Abdallah Daar is part of the 2013 1st Semester, 2014 1st Semester, 2016 2nd Semester, 2017 2nd Semester, 2019 2nd Semester, 2022 1st Semester, and 2023 1st Semester cohorts at STIAS.
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Garment of Destiny
Work on a new single-author book with a working title of “Garment of Destiny” will be started. The title is derived from Martin Luther King: “It really boi... -
DOHaD and SDGs: Moving towards Early Implementation
The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease & Sustainable Development Goals: Moving Towards Early ImplementationThe Developmental Origins of Health...
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STIAS Lecture Series: Prof Abdallah Daar - Innovating to Address Grand Challenges in Global Health
Prof. Abdallah Daar, Professor of Public Health Sciences and of Surgery at the University of Toronto and STIAS fellow will present a talk with the title: ...
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Roundtable on Mental Health challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa
Following a preparatory Workshop on the same theme in November 2013, STIAS will convene a Roundtable on Mental Health challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa to e...
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In conversation with Abdallah Daar on his new book, Garment of Destiny
Professor Jimmy Volmink, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Stellenbosch University will be in conversation with STIAS Fellow Professo...
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Exploratory consultation on the potential of digital diagnostics to improve health in Africa
The objectives of the roundtable are to brainstorm how digital diagnostics tools based on artificial intelligence like ADA health can be used to improve ac...
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Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD): Consolidating Theory into Practice (postponed)
Postponed until further notice The Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), the African Academy of Sciences (AAS), the DST-NRF Centre of Excelle...
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Exploratory consultation on the potential of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Diagnostics to improve health in Africa (postponed)
Postponed until further notice Following the successful exploratory consultation on the potential of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Diagnostics to i...
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Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD): Consolidating Theory into Practice
The Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) and the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Human Development at the University of the Witwatersrand (CoE...
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Leading experts on public mental health at STIAS-Wallenberg Roundtable
Some of the world’s leading experts on public mental health will participate in the second STIAS-Wallenberg Roundtable that takes place at the STIAS Walle...
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STIAS Fellow Abdallah Daar to serve on new United Nations Advisory Board
Professor Abdallah Daar, STIAS Fellow and Professor of Public Health Sciences of the University of Toronto has been invited by the Secretary-General of the...
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STIAS and AAS hosts first joint workshop for young scientists
Forty participants from thirteen countries convened in Stellenbosch during the last week of June 2016 to take part in a training workshop on stem cell scie...
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Healthy mothers, healthy babies – understanding the developmental origins of health and disease - DOHaD Fellows' seminar
“What happens in pregnancy and childhood sets us on a trajectory and determines our lifetime risk of disease,” said Prof. Shane Norris of the Department of...
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Abdallah Daar named Permanent Visiting Fellow of STIAS
Abdallah Daar, convenor of the STIAS Health in Transition theme and Professor of Clinical Public Health, Global Health, and Surgery at the University of To...
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Even where the science is clear translating it is a challenge - Fellows' seminar by the DOHaD group
“As a paediatrician I’ve spent a lifetime caring for sick and critically injured children. I realised many of these illnesses were preventable,” said Andre...
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One coat with many threads - STIAS book launch by Abdallah Daar
“Martin Luther King’s dream is largely unfulfilled. The promise of globalisation seems to be coming apart. We need to talk about what we have in common rat...
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Clear evidence that needs implementation - DOHaD fellows' seminar
“Prevention of cardiovascular and other non-communicable disease starts with a wish for a child. The first 1000 days shape who we are,” said Tessa Roseboom...
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Looking at the power of digitisation to improve health
An exploratory consultation/roundtable, organised by Bernard Lategan and Abdallah Daar, was held on 12 – 14 November at STIAS to look at the potential of d...
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Need for African collaboration for pandemic studies - Fellows' seminar by Abdallah Daar
“This is a vision I’ve been developing based on what we’ve faced – everything we’ve lived through, experienced and participated in. COVID-19 was predictabl...
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Everything is connected, linked and related to everything else
Exploring the convergence of cardiometabolic conditions and pandemic preparedness in Africa “Nothing happens in isolation,” said STIAS permanent fellow Abd...
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Grand Challenges: Integrating Mental Health Care into the Non-Communicable Disease Agenda
Victoria K. Ngo, Adolfo Rubinstein, Vijay Ganju, Pamela Kanellis, Nasser Loza, Cristina Rabadan-Diehl, Abdallah S. Daar. 2013. Grand Challenges: Integratin...
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Grand Challenges in Global Mental Health: Integration in Research, Policy, and Practice
Pamela Y. Collins, Thomas R. Insel, Arun Chockalingam, Abdallah Daar, Yvonne T. Maddox. 2013. Grand Challenges in Global Mental Health: Integration in Rese...
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A Survey of International Legal Instruments to Examine Their Effectiveness in Improving Global Health and in Realizing Health Rights
Arthur Wilson and Abdallah S. Daar. 2013. A Survey of International Legal Instruments to Examine Their Effectiveness in Improving Global Health and in Real...
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Declaration on mental health in Africa: moving to implementation
Abdallah S. Daar, Marian Jacobs, Stig Wall, Johann Groenewald, Julian Eaton, Vikram Patel, Palmira dos Santos, Ashraf Kagee, Anik Gevers, Charlene Sunkel, ...
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Progress in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research in the United States between 2001 and 2010
Vakili, Keyvan, Anita M. McGahan, Rahim Rezaie, Will Mitchell, and Abdallah S. Daar. 2015. Progress in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research in the United Sta...
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The Worldʼs Youngest Cadaveric Kidney Transplant
Daar, Abdallah S and Nabil Mohsin Al Lawati. 2016. The Worldʼs Youngest Cadaveric Kidney Transplant. Transplantation Direct 2(12):e117. http://content.wkhe...
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Understanding and acting on the developmental origins of health and disease in Africa would improve health across generations
Norris, Shane A., Abdallah Daar, Dorairajan Balasubramanian, Peter Byass, Elizabeth Kimani-Murage, Andrew Macnab, Christoff Pauw, Atul Singhal, Chittaranja...
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Advancing the DOHaD agenda in Africa
MacNab, Andrew J., Abdallah S. Daar, S. Norris, and J. C. Pauw. 2018. Advancing the DOHaD agenda in Africa. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and ...
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Developmental origins of health and disease in Africa—influencing early life
Davies, Justine Ina, Andrew John Macnab, Peter Byass, Shane A Norris, Moffat Nyirenda, Atul Singhal, Eugene Sobngwi and Abdallah S Daar. 2018. Developmenta...
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Grand challenges in humanitarian aid
Daar, Abdallah S., Trillium Chang, Angela Salomon, and Peter A. Singer. 2018. Grand challenges in humanitarian aid. Nature, 559(7713), 169–173. http://doi....
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Garment of Destiny: Zanzibar to Oxford: A Surgeon’s Global Quest for Identity and the Ties that Bind
Daar, Abdallah. 2018. Garment of Destiny: Zanzibar to Oxford: A Surgeon’s Global Quest for Identity and the Ties that Bind. Barlow Book Publishing. https:/...
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The ethical, social, and cultural dimensions of screening for mental health in children and adolescents of the developing world
Salamanca-Buentello, Fabio, Mary V. Seeman, Abdallah Daar and Ross E.G. Upshur. 2020. The ethical, social, and cultural dimensions of screening for mental ...
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STIAS Series Volume 16: Health in Transition
Health in Transition: Translating developmental origins of health and disease science to improve future health in Africa Andrew J Macnab, Abdallah Daar &am...
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Nanotechnology, equity and global health
Salamanca-Buentello, Fabio and Abdallah S. Daar. 2021. Nanotechnology, equity and global health. Nature Nanotechnology, 16(4), 358–361. https://doi.org/10....
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Redefining the non-communicable disease framework to a 6 × 6 approach: incorporating oral diseases and sugars
Benzian, Habib, Abdallah Daar and Sudeshni Naidoo. 2023. Redefining the non-communicable disease framework to a 6 × 6 approach: incorporating oral diseases...