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Journal

A Clinic-Based School Readiness Coaching Intervention for Low-Income Latino Children: An Intervention Study

Jaime W. Peterson, Jannine Bruce, Kim G. Harley, Lynne C. Huffman, Lisa J. Chamberlain, Ndola Prata

2020

Abstract


This intervention study assessed school readiness (SR)-related parent behaviors and perceived barriers for Latino parent-child pairs (N = 149, Mage = 4.5) after a clinic-based SR intervention (n = 74) or standard well-child care (n = 75). Intervention was a 1-hour visit with a community health worker (CHW) to assess child SR, model [...]

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Shining the light on abortion: Drivers of online abortion searches across the United States in 2018

Ndola Prata, Sylvia Guendelman, Elizabeth Pleasants, Elena Yon, Alan Hubbard

2020

Abstract
 

Context

Legal abortion restrictions, stigma and fear can inhibit people’s voices in clinical and social
settings posing barriers to decision-making and abortion care. The internet allows individuals
to make informed decisions privately. We explored what state-level policy dimensions were
associated with volume of Google searches on abortion and on the abortion [...]

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Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health

Ndola Prata, Karen Weidert

International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2020

Introduction

The World Health Organization (WHO) (2019B) defines adolescence as the period between 10 and 19 years of age, when children transition into adults. In 2020, there will be an estimated 1.25 billion adolescents in the world, with almost 90% of them residing in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Adolescence is a phase marked [...]

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Two women walking down a dirt road by baobob trees in Africa.

Climate–Poverty Connections: Opportunities for synergistic solutions at the intersection of planetary and human well-being

Yusuf Jameel, Carissa M. Patrone, Kristen P. Patterson, and Paul C. West

2022

Drawdown Lift’s Climate–Poverty Connections: Opportunities for synergistic solutions at the intersection of planetary and human well-being provides concrete evidence of how climate solutions can also be win-win opportunities for meeting development and human well-being (link is external)needs while boosting prosperity for rural communities in sub-Saharan Africaand South Asia.

This landmark report produced by the Drawdown Lift(link is external) program of Project Drawdown shows [...]

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Measuring #MeToo: A National Study on Sexual Harassment and Assault

2019

The UC San Diego Center on Gender Equity and Health is proud to share findings from their 2019 study on sexual harassment and assault in the United States, “Measuring #MeToo: A National Study on Sexual Harassment and Assault”. This work, conducted in partnership with Stop Street Harassment, Raliance, and Promundo, non-governmental organizations focused on prevention [...]

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Op-Ed The Harmful Consequences of Defunding Planned Parenthood

2019

Anjali Nadeswaran

The Harmful Consequences of Defunding Planned Parenthood

In response to Alexis McGill Johnson’s “Planned Parenthood isn’t political. It’s been politicized.”

In a political climate where Roe v. Wade is increasingly threatened, the fight for continuous federal funding of Planned Parenthood must be at the top of our agenda. It is [...]

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Urgent action needed to curb runaway population growth in Pakistan

Health minister calls for working towards sustainable, balanced growth
ISLAMABAD: The last census showed that in 20 years, Pakistan’s population had grown by 57 per cent at a rate of 2.4 per cent per year. If the situation continues unabated, the country’s population may well double by 2050.

This was warned by Special Assistant [...]

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Editorial

Op-Ed Climate Change & Women’s Health

Daisy Valdivieso

Climate Change & Women’s Health

Climate Change is an immense issue which leaves neither humans nor habitats unaffected by its breadth. That said, it will affect vulnerable groups disproportionately. The New York Times article “Study Warns of Cascading Health Risks from the Changing Climate” pays attention to vulnerable populations, like the [...]

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Accessible LAMP-Enabled Rapid Test (ALERT) for Detecting SARS-CoV-2

2021

Abstract: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has highlighted bottlenecks in largescale, frequent testing of populations for infections. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based diagnostic tests are expensive, reliant on centralized labs, can take days to deliver results, and are prone to backlogs and supply shortages. Antigen tests that bind and detect the surface proteins of a virus are rapid and scalable but suffer from high false negative rates. To address this problem, an inexpensive, simple, and robust 60-minute do-it-yourself (DIY) workflow to detect viral RNA from nasal swabs or saliva with high sensitivity (0.1 to 2 viral particles/L) and specificity (>97% true negative rate) utilizing reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) was developed. ALERT (Accessible LAMP-Enabled Rapid Test) incorporates the following features: (1) increased shelf-life and ambient temperature storage, compared to liquid reaction mixes, by using wax layers to isolate enzymes from other reagents; (2) improved specificity compared to other LAMP end-point reporting methods, by using sequence-specific QUASR (quenching of unincorporated amplification signal reporters); (3) increased sensitivity, compared to methods without purification through use of a magneticwand to enable pipette-free concentration of sample RNA and cell debris removal; (4) quality control with a nasopharyngeal-specific mRNA target; and (5) co-detection of other respiratory viruses, such as influenza B, by multiplexing QUASR-modified RT-LAMP primer sets. The flexible nature of the ALERT workflow allows easy, at-home and point-of-care testing for individuals and higherthroughput processing for labs and hospitals. With minimal effort, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)-specific primer sets can be swapped out for other targets to repurpose ALERT to detect other viruses, microorganisms, or nucleic acid-based markers. Keywords: RT-LAMP; point-of-care; biodetection; SARS-CoV-2

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Letter

Recommendations to Improve Medication-Assisted Treatment Implementation in Correctional Health

Letters

Authors: Clayton A. Barnes, M.D., M.P.H., Andrea N. Ponce, B.A., Rachel Loewy, Ph.D.

Bixby Center's Faculty Director Dr. Ndola Prata mentored Andrea N. Ponce in her Honors Thesis identifying determinants of modern contraceptive use among Filipina women of reproductive age. After receiving her bachelor’s degree in Public Health from UC Berkeley in 2019, Andrea joined the UCSF [...]

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