Elizabeth M Collins

Elizabeth Montgomery Collins MD MPH DTM: leader/learner of newborn, pediatric & tropical medicine, HIV, global health advocacy, policy, partnerships & diplomacy

[Elizabeth M Collins @DrEMCollins]

⚡️ “Promote the Health of Vulnerable Refugees & Migrants”

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[Elizabeth M Collins @DrEMCollins]

Finally back home after a wonderful week @WHO World Health Assembly #WHA79 of #advocacy for children, #GlobalHealth policy solutions, and promoting #GlobalHealthDiplomacy alongside @GlobalHealthOrg, @AmerAcadPeds, @ASTMH, @WomenInGH, @Seed_Global Health...

Au revoir, Genève!

[Elizabeth M Collins @DrEMCollins]

One thing I have loved about attending the @WHO #WHA79 and the World Health Assembly over the past decade is that the United Nations @UN in #Geneva is such a peaceful place to promote progress...

[Elizabeth M Collins @DrEMCollins]

WHO hosted complex #GlobalHealthArchitecture change conversations @WHO #WHA79 to push @UN Member States for a Member State-led process to simplify #GlobalHealth duplications inefficiencies & competition but might create silos, less NGO #CivilSociety power

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[Elizabeth M Collins @DrEMCollins]

Important @WHO #WHA79 to hear updates on budget cuts, #hantavirus, #PublicHealth emergency of international concern for #Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda, the Pathogen Access & Benefit Sharing system #PABS Annex which should be approved soon, & #GlobalHealthArchitecture changes

[Elizabeth M Collins @DrEMCollins]

Helpful @GenevaForum led us through this @WHO #WHA79 for our global projects. Have you done STEEP analysis for how short-long term news & research from
Society
Technology
Economy
Environment &
Politics
will #ImpactDiplomacy of your #GlobalHealth project?

https://t.co/t08YE74Uek

[Elizabeth M Collins @DrEMCollins]

Great participating in @UN Economic & Social Council @UNECOSOC (platform coordinating economic, social, environmental, humanitarian sustainable development work) at end of @WHO #WHA79 Global Impact Projects workshop led by Thomas Egli @GenevaForum
Minutes https://t.co/uRSyTCkgR4

[Elizabeth M Collins @DrEMCollins]

... sunscreen to prevent cancer, toothpaste/mouthwash to prevent cavities etc., means a healthcare worker doesn't have to address that & can focus on non-preventable issues. @WHO & med systems have spent $ on high-cost care & prevention but there's power in personal care
#WHA79

[Elizabeth M Collins @DrEMCollins]

$1 of self-care results in $7 of value. @WHO knows #self-care is 1st step to health especially when doctors/pharmacists have less & less time to spend w/ patients. We can encourage all to take charge of their own health & MUST in #LMIC due to limited access to MDs/services #WHA79

[Elizabeth M Collins @DrEMCollins]

Hot @WHO #WHA79:
#self-care:
ability to promote your own health, prevent disease, cope w/ ills/disability +/- health worker. VP Global Public Gov Affairs at #Kenvue (makes Tylenol, Benadryl etc) says problem is consumers get info from social media but have Trust Gap believing it

[Elizabeth M Collins @DrEMCollins]

Ali Besri @WHO #WHA79: #LMIC bear majority of burden of disease & only 15% of funding so @Pfizer created Accord for a Healthier World; 19 countries access 100s of meds via this public private partnership.

#PPPs work but @GhanaMoh says last mile's hardest

https://t.co/4wxe0gGR7T

[Elizabeth M Collins @DrEMCollins]

#WHA79
@WHO said despite $ cuts #WHOTransformation improved normative (norms, standards, protocols, frameworks) technical work like prequalified #lenacapavir for #HIVprevention & produced its guidelines in 8 months (faster than usual yrs for them!) under new Chief Scientist role

[Elizabeth M Collins @DrEMCollins]

So #Lenacapavir isn’t officially approved for use in pediatric HIV prevention but clinical trials are underway by @GileadSciences
for patients <18 yrs old, >/= 35 kg.

@NIH #HIV Guidelines has adult dosing (hope we can advocate soon for kids):
https://t.co/LS8gg9VKho
@WHO #WHA79

[Elizabeth M Collins @DrEMCollins]

HIV Endgame @WHO #WHA79
Rhoda Igweta @EGPAF works with governments so w/ success of #Lenacapavir let’s scale!
Michel Joly @GileadSciences has committed to treat 3 million people in 3 yrs but Avac Mitchell Warren @HIVpxresearch says must treat 5 mil in 10 yrs to end #HIVepidemic

[Elizabeth M Collins @DrEMCollins]

Great to hear The HIV Endgame: Can World Deliver on Lenacapavir @WHO #WHA79 Michel Joly @GileadSciences: 2 shots/yr prevents #HIV in 99% of folks despite sex/pregnancy. Mitchell Warren @Avac @HIVpxresearch: no product’s perfect but it gets patients to clinic #HIVPrEP #eradication

[Elizabeth M Collins @DrEMCollins]

Thrilled to be in Geneva at the @WHO #WHA79 advocating for #ChildrenFirst, #OneHealth, #MentalHealth, #NTDs, #HIV care and more. @GlobalHealthOrg @ASTMH @ASTMH_ACGH @ACCTMTH @washumedicine @GHWASHU @washu @AmerAcadPeds @ughe_org

[Journal of Tropical Pediatrics @JTropPeds]

Outcomes of noninvasive versus invasive respiratory support in pediatric scrub typhus-associated acute respiratory failure: a retrospective cohort study from South India https://t.co/qXpOdHCxa9
 @DrEMCollins @OUPAcademic @OxfordMedSci @OxUniPress @OxfordJournals
#Pediatrics

[Elizabeth M Collins @DrEMCollins]

My latest editorial in the Journal of Tropical Pediatrics with Deputy Editor-in-Chief Priyanka Madaan: Screens over the sand and the sunshine—a silent crisis in the tropics https://t.co/BGpVzs3EwR

[Journal of Tropical Pediatrics @JTropPeds]

Epidemiology and outcomes of children admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit in Suriname: a retrospective observational study from a middle-income country @DrEMCollins @OUPAcademic @OxfordMedSci @OxUniPress @OxfordJournals #PICU #paediatrics https://t.co/890FSPGyDW

[Journal of Tropical Pediatrics @JTropPeds]

Effectiveness and feasibility of orogastric tube for surfactant delivery in moderate or very preterm neonates with respiratory distress syndrome: an open-label randomized controlled trial @DrEMCollins @OUPAcademic @OxfordMedSci @OxUniPress @OxfordJournals https://t.co/MNbVQa6zeh

[Journal of Tropical Pediatrics @JTropPeds]

effects of time and distance to definitive care on morbidity and mortality in pediatric injury patients in Northern Tanzania @DrEMCollins @OUPAcademic @OxfordMedSci @OxUniPress @OxfordJournals #paediatrics #injury https://t.co/99kQweZqgv