Christian Laugen

University of British Columbia - Vancouver | UBC · School of Population and Public Health

If you want to work ethically with children in your research in Indonesia and/or are curious about how children can meaningfully participate in research, this handbook is for you. This handbook was developed by a group of multidisciplinary research and program practitioners who are of Indonesian origin or have worked for a significant period of tim...

Ini adalah buku pegangan mengenai cara-cara etis dalam melibatkan anak-anak dalam penelitian Anda di Indonesia dan bagaimana agar anak-anak dapat berpartisipasi secara bermakna dalam penelitian Anda. Buku ini dikembangkan oleh sekelompok peneliti multidisipliner dan praktisi program dari Indonesia atau yang telah lama bekerja di berbagai daerah di...

Purpose Many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are struggling to reduce maternal mortality rates, despite increased efforts by the United Nations through the implementation of their Millennium Development Goals program. Industrialized nations, such as Canada, have a collaborative role to play in raising the global maternal health standards....

As social accountability (SA) initiatives in Indonesia continue to grow, evidence shows that mechanisms to engage citizens to monitor service provision and provide constructive feedback on large-scale programs in the public sector still need improvement. SA, or citizens’ ability to hold governing actors and their partners accountable for their acti...

Background: The World Health Organization recommendation for exclusive breast feeding for 6 months has been endorsed by Health Canada, the Canadian Pediatric Society, Dietitians of Canada, and the Breastfeeding Committee for Canada as of 2012. This study examines whether social support is associated with exclusive breast feeding up to 6 months amo...

Given the gendered distribution of depression, this paper aims at exploring the gender disparities in the effect of depression on condom use in last sexual intercourse in a nationally representative sample of sexually active Canadians. Data in this study came from the Canadian Community Health Survey 2009-2010 (n=124,188 aged ≥12 years). The analys...

One of the most significant risks faced by poor families occurs at the time of childbirth with the possibility of complications or death for mother and child. Indonesia is one of several countries in Asia that continues to suffer from high maternal mortality. Poor services and a lack of access to these services contribute to this mortality. In spit...

Lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase-beta (LPAAT-beta) is a transmembrane enzyme critical for the biosynthesis of phosphoglycerides whose product, phosphatidic acid, plays a key role in raf and AKT/mTor-mediated signal transduction. LPAAT-beta may be a novel target for anticancer therapy, and, thus, we examined the effects of a series of inhibitor...

Humoral immunotherapy using the monoclonal anti-CD20 antibody rituximab induces remissions in approximately 60% of patients with relapsed follicular lymphoma; however, most patients eventually relapse despite continued expression of CD20 on lymphoma cells. We have hypothesized that cellular immunotherapy targeting CD20(+) cells might provide a more...