COBRE/Tropical Medicince Seminar

May 9, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Mānoa Campus, John A. Burns School of Medicine, Kaka’ako Campus, 651 Ilalo Street, MEB Auditorium (Room 315) Add to Calendar

"Improving the Understanding of Childhood Malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa"

Malnutrition, in all of its various forms, underlies 45% of deaths among children under 5 years old around the world. Indeed, without a specific etiologic pathogen and without a straightforward antimicrobial treatment, malnutrition is truly the greatest "neglected tropical disease" of our time. Outside of the neonatal period, a complex mix of environmental factors, food insecurity, and infectious diseases leads to both chronic and acute malnutrition in children. Having practiced pediatrics and conducted clinical and translational research in rural southern Malawi for the past 9 years, the speaker will provide a broad overview of the field and review highlights from his studies on environmental enteric dysfunction, linear growth stunting, moderate acute malnutrition, and severe acute malnutrition.

Speaker: Indi Trehan, MD, MPH, DTM&H, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine and Infectious Diseases) and Faculty Scholar, Washington University in St. Louis Institute for Public Health, St. Louis, Missouri


Event Sponsor
Pacific Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Research/JABSOM Tropical Med., Mānoa Campus

More Information
Cori Watanabe, (808) 692-1654, corit@hawaii.edu, Enter Title Here (PDF)

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