In sub-Saharan Africa, maternal and neonatal outcomes are some of the worst in the world. What would happen to those numbers if 1,000 new obstetrician/gynecologists …
Tag: global health
A sanitation solution: Stanford students introduce dry toilets in Haiti
In the United States, we often take for granted the relationship between health and sanitation. Not so in Haiti, where some people dispose of their …
New global cancer map aims to improve care in developing countries
Most people don’t associate cancer with the developing world, yet 60 percent of new cancer cases and 70 percent of cancer deaths occur in less …
Global health expert: Economic growth provides opportunity to close the “global health gap”
Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health hosted a recent seminar for Stanford students and faculty with global health-policy expert Gavin Yamey, MD, MPH. The …
All hands on deck: Doctor answers call to work on largest Ebola epidemic in history
In the nearly 70-year history of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) only three disasters called for an “all hands on deck,” Level …
“Made-in-India” vaccine could save thousands of children
India reached a milestone this week with the introduction of a novel rotavirus vaccine, the first vaccine designed entirely in the developing world. The vaccine …
OPENPediatrics offers opportunity to help physicians, and sick children, worldwide
As chief of critical care at Boston Children's Hospital, Jeffrey Burns, MD, MPH, was asked to consult on the case of a young girl who …
President Obama and Indian Prime Minister praise partnership that led to rotavirus vaccine
During his three-day visit to India, President Barack Obama issued a joint statement with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi praising the “highly successful collaboration” that …
Health care in Haiti: “At risk of regressing”
As an undergraduate at Duke University, Maxwell Kligerman stumbled into an amazing scientific opportunity. He spent the summer of 2009 collecting data on the availability …
Physician at forefront of Ebola fight: “Ultimate award” is what you get back from survivors
When Lassa fever, a cousin of Ebola, was afflicting hundreds of thousands of people in West Africa in the late 90s, Daniel Bausch, MD, MPH …
'Tis the season for norovirus
The week before Thanksgiving, some kind of stomach bug, which I suspect was norovirus, spread like wildfire among my daughter’s daycare. Several of her classmates …
Improving global emergency medicine to save lives
In July 2013, Stanford physician S. V. Mahadevan, MD, and colleagues conducted a study at the largest children's hospital in Karachi, Pakistan to understand the …
Stanford undergrad uncovers importance of traditional midwives in India
Lara Mitra grew up taking regular vacations with her family in her ancestral home, the state of Gujarat in India, but those short trips barely …
Changing the prevailing attitude about AIDS, gender and reproductive health in southern Africa
During the 1990s and early 2000s, HIV/AIDS pummeled through southern Africa killing thousands. Although the epidemic has abated somewhat, the disease is still spreading through …
Child-mortality gap narrows in developing countries
Child-mortality rates in developing countries are decreasing. In 2012, the United Nations estimated that worldwide mortality rates for children under the age of five have …
Stanford undergrad works to redistribute unused medications and reduce health-care costs
Sanchay Gupta arrived at Stanford with a strong interest in income inequality. In 2013, he spent two weeks of his summer vacation in Guatemala exploring …