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The “Bubble”: What Can Be Learned from the National Basketball Association (NBA)’s 2019–20 Season Restart in Orlando during the COVID-19 Pandemic Open
Background The National Basketball Association (NBA) suspended operations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. To safely complete the 2019–20 season, the NBA created a closed campus in Orlando, Florida, known as the NBA “Bub…
Low Antibody Titers Demonstrate Significantly Increased Rate of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in a Highly Vaccinated Population from the National Basketball Association Open
SARS-CoV-2 antibody titers may serve as a correlate for immunity and could inform optimal booster timing. The relationship between antibody titer and protection from infection was evaluated in 2,323 vaccinated individuals from the National…
Booster protection against Omicron infection in a highly vaccinated cohort Open
Background Evaluation of COVID-19 vaccine booster effectiveness is essential as new variants of SARS-CoV-2 emerge. Data support the effectiveness of boosters in preventing severe disease and hospitalization; however, the real-world impact …
World Health Organization and knowledge translation in maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and nutrition Open
The World Health Organization (WHO) has a mandate to promote maternal and child health and welfare through support to governments in the form of technical assistance, standards, epidemiological and statistical services, promoting teaching …
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Reinfection: A Case Series From a 12-Month Longitudinal Occupational Cohort Open
Findings are described in 7 patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 reinfection from the National Basketball Association 2020–2021 occupational testing cohort, including clinical details, antibody test results, genomi…
Evolution of the World Health Organization’s programmatic actions to control diarrheal diseases Open
The Program for the Control of Diarrheal Diseases (CDD) of the World Health Organization (WHO) was created in 1978, the year the Health for All Strategy was launched at the Alma Ata International Conference on Primary Health Care. CDD quic…
Drivers of the reduction in childhood diarrhea mortality 1980-2015 and interventions to eliminate preventable diarrhea deaths by 2030 Open
Employing the interventions that have resulted in such a large reduction in diarrhea mortality in the last 35 years can virtually eliminate remaining childhood diarrhea deaths by 2030.
Introductory commentary: a strategic review of options for building on lessons learnt from IMCI and iCCM Open
Despite advances in child health over the past 20 years, children are still failing to reach their full health and development. Marian Jacobs and Michael Merson examine what the 2016 strategic review tells about how IMCI and iCCM have cont…
Partnership Conference Open
With careful planning from all parties, a multilateral partnership conference including both university and medical center faculty can be a productive forum for exchange on global health education and research. Sustaining such partnerships…
View article: Tackling NCD in LMIC: Achievements and Lessons Learned From the NHLBI—UnitedHealth Global Health Centers of Excellence Program
Tackling NCD in LMIC: Achievements and Lessons Learned From the NHLBI—UnitedHealth Global Health Centers of Excellence Program Open
Effectively tackling the growing noncommunicable disease (NCD) burden in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) is a major challenge. To address research needs in this setting for NCDs, in 2009, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (…