‼️Register now‼️Climate Conference 🌍 Climate Change, Environmental Hazards & Population Dynamics 🗺️ Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) 📆Nov 11–12, 2025 Sign up here: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even... @mpidr.bsky.social @iussp.bsky.social @conteristo.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social

Climate change’s hidden cost: Rainfall instability may cause 290 under-five child deaths per 10,000 every year. Stability in rain is vital for children’s survival. See: Rainfall variability and under-five child mortality in 59 low- and middle-income countries www.nature.com/articles/s44...

📢 Short-term teaching role in Sexual & Reproductive Health ! Join our award-winning MSc @lshtm.bsky.social as a Research Fellow (Education) (maternity cover). Full-time role until December 2025 Apply: EPH-DPH-2025-08-R – jobs.lshtm.ac.uk @lshtm-march.bsky.social @chidodc.bsky.social

Why does the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) only include live births? 🤔 In our study using 46 DHS surveys, we explore what happens when stillbirths & pregnancy losses are included. We suggest an alternative: MMR+ Led by Ursula Gazaley & Hallie Eilerts Spinelli. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Accounting for stillbirths in maternal health metrics: a cross-country analysis

Live birth is only one of four potential pregnancy outcomes, alongside stillbirth, miscarriage, and induced abortion. While morbidity and mortality as…

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High temperatures worsen pregnancy outcomes like preterm birth—but what can families do to stay safe? Find out in our study on a community-based heat-health intervention in Kilifi, Kenya: 🔗 academic.oup.com/heapol/artic... @lshtm-march.bsky.social

Reducing Extreme Heat Impacts on Health in Pregnant Women and Infants: a community based intervention in Kilifi, Kenya

Abstract. High ambient temperatures affect maternal and newborn health outcomes and wellbeing. The Climate Heat and Maternal and Neonatal Health in Africa

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🌟Our STAR South Africa project has created a respectful-care intervention for mothers & babies via improving the culture of organisational learning. Baseline results👇@lshtm-march.bsky.social Organisational learning culture in maternity units: A mixed-method stu... sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Organisational learning culture in maternity units: A mixed-method study in rural district hospitals in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Building organisational learning in health facilities is a health system strengthening strategy that has particular relevance for rural health workers…

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Some good news—but already outdated in light of recent foreign aid cuts that could severely impact maternal mortality? 🤔The progress in this report is incredibly fragile.

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Maternal health in Africa: there’s progress, but challenges remain 🚨 The region bears a disproportionate burden of maternal mortality, counting for 70% of global maternal deaths in 2023. bit.ly/42cK1VT

At last, some good news for research in the UK: www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/uk... Thank you for telling me @chlobrim.bsky.social !

UK Government rolls out £13.9 billion R&D spending plan

The UK government is putting forward a £13.9 billion investment in research and development (R&D) for the 2025/26 fiscal year.

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Devastating academically 👇 www.lemonde.fr/en/united-st...

Johns Hopkins University forced to lay off 2,000 workers due to Trump cuts

The cuts impact several key programs, including the university's medical school and school of public health, and Jhpiego, a global health non-profit organization founded at the university more than 50...

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Impressive: 👏Perinatal mortality ⬇️18%, neonatal mortality ⬇️40%, maternal mortality maybe by ⬇️75% in this well-designed quality improvement study 👏 I like it that it is a stepped-wedge cluster-randomized trial! www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Outcomes of a Program to Reduce Birth-Related Mortality in Tanzania | NEJM

Birth-related mortality is a major contributor to the burden of deaths worldwide, especially in low-income countries. The Safer Births Bundle of Care program is a combination of interventions devel...

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🎉New Grant Alert: Excited to start a new body of research with #BenWeobong on impacts of climate change 🌦️ on mental health in children, adolescents and women. Even more so to meet fellow awardees in our first @medresfdn.bsky.social Equitable Partnerships week in Ghana.

JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to resume hundreds of millions of dollars in payments for U.S. Agency for International Development projects.

Judge tells Trump administration it has less than 2 days to resume USAID funding

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to resume hundreds of millions of dollars in payments for U.S. Agency for International Development projects.

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In some countries, more than one in three mothers have lost a child younger than five

Want to learn the basics of statistical analysis for observational & experimental research? If you're an epidemiologist, biostatistician, or health researcher, master the essentials on this short course. Running online, 17 - 19 June 2025. Apply now👉 bit.ly/3Q2zs0i

Our STAR intervention aims to transform respectful care for women & babies in South Africa (KZN) through learning & participatory action. 📸 from recent workshop Full article on intervention design : www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring Researchers facing "a lot uncertainty, fear and panic" Hard to understand this. Could be terrible. But any new director would want scientists to work www.science.org/cont... 1/3

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring

Researchers facing

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✒️🗓️ Sign up now for our March 3rd 🌍 🩺 @climatehealthcafe.bsky.social pre-conference workshop on climate measurement. Led by researchers from HIGH Horizons and @lshtm.bsky.social, facilitated by @debrajacksonnole.bsky.social. ➡️ Register: climatehealthcafe.org/conference-w... #ClimateHealth

Thank you to the study’s authors: Georgios Charvalis, Michalis Koureas, @chlobrim.bsky.social, Chara Bogogiannidou, Fani Kalala, Varvara Mouchtouri, Christos Kadjichristodoulou, and the HIGH Horizons Study Group. 🧵6/6 @1verofilippi.bsky.social @daalenkim.bsky.social

#Gaza war death toll could be significantly higher, researchers say BBC News reports on new @lshtm.bsky.social study suggesting number of Palestinians who died from traumatic injury underreported by 41%. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Gaza war death toll could be significantly higher, researchers say

A study in The Lancet suggests Gaza ministry of health figures over a nine-month period might be too low.

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Act now to improve bereaved mothers' mental health globally: 1️⃣ Raise awareness of challenges after stillbirths/neonatal deaths 2️⃣ Train healthcare professionals in communication 3️⃣ Campaign to reduce stigma See our commentary: obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @lshtm.bsky.social

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⚡ OUT NOW ⚡ 1️⃣st comprehensive study on health and climate change in small island developing states shows lack of climate action is endangering lives and livelihoods - despite island states spearheading international attention on climate and health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

RECRUITING: Could you lead our work on health and climate change in Africa? 🌍 Steer the direction of our research in Africa 👥 Build regional representation in upcoming centre 📝 Inform a health-centred climate change response Find out more: lancetcountdown.org/news/vacancy...

Vacancy: Become the new Director of the Lancet Countdown Africa - Lancet Countdown

Could you be the next Director of the Lancet Countdown Africa regional centre?

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Celebrating Kate Onursal's successful PhD viva on maternal employment, health & wellbeing in Turkey! 🎉 A pleasure to co-supervise with @hannahbargawi.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social Another success for the Bloomsbury Scholarships for interdisciplinary research! #PhDsuccess @lshtm.bsky.social

Great first meeting of the @nihr.bsky.social Maternity Disparities Consortium. Our Aberdeen and Cardiff collaboration (i6) is led by Prof Mairead Black. And a pleasure to meet you, Veronique!

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@lshtm.bsky.social joins the NIHR Challenge: Maternity Disparities Consortium! The consortium will tackle #inequalities in UK #maternity outcomes, with LSHTM leading the REFRAME Collaboration. 👉 lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen... @nihr.bsky.social Excited to be part of the REFRAME team!

🌍Despite small steps in the right direction, #COP29 fell short in delivering commitments needed to protect health, according to LSHTM researchers. Our experts reflect on the outcomes of #COP29, and what they mean for the future of #climate and #health. #PublicHealth 👉 bit.ly/4gdA0vD

"The presence of a companion, whether spousal or non-spousal, positively influenced birth satisfaction, though it did not significantly affect postpartum postnatal depression scores" www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Impact of companion support during labor on postnatal depression and birth satisfaction: a prospective cohort study

This study aimed to investigate the impact of having a companion during vaginal birth on postpartum depression and birth satisfaction.This prospective cohort study included 220 postpartum women age...

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@lshtm.bsky.social joins the NIHR Challenge: Maternity Disparities Consortium! The consortium will tackle #inequalities in UK #maternity outcomes, with LSHTM leading the REFRAME Collaboration. 👉 lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen... @nihr.bsky.social Excited to be part of the REFRAME team!

LSHTM joins new consortium tackling maternity disparities in the UK

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Come do a PhD with us at @lshtm.bsky.social! We're advertising two projects: Understanding and predicting vector-borne epidemics (with Rachel Lowe): mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk/2025-26-proj... Kinetics of immunity to influenza and SARS-CoV-2 (with @dchodge.bsky.social): mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk/2025-26-proj...

Loving this paper 'Rethinking barriers and enablers'. How many thousands of weak research studies have reduced complex change to 'identifying and addressing barriers and enablers'? Here's how to do better! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Rethinking Barriers and Enablers in Qualitative Health Research: Limitations, Alternatives, and Enhancements - Abby Haynes, Victoria Loblay, 2024

Explorations of barriers and enablers (or barriers and facilitators) to a desired health practice, implementation process, or intervention outcome have become s...

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