When I think of the Danish company LEGO, the first image that comes to mind is their classical LEGO brick, and I…
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Early Career Research Community The not-so-innocent LEGO brick
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Global Health Reflections on International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation
By Jennifer Dias As social animals, humans often coordinate their lives around cultural norms, formally sanctioned rules that prescribe or proscribe certain…
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Global Health 9-2-15 PLOS Science Wednesday AMA Preview: River blindness programs improve health outcomes: Evidence for increased prioritization of NTDs in post-2015 global health agenda
River blindness (onchocerciasis) is an onerous neglected tropical disease (NTD) and the second-leading cause of preventable blindness worldwide. Onchocerciasis is transmitted by…
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Global Health WHO will lead and who will pay? The World Health Organization, Ebola and the future of global health
By Andreas Vilhelmsson When the Ebola virus disease epidemic hit West Africa in late 2013, nobody could imagine that just a year…
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Development Neglected Tropical Diseases: Challenges for the Post-2015 Development Era
This article is being cross-listed with the Harvard graduate student publication Signal to Noise, Special Edition on Infectious Disease. Health equity is based…
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Global Health Ebola Immunopathology and the Outbreak in West Africa
Ebola virus (EBOV) is a highly virulent pathogen, resulting in death by Ebola hemorrhagic fever in up to 90% of people who…