future Pandemics

• Ava Yap: Best Buy in Public Health or Luxury Expense?: The Cost-effectiveness of a Pediatric Operating Room in Uganda from the Societal Perspective

• Daniel Ayoubkhani: Post-COVID Syndrome in Individuals Admitted to Hospital with COVID-19

• Brian J. Boyarsky: Immunogenicity of a Single Dose of SARS-CoV-2 Messenger RNA Vaccine in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients

• Suman Chakrabarti: Association of Human Mobility Restrictions & Race/Ethnicity–Based, Sex-Based, & Income-Based Factors with Inequities in Well-being During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US

• Barbara Chmielewska: Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Maternal & Perinatal Outcomes

• Alexandre Duvignaud: Lassa Fever Outcomes & Prognostic Factors in Nigeria

• Haitao Guo: Multi-Omics Analyses Reveal That HIV-1 Alters CD4 + T Cell Immunometabolism to Fuel Virus Replication

• Matthew V. Kiang: Routine Asymptomatic Testing Strategies for Airline Travel During the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Hyunju Kim: COVID-19 Illness in Relation to Sleep & Burnout

• Placide Mbala-Kingebeni: Ebola Virus Transmission Initiated by Relapse of Systemic Ebola Virus Disease

• Raul G Nogueira: Global Impact of COVID-19 on Stroke Care & Intravenous Thrombolysis

• Roy H. Perlis: Association of Acute Symptoms of COVID-19 & Symptoms of Depression in Adults

• Raina K. Plowright: Land Use-Induced Spillover: A Call to Action to Safeguard Environmental, Animal, & Human Health

• Suman P. N. Rao: Small & Sick Newborn Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Michael Reid: How Will COVID-19 Transform Global Health Post-Pandemic? Defining Research & Investment Opportunities & Priorities?

• Felix Sayinzoga: Assessing the Impact of Group Antenatal Care on Gestational Length in Rwanda

• Carol H. Sudre: Attributes & Predictors of Long COVID

• Maxime Taquet: Six-Month Neurological & Psychiatric Outcomes in 236,379 Survivors of COVID-19

*These publications were produced by members of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.

From Our March 2021 Connections Newsletter

• Christopher M. Hoover: Effects of Agrochemical Pollution on Schistosomiasis Transmission

• Giuseppe Lippi: COVID-19: The Portrait of a Perfect Storm

• Ellicott Mathay: Projected All-Cause Deaths Attributable to COVID-19–Related Unemployment in the US

• H. L. Wells: The Evolutionary History of ACE2 Usage Within the Coronavirus Subgenus Sarbecovirus

• Kelly C. Young-Wolff: Moving Toward Health & Social Equity for Women Who Use Cannabis During Preconception, Pregnancy & Lactation

• Rosana Aguilera: Wildfire Smoke Impacts Respiratory Health More Than Fine Particles from Other Sources

• Amani Al-Oraibi: Migrant Health Is Public Health: A Call for Equitable Access to COVID-19 Vaccines

• Eran Bendavid: The Effects of Armed Conflict on the Health of Women & Children

• Vinod K. Bhutani: A Global Approach to Prevent Kernicterus: A Dedication to Lois Johnson-Hamerman

• Matthew J. Burton: The Lancet Global Health Commission on Global Eye Health: Vision Beyond 2020

• Jamie M. Caldwell: Climate Predicts Geographic & Temporal Variation in Mosquito-Borne Disease Dynamics on Two Continents

• Serina Chang: Mobility Network Models of COVID-19 Explain Inequities & Inform Reopening

• Alexis J. Combes: Global Absence & Targeting of Protective Immune States in Severe COVID-19

• Lisa I. Couper: Impact of Prior & Projected Climate Change on US Lyme Disease Incidence

• Ana M. Crawford: Global Includes Local

• Pascal Geldsetzer: Cervical Cancer Screening in LMICs—Reply

• Pascal Geldsetzer: Willingness to Pay for Community Delivery of Antiretroviral Treatment in Urban Tanzania

• Michele J. Gelfand: The Relationship Between Cultural Tightness–Looseness & COVID-19 Cases & Deaths

• Global Variation in Postoperative Mortality & Complications After Cancer Surgery

• Dylan Graetz: Global Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Pediatric Cancer Care

• Beatrice Kaufmann: Heat-Stability Study of Various Insulin Types in Tropical Temperature Conditions

• David U. Himmelstein: The Lancet Commission on Public Policy & Health in the Trump Era

• Sandhya Kajeepeta: Association Between County Jail Incarceration & Cause-Specific County Mortality in the USA, 1987–2017

• Joshua P. Metlay: Household Transmission of SARS-CoV-2

• Igor H. Murai: Effect of a Single High Dose of Vitamin D3 on Hospital Length of Stay in Patients with Moderate to Severe COVID-19

• Adenike Olanrewaju: Clinical Acceptability of Automated Radiation Treatment Planning for Head & Neck Cancer Using the Radiation Planning Assistant

• Oselyne T. W. Ong: Mosquito-Borne Viruses & Non-Human Vertebrates in Australia

• Aalekhya Reddam: Inhalation of Two Prop 65-Listed Chemicals Within Vehicles May Be Associated with Increased Cancer Risk

• Jordan M. Rook: The Bolivian Trauma Patient’s Experience: A Qualitative Needs Assessment

• Melisa M. Shah: No Evidence of O’nyong-Nyong Viremia Among Children with Febrile Illness in Kenya

• Oscar Silva: Classic Hodgkin Lymphoma in Guatemalan Children of Age Less Than Six Years: Analysis of Immune Regulatory Pathways & the Tumor Microenvironment

• Neha S. Singh: Delivering Health Interventions to Women, Children & Adolescents in Conflict Settings: What Have We Learned from Ten Country Case Studies?

• Nikkil Sudharsanan: Variation in the Proportion of Adults in Need of Blood Pressure-Lowering Medications by Hypertension Care Guideline in LMICs

• Olivier Telle: Social and Environmental Risk Factors for Dengue in Delhi City

• Stephen Tukwasibwe: Diversity of KIR Genes & Their HLA-C Ligands in Ugandan Populations with Historically Varied Malaria Transmission Intensity

*These publications were produced by members of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.

From Our February 2021 Connections Newsletter

•  Charlene Adaken: Ebola Virus Antibody Decay–Stimulation in a High Proportion of Survivors

• Theresa Andrasfay: Reductions in 2020 US Life Expectancy Due to COVID-19 & the Disproportionate Impact on Black and Latino Populations

• Patience Afulani: Understanding Disparities in Person-Centred Maternity Care: The Potential Role of Provider Implicit and Explicit Bias

• Zulfiqar A. Bhutta: Doing Better for Women & Children in Armed Conflict Settings

• Marshall Burke: The Changing Risk & Burden of Wildfire in the US

• Carlos Chaccour: The Effect of Early Treatment with Ivermectin on COVID-19 Viral Load

• Ana M. Crawford: Global Includes Local

• Mohini Dasari: A Consensus Statement for Trauma Surgery Capacity Building in Latin America

• Ryan J. Gamba: Changing from a Highly Food Secure Household to a Marginal or Food Insecure Household Is Associated with Decreased Weight & BMI Z-Scores Among Latino Children from Chamacos

• Global Variation in Postoperative Mortality & Complications After Cancer Surgery

• Ozlem Guzeloglu-Kayisli: Zika Virus-Infected Decidual Cells Elicit a Gestational Age-Dependent Innate Immune Response & Exaggerate Trophoblast Zika Permissiveness: Implication for Vertical Transmission

• Kristin M. Holland: Trends in US Emergency Department Visits for Mental Health, Overdose & Violence Outcomes Before & During the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Margaret A. Honein: Data & Policy to Guide Opening Schools Safely to Limit Spread of SARS-CoV-2

• John Hornberger: Opioid Misuse: A Global Crisis

• Greta Hsu: Association Between County Level Cannabis Dispensary Counts & Opioid-Related Mortality Rates in the US

• Heesoo Joo: Decline in COVID-19 Hospitalization Growth Rates Associated with Statewide Mask Mandates—10 States

• Tim F. Liao: Association of Social & Economic Inequality with Coronavirus

• Kevin Linka: Global & Local Mobility as a Barometer for COVID-19 Dynamics

• Ashley T. Longley: Evaluation of Vaccine Safety After the First Public Sector Introduction of Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine-Navi Mumbai, India, 2018

• Katherine E. Lowe: Association of Smoking & Cumulative Pack-Year Exposure with COVID-19 Outcomes

• Anna Luan: Are We Curing by Cutting? A Call for Long-Term Follow Up and Outcomes Research in Global Surgery Interventions

• Yanan Luo: The Effects of Indoor Air Pollution from Solid Fuel Use on Cognitive Function Among Middle-Aged & Older Population in China

• Paras Minhas: Restoring Metabolism of Myeloid Cells Reverses Cognitive Decline in Ageing

• Katlyn Nemani: Association of Psychiatric Disorders with Mortality Among COVID-19 Patients

• John J. Openshaw: COVID-19 Outbreaks in US Immigrant Detention Centers: The Urgent Need to Adopt CDC Guidelines for Prevention & Evaluation

• Elizabeth Pleasants: Quality of Top Webpages Providing Abortion Pill Information for Google Searches in the USA: An Evidence-Based Webpage Quality Assessment

• Tracy L. Rabin: Global Health Education in the Time of COVID-19

• Angelica Cristello Sarteau: Changes to Care Delivery at Nine International Pediatric Diabetes Clinics in Response to COVID-19

• Neha S. Singh: Delivering Health Interventions to Women, Children, & Adolescents in Conflict Settings: What Have We Learned from Ten Country Case Studies?

• Regina Sosa: Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Patients with End-Stage Kidney Disease on Hemodialysis in Guatemala

• Jennifer Ilo Van Nuil: Improved Quality of Life Following Direct-Acting Antiviral Treatment for Chronic Hepatitis C Infection in Rwanda

• Huan Wang: Tracking the Effects of COVID-19 in Rural China Over Time

• Paul H. Wise: The Political & Security Dimensions of the Humanitarian Health Response to Violent Conflict

• Henok G. Woldu: Defining an Intermediate Category of Tuberculin Skin Test: A Mixture Model Analysis of Two High-Risk Populations from Kampala, Uganda

• Stacy Wood: Beyond Politics—Promoting COVID-19 Vaccination in the US

*These publications were produced by members of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.

From Our January 2021 Connections Newsletter

• Adamson: International Prevalence & Correlates of Psychological Stress During the Global COVID-19 Pandemic

• Barry: Global Health Education in the Time of COVID-19, An Opportunity to Restructure Relationships & Address Supremacy

• Biering: Structural Basis for Antibody Inhibition of Flavivirus ns1–Triggered Endothelial Dysfunction

• Darmstadt: Impact of mHealth Interventions for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn & Child Health & Nutrition at Scale: BBC Media Action & the Ananya Program in Bihar, India

• Gostin: Mandating COVID-19 Vaccines

• Grant: Risk Factors for Difficult-to-Treat Hepatitis C Virus Genotype 4r in Rwanda & Implications for Elimination in Sub-Saharan Africa

• Grant: Circuits between Infected Macrophages & T Cells in SARS-CoV-2 Pneumonia

• Juan-Giner: Immunogenicity & Safety of Fractional Doses of Yellow Fever Vaccines

• Kobziar: Wildfire Smoke, a Potential Infectious Agent

• Libster: Early High-Titer Plasma Therapy to Prevent Severe COVID-19 in Older Adults

• Luby: An Association between Rainy Days with Clinical Dengue Fever in Dhaka, Bangladesh: Findings From a Hospital-Based Study

• Luby: Child Lead Exposure near Abandoned Lead Acid Battery Recycling Sites in a Residential Community in Bangladesh

• Luby: Planetary Health Approaches for Dry Cities: Water Quality & Heat Mitigation

• Malawa: Racism as a Root Cause Approach: A New Framework

• Moyer: Providing Respectful Maternity Care in Northern Ghana: A Mixed-Methods Study with Maternity Care Providers

• Naylor: Articulating the Effect of Food Systems Innovation on the Sustainable Development Goals

• Noth: Decrease in Ambient Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Concentrations in California’s San Joaquin Valley 2000–2019

• Pandy: Health & Economic Impact of Air Pollution in India: Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

• Pannu: Inclusive Biomedical Innovation During the COVID‐19 Pandemic

• Patel: COVID-19 Solutions Are Climate Solutions: Lessons From Reusable Gowns

• Patel: Progress Toward Regional Measles Elimination Worldwide, 2000–2019

• Relman: Opinion: To Stop the Next Pandemic, We Need to Unravel the Origins of COVID-19

• Rhea: The S1 Protein of SARS-CoV-2 Crosses the Blood-Brain Barrier in Mice

• Schulman: Beyond Politics — Promoting COVID-19 Vaccination in the US

• Ioannidis: Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Provide an Opportunity to Eliminate the Tobacco Industry?

• Wise: Multiomics Characterization of Preterm Birth in Low- & Middle-Income Countries

• Wise: Using Community Health Workers & a Smartphone Application to Improve Diabetes Control in Rural Guatemala

*These publications were produced by members of the Bay Area Global Health Alliance.

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