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Assessing the filtration efficiency and regulatory status of N95s and nontraditional filtering face-piece respirators available during the COVID-19 pandemic

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has severely disrupted supply chains for many types of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), particularly surgical N95 filtering facepiece respirators (FFRs; “masks”). As a consequence, an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA)
Deborah Plana, Enze Tian, Avilash K. Cramer, Helen Yang, Mary M. Carmack, Michael S. Sinha, Florence T. Bourgeois, Sherry H. Yu, Peter Masse, Jon Boyer, Minjune Kim, Jinhan Mo, Nicole R. LeBoeuf, Ju Li, Peter K. Sorger   +14 more
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Integral Scientific Advice for Outbreak Response: Lessons learned from an Avian Influenza Simulation in the Netherlands

International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Background: The continuing avian influenza outbreaks in animals pose a public health threat worldwide. Concerns about the risk for humans are raising, now we see spread among different mammal species and animal to human transmission.
Dr Anja Schreijer, Dr. Femke Overbosch, Dr. Tomris Cesuroglu, Dr Charlotte Waltz, Drs. Bart Blokland, Drs Jeanette de Boer, Drs Tim Florschutz   +6 more
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Effectiveness of stigma reduction interventions and outbreak response adaptations in infectious disease outbreaks: a systematic review

Frontiers in Public Health
IntroductionStigma is a common and recurring feature of infectious disease outbreaks where it may have detrimental effects on individual wellbeing and undermine outbreak response.
Amy Paterson, Ruan Spies, Ruan Spies, Chambrez-Zita Zauchenberger, Chambrez-Zita Zauchenberger, Ashleigh Cheyne, Piero L. Olliaro, Amanda Rojek   +7 more
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Ebola disease stigma: mixed methods insights from the 2022 Sudan ebolavirus outbreak

BMJ Open
Objectives Ebola disease stigma hinders outbreak control and recovery by deterring care-seeking and driving social exclusion. Although this phenomenon is well recognised, gaps remain in understanding how stigma emerges and operates in outbreak settings ...
Olive Kabajaasi, Amanda Rojek, Amy Paterson, Mary Gouws, Kkunsa Hadson Dimitrios, Ashleigh Cheyne   +5 more
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Reference Standards for Cardiorespiratory Fitness by Cardiovascular Disease Category and Testing Modality: Data From FRIEND

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2021
Background The importance of cardiorespiratory fitness for stratifying risk and guiding clinical decisions in patients with cardiovascular disease is well‐established.
James E. Peterman, Ross Arena, Jonathan Myers, Susan Marzolini, Philip A. Ades, Patrick D. Savage, Carl J. Lavie, Leonard A. Kaminsky   +7 more
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West African Policy Dialogue—impulse for better data: progress towards better analytics and better decisions

BMC Proceedings
In a context of increasing efforts towards the establishment of a Regional Health Data Hub for the African Region, the 2024 West African Policy Dialogue brought together researchers and policymakers from seven West African countries in a two-day meeting ...
Gideon Kwarteng Acheampong, Fortress Yayra Aku, John Amuasi, Sylvia Annang, Silvia Argimon, Ernest Konadu Asiedu, Joseph Humphrey Kofi Bonney, Reinhard Busse, Benjamin Emikpe, Esteban Garcia-Gallo, Jonathan Mawutor Gmanyami, Anne Meierkord, Sam Kofi Newton, Bernard Nkrumah, Benjamin Nyakutsey, Daniel Opoku, Paul Elvis Onyango Ouma, Michael Owusu, Wilm Quentin   +18 more
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Developing the next-generation of adenoviral vector vaccines

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
The COVID-19 pandemic saw the first extensive use of adenoviral vector vaccines, with over 3 billion doses produced during the first year of the pandemic alone and an estimated 6 million lives saved.
Alexander T. Sampson, Matěj Hlaváč, Adam C. T. Gillman, Bruno Douradinha, Sarah C. Gilbert   +4 more
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Research prioritisation in preparedness for and response to outbreaks of high-consequence pathogens: a scoping review

BMC Medicine
Background Priority setting for research on epidemic/pandemic-prone pathogens is essential for the allocation of limited resources to optimise impact. It involves the identification of gaps in knowledge crucial to effective preparedness and response to ...
Emilia Antonio, Nicolas Pulik, Susan Khader Ibrahim, Adebisi Adenipekun, Shanthi Levanita, Isabel Foster, Dorothy Chepkirui, Eli Harriss, Louise Sigfrid, Alice Norton   +9 more
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Gaps in the global health research landscape for mpox: an analysis of research activities and existing evidence

BMC Medicine
Background Since December 2022, human cases of mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have risen at unprecedented rates. We identified a need for systematic mapping of the active research landscape and evidence, assessing their alignment with
Rodrigo Furst, Emilia Antonio, Marieke de Swart, Isabel Foster, Johannes Paolo Cerrado, Zaharat Kadri-Alabi, Susan Khader Ibrahim, Lauren Ashley, Duduzile Ndwandwe, Louise Sigfrid, Alice Norton   +10 more
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Preparing for pandemics: a systematic review of pandemic influenza clinical management guidelines

BMC Medicine, 2022
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of evidence-based clinical decision-making. Clinical management guidelines (CMGs) may help reduce morbidity and mortality by improving the quality of clinical decisions.
Ishmeala Rigby, Melina Michelen, Vincent Cheng, Andrew Dagens, Dania Dahmash, Samuel Lipworth, Eli Harriss, Erhui Cai, Valeria Balan, Alexandra Oti, Reena Joseph, Helen Groves, Peter Hart, Shevin Jacob, Lucille Blumberg, Peter W. Horby, Louise Sigfrid   +16 more
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