📢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)!

📢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...

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

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

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...

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...