If we want to '#decolonise' evaluation methods - we should do it properly, from the foundation up: Our @lshtm.bsky.social Centre for Evaluation viewpoint out in this month's @lancetgh.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The Impact of Postpartum Depression on Early Child Development - paper one of first to consider impacts of depression at 12 months post delivery: link.springer.com/epdf/10.1186...

Well done to my @lshtm.bsky.social colleagues for a really important piece of work on risk factors and experiences of young people involved in violence in the UK. Report available here 👇🏽: youthendowmentfund.org.uk/reports/syst...

Children and young people’s accounts of involvement in serious violence in the UK  | Youth Endowment Fund

The first systematic review of UK based qualitative research with CYP involved in or at risk of serious violence.

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🥳Congratulations to Dr Divya Kumar, our (now former) PhD student who passed her viva *this morning* with minor corrections! 🎊 Her PhD publications focus on drivers and impacts of maternal postpartum depression on child development in LMICs. (here in post-viva chat)

This is an unusually well-funded #PhD opportunity for your networks. Our project on climate change and crime in children and young people in the UK is under this scheme - interested applicants please do get in touch! mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk/2026-27-proj...

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine@lshtm.bsky.social · 8mo ago

👋Our MRC-LID studentships are now open for applications with @citystgeorges.bsky.social MRC-LID provides research opportunities focused on improving #GlobalHealth with skills, training & the expertise of 2 specialist institutions. Apply by 14 Jan 2026👉 mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk

📢New #PhD project! For 2026 to offer under the MRC @ukri.org Doctoral Training Studentship Scheme. The project will investigate the links between heat and crime rates in youth in the UK. Fully funded+living costs - open to anyone in the world 🌍 mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk/2026-27-proj...

Surely the attendance of AI-generated pupils is going to be zero?

📢I sat down with Dr Shubs Upadhyay from the brilliant Global Perspectives on Digital Health podcast 🌐 We talked #evaluation of #digital #health interventions in low resource settings, programme theory and equitable and decolonial approaches 👇🏽 www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-shu...

We end this #BlackHistoryMonth2025 series with Dr Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock, multi-award winning British space scientist and physicist who'll be giving the 2025 @rigb.org #Christmas Lecture! www.rigb.org/explore-scie... Tickets: www.rigb.org/whats-on/dis...

Dr Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock

Meet Dame Maggie – this year’s Lecturer for the CHRISTMAS LECTURES from the Royal Institution.

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Thoughtful @thelancet.com comment following an excellent Pumphandle Lecture by Professor Cesar Victora hosted by the John Snow Society earlier this month.

The Lancet@thelancet.com · 10mo ago

Are we adequately preparing for future health crises? In a new Offline, Richard Horton explores how scenario planning can shape resilient health policies and ensure justice for health worldwide: tinyurl.com/28nt54xu

📢The 2025 Pumphandle Lecture will be given by: Dr Cesar Victora, Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology at Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil!! "From Local Insights to Global Impact: Four Decades of Child Health and Nutrition Epidemiology in Pelotas, Brazil." More information to come.

🗣️NEW SPEAKER! Professor Rebecca French will be speaking at LSHTM’s Health Misinformation UNPACKED, 15 September 2025, London/online. @lshtmcepr.bsky.social www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

New MSc Health Data in Practice @qmul-wiph.bsky.social Prepare for leadership or strategic positions in the NHS or wider public and private sector organisations. Find out more at: www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate... Register to join our webinar on 24th July, 1-2pm at qmul.tfaforms.net/166

We won the John Snow Society inaugural quiz (a month ago)!

The John Snow Society@johnsnowsociety.bsky.social · last yr.

Well done to the winning team: ...Quizzy Experimental Designs! ⚡ Who correctly answered niche questions such as 'What was Florence Nightingale doing during the 1854 Soho cholera outbreak?' and 'Provide at least one of Dr Snow's addresses in London?' Here with their prizes:

📢Our mother-child bonding paper is out in @plosone.org! In 2020 we developed a new tool to measure bonding, assessed its underlying constructs with structural equations and regression, showing bonding is affected by mode of birth and maternal depression. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

We co-developed a training initiative in quasi-experimental designs with LSHTM Centre for Evaluation and the Youth Endowment Fund 📉👇 Includes some great colleagues (most not on Bluesky) www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

Call for Nominations: The 2025 Paul Farmer Lectureship and Award for Global Health Equity @mcgill.ca www.mcgill.ca/spgh/about-u...

Call for Nominations: The 2025 Paul Farmer Lectureship and Award for Global Health Equity

The McGill School of Population and Global Health is now accepting nominations for the 2025 Paul Farmer Award for Global Health Equity. The nomination deadline is Sunday, June 8th, 2025. Paul Farmer, ...

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I can't recommend this scheme enough - working with my MP and having him visit the LSHTM, give a talk and meet my colleagues (and doing the same in Parliament) was a fantastic experience with positive consequences. @royalsociety.org

The Royal Society@royalsociety.org · last yr.

New MPs, civil servants and scientists are about to trade places and swap roles as the Royal Society Pairing Scheme 2025 kicks off on Monday. 30 UK scientists will be shadowing parliamentarians and civil servants over a week that will include the Spring Statement: royalsociety.org/news/2025/03...

I was interviewed by one of our great student liaison officers Whitney Langlee for International Women's Day 👇

LSHTM Malaria Centre@lshtm-malaria.bsky.social · last yr.

Assistant Professor of Epidemiology @lshtm.bsky.social, @seyisoremekun.bsky.social shares her journey into public health and evaluation. Read the full interview👇 www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

We independently analysed data for the Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, Nanoro and Oxford University on their new #malaria vaccine candidate RH5.1! ⬆️Up to 91% efficacy against very high parasitaemia More results to follow... www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🎉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.

How to organise a global health conference (a guide): 'Your event will be one of 96% in the global north, but will probably be about global south problems'. 'Remember nothing says “global health” like a 5-star ocean view resort' by Dr Hashim Hounkpatin speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2024/07/26/h...

How to organize a global health conference: a satirical guide

Welcome to the chaotic world of organizing a global health conference

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We need for better quality, translational trials of #AI interventions in healthcare - that incorporate proper implementation science. Excited to join the steering committee of the new CANAIRI initiative led by @MMccradden and @DrXiaoLiu @naturemedicine.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The annual @JohnSnowSociety Pumphandle Lecture is always a fantastic event, this year given by the former @WHO Chief Scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan @doctorsoumya My role, to introduce Dr Soumya in the ceremonial removal of the handle of a replica water pump was worth all the dress rehearsals.

Great position piece in @UNICEF blog recently on the value of sustainable, scalable digital technologies to reach undervaccinated children in Africa, and good to see an increasing number of locally developed research studies in this area 👏🏽 @kkallander www.unicef.org/blog/digital...

Digital for zero-dose: Harnessing AI for global health equity

Harnessing AI and innovative solutions for global health equity.

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