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Community Health Workers (CHWs) play a vital role in global health initiatives. Their significant contribution to tackling public health issues, especially in underserved communities, is invaluable. As they continue to evolve and expand their role in the healthcare sector, CHWs have become indispensable agents in fostering holistic well-being across diverse sociocultural contexts. A recent systematic […]
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Well, hey. This is more or less a pre-post letting you know that we’ll be relaunching in the coming weeks focusing on the needs and concerns of public health. Our team has a bunch of GREAT stuff and features planned, all to get scientific information into the hands of public health professionals and practitioners. And […]
Read more →Morning, folks. We’re knee-deep in preparation for the APHA conference in about 10 days. As part of that prep, we’re been implementing a pretty substantive overhaul of the design of PubTrawlr, along with a few UX improvements, like predictive searching. Those should all be rolling out, well, within the next 10 days. So, stay tuned […]
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The Global Implementation Conference has just wrapped. Despite my own personal ambivalence toward online gatherings, the whole thing went on without a hitch. The content was great; the presentations and storyboards led to dynamic interactions…it was FUN. In lieu of abstract harvesting, let’s take a brief minute to look at some of the words and […]
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Here’s something a little outside our normal content. We are presenting this week (May 3, 2021) on the use of web-scraping to better understand context. While this doesn’t concern the translation of scientific findings, it does concern how these findings are implemented. We’ve long noted that the stuff that PubTrawlr does is just the first […]
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The great people at the O’Pake Institute helped us to put together this demo video on how to use PubTrawlr’s Quick Search. Check it out and give it a go yourself. My son would be bummed out that it wasn’t set to Coffin Dance, but what can you do?
Read more →Another month, another fresh batch of retraction. Twenty-Five articles were retracted by journal editors this month. Before we get to the results, I want to focus on a non-retracted article that got some press earlier this month and prompted a fair amount of pushback.
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“Should I stay or should I go? If I go, there will be trouble, And if I stay it will be double. So come on and let me know.” – The Clash For as long as I have worked in education, I’ve heard the grim statistic that half of U.S. teachers leave the profession after […]
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We’re in a transitional phase here at PubTrawlr as we move to get our 101 Days of Science and monthly newsletters up and running. Part of that will include much more dynamic and interactive formatting. So, in the meanwhile, I decided to do something cheekily meta this afternoon: a review of journals focused on reviews! […]
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In spring of 2018, I left my quasi-academic position to start The Center for Implementation. As I began planning my time and prioritizing what I needed to do most, I realized that I had fallen behind on keeping up to date with the literature. A large part of my work involves training and supporting people […]
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My oldest daughter is a fifth-grader and is learning about fractions and percentages in her math class this year. She made a big conceptual leap from whole numbers to fractions. The lessons she is learning on comparing and interpreting fractions may prepare her to understand and appraise risks better than most adults.
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