This is a new global registry of 5,000 men with advanced prostate cancer to understand quality of life, treatments, biological markers, and survival. The current phase is recruiting men from 10 countries – US, Canada, Brazil, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, … Continue reading “IRONMAN: International Registry of Men with Advanced Prostate Cancer”
Despite significant investment in the health sector in India by both domestic and international efforts, there has been limited improvements in health care access, quality of care, financial risk protection and not to say health outcomes. One potential major reason … Continue reading “Towards Evidence-Based Health System Reform in Odisha”
While animal models may be helpful, it remains unclear how well they predict the efficacy of tuberculosis vaccines. Thus, the only reliable way to determine efficacy has been in human trials. These are large, expensive and lengthy, thus limiting the … Continue reading “Controlled Human Infection Model: detection of effect in NHPs”
The World Health Assembly (WHA) established a commitment to halve anemia prevalence in women of reproductive age by 2025 from 2011 levels due to the adverse effects of anemia on health and productivity [1]. As a result, countries will need … Continue reading “Evaluation of dietary iron intake, anemia, and iron status among men, women, and children in Ethiopia”
Harvard T.H. CHAN School of Public Health (HSPH) has been leading the implementation of the HEPCAPS II project, which is expected to end November 30, 2015. We have designed Fenot as a means to build on the successes of HEPCAPS … Continue reading “FENOT – Achieving Excellence in PHC”
According to the statistics, medical and health institutions at all levels around the country conduct HIV screening test on over 100 million persons/annum. Among those who are positive on screening test, their HIV infection status is then confirmed by Western … Continue reading “Strategy evaluation on the implementation of nucleic acid test for HIV-1 confirmation in China”
Following a successful initial discussion between the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) and the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the Signal Program on Human Security and Technology (Signal Program), at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) within the Department … Continue reading “Sector Project Digital Development – Researching Digital Security and Cyber Resilience in Complex Country Contexts”
