By Dr. Ingrid Pamela Morales Cedillo, MDNational Institute of Psychiatry Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz INPRFMMexico City, Mexico The Neuropsychiatric Genetics of Psychosis in Mexico Populations (NeuroMex) program is grateful to the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) for the opportunity to receive training from the Global Initiative for Neuropsychiatric Genetics Education in Continue reading [...]

Written by Anna D. Bartuska, Arielle Eagan, MSW, LICSW, and Juliana Lynn Restivo, MPH “Our minds rely on certainty and predictability of future events to be able to plan how to spend one’s time, and clearly this is exactly what has been turned upside down.” – Vikram Patel, MBBS, PhD Continue reading [...]

By Anders Gundersen, HGHI | March 14, 2020 What do we know about how SARS-CoV-2 survives outside the human host in hospital settings? Transmission of COVID-19 within hospitals has been observed, but is is unclear how the virus was passed along. In a hospital in Singapore, researchers tested numerous sites in the rooms of three Continue reading [...]

Tynan Friend, HGHI | March 13, 2020 Numerous reports over the past weeks have circulated throughout the U.S detailing what many regard as severe shortcomings in the COVID-19 laboratory testing by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Continue reading [...]

Once the news was out about a novel coronavirus emerging in China, Dr. John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, swiftly moved to action: In a few short weeks, he built capacity to test for the novel virus across the African continent. HGHI’s Ashish Jha asks: How did he do Continue reading [...]

By Kate Raphael, HGHI | March 12, 2020 Here is a truth about the human brain: in crisis, we get creative. So, like other major crises before, the coronavirus pandemic is driving innovative ideas and new solutions for how to deal with the risk of infection, testing shortages, and other current challenges. Continue reading [...]