Takemi Program NEWS
October 2009
2008-2010 Takemi Fellow/HSPH Nutrition Department Research Fellow, Yanping Li, was awarded the INF/Kraft Short-Term Fellowship Award and invited to present at the International Conference of Nutrition (ICN 2009) in Bangkok, Thailand, October 4-9, 2009. She will present: (1) Dietary intake and plasma lipid profiles of stunted and/or overweight children in China; and (2) Effectiveness and sustainability of physical activity intervention on body composition of Chinese children.
August 2009
2008-2010 Takemi Fellow, Miwako Hosoda will present "Antagonism and Partnership: Health Social Movement after 1945 in Japan" at the 104th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, held in San Francisco, California, USA, August 8-August 11, 2009.
May 2009
On May 8, 2008-2009 Takemi Fellow Wipada Kunaviktiul presented "Nursing shortage in Thailand and the research study using Discrete Choice Experiment" as lead speaker at the Colloquium on Global Leadership, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), College of Nursing.
April 2009
On April 21, Takemi Program Faculty Advisor Marc Mitchell will present to USAID Global Health Bureau on the topic of: m-health: delivering evidence based medicine in low income countries through the use of electronic clinical protocols.
Abstract: There is good evidence that the use of evidence based protocols such as IMCI can improve health outcomes in low income countries. However, several recent studies have shown that provider adherence to these protocols is often limited. Dr. Mitchell's work both at HSPH and as CEO of D-tree International (http://www.d-tree.org/) has been to address this problem through the use of mobile technology (cell phones and PDAs) running specially developed protocols that take providers step by step through the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients in low income countries. His work in Tanzania and South Africa suggests that provider adherence to the IMCI protocols improves with the use of mobile technology and that counselors or nurses can effectively triage HIV/AIDS patients in busy clinics where doctors or clinical officers are scarce. Other applications of this technology being developed include improved malaria treatment algorithms, screening for TB in HIV/AIDS clinics, community based support for HIV/AIDS patients, family planning counseling, , and improved care for chronic disease such at diabetes and hypertension.
March 2009
1984-1985 Takemi Fellow Prakash C. Gupta announces The 14th Wold Conference on Tobacco or Health in Mumbai, India: March 8-12, 2009. They expect over 2000 delegates. He is the President of the Conference. http://www.14wctoh.org/
February 2009
A Profile of our Program Director, Michael R. Reich, appeared in The Lancet: Click here
2008-2009 Takemi Fellow Wipada Kunaviktikul was highlighted in an article in The Daily Pennsylvanian after presenting at the University of Pennsylvania Nursing School third-annual Global Health Reflections Week: Click here
2008-2009 Takemi Fellow Ramin Mehrdad became a Certified Independent Medical Examiner (CIME) through the American Board of Independent Medical Examiners (ABIME)
January 2009
We are pleased to announce the publication of a book on access to health technologies co-authored by the Takemi Program's Director Michael Reich: "Access: How do good health technologies get to poor people in poor countries"; the full text is downloadable at http://www.accessbook.org/
December 2008
1996-1998 Takemi Fellow W. Indralal De Silva has been elected as the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.