Monthly Archives: June 2016

Changing The Game for Girls in STEM

Actually not about games or “serious gaming”: http://www.techbridgegirls.org/index.php?id=277
A nice critique of the “leaky pipeline” metaphor in p. 12: http://online.fliphtml5.com/udnc/tezw/#p=12

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Paid for by Chevron, so I guess they know more than most about pipelines…

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Update on Polio

Nice update on polio eradication efforts from Heidi Larson’s Vaccine Confidence Report: http://www.vaccineconfidence.org/is-the-big-switch-the-final-piece-in-the-polio-jigsaw/

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For future journal clubs

Improving the measurement of maternal mortality in Thailand using multiple data sources
Chandoevwit W, Phatchana P, Sirigomon K, Ieawsuwan K, Thungthong J, Ruangdej S
Population Health Metrics 2016, 14 :16 (4 May 2016)

http://pophealthmetrics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12963-016-0087-z

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