Call for Applications for the Social Innovation in Health Initiative

In the post-conflict region of Sumapaz, the Integrated Care Model for Rural Areas has been implemented to improve healthcare delivery for rural populations. A team conducts home visits and focuses on environmental care and community building by teaching patients more about medicinal plants, home gardening, and food safety. Have you developed a cross-sectoral approach to better healthcare delivery? 

Apply today!

https://socialinnovationinhealth.org/identification/identifying-innovations-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/

Watch project video here:

https://bit.ly/3c4EWnS

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SSI President and Executive Director join the Centers of Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases

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As a member of the 10 centers that make up the CREID (Centers of Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases) the Asian-American Center for Arbovirus Research and Enhanced Surveillance (A2CARES) will be headed by SSI President Dr. Eva Harris and SSI Executive Director Dr. Josefina Coloma. A2CARES includes a consortium of partners in Nicaragua, Ecuador, Sri Lanka and the United States with overarching goal of developing an interconnected, harmonized network of clinical and laboratory sites to provide the foundation for research programs, compare arboviral diseases across geographic regions, develop and implement cutting-edge molecular and serological testing methods, and respond efficiently and effectively to new disease outbreaks.

The A2CARES Consortium will provide valuable new tools and knowledge that will be able to study emerging and endemic infectious diseases far into the future. Learn more on the website here.

For the Greater Good: A Profile of Eva Harris

 
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Today, SSI's president Eva Harris was featured in an article in The-Scientist.com entitled, “For the Greater Good: A Profile of Eva Harris” detailing her storied history fighting infectious disease through scientific discovery and through the transfer of modern technology, previously inaccessible to those in resource poor countries like Nicaragua. Once called, “the Robin Hood of biotechnology“ by the New York Times, Eva’s commitment to global health and the greater good that it represents, really cannot be overstated.

Read The Full Article Here

 

SSI Joins Forces with ReCoDID

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Earlier this year SSI joined forces with ReCoDID (‘Reconciliation of Cohort data in Infectious Diseases’) a global, multidisciplinary team assembled to fast track the research response to viruses and other pathogens by facilitating data and sample sharing between infectious disease cohort studies.

ReCoDID seeks to develop a sustainable model for the storage and analyses of the complex data sets collected by infectious disease (ID)-related cohorts. By combining groundbreaking work on data sharing in public health emergencies, equitable sample sharing, and statistical methods for leveraging high-dimensional laboratory data in the context of high levels of heterogeneity and limited sample sizes with long-term investments in cloud-computing and OMICS data curation to develop and implement a new model for collaborative research in epidemic response.

We are excited to continue forward with this project into 2020 and see what advancements the new year will bring!

Learn more about the ReCoDID project at: recodid.eu

SSI conducts its first ever proposal writing workshop in the region of 'Darién'

photo credit: US Embassy, Panama

photo credit: US Embassy, Panama

This year SSI conducted its first ever proposal writing workshop in the region of ‘Darién’ the southern limit between Panama and Colombia.

Also known as the ‘Darién Gap’, this region is a remote forest landscape where there exists no roads that adjoin the North and South American continents. Among the 23 participants of the workshop, 20 were women belonging to different indigenous groups within the region.

Their proposals dealt with topics concerning clean water, recycling, sanitation as well as conservation for their history, rituals and way of living.

Learn more about SSI’s capacity building programs at: sustainablesciences.org/capacity-building

Jackeline Alger Recognized as Physician of the Year 2019 by the Honduras College of Medicine

 
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SSI congratulates Dr. Jackeline Alger for receiving the honor of Physician of the Year 2019, from the Honduras National Medical College! Dr. Alger has worked with SSI at multiple capacity building workshops in Central America, and currently serves on the Advisory Committee on Health Research (ACHR) at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). This award, bestowed during the Week of the Physicians, started in 2002 and Dr. Alger is only the second women to receive such a prestigious honor.

Congratulations once again Dr. Alger!