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FDA OKs 'Game Changer' Pretomanid for Highly Resistant TB

Post Date: 
2019-08-14
Amita Gupta
Medscape: Dr. Amita Gupta weighs in on the FDA approval of a new drug for XDR-TB

2018 Year in Review

Post Date: 
2019-06-30
2018 Year in Review
Our newly released 2018 Annual Report features ongoing and new work underway last year. And boy, what a year it was!

Pride in Pune: BJGMC TREAT Asia Team Conducts Health Camp

Post Date: 
2019-06-24
TREAT Asia Team Members
Pride in Pune: The BJGMC CRS teamed up with the Udaan Trust to convene a sexual health awareness & screening camp

Shahs’ Donation of Mobile Clinic Brings Healthcare to Patients in India

Post Date: 
2019-05-28
Raj and Bharti Shah
Philanthrophy Update: The Mobile Health and Wellness Clinic, a gift from Raj and Bharti Shah, CTIS, and the NB Shah Charitable Trust has been a workhorse for delivering health care in Pune, India, right where it's needed.

Connecting the Dots: Johns Hopkins Visiting Professor of Infectious Diseases Dr. Bruno Andrade

Post Date: 
2019-05-21
Dr. Bruno Andrade
Andrade has built an impressive research enterprise in Brazil, and a creative way to sustain it

Venezuela: More Aid is Needed in Humanitarian Crisis

Post Date: 
2019-04-11
Summary: Dr. Kathleen Page & colleagues briefed the UN Security Council on critical health crisis in Venezuela

Page Urges UN Security Council to Declare Venezuela Humanitarian Crisis

Post Date: 
2019-04-10
Kathleen Page briefs UN Security Council on Venezuela humanitarian crisis, April 9, 2019
Calling for the declaration of a humanitarian crisis, Dr. Kathleen Page briefed the UN Security Council on Venezuela's Humanitarian Emergency, a recent report by Page and colleagues at Human Rights Watch

Celebration of the Dedicated Participants and Staff of the REPRIEVE Study in Pune, India

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2019-02-18
REPRIEVE Team Members of the BJGMC Clinical Research Site
Staff and nearly 140 participants in the REPRIEVE study gathered for a community event in Pune, India

World AIDS Week Is Local at BJGMC in Pune, India

Post Date: 
2018-12-20
Performers conduct a play to raise awareness about HIV and HPV
The BJGMC Clinical Research Site convened community awareness activities that focused on HIV and HPV

CCGHE at the Union 2018

Post Date: 
2018-09-26
Our Union dance card is full! Check out CCGHE's schedule of presentations at this year's conference.

Bollinger Installed as Raj & Kamla Gupta Professor of Infectious Diseases

Post Date: 
2018-09-17
Raj and Kamla Gupta and Dr. Robert C. Bollinger
On September 5, CCGHE Director Dr. Robert C. Bollinger was installed as the inaugural recipient of the Raj and Kamla Gupta Professorship in Infectious Diseases, funded by the Ujala Foundation.

BJGMC Clinical Research Team Exceeds 6,000 Participant Enrollments in 4 Years

Post Date: 
2018-08-03
Group Photo, BJGMC Clinical Research Site, 2016, Pune, India
The Indo-JHU Clinical Research partnership at BJGMC in Pune, India, is now one of the top enrollers among all ACTG research sites internationally.

We Are Weill Cornell Medicine: Dr. Jyoti Mathad

Post Date: 
2018-05-18
Dr. Jyoti Mathad
Video by Weill Cornell Medicine features Jyoti Mathad and her work with the Indo-JHU Clinical Research Partnership.

Shah Receives Dr. David Glasser Memorial Award for TB Control in Maryland

Post Date: 
2018-04-27
Award recognizes significant contributions to TB prevention & control in MD.

World Tuberculosis (TB) Day Recognized with Community Event at BJGMC

Post Date: 
2018-04-17
World Health Day group activities at BJGMC Clinical Research Site in Pune, India
This year's themes: Maintaining healthy nutrition, addressing mental health challenges, and the latest in TB research.

Tornheim Receives W. Leigh Thompson Excellence in Research Award

Post Date: 
2018-03-21
Photo of Dr. Jeffrey Tornheim
Jeff Tornheim's research on drug-resistant tuberculosis in India garners high honors from Johns Hopkins Department of Medicine.

CCGHE at CROI 2018

Post Date: 
2018-03-05
Check out where and when CCGHE presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections. One Month of Rifapentine/Isoniazid to Prevent TB In People With HIV: Brief-TB/A5279 Swindells S, Ramchandani R, Gupta A, Benson CA, Leon-Cruz JT, Omoz-Oarhe A...

2017 Year in Review

Post Date: 
2018-02-19
What a year! Our 2017 Year In Review outlines the most ambitious 365 days we’ve had to date.

Uniting for a Healthier India

Post Date: 
2018-02-14
"The Indo-US clinical research & education partnership started with a single NIH grant to study maternal-infant HIV transmission." Now with 76 studies underway, this short film chronicles the history & impact of our work in India.

World AIDS Day: BJGMC Team Offers Community Counseling and Preventive Care

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2017-12-21
150 people participated in a non-communicable diseases awareness camp for people in Pune, India, living with HIV.

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Johns Hopkins Students and Faculty Members Confront India’s COVID-19 Crisis

Post Date: 
2021-07-08
Source: 
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Dr. Amita Gupta
Dr. Amita Gupta: “If India is not safe, the world’s not safe. COVID anywhere affects us everywhere, and so we can’t lay down the guard.”

Proceedings of IMPAACT Annual Meeting 2021 Now Online

Post Date: 
2021-06-30
Source: 
impaactannualmeetings.org
IMPAACT
View video presentations from this year’s annual meeting, highlighting the latest updates and exciting science in the field.

Do Vaccine Incentives Work? Krispy Kreme Says The Freebies Helped

Post Date: 
2021-06-22
Source: 
Eminetra
Dr. Robert Bollinger
Dr. Bollinger: “It depends on what barriers people have when they get vaccinated. The higher those barriers, the harder it is to overcome."

Videos claiming vaccination efforts are causing new COVID-19 variants are fake

Post Date: 
2021-06-22
Source: 
Dunya News
Dr. Robert Bollinger
Dr. Bollinger: "Compared to unvaccinated people, vaccinated people are less likely to get infected by all of the strains, including the variants."

7 Lessons We’ve Learned From This Pandemic to Remember for the Next One

Post Date: 
2021-06-22
Source: 
Self
Dr. Amita Gupta
Dr. Amita Gupta: "We aren’t going to be able to treat our way out of disease. We need to prevent more infections from happening."

Why India’s COVID-19 data is vastly undercounted

Post Date: 
2021-06-22
Source: 
Gruntstuff
Dr. Amita Gupta
Dr. Amita Gupta: “We care from a humanitarian perspective, a public well being perspective and a well being safety perspective.”

A Blueprint for Preventing Another Pandemic

Post Date: 
2021-06-22
Source: 
Time
Dr. Amita Gupta
TIME polled 73 experts on how to mitigate the next health crisis. The responses offer a plan to build a more prepared world.

Ask The Doctor

Post Date: 
2021-06-22
Source: 
Twitter
Dr. Amita Gupta
Vikram Chandra, Founder, Editorji Technologies interviews Dr Amita Gupta, Dr Vincent Rajkumar, and Dr Aju Mathew.

A vaccinated person's guide to the most concerning COVID-19 strains

Post Date: 
2021-06-22
Source: 
Salon
Dr. Robert Bollinger
Dr. Robert Bollinger. "Flu viruses are particularly prone to mutation, which is why new strains circulate every year."

Desperate for Covid Care, Undocumented Immigrants Resort to Unproven Drugs

Post Date: 
2021-06-21
Source: 
New York Times
Dr. Kathleen Page
Dr. Kathleen Page: I’m upset about the system that makes it easier for them to get help from nontraditional places than from regular health care.”

Data-driven COVID-19 care

Post Date: 
2021-06-21
Source: 
HUB
Dr. Matt Robinson
Dr. Matt Robinson: "It makes it easier for clinicians to anticipate what will happen to patients and helps them focus on patients who are the sickest."

Johns Hopkins Taps Community Ties to Bring Vaccines to Latinos in Baltimore

Post Date: 
2021-06-16
Source: 
hopkinsmedicine.org
Vaccines
Dr. Kathleen Page: “The most important thing is that, from the moment you walk in to the moment you leave, you can speak Spanish."

Global crisis in the making

Post Date: 
2021-06-10
Source: 
Daily News
Dr. Amita Gupta
As countries around the world airlift oxygen, vaccines and medical supplies to India, they are also closing their borders to the world’s second most populous country.

India COVID-19 Outbreak Could 'Spread Around The World,' Expert Warns

Post Date: 
2021-05-13
Source: 
International Business Times
Dr. Amita Gupta
"There was essentially a lot of relaxation of rules," Dr. Amita Gupta, an infectious disease specialist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Indian Students in US Anxious About COVID-19 Back Home

Post Date: 
2021-05-13
Source: 
VOA NEWS
Dr. Amita Gupta
Dr. Amita Gupta: "COVID has significantly reduced that number and importantly impacted their educational experience and quality of life.

Johns Hopkins University Helping India Fight Covid Surge

Post Date: 
2021-05-13
Source: 
CBS Baltimore
Dr. Amita Gupta
Dr. Amita Gupta: “The ramifications of what’s happening now is going to have far-reaching consequences beyond this year.

Hialeah pastor helps sister church half way around the world facing crisis from COVID-19

Post Date: 
2021-05-13
Source: 
Local10.com
Dr. Amita Gupta
“We know with disruptions in supply chain and access to essential services in the setting of a lockdown that food insecurity is a reality and...”

Can the U.S. Meet President Biden's Latest Vaccination Goal?

Post Date: 
2021-05-13
Source: 
Leslie Marshall Show
Dr. Robert Bollinger
Leslie and Dr. Bollinger discuss President Biden's new goal of having 70% of American adults receive at least their first COVID-19 vaccine dose by July 4th.

India's COVID-19 Disaster May Be Turning Into an Even Bigger Global Crisis

Post Date: 
2021-05-12
Source: 
Time
Dr. Amita Gupta
Daily confirmed cases in the Himalayan nation increased thirtyfold from April 11 to May 11, when 9,300 infections were recorded.

Will your child’s school mandate Covid vaccinations?

Post Date: 
2021-05-12
Source: 
CNBC
Dr. Robert Bollinger
Dr. Robert Bollinger: "It's always better to reinforce positive behavior rather than mandate, but we have a precedent of requiring vaccinations to go to school."

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