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Public and global health examines how we protect communities from disease, manage outbreaks, and improve well-being across the world. This vital field connects diverse research on everything from infectious disease control and vaccination strategies to the social factors that shape our collective health. Because these studies often impact policy and daily life, understanding them quickly is more important than ever.
At Gist.Science, we track every new preprint published in this category on medRxiv to ensure you never miss a breakthrough. We process each submission to provide both plain-language explanations for general readers and detailed technical summaries for experts, making complex findings accessible to everyone.
Below are the latest papers in public and global health, freshly summarized from the most recent medRxiv releases.
This study provides the first empirical evidence from Lusaka, Zambia, that courier food carriers are significantly contaminated with pathogenic bacteria, identifying infrequent cleaning and carrier design as primary risk factors that necessitate strengthened hygiene protocols within the national food safety framework.
A 2025 pilot study in Bangladesh demonstrates that a cognitive AI system designed to replicate the full clinical workflow, rather than merely providing risk scores, achieved high diagnostic accuracy (94.7%) across 277 patient encounters, suggesting its potential to effectively address physician shortages and enhance primary care delivery.
This study demonstrates that a carefully calibrated stacked ensemble machine learning model, trained on readily available electronic medical record data from the All of Us Research Program, can effectively predict heart failure with high accuracy (ROC-AUC 0.927) and provide clinically actionable risk stratification for early diagnosis and proactive care.
This modeling study projects that bivalent HPV vaccination in 117 low- and middle-income countries could prevent approximately 4.8 million non-cervical cancer cases and 3 million deaths among women by 2100, with the greatest relative benefits expected in the African Region, thereby strengthening the public health case for expanding vaccine access and addressing global health disparities.
This qualitative study of 22 religious leaders in Bauchi State, Nigeria, reveals that while most support childhood immunization as compatible with their faith, persistent misinformation and trust issues remain, suggesting that structured engagement with these leaders and improved health service delivery are crucial strategies for increasing vaccine uptake.
This study analyzes nationally representative BDHS data from 2017-18 and 2022 to reveal a post-pandemic divergence in Bangladesh's non-communicable disease landscape, characterized by a dramatic doubling of diabetes prevalence driven by urban and community-level factors, alongside a decline in hypertension that may reflect survival bias and a weakening of the bidirectional relationship between the two conditions.
This study demonstrates that operative hysteroscopy is an effective, minimally invasive first-line treatment for endometrial polyps that achieves high lesion removal rates without significantly increasing patient pain compared to diagnostic hysteroscopy.
This case study demonstrates that a 2025 cross-border vaccine deployment strategy through Chad successfully restored immunization services in conflict-affected Darfur, increasing DPT1 coverage from 22.6% to 83.2% and delivering nearly 20 million doses to mitigate disease outbreaks despite the disruption of national supply routes.
This population linkage study in Wales reveals that while children with congenital anomalies generally achieve lower academic results, their attainment is most severely compromised by the cumulative effects of poverty and long-term conditions like epilepsy, with special education needs provision partially mitigating but not fully overcoming these disadvantages.
This study protocol outlines a longitudinal observational research project in Slovenia designed to examine the bidirectional relationship between frailty and both risk and protective mental health factors among adults aged 50 and older over a two-year period to inform healthy ageing strategies.