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Introducing Project SOAR’s HIV Implementation Science Research Collection: Timely Evidence to Guide the HIV Response
By Scott Geibel, Director, Project SOAR, Population Council & Eileen Yam, Deputy Director, Project SOAR, Population Council Recent advances in the global HIV response hold great promise for achieving control of the HIV epidemic.
"Working in silos doesn't work for outbreak response": Localising social science response efforts in West Africa
In a follow-up to the blog post “Action not justification: how to use social science to improve outbreak response” from December 2018, Hana Rohan (UK Public Health Rapid Support Team, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine/Public Health England, London, UK), Gillian McKay (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK), & Baindu Agatha Khosia (Focus 1000, Freetown, Sierra Leone) discuss here a new West African initiative on social science for epidemic preparedness.
The Veterans Disability and Rehabilitation Research Channel – meet our new Channel Editor Alicia Koontz | PLOS Collections
Post navigation Posted September 11, 2019 by PLOS Channels The Veterans Disability and Rehabilitation Research Channel is delighted to welcome Alicia Koontz as a Channel Editor! The Veterans Disability and Rehabilitation Research Channel features articles on a wide range of topics relevant to veteran disability and rehabilitation research. The Channel Editors aim to showcase the most up to date research to assist veterans and all adults around the world with chronic illness and disability.
Say No to Glow: Reducing the Carcinogenic Effects of ALDH2 Deficiency
Post navigation Posted September 9, 2019 by PLOS Channels In this piece, Catherine Chang, Tim Ho, Iris Huang, Justin Wu report on the TAS_Taipei iGEM Team’s project from iGEM 2018. Turning red after consuming alcohol may seem like a mere social inconvenience. Yet, behind this red complexion lies a far more serious problem. ALDH2 deficiency, more commonly known as Alcohol Flushing Syndrome or Asian Glow, is a genetic condition that interferes with the metabolism of alcohol.
Dying slower in a changing climate: water scarcity and flood hazard in the Peruvian Andes
Noah Walker-Crawford (Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, UK) and Angela Thür (Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland) discuss water scarcity and flood hazard in Peru. This is the first in a series of blog on the Impacts of and Responses to Climate Change which will be featured on the PLOS Responding to Climate Change Channel. Snow-covered peaks and glaciers are emblematic representatives of the Peruvian Andes.
The PLOS Crops, Food Security & Food Systems Channel – Meet the Editors | PLOS Collections
Gert Kema, Molly Jahn, Zerihun Tadele and Robert Sharwood announce the launch of the PLOS Crops, Food Security & Food Systems Channel! Food security, which encompasses food availability, access, utilisation, and stability, is a global issue affecting all populations around the world.
The Responding to Climate Change Channel – meet our new Channel Editors Emma Archer & Johan Lilliestam | PLOS Collections
Post navigation Posted February 20, 2019 by PLOS Channels The Responding to Climate Change Channel is delighted to welcome Emma Archer and Johan Lilliestam as a Channel Editors! The Responding to Climate Change Channel highlights research efforts from a range of disciplines focused on understanding, evaluating, predicting, mitigating, and adapting to the causes and effects of the changing climate.
Action not justification: how to use social science to improve outbreak response
Authors: Hana Rohan 1*, Daniel G Bausch1, Karl Blanchet2 Affiliations: 1UK Public Health Rapid Support Team, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine/Public Health England, London, UK; 2London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine *Room 324, 15-17 Tavistock Place, WC1H 9SH, hana.rohan@lshtm.ac.uk, +44 207 927 2287 The current outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was announced nine days after another, in DRC’s Equateur Province,...
Meet Lorenzo Pezzoli, Editor of the PLOS Cholera Channel
Lorenzo Pezzoli is an infectious disease epidemiologist, currently based at WHO in Geneva within the Cholera Programme. There, he works to specifically support the activities related to the use of cholera vaccine, in integration with all other interventions, in line with the new global strategy for cholera control (Ending Cholera—A Global Roadmap to 2030) launched in October 2017.
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