🆕 Tornem amb una nova jornada d’actualització en malalties infeccioses!
💡 Una oportunitat pel personal sanitari per actualitzar coneixements, revisar estratègies de prevenció i optimitzar l’abordatge clínic.
👀 Més informació: scienhub.org/ca/activity/...
Do you want to learn new methods that could potentially change how we map brain conditions?
We are looking for a PhD candidate interested in this area, as part of the 4-year fully-funded John Grace QC PhD Scholarship.
Learn more and apply by 22 April:
Following up on the findings from our first article (wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/10-...), here is the preprint of our study on neuroimmune alterations in school-aged children with perinatal HIV exposure
#publicationalert
#preprintalert
#HIV
#paediatrics
📢 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗣𝗔𝗘𝗗𝗦 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 — 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻!
Join us on 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝟮𝟰 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 for a one‑day course covering key neurological presentations in children and young people.
Info 👉 www.liverpool.ac.uk/brain-infect...
Registration 👉 payments.liv.ac.uk/conferences-...
#Paediatrics #MedicalEducation
Mark your calendars - applications for IBRO Schools Support open in less than 2️⃣ weeks!
Start exploring the new funding details & eligibility criteria today so you’re ready to hit "submit" when the window opens!
🔗 https://ibro.org/grant/schools-support/
Purple graphic with white text reading: "This is a worrying time for parents and the immediate priority is to ensure that all children catch-up on any missed vaccinations." Ben Kasstan-Dabush, Assistant Professor of Global Health & Development, LSHTM
Could a #measles outbreak in #London affect me?
LSHTM expert @benk-d.bsky.social gives advice to parents including to check children are up to date on #vaccines
Also: Confused? 😵💫 We answer common questions about measles & vaccines
Find out more 👉 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
I'm happy to announce that my book, "The Foreign Gaze: Essays on Global Health", is now out!
You can order the print copy and download the e-copy (open access) here: www.editions.ird.fr/produit/728/...
The book comes with a playlist for your listening pleasure: open.spotify.com/playlist/5K5...
Measles doesn’t always end when the rash fades.
For one woman, it returned 25 years later — as a fatal brain disease.
SSPE affects 1 in 50,000 measles cases.
There’s no cure.
There is prevention.
This story will stay with you. ⬇️
www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
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A precise atlas of the human subcortex | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Day 1 ✔️ #ENABLE project kicks-off today to prepare our clinical trial using #bNAbs to treat infants living with #HIV 👶🏽💙 Such a good start—strong ideas, great people, big goals 🚀 @globalhealthedctp3.bsky.social #EDCTP3
Retraction Watch has covered the problem of the “national IQ” database. Should be noted I’m far from alone in working to remove these publications. The spreadsheet of pubs which use NIQ - linked to in the article - was started by @kohngregory.bsky.social; a project also worked on by Cathryn Townsend
. @rebeccasear.bsky.social is on a mission to get all studies using a database linking #IQ and race retracted. I spoke to her for @retractionwatch.com to find out more: retractionwatch.com/2025/11/25/m...
Salut mental i ciència: Com investiguem els transtorns del cervell?
Cicle de xerrades divulgatives 'A la recerca de la salut'
👤Albert Martínez Pinteño i Natalia Rodríguez Ferret
📆02/12
⏰ 19:00
📍 Casa Golferichs
👉https://f.mtr.cool/hooocdwdre
#InauguralLecture by Prof Alfred Ngwa: Parasites on Wings - Malaria & River Blindness.
From pioneering #Cameroon River Blindness vaccine research to leading #Malaria parasites at #MRCG, a journey of science & impact for #GlobalHealth.
📆 26 Nov 2025
🕦17:15 GMT
Read more 👉 tinyurl.com/4rc9vwj2
Find us in consultation room 25, 5th floor, building on Carrer Rosselló 161, Barcelona. If you’re interested, please email us at cesc.bertran@isglobal.org or david.garcia@isglobal.org with the day and time that suit you, and we’ll be delighted to see you (3/3)
We’re just 30 participants away from completing recruitment... would you like to take part and help us reach our goal?
🙋 You only need to be over 18 years of age
💉 We’ll take two small blood samples with a single needle prick
⌚ You can come Monday to Friday 08:00–08:30 or 16:00–17:00 (2/3)
🫵 Science needs you! 🫵
Hi there, we’re contacting you from the International Travel Clinic at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. We’re developing an antibody sensor to measure how well our patients respond to vaccines against hepatitis A, measles and dengue (1/3)
Ens trobaràs a la consulta 25, planta 5 de l'edifici del Carrer Rosselló 161, a Barcelona. Si t'interessa, escriu-nos a cesc.bertran@isglobal.org o david.garcia@isglobal.org amb el dia i hora que et vagin bé, i t'atendrem amb tota la il·lusió del món (3/3)
Ens falten 30 participants per a completar el reclutament, vols participar i ajudar-nos a assolir el nostre objectiu?
🙋 N'hi ha prou amb que siguis major d'edat
💉 Amb una petita punxada, et traurem dos tubs de sang
⌚ Pots venir de dilluns a divendres, de 8:00 a 8:30 i de 16:00 a 17:00 (2/3)
🫵 La ciència et necessita! 🫵
Bon dia, us escrivim des del Servei d'Atenció al Viatger Internacional de l'Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. Estem desenvolupant un sensor d'anticossos en consulta per a detectar la immunogenicitat dels nostres pacients envers hepatitis A, xarampió i dengue (1/3)
"South Africa has become the first African country... to register the revolutionary twice-a-year anti-HIV jab, #lenacapavir" via @news24southafrica.bsky.social
@news24southafrica.bsky.social explores "Who should be first in line for the upcoming anti-#HIV jab?" in #SouthAfrica
🆕Film by LSHTM explores 'Hidden Malaria' in #India
It goes inside a research project looking at why #malaria persists in regions like Odisha despite declining rates across the country, & hidden reservoirs of #infection that show no symptoms.🦟
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP88...
Researchers at EMBL Barcelona highlight malaria-induced disruption of pericytes, bringing us a step closer to understanding how cerebral malaria damages the brain, and how these damages could be prevented or reversed.
www.embl.org/news/science...
Europe is the only region of the globe that saw more deaths due to HIV in 2022 than it did in 2010.
An @aidsmap.bsky.social report from #EACS2025.
www.aidsmap.com/news/oct-202...
Outside Bluesky, you can find me on GitHub (github.com/Cescualito), and LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/cesc-bert...).
Feel free to reach out anytime. You can speak to me in Català, Castellano, English, Português, and isiXhosa.
Ndiyavuya ukunazi!
Lastly, I am also the deputy coordinator for the HIV course at @lshtm.bsky.social, a distance-learning module bringing multidisciplinary perspectives on health & well-being across the HIV pandemic. I coordinate teaching and assessment, and support students throughout.
At the UCT Neuroscience Institute, I study how early-life factors shape brain development in children with perinatal HIV exposure, using methods such as magnetic resonance imaging and longitudinal modelling to inform child care in resource-limited settings.
#ChildHealth #HIV #neuroimaging
As part of @isglobal.org and the International Health Service @hospitalclinic.bsky.social, I lead and manage research projects on infectious diseases, migrant & traveller health, and vaccine safety —turning data into actionable insights.
#recerca #CLÍNIC #InfectiousDiseases #epi
Trained in Biomedical Sciences, I have over 5 years of experience working on HIV, malaria, and dengue across South Africa, Sierra Leone, and Europe. I split my time between ISGlobal (Barcelona) and UCT (Cape Town), in addition to some teaching at the LSHTM (London).