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Climate change policies fail to protect child health Open

Jhermayne Ubalde, Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Peter N. Le Souëf, Melinda A. Judge · 2025

Background National policies are essential for countries to adapt to the negative health impacts of climate change. Children are disproportionately affected by these impacts and must be at the heart of adaptation policies to address their …

Impact of climate change on diarrhoea risk in low- and middle-income countries Open

Syeda Hira Fatima, Melinda A. Judge, Peter N. Le Souëf, Corey J. A. Bradshaw · 2025

Diarrhoea remains a leading cause of mortality among children under five years of age, with over 99 % of deaths occurring in low- and middle-income countries. Poor water quality, inadequate sanitation, poverty, undernutrition, and limited …

Climate change policies fail to protect child health Open

Jhermayne Ubalde, Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Peter N. Le Souëf, Melinda A. Judge · 2025

Background National policies are essential for countries to adapt to the negative health impacts of climate change. Children are disproportionately affected by climate-sensitive health risks and must be at the heart of adaptation policies …

Global Systematic Review of Climate Change and Indigenous Child Health Open

John Turnbull, Naomi R. Hemy, Mara West, Peter N. Le Souëf, Peter N. Le Souëf , et al. · 2025

Net benefit of smaller human populations to environmental integrity and individual health and wellbeing Open

Chitra Maharani Saraswati, Melinda A. Judge, Lewis J. Z. Weeda, Quique Bassat, Ndola Prata , et al. · 2024

Introduction The global human population is still growing such that our collective enterprise is driving environmental catastrophe. Despite a decline in average population growth rate, we are still experiencing the highest annual increase …

How climate change degrades child health: A systematic review and meta-analysis Open

Lewis J. Z. Weeda, Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Melinda A. Judge, Chitra Maharani Saraswati, Peter N. Le Souëf · 2024

Of 1301 articles we identified, 163 studies were eligible for analysis. We identified many relationships between climate change and child health, the strongest of which was increasing risk (60 % on average) of preterm birth from exposure t…

Global Human Population Ended Self-Facilitation in the 1950s Open

Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Melinda A. Judge, Daniel T. Blumstein, Paul R. Ehrlich, Aisha Dasgupta , et al. · 2024

Systematic Review of Climate-Change Interventions to Improve Child Health Open

Jhermayne Ubalde, Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Syeda Fatima, Peter N. Le Souëf, Melinda A. Judge · 2024

Long-Term Benefits of Curbing Human Population Growth Open

Melinda A. Judge, Chitra Saraswati, Lewis J. Z. Weeda, Quique Bassat, Ndola Prata , et al. · 2024

Net benefit of smaller human populations to environmental integrity and individual health and well-being Open

Chitra Maharani Saraswati, Melinda A. Judge, Lewis J. Z. Weeda, Ndola Prata, Quique Bassat , et al. · 2023

Background The global human population is still growing such that our collective enterprise is driving environmental catastrophe. Despite a decline in average population growth rate, we are still experiencing the highest annual increase of…

First systematic review and meta-analysis of the risk magnitude of climate-change effects on child health Open

Lewis J. Z. Weeda, Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Melinda A. Judge, Chitra Saraswati, Peter N. Le Souëf · 2023

Children are significantly more vulnerable than adults to climate-related health threats, but studies examining how climate change affects human health have been mainly descriptive and lack an assessment of the magnitude of health effects …

Gene dysregulation in acute HIV-1 infection – early transcriptomic analysis reveals the crucial biological functions affected Open

Erica Parker, Melinda A. Judge, Lucía Pastor, Laura de la Fuente, Chenjerai Jairoce , et al. · 2023

Introduction Transcriptomic analyses from early human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection have the potential to reveal how HIV causes widespread and lasting damage to biological functions, especially in the immune system. Previous studi…

Lower infant mortality, higher household size, and more access to contraception reduce fertility in low- and middle-income nations Open

Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Claire Perry, Melinda A. Judge, Chitra Maharani Saraswati, Jane Heyworth , et al. · 2023

Although average contraceptive use has increased globally in recent decades, an estimated 222 million (26%) of women of child-bearing age worldwide face an unmet need for family planning—defined as a discrepancy between fertility preferenc…

DETERMINANTS OF THE CYCLE OF CHILDHOOD UNDERNUTRITION AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE IN EASTERN AFRICA Open

Melinda A. Judge · 2022

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Lower infant mortality and access to contraception reduce fertility in low- and middle-income nations Open

Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Claire Perry, Chitra Maharani Saraswati, Melinda A. Judge, Jane Heyworth , et al. · 2021

Although average contraceptive use has increased globally in recent decades, an estimated 222 million (26%) of women of child-bearing age worldwide face an unmet need for family planning — defined as a discrepancy between fertility prefere…

Determinants of the cycle of childhood undernutrition and infectious disease in Eastern Africa Open

Melinda A. Judge · 2021

HIV infection in Eastern and Southern Africa: Highest burden, largest challenges, greatest potential Open

Erica Parker, Melinda A. Judge, Eusébio Macete, Tacilta Nhampossa, Jienchi Dorward , et al. · 2021

The elimination of HIV in ESA will require continued investment, commitment to evidence-based programmes and persistence. Local research is critical to ensuring that responses in ESA are targeted, efficient and evaluated.

Gene Expression: the Key to Understanding HIV-1 Infection? Open

Melinda A. Judge, Erica Parker, Denise Naniche, Peter N. Le Souëf · 2020

Gene expression profiling of the host response to HIV infection has promised to fill the gaps in our knowledge and provide new insights toward vaccine and cure. However, despite 20 years of research, the biggest questions remained unanswer…

Dietary Vitamin D Increases Percentages and Function of Regulatory T Cells in the Skin-Draining Lymph Nodes and Suppresses Dermal Inflammation Open

Shelley Gorman, Sian Geldenhuys, Melinda A. Judge, Clare E. Weeden, Jason Waithman , et al. · 2016

Skin inflammatory responses in individuals with allergic dermatitis may be suppressed by dietary vitamin D through induction and upregulation of the suppressive activity of regulatory T () cells. Vitamin D may also promotecell tropism to d…

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