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The Global Context of Vaccine Refusal: Insights from a Systematic Comparative Ethnography of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative

Svea Closser; Anat Rosenthal; Kenneth Maes; Judith Justice; Kelly Cox; Patricia A. Omidian; Ismaila Zango Mohammed; Aminu Mohammed Dukku; Adam D. Koon; Laetitia Nyirazinyoye

The Impact of Polio Eradication on Routine Immunization and Primary Health Care: A Mixed-Methods Study

Svea Closser; Kelly Cox; Thomas M. Parris; R. Matthew Landis; Judith Justice; Ranjani Gopinath; Kenneth Maes; Hailom Banteyerga Amaha; Ismaila Zango Mohammed; Aminu Mohammed Dukku; Patricia A. Omidian; Emma Varley; Pauley Tedoff; Adam D. Koon; Laetitia Nyirazinyoye; Matthew A. Luck; W. Frank Pont; Vanessa Neergheen; Anat Rosenthal; Peter Nsubuga; Naveen Thacker; Rashid Jooma; Elizabeth Nuttall

Background.After 2 decades of focused efforts to eradicate polio, the impact of eradication activities on health systems continues to be controversial. This study evaluated the impact of polio eradication activities on ...

The RMap Project

Karen L. Hanson; Tim DiLauro; Mark Donoghue; Sayeed Choudhury

The goal of the RMap Project is to create a prototype service that can capture and preserve maps of relationships amongst the increasingly distributed components (article, data, software, workflow objects, multimedia, etc.) ...

Three Years of Medical Education at the American Thoracic Society

Henry E. Fessler

Translating Time: Habits of Western-Style Timekeeping in Late Edo Japan

Yulia Frumer

Translating Words, Building Worlds: Meteorology in Japanese, Dutch, and Chinese

Yulia Frumer

Using community health workers:

KENNETH MAES; SVEA CLOSSER; ETHAN VOREL; YIHENEW TESFAYE

In this article, we use semi-structured interviews and documents produced by Ethiopian government officials and international health donors to examine two key features of the nation’s CHW program: (1) the process and ...

Venous Thromboembolism in Upper Extremity Fractures

Suresh K. Nayar; Anne M. Kuwabara; José M. Flores; Greg M. Osgood; Dawn M. LaPorte; Babar Shafiq

Volunteers in Ethiopia’s women’s development army are more deprived and distressed than their neighbors: cross-sectional survey data from rural Ethiopia

Kenneth Maes; Svea Closser; Yihenew Tesfaye; Yasmine Gilbert; Roza Abesha

“We Can't Give Up Now”: Global Health Optimism and Polio Eradication in Pakistan

Svea Closser

The Polio Eradication Initiative, the largest coordinated public health project in history, is currently facing serious difficulties. For years, it has tried and failed to eliminate polio from its last strongholds in ...

Why We Must Provide Better Support for Pakistan's Female Frontline Health Workers

Svea Closser; Rashid Jooma

Summary Points As the Global Polio Eradication Initiative deploys its endgame strategy, the commitment and effectiveness of field health workers in polio-endemic countries is critical. Ongoing attacks on Lady ...