Querido amigo quisiera, un diálogo entre la música y la literatura como melodía de la memoria

MendozaIntentar esbozar la vida y obra musical de Óscar Agudelo (1932), un reconocido intérprete musical oriundo de Herveo, Tolima, es referir sus orígenes humildes allí junto al campesinado tolimense hasta su triunfo por el mundo donde alcanzó la fama. Su formación escolar y posteriormente artística trans-curriría entre los bellos paisajes de la cordillera central colombiana, dónde con el tiempo le sería mejor conocido como “El Zorzal criollo”

Experiencia del Departamento de Pediatría en el uso de herramientas remotas para la continuidad académica en la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana durante la pandemia por SARS-CoV-2 en el 2020

La educación médica se ha visto confrontada frente alos rápidos cambios debidos a la pandemia por SARS-CoV-2. Los profesores del Departamento de Pediatríade la Facultad de Medicina de la Pontificia UniversidadJaveriana se han enfrentado a la necesidad de hacermodificaciones y afrontar los retos de las tecnologíaspara dar continuidad académica a los programas de prey posgrado en el área de la pediatría, así como ajustarlas prácticas para garantizar la formación médica. Eneste artículo exponemos las experiencias y reflexiones deldepartamento.Medical education has been confronted with the rapid changesthat occurred as a result of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. ThePediatrics Department of the Faculty of Medicine of the PontificiaUniversidad Javeriana have faced the need of modifications and haveencountered challenges of new technologies giving academic continuityto undergraduate and postgraduate programs in the area of pediatrics,as well as adjusting practices to ensure medical training. In this articlewe present the experiences and reflections of changes related to medicaltraining and new technologies in Pediatrics learningRevista Nacional - No indexad

Socializing One Health: an innovative strategy to investigate social and behavioral risks of emerging viral threats

In an effort to strengthen global capacity to prevent, detect, and control infectious diseases in animals and people, the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Emerging Pandemic Threats (EPT) PREDICT project funded development of regional, national, and local One Health capacities for early disease detection, rapid response, disease control, and risk reduction. From the outset, the EPT approach was inclusive of social science research methods designed to understand the contexts and behaviors of communities living and working at human-animal-environment interfaces considered high-risk for virus emergence. Using qualitative and quantitative approaches, PREDICT behavioral research aimed to identify and assess a range of socio-cultural behaviors that could be influential in zoonotic disease emergence, amplification, and transmission. This broad approach to behavioral risk characterization enabled us to identify and characterize human activities that could be linked to the transmission dynamics of new and emerging viruses. This paper provides a discussion of implementation of a social science approach within a zoonotic surveillance framework. We conducted in-depth ethnographic interviews and focus groups to better understand the individual- and community-level knowledge, attitudes, and practices that potentially put participants at risk for zoonotic disease transmission from the animals they live and work with, across 6 interface domains. When we asked highly-exposed individuals (ie. bushmeat hunters, wildlife or guano farmers) about the risk they perceived in their occupational activities, most did not perceive it to be risky, whether because it was normalized by years (or generations) of doing such an activity, or due to lack of information about potential risks. Integrating the social sciences allows investigations of the specific human activities that are hypothesized to drive disease emergence, amplification, and transmission, in order to better substantiate behavioral disease drivers, along with the social dimensions of infection and transmission dynamics. Understanding these dynamics is critical to achieving health security--the protection from threats to health-- which requires investments in both collective and individual health security. Involving behavioral sciences into zoonotic disease surveillance allowed us to push toward fuller community integration and engagement and toward dialogue and implementation of recommendations for disease prevention and improved health security