BACKGROUND: In many Latin American countries, official influenza reports are neither timely nor complete, and surveillance of influenza-like illness (ILI) remains thin in consistency and precision.

BACKGROUND: Approximately 128 countries and 3.9 billion people are at risk of dengue infection.

BACKGROUND: Regular human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing of persons at risk is critical to HIV prevention.

BACKGROUND: Telemedicine, or electronic interactive health care consultation, offers a variety of benefits to both patients and primary care clinicians. However, little is known about the opinions of physicians using these modalities.

BACKGROUND: We engaged Canadian women in the development of a prenatal education program delivered via one-way text messaging called SmartMom.

BACKGROUND: In low and middle income countries (LMICs), and other areas with low resources and unreliable access to the Internet, understanding the emerging best practices for the implementation of new mobile health (mHealth) technologies is needed for efficient and secure data management and for

BACKGROUND: In tobacco control and other fields, point-of-sale surveillance of the retail environment is critical for understanding industry marketing of products and informing public health practice.

BACKGROUND: Little is known about the effects of human fetal exposure when a new drug is authorized unless it was specifically developed for use in pregnancy.

Kidney transplant recipients must adhere to their immunosuppressive medication regimen. However, non-adherence remains a major problem.

BACKGROUND: As global mobile phone penetration increases, direct health information communication from hard-to-reach communities is becoming commonplace.