Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health

It’s estimated that two million traumatic injury deaths in low- and middle-income countries, including Burkina Faso, could be averted through improvements to local trauma care. This #GlobalHealth Seed Grant project, co-funded with Stanford Surgery, aims to develop and implement a trauma emergency education curriculum and skills training for healthcare workers in Burkina Faso.⁠ Their ultimate goal is to create a sustainable training model that will embed trauma expertise within Burkina Faso’s own medical education and provider network. ⁠ Learn more about this Seed Grant project and 16 others here: https://lnkd.in/g4fXFdWz #healthcare #education #healthequity ⁠

Nipah virus (NiV) is a disease with a high mortality rate that causes severe brain inflammation in humans. Scientists recently published a research and development roadmap to work on countermeasures for this disease. "So far NiV is not transmissible enough to become a pandemic. But the virus is important, and the current roadmap appreciates the risk this represents so work to develop a set of countermeasures that helps prevent a catastrophe," says Global Health Director of Research Dr. Steve Luby, one of the authors of the roadmap. Read the full story and access the report here: https://lnkd.in/e2RE9Fwn #globalhealth #pandemicpreparedness #research

Congratulations to the recipients of this #GlobalHealth Seed Grant, co-funded with the Maternal and Child Health Research Institute, which aims develop a low-cost device enabling the use of Foley catheters as pediatric gastrostomy tubes in Chile to assist children who have trouble eating.⁠ “We hope this research will help diversify the medical innovation space and catalyze the development of accessible health technologies for global populations, especially children. Ultimately, we aspire to improve health outcomes and equity in pediatric care and technology access across the globe,” said co-Principal Investigator Dr. Katherine Hu. ⁠ Learn more about this Seed Grant project and 16 others here: https://lnkd.in/g4fXFdWz #childrenshealth #healthequity

🦟 🌳 We are proud to support this increasingly important work at the intersection of environment and human health through our partnership with Stanford's Human and Planetary Health Initiative and the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.

Mosquitoes and vector-borne diseases pose a serious risk to human health. In a recent NPR interview, #GlobalHealth Core Leader Dr. Desiree LaBeaud highlights adequate waste management as one key method for limiting the spread of mosquitoes. Listen to the full story here: https://lnkd.in/gXSydsD9 #planetaryhealth #pandemicpreparedness #plasticpollution

Congratulations to the recipients of this #GlobalHealth Seed Grant, co-funded by the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, which aims to empower local doctors and provide them with the necessary tools, technical skills, and confidence to begin incorporating this powerful tool into the care of patients. ⁠ Portable ultrasounds enable non-invasive imaging and diagnosis by trained medical professionals regardless of a patient’s location, whether in a hospital, rural clinic, or ambulance. By piloting a training course in collaboration with the University Teaching Hospital of Zambia, Stanford investigators hope to increase Zambian physicians’ expertise with the technology, increase patients’ access to diagnostic imaging, and improve overall quality of care. ⁠ Learn more about this Seed Grant project and 16 others here: https://lnkd.in/g4fXFdWz #healthcare #education #healthequity

Can creative collaborations improve access to timely emergency transportation and save lives in Sri Lanka? Sri Lanka has a pool of nearly 2,000 underused, facility-based ambulances, which are currently used exclusively for transferring patients between facilities. This #GlobalHealth Seed Grant, co-funded by the Stanford Department of Emergency Medicine, aims to enhance efficient and reliable access across Sri Lanka by analyzing current ambulance activities and collaborating with local partners. Learn more about this Seed Grant project and 16 others here: https://lnkd.in/g4fXFdWz #emergencymedicine #healthcare

During episodes of extreme heat, "children have more health emergencies and require more hospitalizations," says #GlobalHealth Core Leader Dr. Matthew Strehlow in a recent interview with the LA Times. As extreme heat persists this summer, read how heat impacts the most vulnerable populations and how to mitigate these effects. https://lnkd.in/gWHZ7fnG #planetaryhealth #heatwave

Congratulations to the recipients of this #GlobalHealth Seed Grant, co-funded with Stanford Health Care's Office of Research - Patient Care Services, which aims to implement a community-based social service navigation program for newcomer immigrant children and families.⁠ ⁠ “We need new models to not only provide resources to, but also leverage the strengths, of unaccompanied and newcomer immigrant children and their families — to help them integrate into sponsor countries and create vibrant new lives,” says co-Principal Investigator Dr. Nancy Ewen Wang. ⁠ Learn more about this Seed Grant project and 16 others here: https://lnkd.in/g4fXFdWz #immigranthealth #communityhealth #healthequity

A warm welcome to a new Global Health Faculty Fellow, Dr. Dr. Christine Ngaruiya, MD, MSc, DTMH. Dr. Ngaruiya is Associate Professor and Population and Global Health Research Director within the Stanford Department of Emergency Medicine and works in noncommunicable diseases, implementation science, community-based participatory research, and emergency medicine. Over the past decade, she’s partnered with local institutions to raise awareness of the burden of NCDs in low-resource settings ranging from Nebraska in the United States to Kenya and Pakistan. She was a senior collaborator on the first-ever national study on NCDs in Kenya in a WHO-validated survey, coordinated by the Kenya Ministry of Health and a variety of local NCD stakeholders. She also researches community-based and technological interventions, including the use of mobile technology and artificial intelligence in low-resource settings. A graduate of WomenLift Health’s leadership program, she advocates for addressing gender gaps in global NCD outcomes by building a gendered NCD agenda. #globalhealth