Alcohol Related Projects
Tanzania
Globally, alcohol causes over 1.8 million deaths annually. In low and middle-income countries, alcohol use is rapidly increasing, but factors influencing alcohol use and approaches to reduce alcohol-related harm are largely unknown. Our previous work… Read more
Brazil, Durham, India, Tanzania
A complex web of biopsychosocial factors underlies predisposition towards harmful alcohol use and alcohol use disorder (AUD). With the growing AUD burden in low- and middle-income countries, it is important to systematically measure alcohol use… Read more
Rwanda
Harmful alcohol use results in over 3 million deaths and annually with an impact that is disproportionately high in Africa. Road traffic injury, HIV medication non-adherence, intimate partner violence, liver disease, hypertension and cancer are… Read more
Tanzania
Alcohol use is rapidly increasing in low- and middle-income countries, where it is inexpensive, readily available, poorly regulated, and there are few resources devoted to promoting safe alcohol use. Like many other limited resource settings,… Read more
Brazil, Tanzania
Measurement and assessment are a fundamental activity of science. To perform an adequate measurement action, the instruments should present good validity and reliability evidence. Using a measure that does not assess what it intends to… Read more
Tanzania
Alcohol use is one of the leading risk factors worldwide for death and disability-adjusted life years (DALYS) and is a significant contributor to the global burden of disease, accounting for over 3 million deaths each… Read more
Transitions of Care Research
Tanzania
Injuries and their subsequent disability are a global health crisis which have a rippling effect far beyond the individual years into the future. Low and middle income countries suffer this burden disproportionately; with over 90%… Read more
Global Repository for Injury Data (GRID)
Armenia, Brazil, Egypt, Pakistan, Tanzania
A total of 6 million people die from injuries each year worldwide. Additionally, 650 million individuals live with injury related disabilities. The burden of injuries is higher in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) compared to… Read more
EMS / Pre-Hospital Care
Tanzania
Emergency conditions contribute substantially to the burden of death and disability in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where emergency care systems are typically underdeveloped. In Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, little is known about the community’s unmet needs,… Read more
Brazil
The overall goal of this project is to develop an artificial intelligence tool designed to predict the chief complaints of emergency calls through natural language processing (NLP) and deep learning to automate the identification of… Read more
Injury Projects
Tanzania
Traumatic brain injury (TBI), also known as intracranial injury, occurs when an external force traumatically injures the brain. TBI can be classified based on severity, mechanism (closed or penetrating head injury), or other type of… Read more
Tanzania
Injuries are a major cause of death in children worldwide, and children living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are much more likely to be injured than children in high-income countries (HICs). In caring for… Read more
Tanzania
This project utilizes the trauma registry developed at KCMC. Our preliminary data from the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre Emergency Department (KCMC ED), a regional referral hospital in the Moshi area, Tanzania, highlighted that the TBI… Read more
Access to Care, Health Systems, GIS
Brazil
Globally, more than 90% of all snakebite envenomation (SBE) occur in low resource settings. This neglected tropical disease affects 2.7 million people, with 81,000-138,000 deaths, and approximately 400,000 permanent disabilities annually. Antivenom is a safe,… Read more
Brazil
Health decision-makers currently face the challenge of accumulating health data in time to inform evidence-based interventions to improve health outcomes. The Brazilian healthcare system is in need of daily primary care data reported in real-time… Read more
India
Lack of access to surgical care leads to high mortality and morbidity due to surgically treatable conditions, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In the past few years, several countries have carried out high-resolution… Read more
Social Determinants of Health
Tanzania
Access to timely, affordable, and safe surgical care is limited in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), especially among children. To address this crisis, targeted and accurate measurement of surgical care is a critical first step. Surgical… Read more
Durham
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 virus (SARS-CoV-2), which the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic in March 2020. As the disease spreads around the world… Read more
TRECK D43 Training Program
Tanzania
Every year, nearly 5 million people die from injuries and hundreds of millions more sustain non-fatal injuries that require medical attention with low and middle income countries (LMICs), accounting for 90% of all injury related… Read more