Assailed at Home; Champions Abroad: The ACNM ’ s Push for Maternal Healthcare Advancements in Nigeria
In 1982, the American College of Nurse Midwives (ACNM) created a Special Projects Section (SPS) whose goal was to combat deteriorating maternal and infant health, improve the lives of women, and advance the field of midwifery. By the late 1980s, the SPS adopted an increasingly international focus with notable Safe Motherhood projects in Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, and Kenya aimed at combating maternal deaths, promoting family planning services, and strengthening midwifery programs. At the backdrop of these international projects was a maternal healthcare crisis in the US ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - October 24, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Genomic Surveillance and Characterization of Microbial Threats Facilitates Early Detection and Containment of Disease Outbreaks in West Africa.
Dr. Christian Happy, has the expertise and skills, leadership and motivation necessary to successfully conduct and oversee health research projects in West Africa. He has a broad background in molecular biology and genomics with application in infectious diseases, including malaria, Lassa fever, Ebola virus disease and HIV. Of his career accomplishments to date, the most meaningful was my use of genomics technologies for early diagnosis and confirmation (within 6 hours) of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Nigeria. This singular action was major in containing EVD in Nigeria, and therefore saving millions of lives in Africa. Thi...
Source: Videocast - All Events - July 19, 2023 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Heterogeneity of Breast Cancer Genomes: Going Beyond Therapy to Risk Assessment and Precision Healthcare
NIH Director ’ s Wednesday Afternoon Lecture SeriesThis is the annual Marshall W. Nirenberg Lecture. Speaker Olufunmilayo I. Olopade the consummate physician-scientist with sustained and impactful translational research in genetics that spans more than two decades. She is a pioneer in cancer genetics whose body of work has focused on the molecular genetics of breast cancer progression. Her seminal contributions have provided an understanding of the root causes of aggressive breast cancer in young women, especially young women of African ancestry across the Diaspora. Her laboratory was the first to describe recurrent BRCA...
Source: Videocast - All Events - May 23, 2022 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Genomic Basis of Breast Cancer Progression in Blacks
This is the annual Marshall W. Nirenberg Lecture. Speaker Olufunmilayo I. Olopade the consummate physician-scientist with sustained and impactful translational research in genetics that spans more than two decades. She is a pioneer in cancer genetics whose body of work has focused on the molecular genetics of breast cancer progression. Her seminal contributions have provided an understanding of the root causes of aggressive breast cancer in young women, especially young women of African ancestry across the Diaspora. Her laboratory was the first to describe recurrent BRCA1 mutations in extended African American families wit...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 27, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Leveraging technology to improve population health
Dr. Abayomi Jaye, founder of Lagos, Nigeria-based Cecy Health Consult, explained how personal loss led to founding a company that helps his country ' s underserved patients. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - July 9, 2019 Category: Information Technology Tags: Patient Engagement Population Health Source Type: video
