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Sarah Bick @sarahbick.bsky.social · May 7
Discussion of the challenges of synthesising impacts of WASH in schools and gender-disaggregated reporting in the article 👆

Thanks to co-authors @katherinedavies.bsky.social, Mwamba Mwenge, Clara MacLeod, @laurabraun.bsky.social, Jenala Chipungu, Kondwani Chidziwisano, @rdreibe.bsky.social
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Sarah Bick @sarahbick.bsky.social · May 7
We looked at

• 83 experimental studies across 33 countries
• 93 diverse, and often complex WASH interventions
• 313 health / educational outcomes measured among schoolchildren…

…and *spoiler* most used an outcome definition unique to a single study!
Venn diagram of overlapping components of school-based WASH interventions (left), and chart of the number of evaluations with health, educational or other outcomes by intervention type (right)
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Sarah Bick @sarahbick.bsky.social · May 7
👋 Hi Bluesky! Our scoping review of water, sanitation and hygiene in schools is now published in BMJ Global Health

Read on if you’re interested in
🧼 #WASH
🤸‍♀️ #AdolescentHealth
🔍 #EvidenceSynthesis
🎨 #dataviz ??

@lshtm-ehg.bsky.social

gh.bmj.com/content/10/5...
WASH and learn: a scoping review of health, education and gender equity outcomes of school-based water, sanitation and hygiene in low-income and middle-income countries
School-age children in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) face health and educational challenges due to inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in schools (WinS). Evidence for the ...
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Sarah Bick @sarahbick.bsky.social · Mar 14
Massive congrats to the team! 🎉
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Katherine Davies @katherinedavies.bsky.social · Mar 14
🚀 Today, we launched the Behaviour Change Lab (BC Lab) trial—a factorial RCT on hand hygiene in peri-urban Lusaka, Zambia.

⭐️ Huge thanks to my amazing colleagues at Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia for their contributions!

🔬Excited for the insights ahead! #GlobalHealth #HandHygiene
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Sarah Bick @sarahbick.bsky.social · Nov 19
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Environmental Health Group (EHG), LSHTM @lshtm-ehg.bsky.social · Nov 19
Starter pack of researchers from EHG - the Environmental Health Group at LSHTM. There are >30 of us in EHG and our numbers are growing on Bluesky!

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Environmental Health Group (EHG), LSHTM @lshtm-ehg.bsky.social · Nov 19
EHG is on Bluesky!

The Environmental Health Group at @lshtm.bsky.social is a team of ~30 multidisciplinary academics whose research focuses how WASH influences health and wellbeing, and how investments in these services can improve people’s lives.

Read more about our work: tinyurl.com/3m4zh4sn
Environmental Health Group | LSHTM
The focus for the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine’s work on water, sanitation, hygiene and health.
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