Nancy Fullman
@uwdgph PhD student in #globalhealth. #Vaccineswork, #malaria, #UHC, #COVID19. she/her/hers. Tweets are my own.
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How to convince people to have the vaccine (even the doubters)
Heidi Larson knows what we think about vaccines — and it worries her. Larson is an American anthropologist who spent years in communities around the world studying their anxieties about vaccines. A
GPEI-Women Leaders in Polio Eradication: Dr Sue Gerber
Wherever she is in the world, Dr Gerber aims to deliver demonstrable impact to communities.
Stringent containment measures without complete city lockdown to achieve low incidence and mortality across two waves of COVID-19 in Hong Kong
Introduction An international city, Hong Kong, in proximity to the first epicentre of COVID- 19, experienced two epidemic waves with different importation pressure. We compared the epidemiological features of patients with COVID-19 in the context of...
The Case Against Donald Trump
The president of the United States poses a threat to our collective existence. The choice voters face is spectacularly obvious.
COVID-19 Metrics for United States Congressional Districts
Researchers at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies and the Center for Geographic Analysis at the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences present a public dashboard for congressional representatives as well as their...
Tedros Adhanom on why vaccine nationalism harms efforts to halt the pandemic
Going it alone will perpetuate the economic and health crisis—for all
This Winter, Pay Bars to Close
To stop the coronavirus, we have to stop super-spreader events.
Evaluation of the malaria reporting system supported by the District Health Information System 2 in Solomon Islands
District Health Information Systems 2 (DHIS2) is used for supporting health information management in 67 countries, including Solomon Islands. However, there have been few published evaluations of the performance of DHIS2-enhanced disease reporting...
Hoda S. Abdel Magid, PhD on postdoc life and stand-up comedy dreams - Shiny Epi People
Hoda Abdel Magid, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow studying inequities in chronic disease, talks about challenges and joys of her postdoc, her love (I mean LOVE) of journal club, her 2 Gen Z sisters, her wish to be a standup comedian, and much more!
Malaria Transmission and Spillover across the Peru–Ecuador Border: A Spatiotemporal Analysis
Border regions have been implicated as important hot spots of malaria transmission, particularly in Latin America, where free movement rights mean that residents can cross borders using just a national ID. Additionally, rural livelihoods largely...
How To Reduce Human Suffering: 3 Lessons From A Seminal Public Health Study
The authors of the "Global Burden of Disease" report track the toll from every conceivable cause of death or disability. This year they also share intriguing solutions that give cause for optimism.
Why and How Vaccines Work
Vaccines save millions of lives from infectious diseases caused by viruses and bacteria.
As the world awaits safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines, we celebrate the progresses
made and highlight challenges ahead in vaccines and the science behind...
Policy Analytics and Population Health
Nancy Fullman
Just in the nick of time, I finished grading & can tune in for what will undoubtedly be a very engaging @CSDE_UW seminar on #COVID19 policy analytics & population health.
I believe it's open to the public, so join if/as you're interested! csde.washington.edu/seminar/policy… pic.twitter.com/0vDyQfslZO
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The Preexisting Conditions of the Coronavirus Pandemic
An enormous new data set peers into the health of the world’s population before 2020—and how the coronavirus turned that into a global disaster.
Biden always understood what this election is about
Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and Maslow’s hierarchy of political needs.
Five insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019 provides
a rules-based synthesis of the available evidence on levels and trends in health outcomes,
a diverse set of risk factors, and health system responses. GBD 2019...
Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
As disability becomes an increasingly large component of disease burden and a larger
component of health expenditure, greater research and development investment is needed
to identify new, more effective intervention strategies. With a rapidly...
The Lancet, 17 October 2020, Volume 396, Issue 10258, Pages 1129-1306
Explore the current issue of The Lancet, a world leading medical journal published weekly since 1823