Jorge Saavedra

Biographic Data

ID3825447
NAMEJorge Saavedra
GIVEN NAMESJorge
FAMILY NAMESaavedra
SIGNATURESAAVEDRA J
AFFILIATIONSProduction Development Corporation
ORCID0000-0001-8974-7861
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Navigating distrust and competing priorities during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessRachel Waldman, Rachel N Waldman et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Introduction: Stopping an infectious disease outbreak relies on a coordinated set of actions across public and private institutions and the wider public. However, cooperation with public health recommendations was notably hindered during the pandemic by widespread distrust in science and government and the notion that public health competed with other priorities. This study aims to examine the factors driving distrust and competing priorities in …

  • HIV Treatment Disruption and Viral Suppression Among Venezuelan Immigrants Living with HIV in Miami

    Open AccessYue Pan, Viviana Horigian et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2025

    Venezuelan immigrants living with HIV (VILH) in Miami represent a growing and understudied population that may face substantial barriers to continuous HIV care due to prior treatment disruptions, migration-related stressors, and limited healthcare access. This study compares HIV treatment trajectories, medication histories, and viral suppression among VILH, U.S.-born people living with HIV (PLWH), and other foreign-born PLWH in Miami. We used med…

  • Implementing a provisional overarching intervention for Covid-19 monitoring and control in the Brazil-Colombia-Peru frontier

    Open AccessMatilde Contreras, Felipe Gomes Naveca et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Introduction: he challenge was to provide comprehensive health resources to a remote and underserved population living in the Brazil-Colombia-Peru border, amid the most disruptive global crisis of the century. Methods: In August 2021, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Amazonia (FIOCRUZ Amazônia) and partner collaborators implemented an overarching provisional program for SARS-CoV-2 detection and lineages characterization, training of laboratory personnel and…

  • Mpox

    Open AccessChristine Mcnab, Els Torreele et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

  • Comunicación, medios y movimientos sociales en Chile, balance de (un cuarto de) siglo

    Open AccessJorge Saavedra, Jorge Saavedra UtmanARTICLEComunicación y Medios2023

    El presente artículo presenta un pormenorizado resumen de la investigación que desde los medios y las comunicaciones se ha hecho sobre movimientos sociales en Chile durante el siglo XXI. En las últimas décadas, dicho campo ha recibido un gran interés en áreas que este estudio agrupa en torno a la representación de causas, sujetos y futuro de movimientos por parte de medios de comunicación; al carácter performativo en el espacio urbano; al rol con…

  • Assessment of the Occurrence of Forest Fires in Pandemic Period by Covid-19 in Chile. Preliminary Backgrounds

    Open AccessMiguel Castillo, Jorge Saavedra et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    The spatial and temporal behavior of the occurrence of forest fires in Chile was evaluated in the presence of COVID-19 and mobility restrictions. The fire period from 2015-2016 to 2020-2021 was considered and statistics on mobility restrictions were granted by the Government of Chile. The analysis was developed at different scales of geographic perception. At the national and regional levels, the global behavior of the occurrence was determined, …

  • The Association Between the Social Determinants of Health and HIV Control in Miami-Dade County ZIP Codes, 2017

    Open AccessDayana Rojas, Anamarie Garces de Marcilla et al.ARTICLEJournal of Racial and Ethnic…2020

    BACKGROUND: There were 28,055 people living with HIV (PLWH) in Miami-Dade County (MDC) in 2017; 40.1% was either out of care or was not virally suppressed (uncontrolled HIV). The purpose of this study was to determine the association between the social determinants of health (SDOH) and the number of persons with uncontrolled HIV in MDC. SETTING: This cross-sectional study included PLWH 15 and older with uncontrolled HIV in MDC, 2017. Data on PLWH…

  • Will Ebola change the game? Ten essential reforms before the next pandemic. The report of the Harvard-LSHTM Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola

    Open AccessSuerie Moon, Devi Sridhar et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2015

    The west African Ebola epidemic that began in 2013 exposed deep inadequacies in the national and international institutions responsible for protecting the public from the far-reaching human, social, economic, and political consequences of infectious disease outbreaks. The Ebola epidemic raised a crucial question: what reforms are needed to mend the fragile global system for outbreak prevention and response, rebuild confidence, and prevent future …

  • El postotalirarismo carismático y el cambio de régimen

    Open AccessEusebio Mujal-Leon, Eusebio Mujal‐león et al.ARTICLEAMÉRICA LATINA HOY2009

    En el texto se intentan aportar algunas ideas sobre la posible evolución política en Cuba, partiendo del análisis del régimen cubano de los noventa, y comparando su situación con la de otros casos similares. En este sentido, definen el actual régimen cubano como postotalitarismo-carismático e intentan analizar las condiciones internas y externas que constriñen y potencian la evolución del régimen cubano.ABSTRACT: This article analyses the prospec…