Epidemic Science

Ebola - how a people's science helped end an epidemic.

by Paul Richards : Ebola: How a People's Science Helped End an Epidemic (African Arguments) ISBN : #1783608587 | Date : 2016-09-15 Description : PDF-b61c2 | In 2013, the largest Ebola outbreak in history swept across West Africa, claiming thousands of lives in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea and sending the international community into panic. By 2014, experts were grimly predicting that milli...

Modernising epidemic science: enabling patient-centred research during epidemics

BACKGROUND Emerging and epidemic infectious disease outbreaks are a significant public health problem and global health security threat. As an outbreak begins, epidemiological investigations and traditional public health responses are generally mounted very quickly. However, patient-centred research is usually not prioritised when planning and enacting the response. Instead, the clinical resear...

Epidemic$ and Pandemic$ are profitable?!

The HIV epidemic among men who have sex with men--behaviour beats science.

The acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) pandemic that started more than 30 years ago remains one of the greatest public-health concerns worldwide: in 2009, it was estimated that 33.3 million individuals were infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), with 2.6 million new infections globally (see graphic; [1]). Even in the affluent countries of North America, Australia, New Zealand...

Prevention of preterm birth: harnessing science to address the global epidemic.

Preterm birth is a leading cause of infant morbidity and mortality worldwide, but current interventions to prevent prematurity are largely ineffective. Preterm birth is increasingly recognized as an outcome that can result from a variety of pathological processes. Despite current research efforts, the mechanisms underlying these processes remain poorly understood and are influenced by a range o...