Let's be real: literature reviews are some of the most [challenging? strenuous? overwhelming? arduous? enlightening? frustrating? involved? time-intensive?] types of research projects and manuscripts I've been a part of (only paralleled by qualitative research!), and I don't think any part of my past or current education prepared me for it! And, I've found that reviews are some of the most practically useful pieces of science. Much of the literature that our team reviewed on non-HIV and non-vaccine preventable infectious diseases among people experiencing homelessness is focused on Hepatitis C and TB (perhaps appropriately?). There are many gaps that remain in our *peer-reviewed* understanding of disease exposures and infections, especially around food-, water-, and vector-borne illnesses. Yet again, the conclusion is that we need to systematically incorporate housing status into routine public health surveillance!!!
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Learn about the UAB Learning Health System project, initiated by Michael Mugavero, M.D., professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases, where the people setting the research questions are not individual investigators with their own niche interests, “but the people in the trenches.” https://lnkd.in/emRcp9he
Building a health system that can learn calls for “team science to the max”
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While innovative and effective ideas to help solve major global health problems are hard to come by, finding and attaining funding to put them into action can be even more difficult. The research grant review process takes time and can be bogged down in red tape. Decisions on who and what kind of research gets funded can pass over novel ideas in favor of familiar project plans. The Trinity Challenge aims to shake things up a bit by rewarding creative and practical ideas that take research down to the community level. While the first round was dedicated to addressing COVID-19, the latest prize will go to ideas to fight the emergence and spread of drug-resistant infections, otherwise known as antimicrobial resistance (AMR). In this episode of One World, One Health, Dr. Marc Mendelson, Professor of Infectious Diseases and Head of the Division of Infectious Diseases & HIV Medicine at Groote Schuur Hospital at the University of Cape Town (UCT) and director of the Trinity Challenge tells us how the Trinity Challenge aims to support researchers with ideas to fight the present and growing problem of drug resistance in new and inclusive ways. Listen here: https://ow.ly/A6GK50QyiHv Learn more about the Trinity Challenge and send in your innovative superbug solution, apply here: https://ow.ly/Xmm650QyiHw #GlobalHealth #ResearchGrant #AMRChallenge #TrinityChallenge #AMR
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