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Invasive cervical cancer (ICC), one of the most frequent cancers in sub-Saharan Africa, is accessible to effective screening strategies. As Côte d’Ivoire’s national cancer control program has been implementing ICC screening as recommended by WHO for several years, these efforts need now to be evaluated. It is therefore essential to strengthen and pay particular attention […]

Breaking news: June 06th 2018 – Inclusions ongoing at Owo FMC May 24th 2018 – Approval by the National Health Research Ethics Committee (NHREC) of Nigeria April 5th 2018 – Approval by Owo Federal Medical Centre Health Research Ethics Committee   Project presentation: The LASCOPE project refers to a prospective, non-interventional cohort study describing the […]

Emergency room intervention to prevent post concussion-like symptoms and post-traumatic stress disorder. A pilot randomized controlled study of a brief eye movement desensitization and reprocessing intervention versus reassurance or usual care. Up to 20% of patients presenting at an emergency room (ER) after a stressful event will for several months suffer from very diverse long-lasting […]

Susan SHEPHERD (ALIMA) and Renaud BECQUET spent two weeks in the field in May 2018 in N’Djamena, Chad to launch the Prev’Crypto study. Diarrhoea is responsible for about 10% of the overall mortality of children under five. Carrying the Cryptosporidium parasite in the stool appears to be a major cause of diarrheal child mortality in […]

Supported by the Bordeaux Population Health laboratory (BPH) and ISPED, the doctoral program in digital public health offers a 3-year interdisciplinary doctoral program.For the 2018-2019 academic year, 2 doctoral contracts were awarded by the college. To apply https://college-doctoral.u-bordeaux.fr/Le-doctorat/Candidater-a-un-financement Calendar :      Applications closed on June 29, 2018     Notification of results: July 13, 2018     Beginning of […]

The Digital Public Health Graduate Program, directed by Pr. Rodolphe Thiébaut and Pr. Christophe Tzourio, is a project conceived by the Bordeaux Population Health research center (BPH) and Bordeaux School of Public Health (ISPED) and funded by the third French Program on Investments for the Future (Programme d’Investissements d’Avenir, PIA3) for 10 years. The project […]

On March 24th, we will commemorate the World Tuberculosis (TB) Day to raise public awareness about TB. Responsible of over 4,500 deaths a day, this disease presents devastating health, social and economic impacts. Despite the fact that TB is curable, too many children do not access treatment and die from the disease because they are […]

The study used data from the French National Hospital Discharge database (Programme de Médicalisation des Systèmes d’Information) which holds details on all hospital admissions, between 2008-2013. Carole Dufouil, deputy director of ISPED and co-director of the VINTAGE  “Vascular and neurological diseases: integrative and genetic epidemiology”  team (INSERM Center U1219 Bordeaux population Health, université de Bordeaux) […]