Expanding access to specialized healthcare across Quebec: ECHO Superhub at The Neuro
Free, online training program strengthens training and brings specialized care to communities across Quebec
A healthcare telementoring program housed at The Neuro and supported by the Transforming Autism Care Consortium (TACC) is expanding its reach after achieving designation as an ECHO Superhub. Under the direction of Julie Scorah, PhD, this milestone ensures that specialized knowledge reaches underserved communities.
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Expanding access to specialized healthcare across Quebec: ECHO Superhub at The Neuro
Free, online training program strengthens training and brings specialized care to communities across Quebec
A healthcare telementoring program housed at The Neuro and supported by the Transforming Autism Care Consortium (TACC) is expanding its reach after achieving designation as an ECHO Superhub. Under the direction of Julie Scorah, PhD, this milestone ensures that specialized knowledge reaches underserved communities.
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Expanding access to specialized healthcare across Quebec: ECHO Superhub at The Neuro
Free, online training program strengthens training and brings specialized care to communities across Quebec
A healthcare telementoring program housed at The Neuro and supported by the Transforming Autism Care Consortium (TACC) is expanding its reach after achieving designation as an ECHO Superhub. Under the direction of Julie Scorah, PhD, this milestone ensures that specialized knowledge reaches underserved communities.
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Expanding access to specialized healthcare across Quebec: ECHO Superhub at The Neuro
Free, online training program strengthens training and brings specialized care to communities across Quebec
A healthcare telementoring program housed at The Neuro and supported by the Transforming Autism Care Consortium (TACC) is expanding its reach after achieving designation as an ECHO Superhub. Under the direction of Julie Scorah, PhD, this milestone ensures that specialized knowledge reaches underserved communities.
Categories: Global Health Feed
Expanding access to specialized healthcare across Quebec: ECHO Superhub at The Neuro
Free, online training program strengthens training and brings specialized care to communities across Quebec
A healthcare telementoring program housed at The Neuro and supported by the Transforming Autism Care Consortium (TACC) is expanding its reach after achieving designation as an ECHO Superhub. Under the direction of Julie Scorah, PhD, this milestone ensures that specialized knowledge reaches underserved communities.
Categories: Global Health Feed
Expanding access to specialized healthcare across Quebec: ECHO Superhub at The Neuro
Free, online training program strengthens training and brings specialized care to communities across Quebec
A healthcare telementoring program housed at The Neuro and supported by the Transforming Autism Care Consortium (TACC) is expanding its reach after achieving designation as an ECHO Superhub. Under the direction of Julie Scorah, PhD, this milestone ensures that specialized knowledge reaches underserved communities.
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Global Health NOW: What Do American Kids Learn About Sex? It Depends Who You Ask.; ‘Flying Blind’ on Measles; and Museum Medication
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Global Health NOW: What Do American Kids Learn About Sex? It Depends Who You Ask.; ‘Flying Blind’ on Measles; and Museum Medication
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What Do American Kids Learn About Sex? It Depends Who You Ask.
The U.S. has no national requirements for teaching sex education in schools—leading to a patchwork of policies and teachings across states, districts, and even individual schools.
Popular but scarce: Over 90% of parents and guardians in the U.S. support their children receiving comprehensive sexuality education (CSE)—which incorporates complete and age-appropriate information about sexuality, according to the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United Status (SIECUS).
However, only 38% of all high schools and 14% of middle schools in the U.S. cover all of the CDCʼs priority sexual health topics, which include CSE topics like condom use and STD prevention.
Despite the lack of requirements, federal grants still play an important—and sometimes paradoxical role in sex ed teachings. Federal funding is available for programs rooted in CSE—and abstinence-only teachings. This can result in both approaches being taught in the same school, Allison Macklin, policy director of SIECUS.
“Itʼs the students that suffer from this confusion in information,” she says.
ʼChilling effectʼ: While there have not been direct attacks on sex education, policy recommendations that target DEI, gender identity, and restroom access for trans people have raised concerns about the future of funding for CSE providers, says Macklin.
But advocates remain determined to broaden access to CSE across the country. “The urgency that people feel to make sure their kids have vital, lifesaving information—that is driving a real commitment to making sure kids get this information,” says Emily Cabral of Wholly Informed Sex Ed (WISE), a nonprofit that provides CSE.
Annalies Winny, Global Health NOW
READ THE FULL STORY GLOBAL HEALTH VOICES The Latest One-Liners Lab tests have confirmed that the cause of a mysterious illness that killed 53 people and sickened 943 in the northwest DRC was malaria, per the National Public Health Institute; health officials are still waiting on results from water, food, and other samples sent abroad for testing. Reuters via Deccan Herald
Avoidable deaths increased in all U.S. states from 2009 to 2021, while such deaths decreased in other high-income countries. JAMA Internal Medicine
MIT engineers have devised a new, less painful way to deliver certain drugs, such as long-lasting contraceptives, in higher doses by injecting them as a suspension of tiny crystals, administered through a narrow needle. News Medical
Parisians voted in a referendum to close 500 more city streets to cars and remove 10% of the current parking spots as part of a push by Mayor Anne Hidalgo to make the city friendlier to pedestrians, bikers, and greenery. Bloomberg CityLab Trump Administration News Trump nominates Susan Monarez for CDC director, elevating from acting role – CBS
Trump administration cancels at least 68 grants focused on LGBTQ health questions – AP
NIH ends future funding to study the health effects of climate change – ProPublica
Don’t take scientific progress for granted – The Baltimore Sun (commentary)
USAID cuts have disastrous consequences for global push to end TB – Context (commentary)
What RFK Jr.’s plans for baby formula mean for parents – The 19th MEASLES ‘Flying Blind’ Without Surveillance The U.S. decision to stop funding the global measles surveillance infrastructure could have dire consequences at a time when the disease is rapidly gaining ground, reports NPR Goats and Soda.
Background: The Global Measles and Rubella Laboratory Network is comprised of 700+ labs in 150+ countries.
Related:
Should You Get a Measles Vaccine Booster? – Yale Medicine
'I'm worried it's getting worse': Texas measles outbreak grows as families resist vaccination – NBC GLOBAL HEALTH VOICES MENTAL HEALTH Museum Medication
A Swiss town is launching a new medical intervention for its residents: Free tickets to the museum.
The town of Neuchâtel has initiated a two-year pilot project covering the costs of “museum prescriptions” ordered by doctors who believe patients could benefit from a jaunt in the town’s four museums.
Fact-based (and artifact-based) medicine: The project is based on a 2019 WHO report that found the arts can bolster mental health and lower the risk of cognitive decline.
AP OPPORTUNITY QUICK HITS A war within the war: Ukraine's ill children – The New York Times (gift link)
Despite progress, HIV stigma and discrimination continue to bubble beneath the surface in Thailand – UNAIDS
23andMe bankruptcy underscores health privacy gaps – Axios
World's first case of bird flu in sheep detected in England - The Guardian
South Sudan: Delivering baby on the road at 2am just another day for midwife – The Irish Examiner
Public health on the ground at Kenya's Kakuma Refugee Camp – UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Why IUD insertions are painful for many patients and what can be done better – PBS NewsHour
Reducing traffic in Barcelona by 25% would prevent around 200 premature deaths a year linked to pollution – ISGlobal - Barcelona Institute for Global Health Issue No. 2696
Global Health NOW is an initiative of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Contributors include Brian W. Simpson, MPH, Dayna Kerecman Myers, Annalies Winny, Morgan Coulson, Kate Belz, Melissa Hartman, Jackie Powder, and Rin Swann. Write us: dkerecm1@jhu.edu, like us on Facebook and follow us on Instagram @globalhealth.now and X @GHN_News.
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The U.S. has no national requirements for teaching sex education in schools—leading to a patchwork of policies and teachings across states, districts, and even individual schools.
Popular but scarce: Over 90% of parents and guardians in the U.S. support their children receiving comprehensive sexuality education (CSE)—which incorporates complete and age-appropriate information about sexuality, according to the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United Status (SIECUS).
However, only 38% of all high schools and 14% of middle schools in the U.S. cover all of the CDCʼs priority sexual health topics, which include CSE topics like condom use and STD prevention.
Despite the lack of requirements, federal grants still play an important—and sometimes paradoxical role in sex ed teachings. Federal funding is available for programs rooted in CSE—and abstinence-only teachings. This can result in both approaches being taught in the same school, Allison Macklin, policy director of SIECUS.
“Itʼs the students that suffer from this confusion in information,” she says.
ʼChilling effectʼ: While there have not been direct attacks on sex education, policy recommendations that target DEI, gender identity, and restroom access for trans people have raised concerns about the future of funding for CSE providers, says Macklin.
But advocates remain determined to broaden access to CSE across the country. “The urgency that people feel to make sure their kids have vital, lifesaving information—that is driving a real commitment to making sure kids get this information,” says Emily Cabral of Wholly Informed Sex Ed (WISE), a nonprofit that provides CSE.
Annalies Winny, Global Health NOW
READ THE FULL STORY GLOBAL HEALTH VOICES The Latest One-Liners Lab tests have confirmed that the cause of a mysterious illness that killed 53 people and sickened 943 in the northwest DRC was malaria, per the National Public Health Institute; health officials are still waiting on results from water, food, and other samples sent abroad for testing. Reuters via Deccan Herald
Avoidable deaths increased in all U.S. states from 2009 to 2021, while such deaths decreased in other high-income countries. JAMA Internal Medicine
MIT engineers have devised a new, less painful way to deliver certain drugs, such as long-lasting contraceptives, in higher doses by injecting them as a suspension of tiny crystals, administered through a narrow needle. News Medical
Parisians voted in a referendum to close 500 more city streets to cars and remove 10% of the current parking spots as part of a push by Mayor Anne Hidalgo to make the city friendlier to pedestrians, bikers, and greenery. Bloomberg CityLab Trump Administration News Trump nominates Susan Monarez for CDC director, elevating from acting role – CBS
Trump administration cancels at least 68 grants focused on LGBTQ health questions – AP
NIH ends future funding to study the health effects of climate change – ProPublica
Don’t take scientific progress for granted – The Baltimore Sun (commentary)
USAID cuts have disastrous consequences for global push to end TB – Context (commentary)
What RFK Jr.’s plans for baby formula mean for parents – The 19th MEASLES ‘Flying Blind’ Without Surveillance The U.S. decision to stop funding the global measles surveillance infrastructure could have dire consequences at a time when the disease is rapidly gaining ground, reports NPR Goats and Soda.
Background: The Global Measles and Rubella Laboratory Network is comprised of 700+ labs in 150+ countries.
- The network plays a key role in identifying and tracking measles strains worldwide.
- It also mobilizes an early outbreak response in affected communities.
- “This network is a backbone of health defense,” says Tom Frieden, former CDC director and president and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives. “If it collapses, the U.S. and the rest of the world will be flying blind.”
Related:
Should You Get a Measles Vaccine Booster? – Yale Medicine
'I'm worried it's getting worse': Texas measles outbreak grows as families resist vaccination – NBC GLOBAL HEALTH VOICES MENTAL HEALTH Museum Medication
A Swiss town is launching a new medical intervention for its residents: Free tickets to the museum.
The town of Neuchâtel has initiated a two-year pilot project covering the costs of “museum prescriptions” ordered by doctors who believe patients could benefit from a jaunt in the town’s four museums.
Fact-based (and artifact-based) medicine: The project is based on a 2019 WHO report that found the arts can bolster mental health and lower the risk of cognitive decline.
- There are also physical benefits, say doctors who have issued scripts to patients who need more physical activity out of the house.
AP OPPORTUNITY QUICK HITS A war within the war: Ukraine's ill children – The New York Times (gift link)
Despite progress, HIV stigma and discrimination continue to bubble beneath the surface in Thailand – UNAIDS
23andMe bankruptcy underscores health privacy gaps – Axios
World's first case of bird flu in sheep detected in England - The Guardian
South Sudan: Delivering baby on the road at 2am just another day for midwife – The Irish Examiner
Public health on the ground at Kenya's Kakuma Refugee Camp – UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Why IUD insertions are painful for many patients and what can be done better – PBS NewsHour
Reducing traffic in Barcelona by 25% would prevent around 200 premature deaths a year linked to pollution – ISGlobal - Barcelona Institute for Global Health Issue No. 2696
Global Health NOW is an initiative of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Contributors include Brian W. Simpson, MPH, Dayna Kerecman Myers, Annalies Winny, Morgan Coulson, Kate Belz, Melissa Hartman, Jackie Powder, and Rin Swann. Write us: dkerecm1@jhu.edu, like us on Facebook and follow us on Instagram @globalhealth.now and X @GHN_News.
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Decades of progress in reducing child deaths and stillbirths at risk, UN warns
The number of children around the world dying before their fifth birthday stands at a record low – but this achievement is under threat due to a chronic lack of investment in routine humanitarian work and interventions, the head of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), said on Tuesday.
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Global Health NOW: How to Keep Traction in the TB Fight?; Fewer Eyes on Food Safety; and Preschool Parasite Prevention
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Global Health NOW: How to Keep Traction in the TB Fight?; Fewer Eyes on Food Safety; and Preschool Parasite Prevention
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A tuberculosis patient at a government-run tuberculosis hospital. Allahabad, India, November 6, 2019. Ritesh Shukla/NurPhoto via Getty
How to Keep Traction in the TB Fight?
World TB Day arrives at a critical juncture for the world’s most fatal infectious disease.
A global uptick:
Related:
A Late-Stage Tuberculosis Vaccine is Making its Way Through Clinical Trials – Contagion Live
A roadmap for integrating nutritional assessment, counselling, and support into the care of people with tuberculosis – The Lancet Global Health
Everything Is Tuberculosis: A Conversation With John Green – Public Health On Call GLOBAL HEALTH VOICES The Latest One-Liners UNICEF condemned the looting of supplies from Khartoum’s Al Bashair Hospital—including 2,200 cartons of ready-to-use therapeutic food for children suffering from malnutrition; iron and folic acid supplements for pregnant and lactating women; and midwife kits and other supplies meant for mothers, newborns, and children. UN News
Ohio, Maryland, and Alabama are among the U.S. states reporting new measles cases, with 378 cases—including 309 in Texas—confirmed in the first few months of 2025; 11 other states have also confirmed cases. The Guardian
A fake CDC webpage alleging that vaccines cause autism has been removed from the website of the Children’s Health Defense—an anti-vaccine nonprofit started by now-U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who ordered the page’s removal following outcry over the weekend. The New York Times (gift link)
Safety nets installed on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge reduced suicides by 73% and increased third-party interventions when someone was at imminent risk of jumping from the bridge, per a study published in Injury Prevention. The Washington Post (gift link) DATA POINT REGULATION Fewer Eyes on Food Safety
Food safety advocates are raising alarms about vulnerabilities in the U.S. food system as budget cuts hit an already underfunded system.
Cuts on the table: A $34 million cut to the FDA could reduce the number of employees and labs devoted to product safety. Already, freezes on government spending have kept staff from purchasing food to perform routine tests for bacteria and PFAS.
Key committees shut down: Committees overseeing meat and poultry inspection and microbiological criteria for foods have been issued stop-work orders—upending in-progress initiatives to prevent pathogens.
Stakes: Last year, ~500 people were hospitalized and 19 died from foodborne illnesses with a known cause—2X more than in 2023.
The Quote: “It’s as if someone, without enough information, has said, What’s a good way to save money on our automobiles? Let’s just take out the seatbelts and airbags, because do we really need them?” said Darin Detwiler, a food safety consultant.
The New York Times (gift link) GLOBAL HEALTH VOICES NEGLECTED DISEASES Preschool Parasite Prevention
Earlier this month, nearly 3,000 preschoolers in Uganda received the first preventive treatment tailored for their age group for schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease affecting ~240 million people worldwide.
More pilots are planned throughout Uganda and in other countries such as Côte d’Ivoire and Kenya in the coming months, with discussions underway on piloting the drug in Senegal and Tanzania.
Devex OPPORTUNITY QUICK HITS Study finds foreign aid sanctions set back decades of progress on maternal and child mortality – Stanford Report
‘Chaos and Confusion’ at the Crown Jewel of American Science – The New York Times (gift link)
Global AIDS program teetering after Trump admin’s shock-and-awe – Politico
The COVID Mistake No One Talks Enough About – The Atlantic
New friction surfaces over replicating research – Axios
Lawsuits Against Diversity Initiatives in Science Multiply – Undark
Reporter's notebook: 8 theories why fentanyl deaths are plummeting – NPR Issue No. 2695
Global Health NOW is an initiative of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Contributors include Brian W. Simpson, MPH, Dayna Kerecman Myers, Annalies Winny, Morgan Coulson, Kate Belz, Melissa Hartman, Jackie Powder, and Rin Swann. Write us: dkerecm1@jhu.edu, like us on Facebook and follow us on Instagram @globalhealth.now and X @GHN_News.
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World TB Day arrives at a critical juncture for the world’s most fatal infectious disease.
- Despite gains in some countries against the disease, that “progress remains fragile,” said Hans Henri Kluge, the WHO’s Regional Director for Europe, per Reuters—and U.S. cuts to global TB interventions could undo decades-long efforts.
- In South Africa, a “tsunami” of NIH grant cuts is gutting anti-TB efforts, with termination letters sent out over the weekend, reports Science. Up to 70% of the country’s HIV and TB research is funded through NIH, per Bhekisisa.
A global uptick:
- Europe saw a 10% rise in child TB infections in 2023.
- In the U.S., TB cases rose by over 15% from 2022 to 2023, and an outbreak in Kansas City continues to perplex officials, reports PBS News.
Related:
A Late-Stage Tuberculosis Vaccine is Making its Way Through Clinical Trials – Contagion Live
A roadmap for integrating nutritional assessment, counselling, and support into the care of people with tuberculosis – The Lancet Global Health
Everything Is Tuberculosis: A Conversation With John Green – Public Health On Call GLOBAL HEALTH VOICES The Latest One-Liners UNICEF condemned the looting of supplies from Khartoum’s Al Bashair Hospital—including 2,200 cartons of ready-to-use therapeutic food for children suffering from malnutrition; iron and folic acid supplements for pregnant and lactating women; and midwife kits and other supplies meant for mothers, newborns, and children. UN News
Ohio, Maryland, and Alabama are among the U.S. states reporting new measles cases, with 378 cases—including 309 in Texas—confirmed in the first few months of 2025; 11 other states have also confirmed cases. The Guardian
A fake CDC webpage alleging that vaccines cause autism has been removed from the website of the Children’s Health Defense—an anti-vaccine nonprofit started by now-U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who ordered the page’s removal following outcry over the weekend. The New York Times (gift link)
Safety nets installed on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge reduced suicides by 73% and increased third-party interventions when someone was at imminent risk of jumping from the bridge, per a study published in Injury Prevention. The Washington Post (gift link) DATA POINT REGULATION Fewer Eyes on Food Safety
Food safety advocates are raising alarms about vulnerabilities in the U.S. food system as budget cuts hit an already underfunded system.
Cuts on the table: A $34 million cut to the FDA could reduce the number of employees and labs devoted to product safety. Already, freezes on government spending have kept staff from purchasing food to perform routine tests for bacteria and PFAS.
Key committees shut down: Committees overseeing meat and poultry inspection and microbiological criteria for foods have been issued stop-work orders—upending in-progress initiatives to prevent pathogens.
Stakes: Last year, ~500 people were hospitalized and 19 died from foodborne illnesses with a known cause—2X more than in 2023.
The Quote: “It’s as if someone, without enough information, has said, What’s a good way to save money on our automobiles? Let’s just take out the seatbelts and airbags, because do we really need them?” said Darin Detwiler, a food safety consultant.
The New York Times (gift link) GLOBAL HEALTH VOICES NEGLECTED DISEASES Preschool Parasite Prevention
Earlier this month, nearly 3,000 preschoolers in Uganda received the first preventive treatment tailored for their age group for schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease affecting ~240 million people worldwide.
- ~50 million preschool-age children globally are at risk of getting schistosomiasis.
- Untreated, the disease can affect cognitive development and cause malnutrition, anemia, and organ damage or death.
More pilots are planned throughout Uganda and in other countries such as Côte d’Ivoire and Kenya in the coming months, with discussions underway on piloting the drug in Senegal and Tanzania.
Devex OPPORTUNITY QUICK HITS Study finds foreign aid sanctions set back decades of progress on maternal and child mortality – Stanford Report
‘Chaos and Confusion’ at the Crown Jewel of American Science – The New York Times (gift link)
Global AIDS program teetering after Trump admin’s shock-and-awe – Politico
The COVID Mistake No One Talks Enough About – The Atlantic
New friction surfaces over replicating research – Axios
Lawsuits Against Diversity Initiatives in Science Multiply – Undark
Reporter's notebook: 8 theories why fentanyl deaths are plummeting – NPR Issue No. 2695
Global Health NOW is an initiative of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Contributors include Brian W. Simpson, MPH, Dayna Kerecman Myers, Annalies Winny, Morgan Coulson, Kate Belz, Melissa Hartman, Jackie Powder, and Rin Swann. Write us: dkerecm1@jhu.edu, like us on Facebook and follow us on Instagram @globalhealth.now and X @GHN_News.
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UN agency warns of ‘surge’ in AIDS deaths without US funding
Amid continuing uncertainty about the impact of deep US funding cuts to humanitarian work worldwide, the head of the UN agency coordinating the fight against HIV-AIDS warned that an additional 6.3 million people will die in the next four years, unless support is reinstated.
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