Inaugural Lecture Rein Houben Free & open to all
🏛️ LSHTM or 💻 online
📅 Thursday 25 April 2024
⏰ 17:30 - 18:30 BST
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3/4 Findings are now available as a PRE-PRINT 📢

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LSHTM TB Centre Finn McQuaid amare w tadesse KNCV TB Plus ASCENT digital adherence International Statistics and Epidemiology Group

'Gaza starvation could amount to war crime'
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UN Security Council passes resolution calling for 'immediate ceasefire' in Gaza, as US shifts position by abstaining from vote bbc.in/3xbHY7l

Blocking UNRWA from delivering food is in fact denying starving people the ability to survive. This decision must be urgently reversed. The levels of hunger are acute. All efforts to deliver food should not only be permitted but there should be an immediate acceleration of food…

Hybrid panel discussion on #social & #structural determinants of #TB , chaired by Palwasha Yousafzai Khan (online), with Delia🇪🇺 & Mazi Chukwuebuka online, and Finn McQuaid & Julia Pescarini in the room. The very diverse participants attending remotely also able to contribute. Katherine Horton

Impressive potential impact of household nutritional interventions in #TB presented by Finn McQuaid
#WTBD2024

LSHTM TB Centre is participating World TB Day symposium about to start! tinyurl.com/czdzmdy2
UCL-TB Toyin Togun, PhD FFPH Dr Sedona Sweeney Rein Houben Finn McQuaid Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) Palwasha Yousafzai Khan Prof Helen ayles 💙 Rebecca Clark Katherine Horton Lena Faust

#tuberculosis #worldtbday Yes! We can end TB!

The future of an entire generation in #Gaza is in serious peril.

Virtually all households are already skipping meals every day.

Once again, we ask:
-Israel to open more crossings and accelerate the entry and delivery of humanitarian aid
-for health care to be protected, and not…

Take a look at what me, Juan F Vesga and others have been up to for the last year. Large societal returns on health system investments in scaling #tuberculosis screening and preventive treatment. From now to 2050, a return of $4-39 dollars to society for every $1 invested!

Happening today! Yiran Liu on estimating the impact of mass incarceration and policy alternatives on TB in Latin America, 1400 GMT. See here for details mailchi.mp/916618389f05/t… Jason Andrews

Five months of writing in one tweet: Terror is always wrong. Revenge is not a strategy. A child is a child is a child. Release all hostages now. Let the aid flow. Neither the Jews nor the Palestinians are leaving. Without hope and a vision for a shared future, this does not end.

🌟Delighted to share this new paper by LSHTM TB Centre🌟.
We report our findings from a multi-stakeholder #DecolonisingGlobalHealth workshop on achieving equitable leadership in #GlobalHealth partnerships.
Finn McQuaid Chido Dziva Chikwari.

To download the full article👉: rdcu.be/dADud

Intentional advances to overcome funding barriers in global health speak directly to its decolonization.

Our manuscript published today provides recommendations critical to Achieving equitable leadership in Global Health partnerships👇🏾

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3 weeks today! World TB Day Symposium! UCL-TB LSHTM TB Centre Free & open to all Join online/remotely Registration is required tinyurl.com/czdzmdy2
Toyin Togun, PhD FFPH Dr Sedona Sweeney Rein Houben Finn McQuaid
#tuberculosis #tb #WTBD2024

4 weeks today: World TB Day session on 'Social and Structural Determinants' with Julia Pescarini, Chukwuebuka Ugwu (@ZankliC), Finn McQuaid, Delia Boccia. In-person and online. ucl.ac.uk/tb/world-tb-day UCL Division of Infection & Immunity UCL Global Health #tuberculosis #WorldTBDay #London

Great opportunity to learn about how to tackle malnutrition and tuberculosis from amazing experts like ⁦Anurag Bhargava⁩ ⁦Madhavi Bhargava⁩ ⁦Soumya Swaminathan⁩ ⁦Mario Raviglione⁩ and ⁦Pranay Sinha⁩

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🚨How British companies are bolstering Vladimir Putin’s war machine🚨
A depressing thread.
But an important one.
With some pretty shocking charts.
Let’s begin with the “official” picture. It suggests UK trade with Russia has collapsed since Feb 2022. Down by 74%…

A reminder of our seminar on health & economic impacts of introducing Vaccae vaccination in China, coming up on Thursday. Details here: mailchi.mp/7e3d6ccf524c/t…

Too many innocent Palestinian & Israeli lives have been lost, starting much before Oct 7.

Healthcare professionals & academics must be supported, not silenced, when advocating for preservation of life.

This is core to our role.

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