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    High Background Congenital Microcephaly in Rural Guatemala: Implications for Neonatal Congenital Zika Virus Infection Screening
    Anne-Marie Rick, Gretchen Domek, Maureen Cunningham, Daniel Olson, Molly M Lamb, Andrea Jimenez-Zambrano, Gretchen Heinrichs, Stephen Berman and Edwin J Asturias
    Global Health: Science and Practice December 2017, 5(4):686-696; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-17-00116

    A variety of microcephaly case definitions detect high background prevalence in rural Guatemala, which complicates congenital Zika screening efforts. In addition, gestational age is needed for most screening tools but is usually unknown in low-resource settings. Fenton growth curves, originally designed for use in preterm infants, offer a standardized approach to adjust for unknown gestational age and may improve screening efforts.

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    RAHI–SATHI Indo-U.S. Collaboration: The Evolution of a Trainee-Led Twinning Model in Global Health Into a Multidisciplinary Collaborative Program
    Apurv Soni, Nisha Fahey, Abraham Jaffe, Shyamsundar Raithatha, Nitin Raithatha, Anusha Prabhakaran, Tiffany A Moore Simas, Nancy Byatt, Jagdish Vankar, Michael Chin, Ajay G Phatak, Shirish Srivastava, David D McManus, Eileen O'Keefe, Harshil Patel, Niket Patel, Dharti Patel, Michaela Tracey, Jasmine A Khubchandani, Haley Newman, Allison Earon, Hannah Rosenfield, Anna Handorf, Brittany Novak, John Bostrom, Anindita Deb, Soaham Desai, Dipen Patel, Archana Nimbalkar, Kandarp Talati, Milagros Rosal, Patricia McQuilkin, Himanshu Pandya, Heena P Santry, Sunil Thanvi, Utpala Kharod, Melissa Fischer, Jeroan Allison and Somashekhar M Nimbalkar
    Global Health: Science and Practice March 2017, 5(1):152-163; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-16-00190

    RAHI–SATHI presents an innovative twinning model of global health academic partnership, resulting in a number of successful research activities, that features trainees or students as the driving force, complemented by strategic institutional support from both sides of the partnership. Others can promote similar student-led initiatives by: (1) accepting an expanded role for trainees in global health programs, (2) creating structured research and program opportunities for trainees, (3) developing a network of faculty and trainees interested in global health, (4) sharing extramural global health funding opportunities with faculty and trainees, and (5) offering seed funding.