Health Thematic Portal: News
The Intolerable Burden: New Research on Malaria
Date: December 2007
This supplement to the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene consists of 42 articles describing the most recent research on malaria, with contributions from epidemiologists, entomologists, microbiologists, economists, and social and geospatial scientists. The report “provides new knowledge and aims to strengthen the capacity of scientists and institutions to address the burden of malaria through research and development of science-based policies and interventions in the malarious countries.” Multiple donors include the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Fogarty International Center and National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, GlaxoSmithKline, and World Health Organization.
One of the articles, “Malaria Stratification, Climate, and Epidemic Early Warning in Eritrea,” by lead author Pietro Ceccato and CIESIN scientists Malanding Jaiteh and Marc Levy and others, uses a novel stratification process involving principal component analysis and nonhierarchical clustering to define five areas with distinct malaria intensity and seasonality patterns, to guide future interventions and development of an epidemic early warning system.
WHO 2007 Report: A Safer Future: Global Public Health Security in the 21st Century
Date: August 23, 2007
The World Health Organization's World Health Report for 2007 focuses on the need for all countries to work together to effectively address new and re-emerging public health threats in order to ensure global public health security.
First-Ever Report on Children's Health and Environment Indicators in North America Released
Date: January 26, 2006
The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), in partnership with public health organizations and the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, has released the first-ever report on children's health and environment indicators in North America.
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