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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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Socioecononomic health inequalities: measurement, explanation and policy evaluation
The main purpose of this project is to identify and quantify the major causal mechanisms that drive the changes in socioeconomic health inequalities in Sweden.
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Marketing of commercial milk formula: a system to capture parents, communities, science, and policy
Rollins, Nigel, Ellen Piwoz, Philip Baker, Gillian Kingston, Kopano Matlwa Mabaso, David McCoy, Paulo Augusto Ribeiro Neves, Rafael Pérez-Es...
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Trauma, vulnerability and mental health problems in South Africa and Sweden
Globally, mental illness is more responsible for extreme distress than poverty or unemployment, and, to compound the problem, mental illness interacts with poverty and unemployment in socially and economically impactful ways that create reinforcing cycles.
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The political economy of oral health in sub-Saharan Africa – uncovering the silent oral health crisis and exposing reasons for low public health priority
Oral diseases are among the most common and among the most neglected diseases of mankind.
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Health-economic modelling of strategies to manage gynaecologic cancer in developed countries and low resource settings
Cervical cancer is globally the third most common cancer in women, and in South Africa it is more common than breast cancer.
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Health in All policies: Healthy housing policies to address the risk and burden of infectious and non-communicable diseases
Urbanization is restructuring the nature of cities, particularly in South Africa (SA) and Africa, where informality is on the rise.
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“Brighter Futures” through Health Promotion and Health Equity
There is robust evidence that health promotion in the school setting can increase children’s knowledge and change their choice of health related behaviors for the better.
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Low cost nudges to patients to improve treatment adherence: do they work?
Universal health coverage and the growing burden of chronic illness are both at the top of the global health agenda.
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Infectious Disease Prevention in Companion Animals
The project aims at campaigning for the acceptance of companion animal vaccination and its disease prevention aspects, thereby increasing the visibility of veterinary research in the One Medicine-One Health perspective.
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Dangerous Denial: An Exploration of Major Endocrine Disruptors
Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that interfere with the body’s hormonal system, adversely affecting reproduction, neurology and immunology in humans and animals.
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HIV prevention and treatment: from policy to implementation
During my residency at STIAS I will be analyzing data and completing two scientific papers on HIV prevention, in particular the prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) in sub-Saharan Africa, specifically in Kenya and Tanzania where I have ongoing projects and data is being collected.
