The world’s largest study of tobacco use to date was published last month in the medical journal The Lancet and included Keck School of Medicine professor, and USC Institue for Global Health Director, Jonathan Samet as an a...
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IGH’s Center for Storytelling, Activism & Health Director Neal Baer featured in writers magazine
The new issue of Written By, the magazine of the Writers Guild of America, West, profiled Dr. Neal Baer, director the Institute for Global Health's Center for Storytelling, Activism & Health, and his advocacy for social c...
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“Um Panorama Sobre Saúde e Direitos Humanos” (An Overview of Health and Human Rights), in Vulnerabilidade e Direitos Humanos – Prevenção e Promoção da Saúde (Vulnerability and Human Rights: Health Prevention and Promotion)
(Portuguese) Vulnerabilidade e Direitos Humanos: Prevenção e Promoção da Saúde traz questões sobre o tema proposto que a coletânea iniciada por este volume apresenta ao leitor. Fruto da inquietação dos autores - pesq...
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Program on Global Health & Human Rights Contributes to International AIDS Conference
Program on Global Health & Human Rights (GHHR) staff, along with 24,000 others who attended the International AIDS Conference(IAC) in July, have returned home from Washington, D.C., to unpack and reflect on their experie...
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High School Sleuths Track Mock Disease Outbreak at USC
Two weeks ago, they were 25 health-minded teens — some of whom traveled across the country to participate in a global health course at USC. Today they are graduates of USC’s Global Health Disease Detectives force, a squad...
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Jonathan Samet quoted by China Daily on health workers who smoke
Jonathan Samet, director of the USC Institute for Global Health, was quoted in the article, "Health workers unaware of dangers of smoking," by China Daily. The article discusses medical workers' misconceptions regarding low-t...
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Professor Gruskin contributes to landmark HIV law report
Professor Sofia Gruskin, director of the Program on Global Health & Human Rights at the USC Institute for Global health, served as a member of the technical advisory group for a landmark report released July 9 by the Glo...
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USC global health conference attracts Pacific Rim leaders
Dozens of academics from across the Pacific Rim visited USC June 23-26 for the 2012 Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) Global Health Program Workshop, organized by the USC Institute for Global Health.
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Patient Attrition Between Diagnosis With HIV in Pregnancy-Related Services and Long-Term HIV Care and Treatment Services in Kenya: A Retrospective Study
Background: There has been little attention, until recently, to linking women who test HIV positive in pregnancy-related services to long-term HIV care and treatment services.
Methods: A retrospective review of routine hospi...
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Age Matters: Differential Impact of Service Quality on Contraceptive Uptake Among Post-Abortion Clients in Kenya
This paper shows research on the impact of high quality, user-friendly, comprehensive sliding-scale post-abortion services on clients' uptake of contraception in a Kenyan town. Clients varied from ages 10-46 and received con...
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