The FDA’s Role in the HIV/AIDS Crisis TimelineEMMAIntl
December is HIV/AIDS Awareness Month, and given the state of our current global pandemic, now is a great time to look back on the victories and mistakes made in dealing with the HIV/AIDS crisis. The HIV/AIDS crisis was at the forefront of everyone’s minds when the issue began in the early 1980’s. It was new, no one knew exactly what caused it, how it was spread, how to prevent it, or how to treat it. The history of the HIV/AIDS crisis is a long, complicated, and at times ugly story that is beyond the scope of this blog. I will instead be focusing on the intersection of the FDA, private industries, and patients in dealing with this crisis. However, I implore you to do some of your own research on this topic to help raise awareness; there are excellent resources on the FDA’s website, the CDC’s website, and the WHO’s website...
Making sense of your own clinic's dataGaurav Gupta
What to do with a Doctor's patient data generated from the clinic.
How you can use it to improve practice, make more money, and create lots of academically useful presentations
ECDC expert opinion in progress on the efficacy, effectiveness and safety of influenza neuraminidase inhibitors
presented at the annual European Influenza Surveillance Network meeting, Stockholm, June 2015
The FDA’s Role in the HIV/AIDS Crisis TimelineEMMAIntl
December is HIV/AIDS Awareness Month, and given the state of our current global pandemic, now is a great time to look back on the victories and mistakes made in dealing with the HIV/AIDS crisis. The HIV/AIDS crisis was at the forefront of everyone’s minds when the issue began in the early 1980’s. It was new, no one knew exactly what caused it, how it was spread, how to prevent it, or how to treat it. The history of the HIV/AIDS crisis is a long, complicated, and at times ugly story that is beyond the scope of this blog. I will instead be focusing on the intersection of the FDA, private industries, and patients in dealing with this crisis. However, I implore you to do some of your own research on this topic to help raise awareness; there are excellent resources on the FDA’s website, the CDC’s website, and the WHO’s website...
Making sense of your own clinic's dataGaurav Gupta
What to do with a Doctor's patient data generated from the clinic.
How you can use it to improve practice, make more money, and create lots of academically useful presentations
ECDC expert opinion in progress on the efficacy, effectiveness and safety of influenza neuraminidase inhibitors
presented at the annual European Influenza Surveillance Network meeting, Stockholm, June 2015
Trend Analyses of Nationally-representative Survey Data: What story can be to...MEASURE Evaluation
Presented by Lia Florey, MEASURE DHS/ICF International, as part of a symposium organized by MEASURE Evaluation and MEASURE DHS at the 6th MIM Pan-African Malaria Conference.
Why Is It Difficult to Detect Outbreaks in Twitter?Nattiya Kanhabua
In this paper, we present an event-based Epidemic Intelligence (EI) system framework leveraging social media data, e.g., Twitter messages (or tweets) for providing public health officials the necessary tools to survey and sift through relevant information, namely, disease outbreak events. There exists three main research challenges in gathering epidemic intelligence from social media streams: 1) dynamic classification to enable message filtering, 2) signal generation producing reliable warnings based on observed term frequency changes in the filtered messages, and 3) providing search and recommendation functionalities to domain experts, for better assessment of the potential outbreak threats associated with the generated signals. We outline possible approaches to solve these important challenges as well as discuss areas where further research is required. The aim of this paper is to provide guidance for similar endeavors, and to give prospective event-based Epidemic Intelligence system builders a more realistic view on the benefits and issues of social media stream analysis.
DIRECTIONAL STRATEGIES REPORTDirectional strategies Report on the .docxmariona83
DIRECTIONAL STRATEGIES REPORTDirectional strategies Report on the CDC
Darlene Olurin
Capella University
Strategic healthcare Planning
May 2020
INTRODUCTION
The center for Disease, Control and Prevention (CDC) are a unique health organization with a unique mission. The CDC provide evidence-based medicine experience and assistance for domestic and global surveillance, laboratory, occupational health and epidemiology functions and health threats, such as the CoVID-19, infectious diseases, influenza etc. The CDC’s office of public health in preparedness and Response (OPHPR) provide strategic directions, support and coordination for activities across CDC as well as local, state, tribal, national, territorial and international public health partners (CDC, 2019).
Over the years, the CDC has developed a working and effective plan to tackle infectious diseases. A good example was the global response to the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic that affected more than 214 countries and territories. The CDC’s response at the time, was the most rapid and effective response to an influenza pandemic in history. Through an international donation program, the vaccine was made available to 86 countries. The experience of the2009 H1N1 influenza response, continues to inform preparedness efforts for other future pandemic and public health emergencies. However, federal and state budget cuts threaten the kind of success previously seen, as is evident during this current COVID-19 pandemic. The current presidential administration, shortly after being sworn in made some serious changes that affected the CDC’S response to the pandemic by getting rid of the teams put in place to tackle pandemics this greatly slowed the U’S’s response and lead to a wider spread of this virus. Also, innovation and creativity need to be increased to best utilize existing funds.
VISON, MIISSION AND VALUES OF THE CDC
The vision of the CDC is to create a healthier, safer world that is able to detect prevent and respond to public health threats (CDC, 2019).
The mission statement is to protect all Americans and people of the nations worldwide from public health threats by working with partners to build capacity, advance research and respond in times of crisis like during this current COVID-19 pandemic (CDC, 2019).
The CDC provide technical help, assistance and resources to state and local public health agencies to support the efforts in building and preparing resilient communities (CDC,2011).
To achieve the vision of the CDC, it is vital that stakeholders as across, public health, partners, private sectors, emergency department and other related bodies, work hand in hand.
The CDC will demonstrate leadership in public health preparedness and response by adhering to the following values they have in place:
· Engaging partners on and leveraging collaboration (a strength the TOWS matrix)
· Basing decisions on the best available science
· Encouraging effective communications and inform.
Trend Analyses of Nationally-representative Survey Data: What story can be to...MEASURE Evaluation
Presented by Lia Florey, MEASURE DHS/ICF International, as part of a symposium organized by MEASURE Evaluation and MEASURE DHS at the 6th MIM Pan-African Malaria Conference.
Why Is It Difficult to Detect Outbreaks in Twitter?Nattiya Kanhabua
In this paper, we present an event-based Epidemic Intelligence (EI) system framework leveraging social media data, e.g., Twitter messages (or tweets) for providing public health officials the necessary tools to survey and sift through relevant information, namely, disease outbreak events. There exists three main research challenges in gathering epidemic intelligence from social media streams: 1) dynamic classification to enable message filtering, 2) signal generation producing reliable warnings based on observed term frequency changes in the filtered messages, and 3) providing search and recommendation functionalities to domain experts, for better assessment of the potential outbreak threats associated with the generated signals. We outline possible approaches to solve these important challenges as well as discuss areas where further research is required. The aim of this paper is to provide guidance for similar endeavors, and to give prospective event-based Epidemic Intelligence system builders a more realistic view on the benefits and issues of social media stream analysis.
DIRECTIONAL STRATEGIES REPORTDirectional strategies Report on the .docxmariona83
DIRECTIONAL STRATEGIES REPORTDirectional strategies Report on the CDC
Darlene Olurin
Capella University
Strategic healthcare Planning
May 2020
INTRODUCTION
The center for Disease, Control and Prevention (CDC) are a unique health organization with a unique mission. The CDC provide evidence-based medicine experience and assistance for domestic and global surveillance, laboratory, occupational health and epidemiology functions and health threats, such as the CoVID-19, infectious diseases, influenza etc. The CDC’s office of public health in preparedness and Response (OPHPR) provide strategic directions, support and coordination for activities across CDC as well as local, state, tribal, national, territorial and international public health partners (CDC, 2019).
Over the years, the CDC has developed a working and effective plan to tackle infectious diseases. A good example was the global response to the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic that affected more than 214 countries and territories. The CDC’s response at the time, was the most rapid and effective response to an influenza pandemic in history. Through an international donation program, the vaccine was made available to 86 countries. The experience of the2009 H1N1 influenza response, continues to inform preparedness efforts for other future pandemic and public health emergencies. However, federal and state budget cuts threaten the kind of success previously seen, as is evident during this current COVID-19 pandemic. The current presidential administration, shortly after being sworn in made some serious changes that affected the CDC’S response to the pandemic by getting rid of the teams put in place to tackle pandemics this greatly slowed the U’S’s response and lead to a wider spread of this virus. Also, innovation and creativity need to be increased to best utilize existing funds.
VISON, MIISSION AND VALUES OF THE CDC
The vision of the CDC is to create a healthier, safer world that is able to detect prevent and respond to public health threats (CDC, 2019).
The mission statement is to protect all Americans and people of the nations worldwide from public health threats by working with partners to build capacity, advance research and respond in times of crisis like during this current COVID-19 pandemic (CDC, 2019).
The CDC provide technical help, assistance and resources to state and local public health agencies to support the efforts in building and preparing resilient communities (CDC,2011).
To achieve the vision of the CDC, it is vital that stakeholders as across, public health, partners, private sectors, emergency department and other related bodies, work hand in hand.
The CDC will demonstrate leadership in public health preparedness and response by adhering to the following values they have in place:
· Engaging partners on and leveraging collaboration (a strength the TOWS matrix)
· Basing decisions on the best available science
· Encouraging effective communications and inform.
A Study to Assess the Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Regarding Prevention o...ijtsrd
Objective To assess the knowledge, attitude and practice toward coronavirus disease COVID 19 Background The World Health Organization declared COVID 19 as a pandemic on the 11th of March 2020 and declared as a global health emergency. Since then, many efforts are being carried out to control the rapid spread of the ongoing COVID 19 epidemic in India. The control measures COVID 19 is affected by their knowledge, attitudes, and practices KAP towards COVID 19. Knowledge attitude and practice of people should be directed towards strict preventive practices in order to prevents the spread of the virus. Materials and Methods The aim of the current electronic cross sectional study is to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice among selected rural community. Structured questionnaire was created in the google forms, the link was generated and distributed among the people though email and other media to participate in the survey. A total 153 subject was enrolled through convenient sampling technique. Collected data was analysed using descriptive statistics including frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation. Results Majority of participant 91.50 were having the adequate information regarding the covid 19 and most of participants, 52.28 were got the information from multimedia included television, radio and newspaper regarding COVID 19. About 52.28 participants were the aware about the online training program by the government .Among 153 participants, 115 had adequate knowledge, 23 had moderately adequate and 15 had inadequate knowledge. Most 75.16 of the participants had adequate knowledge, in 15.03 moderately adequate and in 9.80 inadequate knowledge found regarding prevention of COVID 19. The mean knowledge score was 15.54 with standard deviation of 2.93. Most of the 102 66.66 had most favourable attitude, 31 20.26 had favourable and 20 13.07 had unfavourable attitude . The mean attitude score was 34.76 with standard deviation of 2.86.Majority of the participants, 129 had good practice, 20 had average practice and 4 had bad practice . Most 84.31 of the participants had good practice, in 13.07 average practice and in 2.61 bad practice found regarding prevention of COVID 19. The mean practice score was 25.2 with standard deviation of 2.56. Lalan Kumar "A Study to Assess the Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Regarding Prevention of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19): An Electronic Cross-Sectional Survey among Selected Rural Community" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-3 , April 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd30657.pdf Paper Url :https://www.ijtsrd.com/medicine/nursing/30657/a-study-to-assess-the-knowledge-attitude-and-practice-regarding-prevention-of-novel-coronavirus-covid19-an-electronic-crosssectional-survey-among-selected-rural-community/lalan-kumar
Changing the Narrative for Women & Girls (Tx, Recovery)Alton King
Innovation. Perseverance. Dedication. Adaptation. These are but a few words that describe behavioral health programs that help clients to be treated for their substance use or co-occurring disorder, obtain and/or sustain their recovery, and enjoy a renewed/reinvigorated life of their choosing. Creative interventions will be discussed that canvas the entire U.S. and several of its dependent areas around the globe.
Keynote address by Dr. Eric Goosby of UCSF, presented at CFAR HIV Research in International Settings (CHRIS) meeting in San Diego, October 1, 2014. Dr. Goosby discussed. "Global Health Delivery and Diplomacy: The Long Road to Sustainable Programs."
We the Editorial team of e-newsletter on ICT and IFCAI with the support of everyone present the current news letter
Volume 1 | Issue 4 | July 2019 Circulation: Quarterly | All-India | e-Copy format
CHIEF EDITOR Dr. Ranga Reddy
EDITOR Dr. T V Rao
EDITOR & CONCEPT Dr. Dhruv Mamtora
TEAM MEMBER Sister Solbymol
SPECIAL EDITION ON SPECIAL EDITION ON MYCOBACTERIOLOGY
WE CONSIDER MOST IMPORTANT WORLD IN OUR LIVES IS WE
WE ALL MADE IT WISHING MORE COOPERATION FROM YOU TO REACH GREATER HEIGHTS TO SUPPORT EDUCATE MANY HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS DOCTORS NURSES AND THE SOCIETY
EDITORIAL TEAM OF ICT, AUTHORS AND ALL THE MEMBERS OF ICT
Implementing integrated community case management: stakeholder experiences an...Malaria Consortium
Malaria Consortium’s involvement in iCCM has spanned inputs to facilitate policy development, project design, implementation from start-up phase; ongoing support to the public health system in continued implementation; the trial of specific supportive interventions to boost effectiveness; monitoring and evaluation; costing analysis work; and advocacy.
This paper discusses a participatory evaluation on iCCM implementation in South Sudan, Uganda and Zambia. The findings, challenges and lessons learned are presented in 11 key components of iCCM implementation.
PE Global Landscape - Mapping & Networking Tool by PFMD.orgThe Synergist.org
The PFMD mapping tool is a dynamic user-populated platform that categorizes and ‘maps’ existing initiatives and frameworks to provide snapshot views of the patient engagement landscape through different stakeholder perspectives.
PFMD.org, an open systematic approach to patient engagementThe Synergist.org
Patients as Partners London Feb 2017 presentation by Jan Geissler and myself. The rational behind PFMD.org and our journey building a systematic approach to patient involvement.
Break Dengue is a project seed funded by Sanofi Pasteur to build an alliance fighting against dengue at a global scale. Our goal develop a global framework to find new solutions, test them, define new models and bring enough intelligence to take informed public health decisions
Introduction to MBAin as part of the JobsinNetwork.eu and how to connect our international and educated audience at the time they consider a serious change in their career path.
This document is designed as an introductory to medical students,nursing students,midwives or other healthcare trainees to improve their understanding about how health system in Sri Lanka cares children health.
Global launch of the Healthy Ageing and Prevention Index 2nd wave – alongside...ILC- UK
The Healthy Ageing and Prevention Index is an online tool created by ILC that ranks countries on six metrics including, life span, health span, work span, income, environmental performance, and happiness. The Index helps us understand how well countries have adapted to longevity and inform decision makers on what must be done to maximise the economic benefits that comes with living well for longer.
Alongside the 77th World Health Assembly in Geneva on 28 May 2024, we launched the second version of our Index, allowing us to track progress and give new insights into what needs to be done to keep populations healthier for longer.
The speakers included:
Professor Orazio Schillaci, Minister of Health, Italy
Dr Hans Groth, Chairman of the Board, World Demographic & Ageing Forum
Professor Ilona Kickbusch, Founder and Chair, Global Health Centre, Geneva Graduate Institute and co-chair, World Health Summit Council
Dr Natasha Azzopardi Muscat, Director, Country Health Policies and Systems Division, World Health Organisation EURO
Dr Marta Lomazzi, Executive Manager, World Federation of Public Health Associations
Dr Shyam Bishen, Head, Centre for Health and Healthcare and Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum
Dr Karin Tegmark Wisell, Director General, Public Health Agency of Sweden
International Cancer Survivors Day is celebrated during June, placing the spotlight not only on cancer survivors, but also their caregivers.
CANSA has compiled a list of tips and guidelines of support:
https://cansa.org.za/who-cares-for-cancer-patients-caregivers/
Medical Technology Tackles New Health Care Demand - Research Report - March 2...pchutichetpong
M Capital Group (“MCG”) predicts that with, against, despite, and even without the global pandemic, the medical technology (MedTech) industry shows signs of continuous healthy growth, driven by smaller, faster, and cheaper devices, growing demand for home-based applications, technological innovation, strategic acquisitions, investments, and SPAC listings. MCG predicts that this should reflects itself in annual growth of over 6%, well beyond 2028.
According to Chris Mouchabhani, Managing Partner at M Capital Group, “Despite all economic scenarios that one may consider, beyond overall economic shocks, medical technology should remain one of the most promising and robust sectors over the short to medium term and well beyond 2028.”
There is a movement towards home-based care for the elderly, next generation scanning and MRI devices, wearable technology, artificial intelligence incorporation, and online connectivity. Experts also see a focus on predictive, preventive, personalized, participatory, and precision medicine, with rising levels of integration of home care and technological innovation.
The average cost of treatment has been rising across the board, creating additional financial burdens to governments, healthcare providers and insurance companies. According to MCG, cost-per-inpatient-stay in the United States alone rose on average annually by over 13% between 2014 to 2021, leading MedTech to focus research efforts on optimized medical equipment at lower price points, whilst emphasizing portability and ease of use. Namely, 46% of the 1,008 medical technology companies in the 2021 MedTech Innovator (“MTI”) database are focusing on prevention, wellness, detection, or diagnosis, signaling a clear push for preventive care to also tackle costs.
In addition, there has also been a lasting impact on consumer and medical demand for home care, supported by the pandemic. Lockdowns, closure of care facilities, and healthcare systems subjected to capacity pressure, accelerated demand away from traditional inpatient care. Now, outpatient care solutions are driving industry production, with nearly 70% of recent diagnostics start-up companies producing products in areas such as ambulatory clinics, at-home care, and self-administered diagnostics.
Under Pressure : Kenneth Kruk's StrategyKenneth Kruk
Kenneth Kruk's story of transforming challenges into opportunities by leading successful medical record transitions and bridging scientific knowledge gaps during COVID-19.
Rate Controlled Drug Delivery Systems, Activation Modulated Drug Delivery Systems, Mechanically activated, pH activated, Enzyme activated, Osmotic activated Drug Delivery Systems, Feedback regulated Drug Delivery Systems systems are discussed here.
ICH Guidelines for Pharmacovigilance.pdfNEHA GUPTA
The "ICH Guidelines for Pharmacovigilance" PDF provides a comprehensive overview of the International Council for Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH) guidelines related to pharmacovigilance. These guidelines aim to ensure that drugs are safe and effective for patients by monitoring and assessing adverse effects, ensuring proper reporting systems, and improving risk management practices. The document is essential for professionals in the pharmaceutical industry, regulatory authorities, and healthcare providers, offering detailed procedures and standards for pharmacovigilance activities to enhance drug safety and protect public health.
3. RECOGNITION FOR AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH
Selected as WHO Global eHealth Report case study in
2016
Winner, “Most impactful emerging or global
initiative” at eyeforpharma 2015
Winner, the best use of social media in
Healthcare, Shorty Awards, 2014
5. WHY WE SHOULD ALL CARE ABOUT DENGUE
Shepard, DS, Undurraga, EA, Halasa, YA, and Stanaway, JD. The global economic burden of dengue: a systematic analysis. Lancet Infect Dis. 2016; (published online April
15.)http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(16)00146-8.
13. 6 REASONS TRACK DENGUE IS VERY INNOVATIVE
1
Actionable push-
pull surveillance
Combines close to
real time data and
the ability to push it
to the right audience
at the right time
2
Integrates multiple
sources
to deliver an overall
correlation higher
that the sum of
individuals ones
3
Integrates all
stakeholders
and allows them to
take an active role.
Authorities and
grassrootNGOs can
use it at local level
4
Value for audience
This is not about
“likes” or “RT”, this is
actionable
surveillance data and
actual information
and value for citizens
5
Scalable model
This is a pilotto be
extended
● to all digital
channels: sms,
apps etc
● to other diseases
eg. Zika
6
Self-learning model
Each time we add
data and submit it to
the audience,the
audience react,
endorse it or not. The
system permanently
improve accuracy
15. BREAK DENGUE CALLS ON YOU AS A PARTNER
Help us generate visibility for Dengue Track and use it to
support your work, bring real value to your audiences, and so
we can better track the disease
What you can do:
Use Dengue Track and tell us about cases near you
Embed Dengue Track and the Dengue Track Map on
your website
Share Dengue Track on your channels and among your
networks
Design Dengue Track specific-activities around your
events and happenings
Recruit Dengue Trackers through contests, games etc.
Contact us for custom needs or ideas
16. ABOUT THE SYNERGIST
The Synergistbrings together stakeholders
that can make a difference.These include
corporations,academics,other experts,
medical professionals,patients and NGOs.
Our main role is to act as incubator:we
identify the right people and organisations,
bring them together, provide overall
strategic direction and co-ordination.
17. Thank You
CONTACT US
Break Dengue is an open platform to all: scientists, health-care providers, patients and
relatives, journalists, industry and anyone concerned about the problem of dengue.
Dengue is the fastest-growing vector-borne infection with estimated 390 million
infections every year.
Share an idea, learn more about Break Dengue, work with us or support us
bdteam@thesynergist.org