Making the case for community involvement in research on climate and health: opportunities and lessons

Autor: Gillian F. Black, Euzebiusz Jamrozik, Wesaal Khan, Stephanie Peralta, Benjamin Havenga, Maria W. Merritt, Maureen Kelley

Publikováno v: Frontiers in Climate, Vol 6 (2024)

Advancing climate change is an urgent global driver of human disease with some of the world’s most marginalized communities being at highest risk. In response to this compound threat, scientific studies exploring the intersections of climate and he

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Editorial: Public and community engagement in health science research: Openings and obstacles for listening and responding in the majority world

Autor: Gillian F. Black, Phaik Yeong Cheah, Mary Chambers, Deborah Nyirenda

Publikováno v: Frontiers in Public Health, Vol 10 (2022)

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Improved Resting-State Functional MRI Using Multi-Echo Echo-Planar Imaging on a Compact 3T MRI Scanner with High-Performance Gradients

Autor: Daehun Kang, Myung-Ho In, Hang Joon Jo, Maria A. Halverson, Nolan K. Meyer, Zaki Ahmed, Erin M. Gray, Radhika Madhavan, Thomas K. Foo, Brice Fernandez, David F. Black, Kirk M. Welker, Joshua D. Trzasko, John Huston, Matt A. Bernstein, Yunhong Shu

Publikováno v: Sensors, Vol 23, Iss 9, p 4329 (2023)

In blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD)-based resting-state functional (RS-fMRI) studies, usage of multi-echo echo-planar-imaging (ME-EPI) is limited due to unacceptable late echo times when high spatial resolution is used. Equipped with high-performa

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An assessment of the isoniazid preventive therapy programme for children in a busy primary healthcare clinic in Nelson Mandela Bay Health District Eastern Cape Province South Africa

Autor: F Black, J Shea, F Amien

Publikováno v: South African Medical Journal, Vol 108, Iss 3, Pp 217-223 (2018)

Background. Tuberculosis (TB) is a significant contributor to the international and national burden of disease. Global estimates suggest that there were 10.4 million new cases of TB in 2015. Children accounted for ~10% of these cases, although in Sou

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Immunometabolic Signatures Predict Risk of Progression to Active Tuberculosis and Disease Outcome

Autor: Fergal J. Duffy, January Weiner, Scott Hansen, David L. Tabb, Sara Suliman, Ethan Thompson, Jeroen Maertzdorf, Smitha Shankar, Gerard Tromp, Shreemanta Parida, Drew Dover, Michael K. Axthelm, Jayne S. Sutherland, Hazel M. Dockrell, Tom H. M. Ottenhoff, Thomas J. Scriba, Louis J. Picker, Gerhard Walzl, Stefan H. E. Kaufmann, Daniel E. Zak, The GC6-74 Consortium, S. H. E. Kaufmann, S. K. Parida, R. Golinski, J. Maertzdorf, J. Weiner, M. Jacobson, G. McEwen, G. Walzl, G. F. Black, G. van der Spuy, K. Stanley, M. Kriel, N. Du Plessis, N. Nene, A. G. Loxton, N. N. Chegou, S. Suliman, T. Scriba, M. Fisher, H. Mahomed, J. Hughes, K. Downing, A. Penn-Nicholson, H. Mulenga, B. Abel, M. Bowmaker, B. Kagina, W. Kwong, C. W. Hanekom, T. H. M. Ottenhoff, M. R. Klein, M. C. Haks, K. L. Franken, A. Geluk, K. E. van Meijgaarden, S. A. Joosten, D. van Baarle, F. Miedema, W. H. Boom, B. Thiel, J. Sadoff, D. Sizemore, S. Ramachandran, L. Barker, M. Brennan, F. Weichold, S. Muller, L. Geiter, G. Schoolnik, G. Dolganov, T. Van, H. Mayanja-Kizza, M. Joloba, S. Zalwango, M. Nsereko, B. Okwera, H. Kisingo, H. M. Dockrell, S. Smith, P. Gorak-Stolinska, Y.-G. Hur, M. Lalor, J.-S. Lee, A. C. Crampin, N. French, B. Ngwira, A. B. Smith, K. Watkins, L. Ambrose, F. Simukonda, H. Mvula, F. Chilongo, J. Saul, K. Branson, D. Kassa, A. Abebe, T. Mesele, B. Tegbaru, R. Howe, A. Mihret, A. Aseffa, Y. Bekele, R. Iwnetu, M. Tafesse, L. Yamuah, M. Ota, J. Sutherland, P. Hill, R. Adegbola, T. Corrah, M. Antonio, T. Togun, I. Adetifa, S. Donkor, P. Andersen, I. Rosenkrands, M. Doherty, K. Weldingh

Publikováno v: Frontiers in Immunology, Vol 10 (2019)

There remains a pressing need for biomarkers that can predict who will progress to active tuberculosis (TB) after exposure to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacterium. By analyzing cohorts of household contacts of TB index cases (HHCs) and a string

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