• Creative Methods in Disseminating Global Health Ideas

    Creative Methods in Disseminating Global Health Ideas

    EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The diffusion of health promotion and health ideas is as great a challenge as it is a necessity. It calls for a number of effective social marketing strategies as well as the incorporation of new communication tactics. The use of entertainment-education has been made a staple of social marketing and the dissemination of ideas but it requires constant

  • The Diabetes Epidemic in Children: an Integral Approach

    The Diabetes Epidemic in Children: an Integral Approach

    Executive Summary Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 (DMT2) in children is becoming alarmingly frequent providing a myriad of health complications for an unpromising future. In this paper I am presenting the problem, as well as providing guidelines to stop and reverse the increasing rate of DMT2 and its main modifiable risk factors: obesity and sedentary lifestyles. I. Diabetes and Chronic Diseases

  • The Fight for Global Food Security

    The Fight for Global Food Security

    Executive Summary Global food supplies in the world are enough to feed each individual on this planet. Unfortunately, there are still over 800 million people in the world suffering from chronic hunger, in other words they lack food security. Food security exists when all people, at all times, have access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary

  • The Unfinished Business of Sanitation

    The Unfinished Business of Sanitation

    Executive Summary 2.6 billion people throughout the world, primarily in developing countries, lack the access to basic sanitation that most people in developed countries take completely for granted. As one of the targets of the Millennium Development Goals, there has been a movement to halve the proportion of persons without such access by 2015. Although there has been a decline

 

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GHR’s USC Chapter Students at CGIU 2009
/ January 26, 2012 2:01 pm

GHR’s USC Chapter Students at CGIU 2009

GHAW 2012
/ January 25, 2012 6:50 am

GHAW 2012

Our 4th annual Global Health Awareness Week is coming up! Click here for more info

Creative Methods in Disseminating Global Health Ideas
/ January 24, 2012 8:00 pm

Creative Methods in Disseminating Global Health Ideas

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The diffusion of health promotion and health ideas is as great a challenge as it is a necessity. It calls for a number of effective social marketing strategies as well as the incorporation of new communication tactics. The use of entertainment-education has been made a staple of social marketing and the dissemination of ideas but it requires constant

The Diabetes Epidemic in Children: an Integral Approach
/ January 24, 2012 6:17 pm

The Diabetes Epidemic in Children: an Integral Approach

Executive Summary Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 (DMT2) in children is becoming alarmingly frequent providing a myriad of health complications for an unpromising future. In this paper I am presenting the problem, as well as providing guidelines to stop and reverse the increasing rate of DMT2 and its main modifiable risk factors: obesity and sedentary lifestyles. I. Diabetes and Chronic Diseases

Room for Compassion
/ January 24, 2012 4:17 pm

Room for Compassion

Room for Compassion, another startup within our fiscal sponsorship program,  was founded in 2010 in Shirati, Tanzania. Their first programs began with malaria prevention education, sponsorship of an orphaned kindergartener, and the establishment of the first girls soccer team in the region. Since then, the organization has expanded the soccer team, sponsored more students, provided health education in different countries and

The Fight for Global Food Security
/ January 24, 2012 3:30 pm

The Fight for Global Food Security

Executive Summary Global food supplies in the world are enough to feed each individual on this planet. Unfortunately, there are still over 800 million people in the world suffering from chronic hunger, in other words they lack food security. Food security exists when all people, at all times, have access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary

Radiolab examines the epidemiology of Patient Zero
/ January 21, 2012 12:04 pm

Radiolab examines the epidemiology of Patient Zero

In this compelling episode of “Patient Zero,” Radiolab examines the epidemiology of patient zero, retracing Typhoid Mary’s steps around the turn of the century, setting the record straight on the inception of HIV, and exploreing the tipping point of the high five. For more podcasts from Radiolab, visit www.radiolab.org/series/podcasts

Hans Rosling presents global health disparities
/ January 21, 2012 11:39 am

Hans Rosling presents global health disparities

Through the animation of data, Hans Rosling, co-founder of www.gapminder.org, presents an impressive visualization of the impact of economic factors on life expectancy, and consequently the impact of both on other health indicators, as well as the reverse

Global Adolescent Project
/ January 20, 2012 10:40 am

Global Adolescent Project

Global Adolescent Project, one of our current fiscally sponsored projects, is working to educate, encourage, and empower youth in Haiti. Global Adolescent Project, G.A.P., was born out of necessity, to fill a void — a gap — in youth services. It was launched in July, 2010, in one of the largest IDP (internally displaced persons) camps in post-earthquake Port au

The Unfinished Business of Sanitation
/ January 20, 2012 9:25 am

The Unfinished Business of Sanitation

Executive Summary 2.6 billion people throughout the world, primarily in developing countries, lack the access to basic sanitation that most people in developed countries take completely for granted. As one of the targets of the Millennium Development Goals, there has been a movement to halve the proportion of persons without such access by 2015. Although there has been a decline

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