Course Name: CBID Master's Projects

Many caesarean sections are preventable. During our August field immersion trips in Nepal and India, we witnessed high rates of...

Access to health care is a basic human right. Yet in India, more than 700 million rural people have limited...

Acute kidney injury, defined as a sudden loss of renal function, occurs in 15 percent of the 600,000 cardiac procedures...

In overcrowded neonatal care units where each caregiver is responsible for many babies, there is a serious risk of neonatal...

Proper hydration is a problem that is central to everyone’s health. Both overhydration and underhydration have detrimental medical consequences for...

Heart failure affects the lives of 5.1 million Americans and cost the U.S. economy $39.2 Billion in 2010. An important...

Team Brady is working in collaboration with the Medtronic Foundation to assess and address the barriers to pacing therapies in...

A urethral stricture is a fibrotic narrowing of the urethra, which acts like a tough scar tissue and leads to...

For the first time in history more people are dying from a lack of access to safe, essential surgical care...

Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS), recurrent and persistent inflammation of the nasal sinuses, is a chronic condition that affects almost one in...

Each year, 350,000 women and 2 million babies die from birth-related complications. In India specifically, the UN Millennium Development Goals...

Pressure ulcers are injuries to the skin and underlying tissue, usually over a bony prominence such as the sacrum, ischial...

Many developing countries face challenges providing primary healthcare to their populations, resulting in increased disease burden, mortality, and healthcare-related poverty....

Over 66% of newborn deaths happen during the first week of life due to the fragile immune system of the...

An estimated 1.6 million people in the United States have moderate to severe tricuspid regurgitation (TR), a condition in which...

The 2015-2016 CBID-Medtronic team represents the third year of a global health collaboration initiative between Johns Hopkins and Medtronic. The...

  With a population of 1.25 billion, 70% of patients living in rural villages, and a physician-patient ratio of 1:1674,...

The World Health Organization estimates that up to 70% of all biomedical equipment in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is...

Approximately 55,000 patients undergo corrective surgery for spinal deformity every year. These surgeries involve the placement of screws and rods...

Antibiotic resistance occurs when bacteria adapt to reduce the effectiveness of drugs, and is expected to be a leading cause...

The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is a key ligament in knee function and stability. Over 750,000 people suffer from an...

There are over 320,000 colorectal resection surgeries performed annually in the United States. One of the most devastating complications associated...

Approximately 2.7 million newborns die each year, with 75% of these deaths occurring during the first week of life. One...

Currently only a small number of patients with bradycardia (abnormally slow heart rate) in China receive optimal treatment for their...

At any given time, one in ten Americans suffer from lower back pain, and it is estimated that approximately 31%...

Each year, 3.3 million newborns die in the first 28 days following birth, with 75% of these deaths occurring in...

Emphysema is a lung disease caused by chronic inhalation of irritants and characterized by the destruction of alveolar walls, loss...

Approximately 2.1 million patients in the United States require portable oxygen therapy to treat their respiratory diseases. Patients choose from...

Each year, up to 50% of the 16 million surgical patients who are at least 65 years of age develop...

Approximately 94 million people worldwide have impaired vision due to cataract, with a disproportionate number living in low- and middleincome...