Book chapters

Elsevier,

Modernizing Global Health Security to Prevent, Detect, and Respond, 2024, Pages 429-455

This chapter aims to provide a thoughtful and balanced scientific review and analysis of financial philanthropy gaps and impediments to global public health security, provide a vision of an improved approach, and suggest actions to mitigate infectious disease pandemics. Despite improvements, significant gaps and difficulties exist in global pandemic preparedness measures; only about one-fourth of countries in the world could sufficiently prevent, detect, and respond to public health emergencies.

Elsevier,

Unraveling Environmental Disasters, Second Edition, 2024, pp 469-509

This chapter advances the UN SDG goals 13 and 14 by reviewing the impact of habitat degradation on local biodiversity and species invasions, particularly in the context of climate change and shifting habitat ranges.
Elsevier,

Snow Leopards, Second Edition, 2024, pp 309-321

This chapter advances the UN SDG goals 9 and 15 by reviewing how industry and infrastructure development can infringe on snow leopard habitat and how sustainable business drivers can encourage companies to engage in biodiversity conservation efforts.
Elsevier,

Diagnostic Molecular Pathology (Second Edition): A Guide to Applied Molecular Testing, 2024, Pages 63-77

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health by summarizing the current molecular methods of detection and quantification of hepatitis virus genomes, with special emphasis on the assays commercially available and applicable for clinical use.
Elsevier,

Clinician's Guide to Sexuality and Autism
A Guide to Sex Education for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders
2024, Pages 9-16

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by outlining how to use the book to provide effective teaching in sexuality education with an emphasis on individualization for specific learners.
Elsevier,

Clinician's Guide to Sexuality and Autism
A Guide to Sex Education for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders
2024, Pages 3-8

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by introducing sexuality education curriculum for learners of all ages with autism.
Elsevier,

Manson's Tropical Diseases (Twentyfourth Edition), 2024, Pages 152-166

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health proving that viral hepatitis is increasing as a global challenge, in contrast to other major infectious causes of death (e.g. tuberculosis (TB), HIV, and malaria).
Elsevier,

Manson's Tropical Diseases (Twentyfourth Edition), 2024, Pages 57-63

For anybody interested in the relevance of global health governance to tropical diseases, whether they work in vaccine development or emergency outbreak response, it is essential to remember that these debates are indeed ongoing, and that global health interventions and outcomes remain beset with inequalities. The campaign against tropical disease is not just an aetiological one, but also very much a governance and policy challenge supporting SDG 3.
Elsevier,

Manson's Tropical Diseases (Twentyfourth Edition)
2024, Pages 139-151

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing by presenting the current evidence for HIV/AIDS prevention.
Elsevier,

The Renewable Energy-Water-Environment Nexus, 2024, Pages 133-141

This chapter advances UN SDGs 12, 11, and 7 by explaining the links between renewable energy, water, and the environment, with the explicit goal of meeting sustainable development goals.

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