Health reports, kidney disease awareness campaign, free online courses, and funds for health research

Public health reports

Over the past period, a number of reports were published by the leading international health organizations:

• Health at a Glance report by OECD - OCDE
• Egypt National Health Accounts report by World Health Organization
• International Society of Hypertension position paper on Lifestyle management of hypertension
• Global Sustainable Development Report 2023 by United Nations
• 2023 Universal Health Coverage Global Monitoring Report by World Health Organization
• UNGA report on hypertension by World Health Organization

• Global mapping report on multisectoral actions to strengthen the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases and mental health conditions by World Health Organization
• OneHealth Research Directions from Wildlife Health Australia

• Report "Closing Efficiency Frontiers for Sustainable Growth " by The World Bank
• Report on the Safety Monitoring of Medicines and Vaccines situation analysis from The World Bank
• The World Bank report "Digital-in-Health: Unlocking the Value for Everyone "
• Unmet healthcare need in 27 European countries according to the report issued by the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies

Chronic kidney disease awareness campaign

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects almost 700 million people and only in 2019 CKD led to 3.2 million deaths, with 1.4 mln deaths directly caused by CKD, and 1.7 mln deaths occurred due to impaired kidney function as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Of note, these numbers has doubled since 1990 and continue to increase.

Moreover, regional CKD burden is extremely heterogenous but many countries have one common feature: CKD is not included in health strategies and not presented in the agenda of primary health care education.

CKD can be easily diagnosed by two simple and inexpensive tests: analysis of urine and serum creatinine measurement with subsequent calculation of estimated glomerular filtration rate. However, these two simple tests are not performed in a substantial proportion of high-risk patients having diabetes, hypertension, etc.

Read this article to know about the impact of chronic kidney disease on global health and the importance of its timely diagnostic and see the infographics on global, regional and country-level CKD burden , Power Point slides , and two posters (1 , 2 ) representing the CKD estimates with one message at a time.

If you are interested in single infographics:

• CKD prevalence at global level
• CKD mortality at global level
• CKD prevalence in 21 world's regions
• CKD mortality in 21 world's regions
• CKD YLDs, YLLs and DALYs at global level

Also, take a look at this visual summary for patients about kidney effects of prolonged heat exposure that become relevant for people living in the Southern hemisphere.

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Some highlights from published articles

• Meta-Analysis of 270 RCTs on Most Effective Exercises for Reducing Blood Pressure
• Evergreen recommendations for clinical studies on relationship between albuminuria and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia
• An atlas of healthy and injured cell states and niches in the human kidney
• Diabetes burden in 1990-2021, with projections of prevalence to 2050 by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and the GBD Study Collaborators

• Burden of Acute Kidney Injury among Adult Hospital Patients in the Italian Lombardy Region - A 20-Year Real-World Data Analysis

Career development

• Analysis of 245,270 tenure-track and tenured professors at United States that provides insights about annual promotion rates from assistant to associate professor and from associate to full professor over career time, gender disparities in science, reasons why researchers decide to leave work or retire, and other interesting data.

• Why nurses are are leaving the field, and what should be done to maintain nursing personnel?

Data analysis

• Complete recordings and code repository of a five day workshop on the basics of time series analysis and forecasting in R in the framework of AFRICAST project
• Four successful open ICU healthcare databases

Free online courses and meetings

• 10-hour online World Health Organization course "Global School on Refugee and Migrant Health "
• "Enhance the visibility and value of your research for health with reporting guidelines " from Pan American Health Organization and EQUATOR Network
• The World Health Organization Global Evidence-to-Policy (E2P)?Summit
• Free introductory module on reading or conducting a Systematic Review of prognosis studies from Cochrane Training
• Webinars on?cultural?aspects?of doing business in Japan and market potentials in the country from EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation
• Humanitarian Action in the Digital Age MOOC co-produced by International Committee of the Red Cross - ICRC , Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and EPFL (école polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)

?? Grants for research funding

• Deadlines for the MSCA Staff Exchanges and MSCA COFUND calls from the European Commission are approaching (with the budget 78.5 million and 95 million, respectively).
• Tips for major areas of impact and 9 topics that you could address in the "Impact" section of a proposal
• The European Competence Framework for Researchers by European Commission - a useful 16-pages list of skills by different levels of competence

• €1.5 million grant to establish a residency programme for science journalists in research institutions from European Research Council (ERC)
• Report with analysis of the Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Actions’ Staff Exchanges
• The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) funding organisation for the creation of research networks
• Digital Europe Programme call
• Results of the highly competitive European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant call: €627 million for 308 researchers and statistics on 3,474 Starting Grants submitted during the 2024 Call for proposals
• The winners of the 2023 European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant
• Strengthening Health and Disease Modeling for Public Health Decision Making in Africa - up to ￡3,000,000 GBP or?up to $1,000,000 USD for each award for a duration of 3-5 years
• There were a dozen of calls with passed deadlines, if you wish to receive timely updates - follow the Scientific-Tools.Org feed

And if you want to have a break, look at these #Sunday posts:

• "Struggle and survive between the words that I don't write "
• A few designs made by school children on the occasion of a local chestnut holiday - playing with the motives of artistic masterpieces and irony
• Farewell summer, Welcome autumn! (timely message from September)
• The story of Nobel Prize winner Kati Kariko who left Hungary with money sewn into her child’s teddy bear and worked in labs in Pennsylvania for $1 an hour until the mRNA breakthrough
• Tiny robot made from wood fibres helps to reforest the Earth
• Visualization of earthquakes on the planet over the century
• Detailed interactive map of Africa with historical ethnolinguistic divides (over 2,000 languages spoken, over 3,000 ethnic groups) and modern country borders