Despite the fact that rare diseases aren’t actually so rare, it appears they suffer from a branding problem in Canada.
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Did you ever consider that human beings might have a breeding season? Birth seasonality exists – and has interesting implications for childhood disease outbreaks.
Childhood adversity doesn’t just affect our choices – according to new research, it also weakens the body’s fundamental ability to stay healthy in old age.
When day zero arrives in Cape Town, the routine surveillance systems that monitor disease outbreaks will be enhanced to pick up new diseases.
Why are some animals resistant to waterborne disease? A reader wants to know.
One year after the end of the West African Ebola epidemic, a study of survivors in Guinea shows what has been learned about the deadly virus, and what remains unknown.
A five-year project announced today will implement an innovative water-sensitive approach tailored to informal settlements. The goal is to revitalise 24 communities in Fiji and Indonesia.
The rhetoric of racial purity is full of suggestive terms like illness, weakening and dilution. These imply the medicalisation of the nation.
Africa’s soil crisis calls for quick and creative action. This includes deepening farmers’ knowledge about soil microbes.
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Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Science
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Visiting Professor of Sustainability Science, Technical University of Denmark
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Distinguished Professor, Public Health and Medical Anthropology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology; African-American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Associate professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Distinguished Professor, Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Stellenbosch University
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Associate Professor, Biology, Zoology, Animal Science, Western Sydney University
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Professeur de maladies infectieuses, Inserm, université de Montpellier, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)
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Professor and Director of Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
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Researcher in Social Epidemiology, University of York
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Professor, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Canada
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Assistant professor, Département de médecine sociale et préventive, Université Laval
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Public Health Specialist in the Division of Health Systems and Public Health,, Stellenbosch University
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Public Health Registrar in the Division of Public Health Medicine, University of Cape Town
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Professor and CEO, Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities
