Prevention
by Jenna Ogilvie | Dec 9, 2024 | Commentary, Perspectives
After disaster exposure, children are at risk for developing physical health problems, mental health symptoms, and difficulties in school. The hallmark mental health symptom observed among children after a disaster is post-traumatic stress (e.g., flashbacks,...
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 Jenna Ogilvie | Oct 14, 2024 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
ABSTRACT | In the aftermath of disasters, prompt and safe family reunification is crucial, especially for pre-verbal children separated from their families. Settings may remain unsafe in the aftermath of disasters, and without the application of technology,...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Oct 14, 2024 | Commentary, Perspectives
Today’s children are expected to experience two to seven times more disaster events than their grandparents (Thiery et al., 2021). Climate-related disasters such as floods, hurricanes, and wildfires are key drivers of the outsized impacts disasters will have on...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Sep 30, 2024 | Commentary, Perspectives
Pediatric Disaster Medicine in Oklahoma Oklahoma, the famed Sooner State, is home to an estimated 4,019,800 people and is known for its cowboy culture, Native American heritage, energy, agriculture, and Route 66. The picturesque south-central plains are located...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Sep 30, 2024 | Commentary, Perspectives
Longstanding Gaps in Pediatric Disaster Preparedness Disasters overwhelm health care resources and endanger everyone in a community. Children are more vulnerable to disasters than healthy adults for several reasons. They lack the problem-solving skills,...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Sep 30, 2024 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
This discussion paper provides an overview of the tenth annual District of Columbia (DC) Public Health Case Challenge (see https://nam.edu/initiatives/dc-public-health-case-challenge/ [accessed March 20, 2024]), a student competition held in 2023 by the...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Oct 8, 2023 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Each day in the United States, more than 300 people are shot by a firearm, and more than one-third of them loses their lives (CDC, n.d.a). This includes people who die as a result of homicides, suicides, unintentional shootings, shootings by law...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Sep 6, 2023 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
ABSTRACT | Rapidly rising drug overdose rates in the United States during the past three decades underscore the critical need to prevent overdose deaths and reduce the development of opioid and related substance use disorders (SUDs). Traditional public...
by Madeleine Deye | Sep 6, 2023 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
This discussion paper provides an overview of the Ninth Annual DC Public Health Case Challenge (1), a student competition held in 2022 by the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement in the Health and Medicine...
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