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DESCRIPTION:The 涩里番 Global Health Programs and the 涩里番 Department of 
 Epidemiology\, Biostatistics and Occupational Health are proud to present 
 a seminar discussion with Dr. Charles Larson\, MD\, Clinical Professor in 
 the Department of Pediatrics at the University of British Columbia.\nAbout
  Dr. Larson:\nBorn and raised in Tacoma\, Washington\, Dr. Larson moved to
  Montreal to study medicine at 涩里番.聽 He subsequently special
 ized in Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine & Public Health.聽 His global he
 alth career began in the late 1980s when he joined the 涩里番-Ethiopia Str
 engthening Community Health Project\, which he directed from 1989 to 1992.
 聽聽 Since 2008\, he has been a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of
  British Columbia and Director of the BC Children's Hospital-Centre for In
 ternational Child Health (CICH). The CICH currently carries out capacity b
 uilding and research projects in Bangladesh\, China\, Uganda\, India and S
 enegal. Prior to joining UBC he lived in Dhaka\, Bangladesh for 6 years wh
 ere he directed the Health Systems and Infectious Diseases Division at the
  International Centre for Diarrheal Diseases Research\, Bangladesh.聽 He al
 so led a five-year 涩里番 population child health project in Ch
 elyabinsk\, Russia from 1998 to 2003.聽 Since 2011 he has been the PI on a 
 Muskoka Initiative grant being carried out in rural Bangladesh\, titled 鈥淚
 nterrupting pathways to Maternal\, Newborn and Early Childhood Sepsis'. Dr
 . Larson鈥檚 interests currently focus on implementation studies\, including
  research in support of the scale up of zinc treatment of childhood diarrh
 ea and interventions that address the early detection\, referral\, treatme
 nt and follow-up management of sepsis in newborns and young children.聽聽 Ch
 arles is a past Board of Directors Chair of the Canadian Society for Inter
 national Health and currently the National Coordinator of the Canadian Coa
 lition for Global Health Research\nAbstract:\nOver the past 5 years a team
  of researchers at the BC Children鈥檚 Hospital 鈥� Centre for International C
 hild Health have been conducting studies in rural Uganda and Bangladesh wi
 th the aim of developing mHealth applications that can assist in identifyi
 ng at risk for serious illness and death.聽 The research team includes clin
 icians\, epidemiologists\, statisticians\, engineers\, and psychologists. 
 To date these have been facility-based studies which have led to the devel
 opment and testing of predictive models for 1) need for hospitalization\, 
 2) death in hospital and 3) post hospital discharge mortality in children 
 under five years of age.聽 Within the context of existing health systems\, 
 these findings have led to the current development and testing of post-dis
 charge survival kits and field testing of smart phone applications that wi
 ll accurately identify children in need of referral from villages or local
  health centres to hospital facilities.\nRefreshments will be served\nFor 
 more information please contact us at globalhealth [at] mcgill.ca\n
DTSTART:20151109T210000Z
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LOCATION:Room 521 (Meakins Amphitheatre)\, McIntyre Medical Building\, CA\,
  QC\, Montreal\, H3G 1Y6\, 3655 promenade Sir William Osler
SUMMARY:鈥渕Health applications to predict the need for hospitalization and i
 n-hospital or post discharge mortality in under-five children: results fro
 m Bangladesh and Uganda鈥�
URL:/globalhealth/channels/event/mhealth-applications-
 predict-need-hospitalization-and-hospital-or-post-discharge-mortality-unde
 r-255091
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