Dec 1, 2014 — This is episode ten of our special series of podcasts produced by the students of my 4th year International Health Theory class.  Today’s installment is brought to us by Mona Ahmad and Felicia Danesi.

They examined a paper titled, “Improving Universal Precautions and Client Teaching for Rural Health Workers: A Peer-group Intervention“.

Nov 30, 2014 — This is episode nine of our special series of podcasts produced by the students of my 4th year International Health Theory class.  Today’s installment is brought to us by Narineh Panoosian Carina Saikaley.

They have chosen to examine a paper titled, “Screening family planning needs: an operations research project in Guatemala.”

Nov 30, 2014 — This is episode eight of our special series of podcasts produced by the students of my 4th year International Health Theory class.  Today’s installment is brought to us by Paul Do, Irene Fosu-Apraku, Pooneh Mirzakhalili, and Ahlam Awata.

They chose to examine the paper, “Behavior Change Evaluation of a Culturally Consistent Reproductive Health Program for Young Kenyans.”

Nov 30, 2014 — This is episode seven of our special series of podcasts produced by the students of my 4th year International Health Theory class.  Today’s installment is brought to us by Gavin Maludzinski, Cara Elliott, Melissa Sutaroski, and Haley Rowlandson.

The paper they chose to analyze was “Factors Influencing Chinese Male’s Willingness to Undergo Circumcision: A Cross-Sectional Study in Western China.”

Nov 17, 2014 – This is episode six of our special series of podcasts produced by the students of my 4th year International Health Theory class.  Today’s installment is brought to us by Quinn Howard, Habon Warsame, Ihab Kandil, and Abdiasis Yalahow.

The paper they chose to discuss is, “The Effect on Mental Health of  a Large Scale Psychosocial Intervention for Survivors of Mass Violence: A Quasi-Experimental Study in Rwanda.”

Nov 17, 2014 — This is episode five in our continuing series of podcasts produced by the students in my 4th year International Health Theory class.  This installment is brought to us by Khalil Dawod, Sarah Hognestad, Emma Daymond, and Clive Velkers.

The paper they analyzed is, “Cup vs bottle feeding for hospitalized late preterm infants in Egypt: a quasi-experimental study.”

Nov 16, 2014 — The latest installment of our special series produced by the students of my 4th year International Health class, today’s episode is brought to us by Danielle Hemet,  Simran Sandhu, Laura Cummings, and Arlanna Pugh.

They chose to analyze a paper titled, “Oral misoprostol for preventing postpartum haemorrhage in home births in rural Bangladesh: how effective is it?”

Nov 15, 2014 — Continuing on our special series featuring podcast episodes produced by my 4th year students, today’s episode is by Savroop Kullar and Salma Ibrahim on the topic of Malaria in the South Asian nation of Bhutan.

You can access the actual article here.

Nov 14, 2014 — This is the first of a series of special podcast episodes which will feature my students. As part of my 4th year class in International Health Theory, each group (or individual) selected a scholarly paper on an issue in global health and recorded a brief audio dissection of its implications.

This episode is by Kinsey Beck. The paper that she looked at is titled, “A quasi-experimental evaluation of a community-based art therapy intervention exploring the psychosocial health of children affected by HIV in South Africa“.

If you’d like to communicate with Kinsey, you may leave a comment at the bottom of this post, or tweet me @deonandan.

Nov 14, 2014 — The second installment of our continuing series featuring podcasts from my 4th year international health students, this episode is brought to us by Gabrielle Gareau and Melissa Lavigne.

They chose to discuss a paper titled, “The impact of a community intervention to improve cervical cancer screening uptake in the Amazon region of Brazil.”

As always, please leave questions or comments below.  Or you may tweet them to me @deonandan.