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Face masks could raise pollution risks

Published in Nature

People can get a false sense of security from flimsy gauze, and linger too longoutdoors in toxic air, argue Wei Huang and Lidia Morawska. A woman wearing a protective pollution mask walks past a billboard depicting a green globe and flowers in Beijing

Surveillance and monitoring of antimicrobial resistance: limitations and lessons from the GRAM project

Published in BMC Medicine

Pilot GWAS of caries in African-Americans shows genetic heterogeneity

Published in BMC Oral Health

BackgroundDental caries is the most common chronic disease in the US and disproportionately affects racial/ethnic minorities. Caries is heritable, and though genetic heterogeneity exists between ancestries for a substantial portion of loci associated with complex disease, a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of caries specifically in African Amer...

A behavioral design approach to improving a Chagas disease vector control campaign in Peru

Published in BMC Public Health

BackgroundIndividual behavior change is a critical ingredient in efforts to improve global health. Central to the focus on behavior has been a growing understanding of how the human brain makes decisions, from motivations and mindsets to unconscious biases and cognitive shortcuts. Recent work in the field of behavioral economics and related fields ...

Keeping up with the times: how national public health and governmental organizations communicate about cannabis on Twitt...

Published in Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy

BackgroundPublic health and governmental organizations are expected to provide guidance to the public on emerging health issues in accessible formats. It is, therefore, important to examine how such organizations are discussing cannabis online and the information that is being provided to the public about this increasingly legal and available subst...

Holding the keys to health? A scoping study of the population health impacts of automated vehicles

Published in BMC Public Health

BackgroundAutomated Vehicles (AVs) are central to the new mobility paradigm that promises to transform transportation systems and cities across the globe. To date, much of the research on AVs has focused on technological advancements with little emphasis on how this emerging technology will impact population-level health. This scoping study examine...

Systematic review of the appropriateness of eye care delivery in eye care practice

Published in BMC Health Services Research

BackgroundHealth care systems are continually being reformed, however care improvement and intervention effectiveness are often assumed, not measured. This paper aimed to review findings from published studies about the appropriateness of eye care delivery, using existing published evidence and/or experts’ practice and to describe the methods used ...