To find solutions to twenty-first century public health problems, collaboration is more important than ever. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) lists “teamwork” as its first example of an approach to improving health care coordination. This shift from volume-based to value-based care is firmly taking hold, albeit with the rightful nudge from government and consumer advocates.
Global Health News and Events
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MUSC professor evaluates impact of HIV testing programs in East and West Africa
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Video: Experts at MUSC talk Ebola preparedness
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Reflections from the field: Theresa Cantu, Marine Biomedicine and Environmental Sciences doctoral student - Kruger National Park, S. Africa
Loskop Dam, South Africa – Fish Fieldwork 7/26/14-8/1/14 |
MUSC professor uses statistical modeling to design public health interventions in East Africa
Limits in public funding do not stop academic institutions from investing human and financial resources in research, if not to seek larger funds, to create momentum in boosting scientific innovation. “One of the main challenges sustaining my global health project in Ethiopia was securing some type of funding,” said Mulugeta Gebregziabher, PhD, Associate Professor of biostatistics in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). |
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MUSC student takes leap of faith on HIV/AIDS program in South Africa
By Matthew Husband |
Lessons from the field: Vasanthan Kuppuswamy, second year medical student
By Vasanthan Kuppuswamy |
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Guidance for Ebola-affected countries
Since March 2014, West African (Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia) countries experienced the largest outbreak of Ebola in history. Soon after the World Health Organization declared the end of the Ebola outbreak in these countries, new cases of Ebola were reported in Guinea late November 2015. The health systems in these West African countries continue to monitor for new cases and to exercise preemptive action to prevent transmission. |
MUSC Ebola Panel Discussion
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MUSC professor works to reduce mental health toll of global crises
The behavioral fallout from the current Ebola crisis has created a historic and consequential dilemma for the global mental health and public health communities. Computational models to track the Ebola crisis provide forecasts of death tolls by scenario, but human behavior cannot be adjusted for given the misinformation, hysteria, and superstition brooding over communities in West Africa and around the world. |
MUSC medical student forgoes ecological research for global medicine career
Another cold, dreary day goes by and Susan Linn, second year medical student at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), hears of another preventable death. Had the only clinic on the island where she worked been staffed the decedent would have received much needed treatment. Alcoholism ravages the island—it is hard to discern the causal relationship between heavy consumption and mental illness in either direction. Public health education is nonexistent. The healthcare system is almost irremediably splintered. |