BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250624T091122EDT-7593OvdUNd@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250624T131122Z DESCRIPTION:The 51ԹGlobal Health Programs and the 51ԹDepartment 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 51Թ.  He subsequently special ized in Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine & Public Health.  His global he alth career began in the late 1980s when he joined the McGill-Ethiopia Str engthening Community Health Project\, which he directed from 1989 to 1992.    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.  He al so led a five-year 51Թ population child health project in Ch elyabinsk\, Russia from 1998 to 2003.  Since 2011 he has been the PI on a Muskoka Initiative grant being carried out in rural Bangladesh\, titled “I nterrupting pathways to Maternal\, Newborn and Early Childhood Sepsis'. Dr . Larson’s 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.   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’s Hospital – 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.  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.  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 DTEND:20151109T220000Z LOCATION:Room 521 (Meakins Amphitheatre)\, McIntyre Medical Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3G 1Y6\, 3655 promenade Sir William Osler SUMMARY:“mHealth 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” URL:/globalhealth/channels/event/mhealth-applications- predict-need-hospitalization-and-hospital-or-post-discharge-mortality-unde r-255091 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR