Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health’s Post

It's an honor to be named and significantly contribute amongst great leaders in health, Elites, and future decision makers as a Global Health Research Fellow with the Toufik's World Medical Association. Personally, Global health is a cocktail of different attributes both health and non-health aspects, which eventually determine the well being of not only individuals, but the world at large. Aspects such as financing and budgeting, partnerships and collaborations, political atmospheres, innovation, among others determine various health outcomes Meddled and Commingled with the research component, it is a platform that determines the longevity of generations by birthing multiple complex ideas. Yes, harmonizing all these aspects, while looking at the global health requirements can sufficiently result in creation of lasting solutions, improving the overall individual health outcomes. #globalhealthresearch #globalhealthfellow Toufik Abdul-Rahman, MD PIUS ATWAU (M.D) Primrose Magala Global Health Corps Africa CDC Jean Kaseya Ubora Foundation Africa Africa CDC Eye Health Africa London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U. of London Global Health Centre University of Global Health Equity Global Health Economics and Sustainability AAP Global Health Exemplars in Global Health

Check out this new publication lead-authored by Health Behavior PhD student, Alynna Summit and co-authored by Department of Applied Health Science Associate Professor Dr. Patrick Quinn! Read it here: https://lnkd.in/gCJEmffH #IU #AppliedHealth

For this week's publication highlight, we wanted to share a study done by some of our faculty and Ph.D. students! Looking at a framework for this study, these scholars search into how global health innovations are successfully introduced to US communities. You can read the full study here: https://lnkd.in/eZmD_mJu

For tomorrow Weds June 26, 12pm to 130pm ET, there are still spots available to attend a virtual discussion with me & my colleagues Sukarmina Singh Shankar, Vijaya Kumar Murty, moderated by Erica Di Ruggiero, PhD On a personal level, investigating these topics continues to be among the most intellectually intriguing & challenging & exciting I've ever had. 👉 Description: How should we measure, manage and mitigate the major global health challenges of our time? Sustainability researcher Sukarmina Shankar, mathematician V. Kumar Murty of The Fields Institute, and IHPME Senior Fellow Neil Seeman will speak to three interdependent factors that are critical amid a complex and complex dynamic public health system: embracing trust, pursuing interdisciplinarity, and leveraging alternative data. What is trust? How do we measure it? What is interdisciplinarity? How can we apply it in a purposeful manner to advance public health scholarship? What is alternative data and how can we use it to address public health challenges? To register, please visit 👇 https://lnkd.in/gru28dCY

Check out this new publication lead-authored by Dr. Hank Green, Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Health Science! Click here to read: https://lnkd.in/dDhs-wHP #PublicHealth #NetworkAnalysis

Brand new paper! Be sure to read this publication lead-authored by Dr. Debby Herbenick, Provost Professor in the Department of Applied Health Science: https://lnkd.in/gm6ZfKnS #SexualHealth #IU #AppliedHealth

New publication! ⁠ ⁠ This new paper is co-authored by Dr. Hank Green, Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Health Science. ⁠ ⁠ Read it here: https://lnkd.in/gDuYpzxR ⁠ #HIVPrevention #ProtectiveBehaviors

Frontiers (Frontiers in Public Health/Public Health Education and Promotion) Research Topic on Infodemic Management in Public Health Crises For the ones who are interested: https://lnkd.in/dWsGHd8Z Fatjona Kamberi Selen Yeğenoğlu Appreciation: I am thankful to the Frontiers team for giving us (the co-editors) the opportunity to make this excellent journey actualized with the contributions of distinguished scientists from different countries and with different backgrounds. I also would like to emphasize our distinguished reviewers' great inputs. Infodemic management is such a transdisciplinary/interdisciplinary journey. I will try to keep you updated.

I cannot recommend enough The Foreign Gaze, a collection of essays by Seye Abimbola on this venture that many of us are involved in and that has come to be called "Global Health". The essays deal with so many issues... injustice in how knowledge is perceived and collected and in which knowledge is considered relevant, imbalances in power, prioritisation and decision-making. They explain why so many design and evaluation assignments from global agencies just seem... off. They are asking the wrong questions of the wrong people. Most of all they are a reminder that Global Health centres the places where aid funding comes from, where technical expertise is ostensibly concentrated, where the universal truths on evidence for health systems and care are determined and distilled. The attitude that everything would work better if people at the periphery would follow the global evidence. And that this comes at the expense of centering the knowledge, expertise and agency of the people, the communities, the health care providers and activists - they are the centre, not the periphery. Thanks Seye Abimbola for helping us reflect critically about what we do and how.

Seye Abimbola shares some remarkable thoughts in his response that resonates in so many ways. The need to properly redefine the spaces that academic journals serve and exactly what they represent is critical. In a related discussion at the last EDCTP during a panel called “Meet the editors” talking points around the prioritization of journals like BMJ and NEJM over regional or national Health journals especially within Africa were raised, seeing as publications in these highly rated journals serve as proxy for academic publishing prowess or the peek of a career. Some of the ideas put forward include joint publishing of research work - not sure how the local and international journals hope to achieve that though. It is however interesting to see this topic at the fore.