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- Energy and the Environment: Design and Innovation (2016-2017)
- Promoting Academic Success for Latino English Learners in Elementary School
- A Community Based Mental Health Intervention with Latinos in Durham, NC
- A Course Performance Mapping App
- ACRE-Duke Partnership to Improve Sanitation Access in Lowndes County, Alabama (2018-2019)
- Addressing Cultural and Practical Barriers to Epilepsy Care in Uganda (2017-2018)
- Addressing Global Health Needs among Refugee Children and Families in Durham County (2017-2018)
- Age Differences in Economic Decision Making
- Aging and Reliance on Memory-Based Heuristics (2014-2015)
- Aging and Reliance on Memory-Based Heuristics
- America's Sacred Spaces (2018-2019)
- An Innovative App to Enhance Course Performance
- Animal Waste Management and Global Health (2016-2017)
- Art, Vision and the Brain: Autism and Face Processing (2016-2017)
- Art, Vision, and the Brain: An Exploration of Color and Brightness
- Art, Vision, and the Brain: An Exploration of Color and Brightness (2014-2015)
- Beauty in Balance and Balance in Beauty: An Exploration of the Laws of Physics in Abstract Modern Art (2016-2017)
- Big Data for Reproductive Health (2018-2019)
- Blue Devil Resistome Project (2017-2018)
- Brain-Immune Interactions in Neurodegenerative Disease (2014-2015)
- Brain-Immune Interactions in Neurodegenerative Disease
- Brain-immune Interactions in Neurodegenerative Disease (2016-2017)
- Broadening Participation in Online STEM Education (2016-2017)
- Building Capacity for Surveillance and Diagnosis of Respiratory Viruses in Sarawak, Malaysia (2017-2018)
- Building Duke: The Architectural History of Duke Campus from 1924 to the Present (2018-2019)
- Charter Schools, Diversity, and Non-Cognitive Assessment
- Cheating, Gaming and Rule Fixing: Challenges for Ethics across the Adversarial Professions (2018-2019)
- Chlorhexadine for Umbilical Cord Care
- Citizenship Lab: Civic Participation of Refugee Youth In Durham Submitted to Education and Human Development
- Coal in America: Chronicling and Analyzing Its Economic and Social History (2018-2019)
- Communicating about Energy in the Triangle: Engaging students and local partners to improve household consumption
- Community Care of Frail Elders in Cross-Cultural Settings: A Team-based Approach
- Community Care of Frail Elders in Cross-cultural Settings: A Team-based Approach (2014-2015)
- Cookstoves and Air Pollution in Madagascar: Finding Winning Solutions for Human Health and Biodiversity (2016-2017)
- Coursera and the Future of Free Massive Open Online Courses
- Coursera and the Future of Free Massive Open Online Courses
- Coursera and the Future of MOOCs
- Creating Online Education for K-12 Teachers of the Probability and Statistics Common Core
- Creative Industries and the Urban Environment (2017-2018)
- Creative Industries and the Urban Environment (2018-2019)
- Cultural and Practical Barriers to Epilepsy Care in Uganda (2018-2019)
- Customizing a Tool to Collect Complex Network Data among HIV-positive Youth in South Africa (2017-2018)
- DECIPHER: Case Studies in Drinking Water Quality (2018-2019)
- Data and Technology for Fact-checking (2018-2019)
- Decisions on Complex Interdisciplinary Problems of Health and Environmental Risk (D-CIPHER) (2017-2018)
- Developing Departmental Energy Reports and a Carbon Pricing Program for Duke University (2016-2017)
- Developing Rapid, Cost-effective Methods for Evaluating Coastal Biodiversity and Resilience (2018-2019)
- Developing a Mobile Phone-based Community Health Program for Hypertension Control in Nepal (2018-2019)
- Difficult Early Childhoods and Educational Paths toward Adulthood
- Difficult Early Childhoods and Educational Paths toward Adulthood
- Digital Cities and Cyberarchaeology (2017-2018)
- Digital Cities and Polysensing Environments (2016-2017)
- Digital Durham: Past, Present, Future (2017-2018)
- Disaggregating and Projecting Electricity Demand in China (2017-2018)
- Displacement, Resettlement and Global Mental Health Work Group
- Distance-based, Executive- style Degree Completion Program for Ghanaian Nurse Anesthetists
- Distance-based, Executive-style Degree Completion Program for Ghanaian Nurse Anesthetists (2014-2015)
- Distributed Solar Generation for Duke University Employees
- Documenting Durham's Health History: Understanding the Roots of Health Disparities (2018-2019)
- Duke Undergraduate International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Team (2016-2017)
- Duke Undergraduate International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Team (2017-2018)
- Duke Undergraduate International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Team (2018-2019)
- Education and Rural Entrepreneurship in Appalachia
- Education and the Changing Brain
- Education and the Changing Brain
- Education, Poverty, and Economic Inequality in Rural Appalachia
- El Sistema USA and Duke: Advancing the Power of Music for Human Development (2017-2018)
- Emotional Connection: Developing a Mobile Intervention for Social and Emotional Dysfunction (2018-2019)
- Enabling Precision Health and Medicine (2017-2018)
- Enabling Precision Health and Medicine (2018-2019)
- Energy Data Analytics Lab (2016-2017)
- Energy Data Analytics Lab
- Energy Data Analytics Lab: Electricity Access in Developing Countries from Aerial Imagery (2017-2018)
- Energy Data Analytics Lab: Energy Infrastructure Map of the World through Satellite Data (2018-2019)
- Energy Efficiency in Industry: High-tech Glass Manufacturing at Corning Inc. (2016-2017)
- Energy Efficiency in Industry: Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
- Energy Efficiency in Industry: Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
- Energy and the Environment: Design and Innovation (2017-2018)
- Energy and the Environment: Design and Innovation (2018-2019)
- Energy and the Environment: Design and Innovation
- Energy and the Environment: Design and Innovation
- Environmental Effects on Cognitive Development (2013-2014)
- Environmental Effects on Cognitive Development (2014-2015)
- Environmental Effects on Cognitive Development
- Environmental Epidemiology Research Training in the Peruvian Amazon
- Environmental Epidemiology in Latin America (2014-2015)
- Environmental Epidemiology in Latin America
- Environmental Epidemiology in Latin America: Impact of an Oil Spill in the Peruvian Amazon (2017-2018)
- Environmental Epidemiology in Latin America: Impacts of Artisanal Gold Mining in the Peruvian Amazon (2018-2019)
- Environmental Epidemiology in Latin America: Leishmania
- Environmental Epidemiology in Latin America: Research and Policy Development to Reduce Chemical Exposures (2016-2017)
- Environmental Justice & the Early-Life Origin of Health Disparities: Why Mom Matters (2013-2014)
- Environmental Justice & the Early-Life Origin of Health Disparities: Why Mom Matters
- Evaluating Interventions Aimed at Improving Neurosurgical Patient Outcomes in Uganda (2018-2019)
- Evaluation of Scaling Innovative Healthcare Delivery in East Africa
- Exercise Therapy and Brain Health: Implications for Alzheimer's Disease and Aging (2018-2019)
- Exercise and Mental Health (2016-2017)
- Exercise and Mental Health (2017-2018)
- Exercise and Mental Health (2018-2019)
- Exercise as a Therapy for Cognitive Aging and Alzheimer's Disease (2017-2018)
- Exploration and Design of Student-Led International Rural Electricity Access Projects
- Exploring New Media and Mechanisms to Connect Society to Neuroscience
- Exploring the Intersection of Energy and Peace-building through Film
- Exploring the Intersection of Energy and Peace-building through Film
- Expressive Writing for Resilience in Adult Pediatric Oncology Survivors and Their Caregivers (2018-2019)
- Feasibility Study for a Campus Digester
- Feature Extraction and Quantitative Analysis of Large Scientific Document Corpra
- From the Ground Up: The Business and Policy Landscape for Energy Access in East Africa (2018-2019)
- Generosity and Gratitude: Mechanisms, Motivations, and Models of Living Kidney Donation
- Gerrymandering and the Extent of Democracy in America (2018-2019)
- Global Alliance on Disability and Health Innovation (GANDHI) (2016-2017)
- Global Alliance on Disability and Health Innovation (GANDHI) (2017-2018)
- Global Alliance on Disability and Health Innovation (GANDHI): What Makes Innovation Stick? (2018-2019)
- Global Mental Health Program (2017-2018)
- Global Mental Health-Integrative Training Program (2016-2017)
- Goals and Collective Efficacy: Routes to Energy Saving
- Governance and Adaptive Regulation of Transformational Technologies in Transportation (2017-2018)
- Growth Mindset in Bangladesh: Evaluation of an Intervention to Increase Learning in Schools (2017-2018)
- High School Dropouts' Perspectives: Implications for Dropout Prevention Practices and Policies (2017-2018)
- History and Future of Ocean Energy (2016-2017)
- History and Future of Ocean Energy
- How Do Cyberattacks Hurt Me? (2018-2019)
- How Do People Affect Zoonotic Disease Dynamics in Madagascar? (2018-2019)
- How to Ask Questions (2017-2018)
- How to Build Ethics into Robust Artificial Intelligence (2017-2018)
- How to Cure Political Polarization by Asking Questions (2018-2019)
- Human Health Risks, Environmental and Ecosystem Damage Associated with Contamination of Used Motor Oil at Auto-mechanic Villages in Ghana (2016-2017)
- Human-wildlife Interactions at Sea (2017-2018)
- Image Processing Algorithms for Art Conservation (2016-2017)
- Image Processing Algorithms for Art Conservation (2017-2018)
- Improving Neurosurgery Patient Outcomes in Uganda (2016-2017)
- Indian Health Information Networks (2017-2018)
- Individual and Household Responses to the October 2015 Floods in South Carolina (2015-16)
- Information, Child Mental Health & Society
- Information, Child Mental Health, and Society
- Innovation & Technology Policy Lab (ITPLab) (2014-2015)
- Integrative Global Health Research on Sickle Cell Disease (2014-2015)
- Integrative Global Health Research on Sickle Cell Disease (2014-2015)
- Interculturally Competent Analysis of the Uptake of Routine Vaccination (2015-2016)
- International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM)
- Interventions Improving Neurosurgery Patient Outcomes in Uganda (2017-2018)
- Interventions to Increase Healthy Eating on College Campuses
- Juntos: A Digital Health Intervention
- LIT HoMES (Leveraging Individual Transitions into Homeownership to Motivate Energy Savings)
- Live Processing and Live Art: Performance and Technology (2013-2014)
- Live Processing and Live Art: Performance and Technology
- Living Donor Kidney Transplants and the Good Samaritan: Religious, Legal, and Ethical Challenges of Non-simultaneous, Extended, Altruistic Donor Chains
- Look before you leap! Using eye tracking to understand the evolution of locomotor decision making
- Low-cost Laparoscopic Surgery with Tele-mentoring (2018-2019)
- Machine Society Interfaces
- Making Data Matter
- Making Young Voters: Policy Reforms to Increase Youth Turnout (2017-2018)
- Making Young Voters: Policy Reforms to Increase Youth Turnout (2018-2019)
- Marine Microalgae for Sustainable Production of Food and Fuel (2018-2019)
- Math before Symbols: Games to Increase School Readiness in Pre-Schoolers
- Medicaid Reform Advisory Team (2016-2017)
- Mega-gardeners of Tropical Forests: Modeling Seed Dispersal by Forest Elephants (2018-2019)
- Mindfulness in Education and Human Development
- Mindfulness in Education and Human Development
- Mindfulness in Human Development (2016-2017)
- Mindfulness in Human Development (2017-2018)
- Mindfulness in Human Development (2018-2019)
- Modeling Tools for Energy Systems Analysis (MOTESA) (2016-2017)
- Modeling Tools for Energy Systems Analysis (MOTESA)
- Modeling Tools for Energy Systems Analysis (MOTESA)
- Modeling and Simulation
- Moral Artificial Intelligence (2018-2019)
- Moral Judgments by and about Stimulant Users
- Music and Memory in the Aging Brain
- Music for Social Change: Research in Practice with Kidznotes and El Sistema USA (2018-2019)
- NC Jukebox (2016-2017)
- NC Jukebox
- NC in the Global Economy: The Workforce Development Challenge
- NEUROPLICITY: Leveraging New Media and Digital Storytelling to Connect Society to Neuroscience (2014-2015)
- Neighborhood-2-Brain
- Networks of Cooperation and Conflict in the Middle East (2017-2018)
- Neuroplicity: Leveraging New Media and Digital Storytelling to Connect Society to Neuroscience (2016-2017)
- Non‐Invasive Prenatal Testing in the Developing World: Ethical, Legal, Social and Practical Challenges
- North Carolina Competitiveness: The Workforce Development Challenge
- North Carolina Competitiveness: The Workforce Development Challenge
- Nutrition and Cognition
- Nutrition and Cognition
- OSPRI Lab: Education Technology (2017-2018)
- OSPRI Lab: Open Source Education Technology (2018-2019)
- Ocean Energy: Products and Pollutants (2017-2018)
- Ocean Evidence Gap Map (2018-2019)
- Oculomotor Response as an Objective Assessment for Mild TBI in the Pediatric Population (2017-2018)
- Oculomotor Response as an Objective Assessment for Mild TBI in the Pediatric Population (2018-2019)
- Oculomotor Response as an Objective Assessment for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in the Pediatric Population (2016-2017)
- Oculomotor Response as an Objective Measurement for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in the Pediatric Population
- POCkeT Colposcope: Increased Distribution and Adoption (2016-2017)
- POCkeT Colposcope: Increased Distribution and Adoption (2017-2018)
- Patients' Journey to Medication Adherence (2017-2018)
- Patients' Journey to Medication Adherence (2018-2019)
- Perception and Language
- Perception, Language and Memory (2013-2014)
- Performance in the Community (2016-2017)
- Pocket Colposcope: Analysis of Bringing Elements of Referral Services to Primary/Community Care (2018-2019)
- Privacy, Consumer EEG Devices and the Brain (2017-2018)
- Privacy, Consumer EEG Devices and the Brain (2018-2019)
- Problem-based Learning to Improve Girls' Math Identity (2018-2019)
- Project "Bright Idea": Finding Talent and Giftedness in Children of Diverse Backgrounds
- Project Vox (2018-2019)
- Project “Bright Ideas”: Finding Talent and Giftedness in Children of Diverse Backgrounds
- Public Access to Government Information (2013-2014)
- Public Access to Government Information
- Public Access to Government Information: Implementation, Voter Behavior and Rights (2014-2015)
- Racial and Educational Inequality as a Consequence of Family Structure: Learning from Shotgun Marriages
- Racial and Educational Inequality as a Consequence of Family Structure: Learning from Shotgun Marriages
- Reconsidering Addiction and Opioid Abuse: Is There a Causal Chain between Opioid Addiction, Morbidity and Mortality? (2016-2017)
- Refining Surveillance for Zoonotic Respiratory Viruses in Sarawak, Malaysia (2018-2019)
- Regulatory Disaster Scene Investigation
- Remember Why You Should Do It? Memory and Reasons in Moral Decision-making (2018-2019)
- Resident engagement and energy behavior assessment through mobile phone technology
- Responding to the Educational and Psychological Needs of Children and Families in Durham’s Transitional Housing
- Rethinking the Endangered Species Act's Implementation on Private, Working Lands (2018-2019)
- Reviewing Retrospective Regulatory Review
- SSNAP: Scientific Social Network Analysis Project (2016-2017)
- STEM foR ALL
- STEM for All (2016-2017)
- STEM for All (2017-2018)
- School Drop-Out, Disconnected Youth, and the Middle Years
- School Drop-Out, Disconnected Youth, and the Middle Years
- School Dropout Prevention in the Durham Public Schools: Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of Effective Strategies (2016-2017)
- Schooling and Parenting: Implications for Students' Academic Identity (2016-2017)
- Schooling and Parenting: Implications for Students' Academic Identity (2017-2018)
- Self-Guided Parameter Fitting for Cochlear Implant Users
- Shining Evolutionary Light on Global Health Challenges
- Smart Archaeology (2018-2019)
- Sowers and Reapers: Gardening in an Era of Change (2018-2019)
- Spirituality, Self-management and Chronic Disease among Ethnic Groups of Robeson County, North Carolina (2016-2017)
- Stemming the Opiate Epidemic through Education and Outreach (2016-2017)
- Stemming the Opiate Epidemic through Education and Outreach (2017-2018)
- Strengthening Community Environmental Health through Duke- HBCU Partnerships
- Studying the "Real" Slums in Bangalore?
- Studying the Real 'Slums' in Bangalore, Patna and Jaipur (2016-2017)
- Tact, Touch, Proprioception: The Culture and Neuroscience of Touch
- Tact, Touch, Proprioception: The Culture and Neuroscience of Touch
- Technology & Innovation Policy Lab
- The 21st Century Student: Open Knowledge and Education Innovation
- The Construction of Memory at Duke and in Durham: Using Memory Studies (2016-2017)
- The Cost of Opportunity: Access to Higher Education in Brazil (2018-2019)
- The Cost of Opportunity? Higher Education in the Baixada Fluminense (2016-2017)
- The Cost of Opportunity? Higher Education in the Baixada Fluminense (2017-2018)
- The Digital Landscape: New technologies to visualize ancient landscapes (2014-2015)
- The Digital Landscape: New technologies to visualize ancient landscapes
- The Lives of Things (2013-2014)
- The Lives of Things (2014-2015)
- The Lives of Things
- The Role of Catholic Campus Religious Ministries in the Formation of Young Adults (2017-2018)
- The Role of Catholic Campus Religious Ministries in the Formation of Young Adults: Psychological, Social and Organizational Factors (2016-2017)
- The University as a Laboratory for Smart Grid Data Analytics
- The University as an Energy Laboratory: Design and Implementation of an Energy Disaggregation System
- The effects of unconventional shale gas development on rural communities
- Toward Better ESL (English as a Second Language) Instruction
- Transforming Alzheimer's Disease Care through Integrating Caregivers (2018-2019)
- Translating Neuroscience into Education: A Neuroscience-based Health Curriculum for North Carolina Ninth Grade Students (2016-2017)
- Trauma and Timing
- Turning the Mid-Century Decarbonization Strategy into Concrete Policy for U.S. Forests and Agriculture (2017-2018)
- U.S. Climate Policy Options: Regulating Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Petroleum Refineries & Steel
- Using Machine Learning to Generate Clinical Prediction Rules for Clinical Outcomes in Schizophrenia (2017-2018)
- Using Machine Learning to Generate Clinical Prediction Rules for Clinical Outcomes in Schizophrenia (2018-2019)
- Using Neuroscience to Optimize Digital Health Interventions across Adulthood (2018-2019)
- Vaccine Misinformation and Its Link to Vaccine Hesitancy and Uptake in Durham (2018-2019)
- Virtual Avatar Coaches: Improving Mental Health Treatment for College Students with Accessible Peer Support (2018-2019)
- Visualizing Energy through Live Performance (2017-2018)
- Visualizing Social Mobility in the Developing World (2017-2018)
- Visualizing Venice (2014-2015)
- Visualizing Venice
- Voices Together
- Voices Together Data Analysis Project (2017-2018)
- Voices Together: Music Therapy and Autism in Elementary Schools (2016-2017)
- Voices Together: Music Therapy and Autism in Elementary Schools
- Where Does the Money Go? Federal Spending on American Children (2016-2017)
- Where are the "Real" Slums in Bangalore? (2013-2014)
- Where are the "Real" Slums in Bangalore
- Wired for Learning: Supporting Thinking Skills in the K-2 Classroom (2018-2019)
- mHealth for Better Routine Immunization Data in Honduras (2017-2018)
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Improving Neurosurgery Patient Outcomes in Uganda (2016-2017)

The United States has one neurosurgeon per 88,000 people. Around the world the average neurosurgeon-to-population ratio is one per 230,000. However, in 2007 Uganda’s ratio was one per six million, with only five neurosurgeons in the entire country. Since that time, Duke Global Neurosurgery and Neuroscience (DGNN) has created a health system improvement program with three key principles: technology, twinning and training. Through this effort Uganda has made significant strides, particularly in building surgical capacity, complexity of cases being performed and establishing a training program in the country. However, surgical outcomes for patients still need improvement.
DGNN identified pre- and post-operative management of neurosurgical patients as a critical area in need of improvement and a major factor contributing to poor outcomes both before and after surgery. Approximately 30 percent of pre-operative patients and 30 percent of post-operative patients contract an infection. Patient infections and poor outcomes have been linked in multiple studies pointing directly at handwashing between patient encounters. Surprisingly, data on causes of death on the neurosurgery ward indicate that almost 80 percent actually succumb while awaiting their planned operation. This finding identified the need for patient family education, as patient’s families shoulder the majority of the burden in caring for their loved one throughout the entire stay at the hospital in most East African countries. They do this without adequate education on the disease process or on critical observations to report to nursing staff. An important part of care involves administration of medications; observations have shown that many patients are either not on the right medication, don’t have the medication or aren’t taking the proper dose.
This Bass Connections project focused on infection control, patient family education and medication management. In Summer 2016 members of each of these three topic teams spent a month in Uganda to collect data at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala.
One study evaluated the needs and barriers to patient-family education in a Ugandan tertiary hospital neurosurgical ward. Following surveys and interviews with hospital staff and family members, the team developed a framework for an intervention addressing key barriers of ward overcrowding and multiple caregivers. Educational content will focus on caregiver responsibilities, medication management, symptoms and report to hospital staff.
Another study analyzed factors that affect the medication management of neurosurgery inpatients in order to provide suggestions for gap improvement, and attempt to quantify the issues at hand. Findings suggest the presence of a number of determinants that impact self-reported confidence levels. Moreover, inability to pay for prescribed medications was identified as the primary barrier to medication acquisition.
A third study addressed hand sanitation for infection control. The hospital’s neurosurgery ward has only one sink in the nurses’ station for about 30 patient beds, hindering the feasibility of sanitizing between every patient. Hand sanitization gel provides a transportable, low-cost solution to this problem and is equally effective as hand washing at killing disease-spreading bacteria. The team aimed to facilitate proper hand hygiene through the installation of hand sanitization gel pumps by implementing two intervention types. Team members analyzed the relationship between pump location and usage, as well as changes in mass usage with each intervention type to evaluate the most effective methods for improving hand hygiene compliance.
Timing
Summer 2016 – Spring 2017
Team Outcomes
Identifying the Needs and Barriers to Patient-Family Education to Improve Neurosurgery Patient Outcomes in Mulago National Referral Hospital (MNRH), Uganda (Joao Ricardo Vissoci, Chinemerem Nwosu, Sandra Batakana, Silvia Vaca, Stephanie Lim, Linda Xu, Michael Muhumuza, Hussein Ssenyonjo, John Mukasa, Joel Kiryabwire, Emily Smith, Anthony Fuller, Gerald Grant, Michael Haglund) (judges’ selection for best Bass Connections poster)
Medication Management and Adherence in Uganda (Garrett Holmes, Hyun Keun Ahn, Joan Nambuba, Charis Spears, Sarah Rapaport, Anthony Fuller, Michael Haglund)
Cultural Context and Accessibility of Sanitization Pumps Affect Hand Hygiene Practices in a Ugandan Neurosurgery Ward (Meggie Lund, Kelsey Graywill, Akash Patel, Sam Sadler) (audience choice for best Bass Connections poster)
Identifying the Needs and Barriers to Patient-Family Education to Improve Neurosurgery Patient Outcomes in Mulago National Referral Hospital, Uganda (Chinemerem Nwosu, Sandra Batakana, Joao Vissoci)
Improving Hand Hygiene Compliance in a Ugandan Neurosurgery Ward through Implementation of Hand Sanitization Interventions (Kelsey Graywill, Meggie Lund, Akash Patel and Sam Sadler)
Improving Medication Management in Uganda (Hyun Keun Ahn, Garrett Holmes, Joan Nambuba, Charis Spears, Anthony Fuller)
Improving Hand Hygiene Compliance in a Ugandan Neurosurgery Ward through Implementation of Hand Sanitization Interventions (K. Graywill, M. Lund, A. D. Patel, S. Sadler, E. Smith, A. Fuller, J. Vissoci, M. Haglund) (abstract submitted to 2017 CUGH conference)
Medication Management of Neurosurgery Patients at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala, Uganda (Joan Nambuba, Garrett Holmes, Hyun Keun Ahn, Charis Spears, Emily Smith, Joao Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci, Anthony Fuller, Michael Haglund) (abstract submitted to 2017 CUGH conference)
Identifying the Needs and Barriers to Patient-Family Education to Design Educational Interventions That Will Improve Neurosurgery Patient Outcomes in Mulago Hospital, Uganda (Chinemerem Nwosu, Sandra Batakana, Joao Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci, Silvia Vaca, Stephanie Lim, Emily Smith, Anthony Fuller, Michael Haglund) (abstract submitted to 2017 CUGH conference)
Cultural Context and Accessibility of Sanitization Pumps Affect Hand Hygiene Practices in a Ugandan Neurosurgery Ward (Emily Smith, Margaret Lund, Kelsey Graywill, Akash D. Patel, Samantha Sadler, Anthony Fuller, Joao Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci, Michael Muhumuza, Hussein Ssenyonjo, John Mukasa, Joel Kiryabwire, Michael M. Haglund) (manuscript submitted for publication)
Analysis of Factors Affecting Medication Management and Patient and Caregiver Confidence in Treatment Plan for Neurosurgical Inpatients at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala, Uganda (Anthony Fuller, Garrett Holmes, Hyun Keun Ahn, Joan Nambuba, Charis Spears, Sarah Rapaport, Michael Muhumuza, Hussein Ssenyonjo, John Mukasa, Joel Kiryabwire, Joao Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci, Emily Smith, Michael Haglund) (manuscript submitted for publication)
Identifying the Needs and Barriers to Patient-family Education to Design Educational Interventions That Will Improve Neurosurgery Patient Outcomes in Mulago Hospital, Uganda (Chinemerem Nwosu, Sandra Martha Batakana, Silvia Vaca, Joao Ricardo Nickenig Vissoci, Stephanie Lim, Linda Xu, Michael Muhumuza, Hussein Ssenyonjo, John Mukasa, Joel Kiryabwire, Emily Smith, Anthony Fuller, Gerald Grant, Michael Haglund) (manuscript submitted for publication)
Bass Connections Award for Outstanding Mentorship (Tony Fuller)
Strategies to Strengthen Health Systems Globally: A Duke Showcase (event at Duke on April 4, 2017, featuring presentations by Tony Fuller, Meggie Lund, Garrett Holmes, Sherry Yang, Michael Haglund)
Video
Four Views of Bass Connections at Duke
Reflections
Hands-on Experiences, Personal Connections: Neurosurgery Research in Uganda (Sandra Batakana)
This Team in the News
“Bass Connections Equals Opportunity:” Four Undergraduates Share Their Perspectives
Student Laurels and Honors for 2017
Students Present Their Research and Learn from Each Other at the Bass Connections Showcase
Student Research Shared, Awards Announced at Bass Connections Showcase
Bass Connections Poster Awards Highlight Neurosurgery and Energy Research
Two Graduate Students Honored for Excellence in Mentoring Their Bass Connections Team Members
Reflections on Mentoring from Bass Connections Graduate Students
New Projects Invigorate Bass Connections Program
Bass Connections Team Members Share Their Global Health Research and Win Awards
Medical Student Forges New Collaborations in Global Health and Neurosurgery
You walk into Bass Connections and walk out a different person. In terms of research, you’re doing what you love, you’re doing it with people that you love, you’re doing it where you want to do it…Bass puts all of that in one experience. —Chinemerem Nwosu
See related team, Interventions Improving Neurosurgery Patient Outcomes in Uganda (2017-2018).