Weill Cornell Medicine Center for Global Health
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Collaborating with international partners to improve the health of people in resource-poor countries through research, training, and service @WeillCornell.
New York, New York
Joined June 2022
There is a critical shortage of cardiac surgical care in regions of Africa with the highest burden of rheumatic heart disease according to a new report led by Weill Cornell medical student, Jordan Leith.
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Please join us this Wednesday at noon for a talk by Dr. Jerry Ellner, Professor at the Center for Emerging Pathogens, Rutgers: "Tuberculosis 2025: What we thought we knew but didn’t."
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Join us this Thursday at 2pm for a talk by Dr. Ed Nardell, Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard: "Controversies in TB Transmission".
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Congratulations to Dr St Sauveur & Dr Sufra on their first-author publication, "Effectiveness of community-based hypertension management on hypertension in the urban slums of Haiti: A mixed methods study."
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Please join us this Friday at noon for a talk by Dr. Saranathan Rajagopalan, Research Assistant Professor, Albert Einstein: "A Mycobacteriophage-based approach for rapid drug susceptibility testing for TB."
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The Lancet HIV's January 2025 cover artwork was inspired by a review article by Jane Maganga, Khanh Pham, John Changalucha, and Jennifer Downs, "Sex as a Biological Variable in HIV and Schistosome Co-infection," published in the same issue.
Our January issue is ready! Featuring monoclonal antibodies for prevention, long-acting injectables, sex differences in #HIV and schistosome co-infection, HIV and healthy cognitive ageing, and more. Also introducing Grace Russell as our 2025 cover artist!
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Kidney disease is a common but often overlooked health condition in East Africa. This is particularly true for people with HIV. @WCMDeptofMed @Mwanza_CVD @KidneyMed #CKD
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RT @dr_radhikalu: Misha Hooda gave an amazing talk this afternoon at #DIScience24 summarizing our work training traditional healers to supp…
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RT @dr_radhikalu: Stop by our poster at #DIScience24 to learn about our team’s work relinking people with #HIV to care in rural #Uganda! We…
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Please join us this Friday at noon for a talk by Dr. Bill Jacobs, Professor, Dept of Microbiology & Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine : 'CIMSAUX mutants of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: New tools for elucidating immune-mediated killing and sterilization in mammals'.
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Dr. Jean Pape, faculty member in @wcmglobalhealth & Director of the GHESKIO in Port au Prince, Haiti, spoke at the UN Security Council on November 20th about the insecurity in Haiti and the need for international support.
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On November 1st, Center for Global Health research assistants and associates presented their work at the @WCMDeptofMed Annual Research Retreat. Read about more about their research here:
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RT @elimin8schisto: GSA members at🇧🇷 schisto symposium cont. Jennifer Downs @wcmglobalhealth, Genital Schisto CoP on #Schistosomiasis in ♀️…
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The 17th International Symposium on Schistosomiasis is underway in Salvador, Brazil! The meeting is chaired by Dr. Ricardo Riccio, graduate @WeillCornell Master’s of Clinical Epidemiology program. The CGH’s Dr. Jennifer Downs will give a talk during the conference. @WCMDeptofMed
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Anemia is a persistent and serious problem in East Africa - particularly in women and in people with HIV. @cuhas_bugando @ASTMH @WCMDeptofMed
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In a recently published @TheLancetHIV review, Drs. Jane Maganga, Khanh Pham, John Changalucha, & Jennifer Downs report biological sex as key factor affecting clinical & pathophysiological responses in HIV-1 & schistosome co-infection.
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Please join us this Friday for a talk by Dr. Juliano Timm (Director of Microbiology at TB Alliance): 'TB Drug Development: An Update'
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Encouraging news from one of the first studies of overnight ECG monitoring in people with HIV in Africa. @JACCJournals #ClinicalElectrophysiology @Mwanza_CVD @RobNPeck @WCMDeptofMed
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Applications are now open for the Global Infectious Diseases in Women Course and Women's Infectious Disease Global Scholars (WINGS) Program. Visit for more information! Application for Infectious Disease in Women Course:
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Diastolic dysfunction appears to improve over time in people with HIV after antiretroviral drug initiation in comparison to community controls. @Mwanza_CVD @JACCJournals #Advances @WCMDeptofMed @RobNPeck
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