Collins Airhihenbuwa A Global Perspective

A Global Perspective

The gravest health threats facing developing countries are not viral outbreaks or parasites, but chronic conditions such as heart disease and cancer. Professor Collins O. Airhihenbuwa has pioneered a culturally informed approach to confront the global spread of these diseases.
RSV Sang-Moo Kang vaccine

The Missing Link

Professor Sang-Moo Kang may have found a way to make a safe vaccine for RSV, an infection that hospitalizes more than 50,000 infants every year.
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Breast Cancer’s Racial Gap

Across the nation, the mortality rate of women with aggressive triple-negative breast cancer is 39 percent higher for African Americans. Biology professor Ritu Aneja wants to know why.
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Clear and Present Danger

At the Center for Research on Interpersonal Violence, Georgia State faculty are helping to stop assaults.
Cynthia Nau Cornelissen

When Bacteria Fight Back

Biomedical sciences professor Cynthia Nau Cornelissen on the rising threat of antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea and her work to develop the world’s first vaccine against the superbug.
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Finding the Way

Georgia State joins the CDC’s Prevention Research Center network with a new Clarkston-based office focused on migrant health.