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Generative AI to Strengthen Global Health Security
Infectious disease threats to individual and public health are numerous, varied and frequently unexpected.
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Integration of structure/function predictions into the CERI emerging threat genomic surveillance pipeline
The Centre for Epidemiology Research and Innovation collects high-precision and timely data on emerging health threats by carrying out a world-class genomic surveillance effort.
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Orchid or dandelion: network analysis of social and psychological factors
Mental illness leads to great suffering for affected individuals and is one of societies’ largest challenges.
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HIV Strain Dynamics
A growing concern in HIV research is the emergence of drug resistant strains of the virus.
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Inflammation in cardiovascular disease: Regional differences between Sub-saharan Africa and Nothern Europe
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality and amounts to about a third of all global deaths.
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The health impact of free access to antiretroviral therapy in South Africa
Burger, Cobus, Ronelle Burger and Eddy van Doorslaer. 2022. The health impact of free access to antiretroviral therapy in South Africa. Soci...
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The DAMA Protocol, an Introduction: Finding Pathogens before They Find Us
Hoberg, Eric P., Walter A. Boeger, Orsolya Molnár, Gábor Földvári, Scott L. Gardner, Alicia Juarrero, Vitaliy Kharchenko, Eloy Ortiz, Valeri...
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The 3P Framework: A Comprehensive Approach to Coping with the Emerging Infectious Disease Crisis
Molnár, Orsolya, Eric Hoberg, Valeria Trivellone, Gábor Földvári and Daniel R. Brooks. 2022. The 3P Framework: A Comprehensive Approach to C...
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Ecological super‐spreaders drive host–range oscillations: Omicron and risk space for emerging infectious disease
Boeger, Walter A., Daniel R. Brooks, Valeria Trivellone, Salvatore J. Agosta and Eric P. Hoberg. 2022. Ecological super‐spreaders drive host...
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Are cardiovascular health measures heritable across three generations of families in Soweto, South Africa? A cross-sectional analysis using the random family method
Ware, Lisa J., Innocent Maposa, Andrea Kolkenbeck-Ruh, Shane A. Norris, Larske Soepnel, Simone Crouch, Juliana Kagura, Sanushka Naidoo, Wayn...
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Estimating the number of diseases – the concept of rare, ultra-rare, and hyper-rare
Smith, C. I. Edvard, Peter Bergman and Daniel W. Hagey. 2022. Estimating the number of diseases – the concept of rare, ultra-rare, and hyper...
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The WetNet: Pathogen Mobility and Fluid Bonding in Twentieth Century Biomedicine
My research, based in close discourse analysis of primary and secondary medical and legal literatures, offers a history of the hepatitis B virus and vaccine development in the period from 1940 to 1988.
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Pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes risk in black Africans: a South African perspective
Goedecke, Julia H. and Tommy Olsson. 2020. Pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes risk in black Africans: a South African perspective. Journal of I...
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Childhood obesity in urban Ghana: evidence from a cross-sectional survey of in-school children aged 5–16 years
Ganle, John Kuumuori, Priscilla Pokuaa Boakye and Leonard Baatiema. 2019. Childhood obesity in urban Ghana: evidence from a cross-sectional ...
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Correlation between noncommunicable disease mortality in people aged 30–69 years and those aged 70–89 years
Byass, Peter. 2019. Correlation between noncommunicable disease mortality in people aged 30–69 years and those aged 70–89 years. Bulletin of...
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Anaemia at antenatal care initiation and associated factors among pregnant women in West Gonja District, Ghana: a cross-sectional study
Tibambuya, Basil Addayire, John Kuumuori Ganle and Muslim Ibrahim. 2019. Anaemia at antenatal care initiation and associated factors among p...
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Enhancing the value of mortality data for health systems: adding Circumstances Of Mortality CATegories (COMCATs) to deaths investigated by verbal autopsy
Hussain-Alkhateeb, Laith, Lucia D’Ambruoso, Stephen Tollman, Kathleen Kahn, Maria Van Der Merwe, Rhian Twine, Linus Schiöler, Max Petzold an...
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The Health Impact of a Decade of Free ART Access in South Africa.
Burger, Cobus, Ronelle Burger and Eddy van Doorslaer. 2019. The Health Impact of a Decade of Free ART Access in South Africa. The Lancet. ht...
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A New General Biomarker-based Incidence Estimator
Kassanjee, Reshma; McWalter, Thomas A.; Baernighausen, Till; Macnab, Andrew et al. 2012. A New General Biomarker-based Incidence Estimator. ...
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Malaria in Uganda: School-Based Rapid Diagnostic Testing and Treatment
Macnab, Andrew J, Ronald Mukisa, Sharif Mutabazi, and Rachel Steed. 2016. Malaria in Uganda: School-Based Rapid Diagnostic Testing and Treat...
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Child Mortality Is (Estimated to Be) Falling
Byass, Peter. 2016. Child Mortality Is (Estimated to Be) Falling. The Lancet 388(10063):2965–67. http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii...
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Associations between the severity of obstructive lower urinary tract symptoms and care-seeking behavior in rural Africa: A cross-sectional survey from Uganda
Stothers, Lynn, Andrew J. Macnab, Francis Bajunirwe, Sharif Mutabazi and Jonathan Berkowitz. 2017. Associations between the severity of obst...
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Traumatic spinal cord injury in Uganda: a prevention strategy and mechanism to improve home care
Stothers, Lynn, Andrew Macnab, Ronald Mukisa, Sharif Mutabazi and Francis Bajunirwe. 2017. Traumatic spinal cord injury in Uganda: a prevent...
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Reducing the global burden of poor oral health through school-based programmes
Macnab, Andrew J., and Mukisa, Ronald. 2018. Reducing the global burden of poor oral health through school-based programmes. International J...
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Prevalence estimates for lower urinary tract symptom severity among men in Uganda and sub-Saharan Africa based on regional prevalence data
Bajunirwe, Francis, Lynn Stothers, Jonathan Berkowitz and Andrew Macnab. 2018. Prevalence estimates for lower urinary tract symptom severity...
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Filovirus Disease Outbreaks: A Chronological Overview
Languon, Sylvester and Osbourne Quaye. 2019. Filovirus Disease Outbreaks: A Chronological Overview. Virology: Research and Treatment, 10, 11...
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Health transition and injury care and prevention
Apart from making important contributions to morbidity and mortality world-wide (WHO), injuries as a health problem have special characteristics (Byass et al.
