Welcome to GLOHMED
GLOHMED is an autonomous consortium of like-minded medical professionals and evidence-synthesizing institutions, committed to advance clinical medicine and global health, with a long-term vision to improve quality of patient care and health outcomes in low-resource settings.
Our main goal is to generate local evidence in key issues of global health and advocate its utilization by governments and stakeholders.
News
Educational video on Antimicrobial resistance
GlohMed collaborated with ‘Global Health’ working group of the Global Young Academy to prepare this AMR educational video in Nepali language.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), also known as antibiotic resistance, occurs when bacteria develop the ability to defeat the drugs designed to kill them. This makes standard treatments ineffective. AMR arises through various mechanisms, such as genetic mutations or
Events and Achievements
Seminar on “Laboratory methods to study Group B Streptococcus colonization in pregnant mothers and their newborns”
On 4th September 2024 GlohMed organized a seminar on “Laboratory methods to study Group B Streptococcus colonization in pregnant mothers
Seminar on “Maternal-newborn health services and importance of quality data”, Nepalgunj
GlohMed organized an event in Bheri Hospital, a government run facility in Nepalgunj, Banke to review maternal-neonatal data that our
Seminar on “Burkholderia pseudomallei and Melioidosis”, Bhaktapur
GlohMed organized a seminar on “Burkholderia pseudomallei and Melioidosis: A hidden burden in Nepal”, at Khwopa Hospital, Bhaktapur on 21st
Annual Meeting of VALIDATE Network 2024, Bangkok (Presentation)
GlohMed continues to be an active participant of VALIDATE meetings. Following the 2023 meeting in London, this year’s event took
Asia Pacific Travel Health Conference 2024, Kathmandu (Presentation)
In September 2024, GlohMed participated in the Asia Pacific Travel Health Conference in Kathmandu. This conference brought travel health professionals
National Climate and Health Conference 2024, Kathmandu (Participation)
In August 2024, GlohMed investigator Dr. Suraj Bhattarai participated in the National Climate and Health Conference organized by the Ministry
GlohMed Investigator Named as a Top Health Researcher in Nepal
We are proud to announce that a bibliometric analysis of highly cited papers (HCPs), published in the Journal of Nepal
RCPCH Fellowship and Participation in Annual Conference 2024 in Birmingham, UK (Award ceremony)
Dr. Kiran Tiwari, a Senior Pediatrician (Government of Nepal) at Dhaulagiri Hospital, Baglung and a GLOHMED Investigator, has been awarded
Publications
- Diptesh Aryal, Suraj Bhattarai, Sushila Paudel et al.
- Wellcome Open Research
- 07 Nov 2024
A recently published study “Comparison of clinical characteristics and outcomes between COVID-19 survivors and non-survivors: a retrospective observational study” authored...
- Haley Comfort et al.
- THE LANCET
- 16 November 2024
The latest publication in The Lancet journal “Global, regional, and national stillbirths at 20 weeks’ gestation or longer in 204...
- Jaya Dhungana, Subina Bajracharya, Nancy R. Reynolds
- Nursing Open
- 10 October 2024
GlohMed is committed to addressing critical issues in patient safety, such as medication errors. A recent study “Knowledge and Performance...
- Paropakar Maternity and Women’s Hospital, Kathmandu
- B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan
- Bheri Hospital, Nepalgunj
- Dhaulagiri Hospital, Baglung
- National Medical College and Teaching Hospital, Birgunj
- Khowpa Hospital, Bhaktapur
- Siddhi Memorial Hospital, Bhaktapur
- Bhaktapur Hospital, Bhaktapur
- and more…
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To contribute to quality improvement and equitable health service in health facilities and communities through evidence generation and advisory services.
Objectives
- Analyze global evidence in important topics of global health and clinical medicine to purpose and test appropriate health interventions at country level.
- Design and implement its own research to generate new evidence as well as provide consultancy services to support other groups that want to do global health and medical research and projects.
- Identify evidence gaps in health sector through literature review and synthesis and propose collaborative projects to fill such gaps.
- Provide advisory services, for example epidemiological analyses, to the governments and other stakeholders of the health sector in Nepal and other countries, not only to support them on decision-making but for an overall strengthening of the national health systems and improvement of clinical care.
- Promote scholarly activities and academic exchanges among early-to-mid career researchers in clinical medicine and global health.
- Support capacity building of local researchers, including support for masters and PhD projects and job creation for research staff.