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Yue Guan

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About Yue Guan
Yue is the GHDonline Project Assistant. She is a Wellesley College graduate with a BA in economics and enjoys data visualization and competitive ballroom dancing.

+1-617-521-3366 (GHD)
Skype: yue_guan
http://www.linkedin.com/in/yueguan

Role(s) / Profession(s)

  • Administrative Assistant
  • Student

Organization

  • Brigham and Women's Hospital, Division of Global Health Equity
    Website: http://www.brighamandwomens.org/socialmedicine/ Type: Medical Institution Country: United States About: The Division of Global Health Equity (DGHE) is dedicated to addressing health disparities through training, education, research and service. The Division focuses on infectious diseases (e.g., HIV and tuberculosis) as well as non-infectious diseases (e.g., coronary artery disease and diabetes) and other health problems of major importance across the globe. Through the hospital’s Doris and Howard Hiatt Residency in Global Health Equity, internal medicine residents in training divide their time between BWH and Partners In Health project sites. This model is now being replicated at other medical schools and teaching hospitals across the country.
  • GHDonline
    Website: http://www.ghdonline.org/ Type: Non-Governmental Organization Country: United States About: GHDonline is a platform of communities developed by the Global Health Delivery Project. GHDonline is where health care implementers share proven practices, connect with colleagues, and find resources they need to improve health outcomes in resource-limited settings.
  • Global Health Delivery Project
    Website: http://globalhealthdelivery.org/ Type: Non-Governmental Organization Country: United States About: The Global Health Delivery (GHD) Project is working to systematize the study of health care delivery, to disseminate new learning to practitioners, and improve health care delivery in resource-limited settings.

Work Location(s)

  • United States

Yue's Communities

Language(s)

  • Chinese
  • English

Recent Contributions

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    Yue Guan replied to "Should Quinine Be Used for Uncomplicated Malaria? Journal Watch" in the Malaria Treatment & Prevention community.

    Posting for Joel Breman: An important point in this discussion is that clinicians should be giving antimalarial drugs orally to patients with uncomplicated malaria/"non-severe" (awake, can swallow) rather than injections. Joel G. Breman, M.D., D.T.P.H. Senior Scientific Advisor Fogarty International Center National Institutes of Health Bldg. 16, Room 214 16 Center Drive, MSC 6705 Bethesda, Maryland 20892-6705 phone (301) 496 0815 fax (301) 496 8496 email jbreman@nih.gov FIC home page http://www.fic.nih.gov/programs/index.htm DCPP website http://www.dcp2.org

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    Yue Guan started a discussion "2011 Bethune Round Table" in the Global Surgery & Anesthesia community.

    The Canadian Network for International Surgery with the McGill University Health Center are proud to host the 11th annual Bethune Round Table on Global Surgery in Montreal, June 3-5 2011 The Bethune Round Table is a unique international conference devoted entirely to surgical issues in the developing world, annually held in Canada. Norman Bethune (1890-1939) was a pioneer in global surgery, developing innovative approaches to surgical care during both the Spanish Civil war and the ...

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    Yue Guan replied to "Feb. 14 Debate: The Ethics of Material Incentives for HIV Prevention" in the HIV Prevention community.

    Mead Over's blog entry about this event can be found here: http://blogs.cgdev.org/globalhealth/2011/02/the-ethics-of-material-incentives-for-hiv-prevention.php The videocast for the event can be found here: http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTHEALTHNUTRITIONANDPOPULATION/EXTHIVAIDS/0,,contentMDK:22570781~menuPK:376477~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~theSitePK:376471,00.html

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    Yue Guan started a discussion "Third Annual Symposium on Nutrition and Global Health: The Double Burden of Over & Under-Nutrition" in the Endemic Non-Communicable Diseases community.

    http://events.globalhealth.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do April 26, 2011 1:00 - 6:00pm Joseph B. Martin Conference Center REGISTER HERE: http://fs6.formsite.com/harvardhigh/form57/index.html Emerging demographic, economic and dietary factors suggest that a large burden of preventable, non-communicative chronic disease is developing in many areas of the world. Meanwhile, malnutrition due to infectious diseases, inadequate agriculture, and unequal food distribution continue to result in acute undernutrition to women, children and other susceptible populations. In order to review the currrent state of the “double burden” ...

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    Yue Guan replied to "Brigham's Academic Global Surgery Forum: May 3rd, 2011, 6:30pm" in the Global Surgery & Anesthesia community.

    Here's an audio transcript for those who weren't able to attend.

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