Nigeria
Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa with a population of 211 million in 2021. There is limited access to emergency services and only five trained emergency physicians in 2021 who were trained abroad.… Read more
Brazil, Durham, India, Tanzania
Alcohol Related Projects
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
Alcohol Related Projects
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
Injury Projects
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
TRECK D43 Training Program
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
Tanzania
SDOH
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
Brazil
Access to Care
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
Durham
SDOH
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
India
Access to Care
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
Brazil
Access to Care
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