Global Health
by Jenna Ogilvie | Oct 28, 2024 | Commentary, Perspectives
The use of artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled protein design tools such as AlphaFold, RoseTTAfold, and RFdiffusion to model proteins and generate new protein structures (referred herein as AI biodesign) is fueling a revolution in biology that promises...
by Talia Lewis | Aug 26, 2024 | Commentary, Perspectives
Introduction In our increasingly interconnected world, migration has become a defining feature of global demographics, forced or voluntarily. Across the globe, migrants face numerous challenges accessing essential and appropriate healthcare, ranging from legal...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Sep 19, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Since December 2019, much of the world’s focus has been on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as it emerged from Wuhan, China and rapidly spread across the world. As of this writing, there were over 570 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 globally, and...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Mar 29, 2021 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Introduction The term short-term medical engagements (STMEs) encompasses medical missions, volunteer internships, medical and nursing student rotations, global health education, and medical brigades. STMEs represent a way for faith-based, non-profit, and...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Nov 9, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives
The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >> On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. This is the first time the world has seen a...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Nov 2, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives
The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >> Introduction Health professional educators around the world have demonstrated their ability to respond creatively to challenges posed by the...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Mar 5, 2020 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >> ABSTRACT | The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and resulting disease state COVID-19 pose a direct threat to an over-burdened U.S. medical care...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Mar 5, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives
The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >> Since 1995, the global community has experienced six outbreaks that the World Health Organization (WHO), as authorized in a 2005 revision of...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 21, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives
Since 1985, Japan has led the world in life expectancy, but Hong Kong, the once British colony and now a special administrative region of China, has taken over the lead position since 2010. With its extremely rapid post–World War II (WWII) economic development...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Oct 1, 2018 | Commentary, Perspectives
Upon arriving in Kenya in 1987, I was a well-trained parasitologist who knew nothing about development, economics, political systems, or structural poverty. Kenya, however, became my classroom. The focus three decades ago was to attack one disease at a time, to...
