Projects – GEMINI Lab

Interventions to reduce harmful alcohol use in Rwanda

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

Pediatric Injury Study Developing a Health Systems Intervention to Improve Care of Pediatric Injury Patients in Tanzania

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

TRECK D43 Cohort/Year 1

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

Factors Influencing Surgical and Cancer Care and Outcomes for Children in Northern Tanzania

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

Antivenom access Using community health centers to mitigate the impact of snakebite envenoming in low resource areas

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

Social Determinants of Health and COVID-19 Infection in North Carolina A Geospatial and Qualitative Analysis

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

Surgical care access in India Assessing Surgical Care in India through Multi-Methods Data Synthesis and Development of Policy-Relevant Indices

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

AUTOMAP Solution for geospatial monitoring in public health

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

Traumatic Brain Injury Predictive Modeling A Clinical implementation of Machine Learning model

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

KCMC Registry Tramautic brain injury registry - Tanzania

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