PUBLICATIONS
GSSHealth experts are actively engaged in the scientific community and regularly publish research papers in peer-reviewed journals. GSSHealth believes that intellectual leadership is key to our mission to bring policy to practice.
Recent Scientific Publications
Title: Reconfirming HIV serostatus in three West African Military ART clinics
Publisher: Journal of Clinical Virology
Date: June 2021
GSSHealth Contributing Authors: Martin Adams, Michele Merkel
Title: Results from a malaria indicator survey highlight the importance of routine data capture in high-risk forest and farm transmission sites in Vietnam to tailor location-specific malaria elimination interventions
Publisher: PLOS ONE
Date: April 2021
GSSHealth Contributing Authors: Rosalie Whedbee, Ekaterina Milgotina
Title: From benchmarking to best practices: Lessons from the laboratory quality improvement programme at the military teaching hospital in Cotonou, Benin
Publisher: African Journal of Laboratory Medicine (AJLM)
Date: February 2021
GSSHealth Contributing Authors: Michele Merkel, Remi Charlebois, Ekaterina Milgotina, Rachel Crane
Title: The use of dried tube specimens of Plasmodium falciparum in an external quality assessment programme to evaluate health worker performance for malaria rapid diagnostic testing in healthcare centres in Togo
Publisher: BMC Malaria Journal
Date: January 2021
GSSHealth Contributing Authors: Martin Adams, Remi Charlebois, Ekaterina Milgotina, Michele Merkel
Title: Examining the Utility and Readiness of Mobile and Field Transportable Laboratories for Biodefence and Global Health Security-Related Purposes
Publisher: Global Security: Health, Science and Policy Journal
Date: July 2018
GSSHealth Contributing Author: Martin Adams
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Title: Higher Transplacental Pathogen-Specific Antibody Transfer Among Pregnant Women Randomized to Triple Antiretroviral Treatment Versus Short Course Zidovudine
Publisher: The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
Date: March 2018
GSSHealth Contributing Author: Michele Merkel
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Title: Applying a Capability Maturity Model (CMM) to Evalutate Global Health Security-Related Research Programmes in Underresourced Areas
Publisher: Global Security: Health, Science and Policy
Date: November 2016
GSSHealth Contributing Author: Martin Adams
Title: National Laboratory Planning: Developing Sustainable Biocontainment Laboratories in Limited Resource Areas
Publisher: Health Security
Date: October 2016
GSSHealth Contributing Author: Martin Adams
Title: Availability and Use of HIV Monitoring and Early Infant Diagnosis Technologies in WHO Member States in 2011-2013
Publisher: PLOS Medicine
Date: August 2016
GSSHealth Contributing Authors: Paula Fernandes, Ekaterina Milgotina
Title: Pooled HIV-1 RNA Viral Load Testing for Detection of Antiretroviral Treatment Failure in Kenyan Children
Publisher: HHS Public Access
Date: July 2013
GSSHealth Contributing Author: Michele Merkel
Technical Resources and Tools
Title: Improving the quality of HIV-related POC testing: ensuring the reliability and accuracy of test results.
Publisher: WHO
Date: December 2015
GSSHealth Contributor: Paula Fernandes
Title: Work Plan Template for Xpert MTB/RIF® Implementation and Scale-up
Publisher: FIND
Date: December 2015
GSSHealth Contributors: Michele Merkel, Paula Fernandes, Ekaterina Milgotina, Caroline Deluca and Rachel Crane
Recent Conference Presentations (Posters)
Conference: ASM Microbe Conference | June 2018 | Atlanta, GA
GSSHealth Presentation:
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Capacity Building for Infectious Disease Laboratories in Resource-Poor Settings
Conference: CDC DGHP Annual Meeting | June 2017 | Atlanta, GA
GSSHealth Presentations:
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A Sample Transportation Exercise in Togo: the Road from Dapaong to Lomé
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Development of a Sustainable National Biosafety and Biosecurity System in Togo
Conference: ASM Biothreats | February 2017 | Washington, DC
GSSHealth Presentation:
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The Value of Standardized, Electronic Tools for Collection of Data and Program Metrics Across Multiple Countries and Projects
Conference: USDA ARS Biosafety and Biocontainment Symposium | February 2017 | Baltimore, MD
GSSHealth Presentation:
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Use of Standardized Electronic Tools for Harmonized Data Collection Across Multiple Countries and Projects
Conference: ASLM2016 | December 2016 | Cape Town, SA
GSSHealth Presentations:
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A Novel Quality-Focused Multi-Country Network Approach Strengthens Ministry of Defense Laboratories in West and North Central Africa
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Use of Standardized Electronic Tools for Harmonized Data Collection across Multiple Countries and Projects