School of Medicine
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School of Medicine
E-cigarettes and e-liquids looming public health concern in Guatemala
Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) and e-liquids are readily available in Guatemala. While marketed as a way to sidestep the smoke-free law, these products are not regulated and do not contain warnings unlike like cigarette marketing protocols. Joaquin Barnoya, MD, MPH, associate professor of surgery, conducted the first study analyzing e-cigarettes and e-liquids in a low/middle income […]
Study Shows Guatemalan Cigarette Packs Don’t Meet National Requirements
In the first study to address cigarette packaging in low/middle-income country, researchers found that regulations mandated by the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) in Guatemala have not been fulfilled. It is well known that tobacco companies utilize their packaging as a way to market to current and potential consumers. The packaging size, color, and […]
Fast Food Marketing Contributing to Rising Obesity Rates in Guatemala Children
Obesity rates continue to climb globally and Guatemalans, especially children, are included in this trend. As in the United States, in this low/middle income country, fast food chain restaurants market directly to children with price incentives and toy giveaways as part of combination meals, enticing children to choose unhealthy food options instead of a possibly […]
Research from School of Medicine moves to eliminate river blindness
The parasite that causes river blindness infects about 37 million people in parts of Africa and Latin America, causing blindness and other major eye and skin diseases in about 5 million of them. A study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis sheds light on the genetic makeup of the parasite, a step […]
A better understanding of how the Ebloa virus replicates could lead to treatments
A $13 million grant to study how the Ebola virus replicates has been awarded to a team led by Gaya Amarasinghe, PhD, an associate professor of pathology and immunology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The grant, from the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health […]
WashU team leads study on hot spots of antibiotic resistance
A new study surveyed ecosystems of bacteria and their capacity to resist antibiotics in chicken coops and sewage treatment plants of low-resource communities.
Partnership with WashU creates first public health undergraduate program in Haiti
Haiti relies heavily on outside factors for medical, social, and public health services as the public sector is too under-resourced to meet the extreme need.
Guy Genin
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Department of Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine
Ambassador to: Xi’an Jiaotong University