Global Dengue Lab is a sharing and collaboration platform for professionals who work on the prevention, surveillance or treatment of dengue fever. Run by the Break Dengue initiative, it offers a unique opportunity to engage with professionals from different fields of expertise around the world, providing one central point to help tackle the burden of dengue collectively. Conversations include research and development of new techniques and technologies; best-practice sharing; project development and partnerships. You can read more here.
The Dengue Illness Index is a tool for capturing the patient’s experience of dengue (rather than characterizing dengue severity) that is intended to support research. ...
For countries that depend on tourism, the economic cost of a dengue outbreak can be substantial. Afraid of catching the virus, tourists and their dollars ...
The WHO has listed dengue fever among the top 10 health threats facing the planet in 2019. Interestingly, another of the top 10 is vaccine ...
The threat of dengue in Europe has become a reality. At the tail end of 2018, autochthonous dengue cases appeared in Spain and France, and ...
A group of scientists, physicians, funders, and policy makers from over 70 institutions from over 30 countries have launched an international coalition to respond to COVID-19 in resource-poor settings. ...
Dengue fever is a global concern - we urge the United Nations to designate a World Dengue Day at its General Assembly in September 2019 Find out more and add ...
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has convened an inquiry into how research can be conducted ethically in global health emergencies. The aim of the project is to help to ...
Although the outcome of flavivirus infection can vary from asymptomatic to lethal, environmental factors modulating disease severity are poorly defined. Here, we observed increased susceptibility of mice to severe West ...
Regional Coordinator for Global Research Nurses for the Latin America and Caribbean Region. Read more
New pop-up Coronavirus Knowledge Hub, a single-access portal to information with a focus on addressing the unknowns during the coronavirus outbreak, launches on The Global Health Network. Read more
New free e-learning course on participatory visual methods that includes a wealth of practical tips and examples that you can implement in your health and research engagement activities. Compiled by Gill Black (Sustainable Livelihoods Foundation) and Mary Chambers (Oxford University ... Read more
Releasing genetically modified Aedes Aegypti sterile mosquitoes has caused the species’ population to fall by 90% in local trial sites. These results have raised expectations that this novel approach could be used to defeat dengue in combination with traditional vector ... Read more
