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...
🥳Congratulations to Dr Divya Kumar, our (now former) PhD student who passed her viva *this morning* with minor corrections!
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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...
📢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...
Thoughtful @thelancet.com comment following an excellent Pumphandle Lecture by Professor Cesar Victora hosted by the John Snow Society earlier this month.
📢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...
