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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.

"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

Post Date:

2017-12-21

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

CCGHE Joins 12-Country UNITAID Effort to Control TB

Post Date:

2017-11-08

Shorter course to prevent progression of latent TB to active disease is the aim of the effort.

CCGHE at the Union 2017

Post Date:

2017-10-05

The 2017 Union Conference was in Guadalajaro, Mexico, October 11-14, and Indo-JHU research was well represented.

ID Clinical Minute is Back and Offering CME Credit!

Post Date:

2017-10-03

Issues will be published bimonthly and CME will be available through ACCME

Tornheim Promoted to Assistant Professor

Post Date:

2017-08-31

His research explores whether 2 MDR-TB drug susceptibility tests using WGS & MIC can yield options for individualized treament.

Indo-Hopkins Partnership Seeks Causes of Sepsis in the NICU

Post Date:

2017-08-10

Sepsis among newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is a big problem in India, and a complex one to untangle.

Vidya Mave Promoted to Assistant Professor

Post Date:

2017-06-06

Dr. Vidya Mave oversees clinical research & visiting researchers in India, including students conducting global health field studies

CCGHE at ATS 2017

Post Date:

2017-05-08

Abstract presentations from the American Thoracic Society International Conference in Washington, DC

Amita Gupta and colleagues discuss female leadership in academic global health

Post Date:

2017-05-04

Drs. Gupta, Manabe, Mathad discuss need for more women in global health leadership at CUGH's annual meeting.

Women's Empowerment at BJGMC World TB Day 2017

Post Date:

2017-04-03

Posted 2017-04-03

Health on the Go: Mobile Clinic Delivers TB Services at Point of Need

Post Date:

2017-03-24

Thanks to Raj and Bharti Shah, CTIS, & the NB Shah Charitable Trust, we are able to reach more people in Maharashtra who need care

CCGHE at CROI 2017

Post Date:

2017-02-02

Inflammation biomarkers, hepatoxicity during ART and IRT, TB treatment adherence--just some of the abstracts presented at CROI

2017 Directors' Statement

Post Date:

2017-01-31

A New Decade of Global Health Impact The CCGHE recently marked its 10-year anniversary, and it’s an occasion that affords an opportunity to reflect on the progress we’ve made so far, and envision what lies ahead. We are encouraged by the changes we’ve seen in health outcomes for people living with...

Global Impact Report

Post Date:

2017-01-31

Learn about CCGHE's work to improve infectious disease prevention & treatment around the world.

World AIDS Day 2016 at BJGMC

Post Date:

2016-12-06

Read more about 2016 World AIDS Day activities at the BJGMC Clinical Site in Pune, India.

Smit Receives Staff Recognition Award from Johns Hopkins Medicine

Post Date:

2016-10-24

On October 21 Johns Hopkins Medicine announced CCGHE Financial Manager Gabriela Smit as one of 3 recipients of the Staff Recognition Award. The award acknowledges Department of Medicine staff members who demonstrate measurably high standards in leadership, teamwork, can do attitude, resourcefulness...

CCGHE at ID Week 2016

Post Date:

2016-10-11

OCTOBER 27 TB Infection Prevalence, Incidence and Risk Factors among Child and Adult Household Contacts of Adult TB Cases in India Shivakumar SVBY, Chandrasekaran P, Thiruvengadam K, Gupte N, Mave V, Hannah LE, Kulkarni V, Gupte A, Deluca A, Gomathy NS, Sathyamurthi P, Paradkar M, Kohli R, Meshram...

CCGHE at AIDS 2016

Post Date:

2016-07-20

CCGHE efforts presented at AIDS 2016 in Durban, South Africa

Doctor who tackled HIV and other infectious diseases in India honored

Post Date:

2018-09-11

Source:

India Abroad

India Abroad article highlights the dedication of the Raj and Kamla Gupta Professorship in Infectious Diseases.

Amita Gupta and Sujata Bhatia: Doing a World of Good

Post Date:

2018-08-29

Source:

American Institute of Chemical Engineers

Amita Gupta is interviewed by AIChE about the intersection of chemical engineering and medicine.

$17M is awarded to support HIV, disease ecology, mHealth projects

Post Date:

2018-08-16

Source:

Global Health Matters

Larry Chang's Multidisciplinary Research Training to Understand and Reduce HIV Incidence in Uganda is among the funded projects.

Enhanced immigration enforcement in US could worsen HIV epidemic

Post Date:

2018-07-21

Source:

Infectious Disease News (via Healio)

Kathleen Page: Immigrants living in fear of deportation often limit the use of services that they believe could expose them to authorities.

Infectious Diseases Can Be Tackled, Here are 3 Solutions

Post Date:

2018-05-09

Source:

The Hill

Bob Bollinger: Quick delivery of care to sick patients eases the human impact and lowers the cost of disease.

Isoniazid preventive therapy: do the risks outweigh the benefits in pregnant women with HIV?

Post Date:

2018-03-13

Source:

aidsmap

. . . Isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) during and after pregnancy in women living with HIV on antiretroviral therapy (ART) in tuberculosis (TB) endemic areas in Africa, Asia and Haiti resulted in serious adverse events quite possibly attributable to isoniazid with no significant reduction in TB...

Adverse pregnancy outcomes with isoniazid preventive therapy in HIV

Post Date:

2018-03-09

Source:

Infectious Disease Advisor

. . . The safety of IPT in pregnant women with HIV is unknown, especially with regard to its combination with highly active antiretroviral therapy (ART). Amita Gupta, MD, deputy director of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Clinical Global Health Education at the Johns Hopkins...

No difference in safety for HIV+ pregnant women deferring TB Tx

Post Date:

2018-03-09

Source:

MedPage Today

First randomized clinical trail of IPT in pregnant and postpartum women may suggest need for WHO guideline change.

Preventive TB therapy during pregnancy causes excessive adverse events

Post Date:

2018-03-08

Source:

Healio Infectious Disease News

. . . “Identifying ways to prevent TB during pregnancy and the postpartum period is a really important way to address maternal and infant health for a globally important disease such as tuberculosis,” Amita Gupta, MD, MHS, associate professor of medicine and international health and deputy director...

Study Results for IMPAACT P1078 Presented at CROI 2018

Post Date:

2018-03-07

Source:

IMPAACT Network News

IMPAACT Network News: Dr. Amita Gupta presented findings at CROI 2018.

TB medication adherence rates up, thanks to smartphone app

Post Date:

2018-03-02

Source:

YourCentralValley.com (Fresno, CA)

Emocha's app is helping tuberculosis patients in Fresno County stick to their treatment plans.

WHO sets disease priorities for 2018; Tuberculosis once again not included

Post Date:

2018-02-15

Source:

Contagion Live: Infectious Diseases Today

CCGHE Director Bob Bollinger weighs in on WHO's priority pathogens for 2018.

The Health App that Beat Hurricane Harvey

Post Date:

2018-01-18

Source:

Politico

CCGHE invented the emocha Mobile Health platform, and it's changing the way tuberculosis patients are cared for.

In-Depth: How digital health technologies can help the United States address the opioid epidemic

Post Date:

2018-01-05

Source:

MobiHealthNews

Bob Bollinger interviewed about utility of mobile health in keeping patients connected to care.

Notes from the Field: Use of Asynchronous Video Directly Observed Therapy for Treatment of Tuberculosis and Latent Tuberculosis Infection in a Long-Term–Care Facility ― Puerto Rico, 2016–2017

Post Date:

2017-12-22

Source:

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

emocha's video Directly Observed Therapy is highlighted in this report.

Notes from the Field--Tuberculosis Control Activities After Hurricane Harvey--Texas, 2017

Post Date:

2017-12-15

Source:

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

emocha's video Directly Observed Therapy helped officials maintain continuity of care for TB patients following Hurricane Harvey.

Upstarts: A Better Blood Test?

Post Date:

2017-12-15

Source:

JHU Engineering Impact

The miLAB handheld diagnostic project led by Dr. Bob Bollinger is the feature of this report.

Celebrating Johns Hopkins Medicine's impact in India

Post Date:

2017-12-13

Source:

The Campaign for Johns Hopkins Medicine

In 4 years, the CCGHE has tripled its capacity for conducting research on grave health threats, thanks to strong philanthropic support.

Transforming India from TB Hot Zone to TB Hot Shot

Post Date:

2017-12-09

Source:

Indiaspora

Dr. Amita Gupta's invited commentary: Can Indian transform its role in the global TB epidemic?

Combination HIV prevention reduces infections

Post Date:

2017-12-01

Source:

MD Magazine

. . . Researchers found that throughout the 7-year period in which rates of treatment and voluntary medical male circumcision increased significantly, HIV incidence dropped by 42% among nearly 18,000 people in Uganda . . .

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