Last Mile Health seeks an NCD planning consultant in Monrovia, Liberia

Our friends at Last Mile Health are supporting the Liberia Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW) in Monrovia to finalize the Liberia NCD National Policy and Plan and then move into implementation planning. The Last Mile team hopes to find an experienced and dynamic planning consultant to support MOHSW for 12 months beginning in

Postdoctoral Position in Epidemiology and Global Health

The Foundation for Professional Development and University of Pretoria School of Health Systems and Public Health is offering two fully funded postdoc positions in South Africa for 3-5 years. PhD students and Postdoctoral fellows interested in pursing global health research in South Africa are encourage to apply. For more information click here.

Migration and health: lessons from China

CGPH FACULTY: Hildy Fong DATE OF PUBLICATION: May 2014 REGION: Asia REFERENCE: Fong, Hildy & Mou, Jin. (2014). Migration and health: lessons from China. In S. Griffiths, J. Tang & E. Yeoh (Eds), Routledge Handbook of Global Public Health in Asia (pp. 39-61). New York, NY: Routledge. SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: Global public health is of growing concern

Congratulations to the 2014 Center for Global Public Health Fellows!

Congratulations to our 2014 research fellowship and global health reporting internship recipients! This year, CGPH will proudly support 10 Research Fellows and 2 Global Health Reporting Interns. This year’s 10 research fellows will conduct summer global health research in India, China, Mexico, Brazil, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Guatemala. CGPH’s new global health reporting fellowship, in partnership

2014 UCB-UCSF Global Children’s Oral Health and Nutrition Symposium – catch what you missed!

The joint symposium between UC Berkeley and UCSF on global children’s oral health and nutrition took place on April 22, 2014. Photos and video clips from the event are available. Keynote speaker talks included Dr. Saskia Estupinan-Day’s “Aligning oral health advocacy with global malnutrition and NCDs,” Dr. Habib Benzian “Evidence and practice, policy and implementation:

Millions dead: how do we know and what does it mean? Methods used in the comparative risk assessment of household air pollution.

CGPH FACULTY: Kirk Smith, John Balmes DATE OF PUBLICATION: April 2014 REGION: Global REFERENCE: Smith KR, Bruce N, Balakrishnan K, Adair-Rohani H, Balmes J, Chafe Z, Dherani M, Hosgood HD, Mehta S, Pope D, Rehfuess E; HAP CRA Risk Expert Group. Millions dead: how do we know and what does it mean? Methods used in

Burden of disease from inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene in low- and middle-income settings: a retrospective analysis of data from 145 countries.

CGPH FACULTY: John Colford DATE OF PUBLICATION: April 2014 REGION: Global REFERENCE: Prüss-Ustün A, Bartram J, Clasen T, Colford JM Jr, Cumming O, Curtis V, Bonjour S, Dangour AD, De France J, Fewtrell L, Freeman MC, Gordon B, Hunter PR, Johnston RB, Mathers C, Mäusezahl D, Medlicott K, Neira M, Stocks M, Wolf J, Cairncross

Serological measures of malaria transmission in haiti: comparison of longitudinal and cross-sectional methods.

CGPH FACULTY: John Colford DATE OF PUBLICATION: April 2014 REGION: Latin America REFERENCE: Arnold BF, Priest JW, Hamlin KL, Moss DM, Colford JM Jr, Lammie PJ. Serological measures of malaria transmission in haiti: comparison of longitudinal and cross-sectional methods. PLoS One. 2014 Apr 1;9(4):e93684. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093684. eCollection 2014 SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: Efforts to monitor malaria transmission increasingly

mSpray: A mobile phone technology to improve malaria control efforts and monitor human exposure to malaria control pesticides in Limpopo, South Africa.

CGPH FACULTY: Brenda Eskenazi DATE OF PUBLICATION: April 2014 REGION: Africa REFERENCE: Eskenazi B, Quirós-Alcalá L, Lipsitt JM, Wu LD, Kruger P, Ntimbane T, Nawn JB, Bornman MS, Seto E. mSpray: A mobile phone technology to improve malaria control efforts and monitor human exposure to malaria control pesticides in Limpopo, South Africa. Environ Int. 2014

Are Hormonal Contraceptive Users More Likely to Misreport Unprotected Sex? Evidence From a Biomarker Validation Study in Zimbabwe.

CGPH FACULTY: DATE OF PUBLICATION: March 2014 REGION: Africa REFERENCE: McCoy SI, Ralph LJ, Padian NS, Minnis AM. Are Hormonal Contraceptive Users More Likely to Misreport Unprotected Sex? Evidence From a Biomarker Validation Study in Zimbabwe. AIDS Behav. 2014 Mar 12. SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: We analyzed biomarker validation data of unprotected sex from women in Zimbabwe to

Occurrence of trivalent monomethyl arsenic and other urinary arsenic species in a highly exposed juvenile population in Bangladesh.

CGPH FACULTY: Allan H. Smith DATE OF PUBLICATION: April 2014 REGION: Asia REFERENCE: Kalman DA, Dills RL, Steinmaus C, Yunus M, Khan AF, Prodhan MM, Yuan Y, Smith AH. Occurrence of trivalent monomethyl arsenic and other urinary arsenic species in a highly exposed juvenile population in Bangladesh. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2014 Mar-Apr;24(2):113-20. doi:

Seasonal variation of peripheral blood leukocyte telomere length in Costa Rica: A population-based observational study.

CGPH FACULTY: William Dow DATE OF PUBLICATION: May 2014 REGION: Latin America REFERENCE: Rehkopf DH, Dow WH, Rosero-Bixby L, Lin J, Epel ES, Blackburn EH. Seasonal variation of peripheral blood leukocyte telomere length in Costa Rica: A population-based observational study. Am J Hum Biol. 2014 May;26(3):367-75. doi: 10.1002/ajhb.22529. Epub 2014 Feb 25. SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: Peripheral blood