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  • Why Did India Have Ten Million Fewer Childhood Deaths Than Predicted?

    September 23, 2017 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: India

    The Million Death study revealed that the child mortality rate in India has decreased over the past 15 years. These results are most likely due to vaccine drives, free diagnostics, more health clinics and other such improvements.

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  • California decided it was tired of women bleeding to death in childbirth

    June 29, 2017 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    The USA is seeing rising maternal mortality rates in recent years. It shows higher rates than most developed countries, in part due to the country's lack of attention to women's health. California is reversing this trend through their California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative (CMQCC) which analyzes data and then uses it to make recommendations and "toolkits" for hospitals to be prepared should an emergency arise in childbirth.

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  • Stopping Pandemics Before They Start

    June 27, 2017 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Norway

    With climate change, population pressures and mobilization epidemics will occur more frequently, and past ones have proven to be disastrous and expensive. The Center for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) is focused on developing vaccines to viruses such as Ebola, as well as creating a fast approval path for future vaccines and helping increase global preparedness for future epidemics.

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  • A Focus on Health to Resolve Urban Ills

    April 19, 2017 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Richmond, California

    Social and economic factors are increasingly being linked to health circumstances and outcomes. This article highlights the city of Richmond, California, which has responded to this correlation, integrating issues of health into all levels of policy.

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  • The Data Donators

    April 18, 2017 |

    BBC |

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    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United Kingdom, London, Greater London

    Around the world, more and more people are launching projects through mobile apps that use smartphones to collect massive amounts of data for solving chronic issues. By asking thousands of volunteers to donate their data for the greater good, researchers can access data in quantities that were previously unobtainable.

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  • This doctor pioneered a way to treat stress in children, a startling source of future disease

    October 06, 2016 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Dr. Nadine Burke Harris noticed an unusually high rate of illnesses in young patients frequenting her San Francisco clinic, and began to dig into the strong correlation between stress factors like poverty and abuse to the rising public health crises of what is known as "toxic stress" in children. Her work helped lead a growing, nationwide movement of treating physical health by addressing emotional trauma, in schools and law enforcement as well as clinics, offering children better support and evolving policies to address mental health.

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  • Amid Failure and Chaos, an Ebola Vaccine

    November 24, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Liberia, Monrovia, Montserrado

    Westerners' fear of infection of Ebola motivated a vaccine in record time, but a preventive system put in place could ensure similar results for other viruses before they reach the same magnitude.

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  • Ebola in Sierra Leone: Hail to the chiefs

    August 29, 2015 |

    The Economist |

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    Response Location: Sierra Leone, Freetown, Western Area

    Local leaders in Sierra Leone helped curb an epidemic, as foreign agencies encouraged chiefs and traditional healers to get involved. Local involvement created more effective engagement.

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  • Turning to Big, Big Data to See What Ails the World

    April 09, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Public health, and large amounts of data behind it, is changing in today's world. The Global Burden of Disease Report, involving hundreds of scientists over the course of many years, aims to find out what makes humans sick and disabled.

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  • A Depression Fighting Strategy That Could Go Viral

    December 04, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Pakistan, Rawalpindi, Punjab

    A strategy for stopping widespread depression in developing countries should be as obvious as one for combatting epidemics. A new strategy aims to downshift jobs to local workers to act as peer therapists.

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