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Rocklöv, J., Semenza, J. C., Dasgupta, S., Robinson, E. J. .., Abd El Wahed, A., Alcayna, T., . . . Lowe, R. (2023). Decision-support tools to build climate resilience against emerging infectious diseases in Europe and beyond. The Lancet Regional Health: Europe, 32, Article ID 100701.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Decision-support tools to build climate resilience against emerging infectious diseases in Europe and beyond
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2023 (English)In: The Lancet Regional Health: Europe, E-ISSN 2666-7762, Vol. 32, article id 100701Article, review/survey (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Climate change is one of several drivers of recurrent outbreaks and geographical range expansion of infectious diseases in Europe. We propose a framework for the co-production of policy-relevant indicators and decision-support tools that track past, present, and future climate-induced disease risks across hazard, exposure, and vulnerability domains at the animal, human, and environmental interface. This entails the co-development of early warning and response systems and tools to assess the costs and benefits of climate change adaptation and mitigation measures across sectors, to increase health system resilience at regional and local levels and reveal novel policy entry points and opportunities. Our approach involves multi-level engagement, innovative methodologies, and novel data streams. We take advantage of intelligence generated locally and empirically to quantify effects in areas experiencing rapid urban transformation and heterogeneous climate-induced disease threats. Our goal is to reduce the knowledge-to-action gap by developing an integrated One Health—Climate Risk framework.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier, 2023
Keywords
Adaptation, Climate change, Climate policy, Co-production, Human health, Infectious disease, Mitigation, One Health, Planetary health
National Category
Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology Climate Research
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-214534 (URN)10.1016/j.lanepe.2023.100701 (DOI)37583927 (PubMedID)2-s2.0-85170215685 (Scopus ID)
Funder
EU, Horizon Europe, 101057554
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Contributor: IDAlert Consortium.

Available from: 2023-09-21 Created: 2023-09-21 Last updated: 2023-09-21Bibliographically approved
Bancroft, D., Power, G. M., Jones, R. T., Massad, E., Iriat, J. B., Preet, R., . . . Logan, J. G. (2022). Vector control strategies in Brazil: a qualitative investigation into community knowledge, attitudes and perceptions following the 2015-2016 Zika virus epidemic. BMJ Open, 12(1), Article ID e050991.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Vector control strategies in Brazil: a qualitative investigation into community knowledge, attitudes and perceptions following the 2015-2016 Zika virus epidemic
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2022 (English)In: BMJ Open, E-ISSN 2044-6055, Vol. 12, no 1, article id e050991Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

OBJECTIVE: The World Health Organization declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern following the rapid emergence of neonatal microcephaly in Brazil during the 2015-2016 Zika virus (ZIKV) epidemic. In response, a national campaign sought to control Aedes mosquito populations and reduce ZIKV transmission. Achieving adherence to vector control or mosquito-bite reduction behaviours, including the use of topical mosquito repellents, is challenging. Coproduction of research at the community level is needed to understand and mitigate social determinants of lower engagement with Aedes preventive measures, particularly within disempowered groups.

DESIGN: In 2017, the Zika Preparedness Latin America Network (ZikaPLAN) conducted a qualitative study to understand individual and community level experiences of ZIKV and other mosquito-borne disease outbreaks. Presented here is a thematic analysis of 33 transcripts from community focus groups and semistructured interviews, applying the Health Belief Model (HBM) to elaborate knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of ZIKV and vector control strategies.

PARTICIPANTS: 120 purposively sampled adults of approximate reproductive age (18-45); 103 women participated in focus groups and 17 men in semistructured interviews.

SETTING: Two sociopolitically and epidemiologically distinct cities in Brazil: Jundiaí (57 km north of São Paolo) and Salvador (Bahia state capital).

RESULTS: Four key and 12 major themes emerged from the analysis: (1) knowledge and cues to action; (2) attitudes and normative beliefs (perceived threat, barriers, benefits and self-efficacy); (3) behaviour change (household prevention and community participation); and (4) community preferences for novel repellent tools, vector control strategies and ZIKV messaging.

CONCLUSIONS: Common barriers to repellent adherence were accessibility, appearance and effectiveness. A strong case is made for the transferability of the HBM to inform epidemic preparedness for mosquito-borne disease outbreaks at the community level. Nationally, a health campaign targeting men is recommended, in addition to local mobilisation of funding to strengthen surveillance, risk communication and community engagement.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2022
Keywords
entomology, epidemiology, infection control, public health
National Category
Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology Infectious Medicine
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-192510 (URN)10.1136/bmjopen-2021-050991 (DOI)000749001500014 ()35105618 (PubMedID)2-s2.0-85123973182 (Scopus ID)
Funder
EU, Horizon 2020, 734584
Available from: 2022-02-22 Created: 2022-02-22 Last updated: 2023-09-05Bibliographically approved
Valcke, J., Preet, R., Knipper, M. & Båge, K. (2021). Conceptualising Teaching Spaces: The Intersection of Being, Belonging, and Becoming. In: Margaret Kumar and Thushari Welikala (Ed.), Teaching and learning in higher education: the context of being, interculturality and new knowledge systems (pp. 65-77). Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Conceptualising Teaching Spaces: The Intersection of Being, Belonging, and Becoming
2021 (English)In: Teaching and learning in higher education: the context of being, interculturality and new knowledge systems / [ed] Margaret Kumar and Thushari Welikala, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2021, p. 65-77Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Internationalisation of education is often regarded as preparing students to work in a globalised world. Our graduates are not only workers and consumers of the increasingly global labour market, but they are also people, friends, parents, colleagues, neighbours, partners, voters and (global) citizens. Attitudes towards oneself and other people, and the underlying values that these attitudes are based on, poses challenges to quality education. Education in the context of globalisation needs to be inclusive and equitable in order to be of quality (United Nations, 2015), but what does this look like in practice? What does it require of students, and for those responsible for designing education? Do students and teachers have the possibility to reflect on and conceptualise the realities they live in? Apart from knowledge and technical skills, what growth mindset do students and teachers need in order to navigate international and intercultural perspectives responsibly and ethically? This chapter proposes to address these questions through the prism of four teachers in the field of global health education. The students they teach and interact with, as well as their needs as active citizens in a globalised world, will provide the backdrop for further reflection. The personal journeys of the authors between countries, disciplines, professions, learning and teaching will thus be conceptualised as experiences continuously being reconstructed and deconstructed in the classroom through processes of being, belonging and becoming. It is argued that these processes can be used as resources to create inclusive and equitable quality education.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2021
Keywords
global health, International education, interprofessional, multicultural, multilingual, quality education, teaching spaces, values
National Category
Pedagogy Pedagogical Work
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-202944 (URN)10.1108/978-1-80043-006-820211004 (DOI)2-s2.0-85141362136 (Scopus ID)9781800430068 (ISBN)9781800430075 (ISBN)
Available from: 2023-01-14 Created: 2023-01-14 Last updated: 2023-03-24Bibliographically approved
Nordenstedt, H., Holmer, H., Agardh, A., Andersson, P., Ekström, A. M., Ivarsson, A., . . . Sinabulya, H. (2021). Global hälsa på läkarutbildningen igår, idag och imorgon. Socialmedicinsk Tidskrift, 98(2), 232-243
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2021 (Swedish)In: Socialmedicinsk Tidskrift, ISSN 0037-833X, Vol. 98, no 2, p. 232-243Article in journal (Other academic) Published
Abstract [sv]

Undervisning i global hälsa förekommer i olika former vid samtliga läkarutbildningar i Sverige, och på vissa håll har kursmoment med fokus på internationell hälsa funnits i över trettio år. I denna artikel presenteras utvecklingenav global hälsa vid Sveriges läkarutbildningar – från dåtid till nutid och framtid. Textbidrag har inkommit från respektive lärosäte och sammanställts av Helena Nordenstedt och Hampus Holmer.

Abstract [en]

Global health education exists in different forms in all medical programs in Sweden, and in some places parts of courses with a focus on international health has existed for more than 30 years. In this article we the development of global health education in the medical programs in Sweden is presented – from then to now and into the future. Each university has contributed texts, and these contributions have then been compiled by Helena Nordenstedt and Hampus Holmer.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stiftelsen socialmedicinsk tidskrift, 2021
National Category
Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology Educational Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-193124 (URN)
Available from: 2022-03-16 Created: 2022-03-16 Last updated: 2022-03-16Bibliographically approved
Wilder-Smith, A., Brickley, E. B., Ximenes, R. A., Miranda-Filho, D. d., Turchi Martelli, C. M., Solomon, T., . . . Preet, R. (2021). The legacy of ZikaPLAN: a transnational research consortium addressing Zika. Global Health Action, 14, Article ID 2008139.
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2021 (English)In: Global Health Action, ISSN 1654-9716, E-ISSN 1654-9880, Vol. 14, article id 2008139Article, review/survey (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Global health research partnerships with institutions from high-income countries and low- and middle-income countries are one of the European Commission's flagship programmes. Here, we report on the ZikaPLAN research consortium funded by the European Commission with the primary goal of addressing the urgent knowledge gaps related to the Zika epidemic and the secondary goal of building up research capacity and establishing a Latin American-European research network for emerging vector-borne diseases. Five years of collaborative research effort have led to a better understanding of the full clinical spectrum of congenital Zika syndrome in children and the neurological complications of Zika virus infections in adults and helped explore the origins and trajectory of Zika virus transmission. Individual-level data from ZikaPLAN`s cohort studies were shared for joint analyses as part of the Zika Brazilian Cohorts Consortium, the European Commission-funded Zika Cohorts Vertical Transmission Study Group, and the World Health Organization-led Zika Virus Individual Participant Data Consortium. Furthermore, the legacy of ZikaPLAN includes new tools for birth defect surveillance and a Latin American birth defect surveillance network, an enhanced Guillain-Barre Syndrome research collaboration, a de-centralized evaluation platform for diagnostic assays, a global vector control hub, and the REDe network with freely available training resources to enhance global research capacity in vector-borne diseases.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Taylor & Francis, 2021
Keywords
birth defect, congenital Zika syndrome, encephalitis, epidemic preparedness, European Commission, Guillain-Barré Syndrome, microcephaly, research capacity building, sustainability, Zika
National Category
Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-193826 (URN)10.1080/16549716.2021.2008139 (DOI)000777835000009 ()35377284 (PubMedID)2-s2.0-85127500948 (Scopus ID)
Funder
Wellcome trust, 205228/Z/16/Z
Available from: 2022-04-21 Created: 2022-04-21 Last updated: 2022-04-21Bibliographically approved
Preet, R. (2021). The Res.pon.se model: for implementing and developing global health. In: CUGH 2021 Poster program: EPT8 Electronic Poster Track 8. Paper presented at CUGH 2021, Addressing Critical in Global Health and Development, Virtual event, March 12-14, 2021. , Article ID EPT8.093.
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2021 (English)In: CUGH 2021 Poster program: EPT8 Electronic Poster Track 8, 2021, article id EPT8.093Conference paper, Poster (with or without abstract) (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the challenges in global health efforts. The World Health Organization while keeping the nations informed and updated about the transmission and spread of the disease has called for solidarity, in all forms and shapes, as a measure to respond to COVID-19 management. 

The personal journey of the author weaving through between countries, professions, disciplines and learnings is conceptualised as experiences constructed being an educator, researcher and coordinator in global health. Using an auto-ethnographic approach, the personal account draws upon the knowledge for the purpose of enhancing and realizing individual resources to implement global health. 

A Res.pon.se (Research, Education, System, Projects, Operations, Networks, Sustainable, Evidence) model interlinked with eight working Cs is proposed. This model is used as a framework to explore social solidarity, and its two components: i) social regulation and ii) social integration. While constructing deconstructing and re-constructing processes in different spaces, roles and responsibilities an academician operationalises and advances global health. 

This model (pedagogical model) facilitates exploration of solidarity, from an individual (global) public health professional’s perspective. It provides a space for a dialogue on how one complies with regulations and strives for integration within academia and how some of the realizations may contribute towards reforming the academia. 

National Category
Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-205264 (URN)
Conference
CUGH 2021, Addressing Critical in Global Health and Development, Virtual event, March 12-14, 2021
Available from: 2023-02-28 Created: 2023-02-28 Last updated: 2023-02-28Bibliographically approved
Alfvén, T., Ekman, A.-T., Awil, H., Holmer, H., Mia Ekström, A., Preet, R., . . . Frielingsdorf Lundqvist, H. (2020). Agenda 2030 och målen för en hållbar utveckling angår oss alla: [The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development - an important opportunity to improve global health]. Läkartidningen, 117, Article ID 20037.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Agenda 2030 och målen för en hållbar utveckling angår oss alla: [The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development - an important opportunity to improve global health]
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2020 (Swedish)In: Läkartidningen, ISSN 0023-7205, E-ISSN 1652-7518, Vol. 117, article id 20037Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its seventeen Sustainable Development Goals were adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015. It is a bold agenda for global social, environmental and economic development, with human health as a central theme. Even though substantial improvements in health have been achieved during the last decades, every year over 5 million children die, mostly from preventable causes, and 300 000 women die in conjunction with childbirth. Premature deaths from non-communicable diseases are increasing, and our ability to treat infections is under threat through widespread anti-microbial resistance. Climate change is recognized as the biggest threat to health in our time. When the world now starts to plan for how society and our health systems should be reorganized after the COVID-19 pandemic the 2030 Agenda could and should play a central role. In this context, Agenda 2030 provides an ambitious roadmap for development, with its emphasis on collaboration across borders and disciplines. The agenda is achievable but reaching its goals will require strong commitment at all levels and societal change on a large scale.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Sveriges läkarförbund, 2020
National Category
Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-176201 (URN)33051860 (PubMedID)2-s2.0-85092886395 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2020-10-22 Created: 2020-10-22 Last updated: 2023-03-24Bibliographically approved
Osman, S. & Preet, R. (2020). Dengue, chikungunya and Zika in GeoSentinel surveillance of international travellers: a literature review from 1995 to 2020. Journal of Travel Medicine, 27(8), Article ID taaa222.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Dengue, chikungunya and Zika in GeoSentinel surveillance of international travellers: a literature review from 1995 to 2020
2020 (English)In: Journal of Travel Medicine, ISSN 1195-1982, E-ISSN 1708-8305, Vol. 27, no 8, article id taaa222Article, review/survey (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

INTRODUCTION: GeoSentinel is a global surveillance network of travel medicine providers seeing ill-returned travellers. Much of our knowledge on health problems and infectious encountered by international travellers has evolved as a result of GeoSentinel surveillance, providing geographic and temporal trends in morbidity among travellers while contributing to improved pre-travel advice. We set out to synthesize epidemiological information, clinical manifestations and time trends for dengue, chikungunya and Zika in travellers as captured by GeoSentinel.

METHODS: We conducted a systematic literature search in PubMed on international travellers who presented with dengue, chikungunya or Zika virus infections to GeoSentinel sites around the world from 1995 until 2020.

RESULTS: Of 107 GeoSentinel publications, 42 articles were related to dengue, chikungunya and/or Zika. The final analyses and synthesis of and results presented here are based on the findings from 27 original articles covering the three arboviral diseases.

CONCLUSIONS: Dengue is the most frequent arboviral disease encountered in travellers presenting to GeoSentinel sites, with increasing trends over the past two decades. In Southeast Asia, annual proportionate morbidity increased from 50 dengue cases per 1,000 ill returned travellers in non-epidemic years to an average of 159 cases per 1,000 travellers during epidemic years. The highest number of travelers with chikungunya virus infections was reported during the chikungunya outbreak in the Americas and the Caribbean in the years 2013-2016. Zika was first reported by GeoSentinel already in 2012, but notifications peaked in the years 2016-2017 reflecting the public health emergency in the Americas at the time.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oxford University Press, 2020
Keywords
Guillain-Barre Syndrome, autochthonous transmission, congenital Zika syndrome, importation, sexual transmission, systematic review, travel
National Category
Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology Infectious Medicine
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-177273 (URN)10.1093/jtm/taaa222 (DOI)000606836400035 ()33258476 (PubMedID)2-s2.0-85099114463 (Scopus ID)
Funder
EU, Horizon 2020, 734584
Available from: 2020-12-03 Created: 2020-12-03 Last updated: 2023-03-24Bibliographically approved
Depoux, A., Martin, S., Karafillakis, E., Preet, R., Wilder-Smith, A. & Larson, H. (2020). The pandemic of social media panic travels faster than the COVID-19 outbreak. Journal of Travel Medicine, 27(3), Article ID taaa031.
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The pandemic of social media panic travels faster than the COVID-19 outbreak
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2020 (English)In: Journal of Travel Medicine, ISSN 1195-1982, E-ISSN 1708-8305, Vol. 27, no 3, article id taaa031Article in journal, Editorial material (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

We need to rapidly detect and respond to public rumours, perceptions, attitudes and behaviours around COVID-19 and control measures. The creation of an interactive platform and dashboard to provide real-time alerts of rumours and concerns about coronavirus spreading globally would enable public health officials and relevant stakeholders to respond rapidly with a proactive and engaging narrative that can mitigate misinformation.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Oxford University Press, 2020
National Category
Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-168940 (URN)10.1093/jtm/taaa031 (DOI)000537521800005 ()32125413 (PubMedID)2-s2.0-85083197046 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2020-03-13 Created: 2020-03-13 Last updated: 2020-06-30Bibliographically approved
Preet, R. (2018). Dental health is a neglected topic in travel medicine [Letter to the editor]. Journal of Travel Medicine, 25(1)
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Dental health is a neglected topic in travel medicine
2018 (English)In: Journal of Travel Medicine, ISSN 1195-1982, E-ISSN 1708-8305, Vol. 25, no 1Article in journal, Letter (Refereed) Published
National Category
Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology Dentistry
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-153765 (URN)10.1093/jtm/tay082 (DOI)000451526900001 ()30192970 (PubMedID)2-s2.0-85054748838 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2018-11-30 Created: 2018-11-30 Last updated: 2023-03-23Bibliographically approved
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