5018.0 IH Poster Session 8: Future Directions

Wednesday, October 29, 2008: 8:30 AM
Poster

Board 1
Snowball methodology: Novel application of an age-old research strategy to capture elusive study populations
Loretta V. Sullivan, MD, MPH
Board 2
Alternatives to CD4 lymphocyte count and HIV viral load as lower-cost predictors of mortality in children born to HIV-infected mothers in a resource-limited setting
Yetunde Olutunmbi, BA, Roland Kupka, DSc, Ferdinand Mugusi, MD, MMed and Wafaie Fawzi, MB, BS, DrPH
Board 3
A Scoring Index for Acute Bacterial Meningitis: Implications for the Population-Based Assessment of Hib, Meningococcal and Pneumococcal Vaccine Impact
Hoa L. Nguyen, MD, MS, Paul E. Kilgore, MPH, MD, Nyambat Batmunkh, MD, MPH and Anh D. Dang, PhD
Board 4
A comparison of patient flow in vertical vs. integrated HIV care models in Central Mozambique
Mark A. Micek, MD, MPH, James Pfeiffer, PhD, MPH, JoćO. Alberto Baptista, Augusto Sousa, MD, Kenneth Gimbel-Sherr, MPH, Pablo Montoya, MD, MPH, Artur Gremu, Wendy Johnson, MD, MPH, Barrot Lambdin, MPH and Stephen Gloyd, MD, MPH
Board 5
Comparison of Breast and Colon Cancer Screening Rate of Korean residing in Korea and U.S
Kyeong-Soo Lee, MD, PhD, Pock-Soo Kang, MD PhD, Tae-Yoon Hwang, MD PhD, Jung-Jeung Lee, Sang-Kyu Kim, MD PhD and In-Sob Hwang, MS
Board 6
Feasibility of geographic information systems (GIS) technology for esophageal cancer research in western Kenya
Robert K. Parker, BS and Russell E. White, MD MPH FACS
Board 7
Ethical challenges in studying psychosocial needs of children in a time of HIV
Shuaib Kauchali, FCPaed, MPhil and Leslie L. Davidson, MD, MSc
Board 8
A comparative study of fluorescence microscopy and Ziehl-Neelsen techniques in the examination of sputum for the diagnosis of tuberculosis at a middle-income country referral hospital
Raul Chuquiyauri, MD, Armand Van Deun, Gabriela Torrea, Juan C. Agapito, Eduardo Gotuzzo, MD, Dr and Kristien Verdonck, MD
Board 9
Towards Polio ‘Endgame': Need to Focus on Social Determinants
Rajib Dasgupta, Assistant Prof, Sanjay Chaturvedi, MD, Vivek Adhish, MD, Kalyan Ganguly, Scientist 'E', Sanjay K. Rai, Assistant Prof, Leena Sushant, Prog Consultant, Narendra K. Arora, MD, MPH and Sunil Kumar Agarwal, MBBS
Board 10
Gender difference in response to new emerging diseases --- an example of the SARS outbreak
Eugene Yu-Chang Peng, MD, MS, Chih-Chien Yang, MS, PhD, Shu-Yu Lyu, MPH, PhD, Fuh-Yuan Shih, MD, PhD and Po-Tswen Yu, MS

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