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Our Global Health Research Unit is focused on improving health services in slums

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Today is an exciting day for our NIHR Global Health Unit. We are holding our annual Scientific Advisory Group meeting. This year we are not face to face but meeting virtually. Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi Muzukulu wa Bityo is chairing the first session - an open discussion to shape our next steps. #GlobalHealth

Today is an exciting day for our <a href="/NIHRglobal/">NIHR Global Health</a> Unit.  We are holding our annual Scientific Advisory Group meeting. This year we are not face to face but meeting virtually. <a href="/CKyobutungi/">Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi Muzukulu wa Bityo</a> is chairing the first session - an open discussion to shape our next steps.  #GlobalHealth
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Another great discussion is underway as we make plans for international policy engagement. Thank you to Akinyinka Omigbodun from University of Ibadan for chairing this session at our NIHR Global Health Research Unit's Scientific Advisory Group Meeting. #globalhealth

Another great discussion is underway as we make plans for international policy engagement.  Thank you to <a href="/Omigbodun/">Akinyinka Omigbodun</a> from <a href="/UniIbadan/">University of Ibadan</a> for chairing this session at our <a href="/NIHRglobal/">NIHR Global Health</a> Research Unit's Scientific Advisory Group Meeting. #globalhealth
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One of our @NIHRGlobal PhD students, Sara Estecha Querol has recorded a podcast where she talks about her research into #malnutrition among Pakistani adolescents. You can listen here➡️bit.ly/3zmJlfO Warwick Centre for Global Health Aga Khan University WICID Warwick Warwick Med School #GlobalHealth

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The NIHR Global Health newsletter is out & features one of our PhD students Sara Estecha Querol, who has been working with Aga Khan University to research malnutrition amongst adolescents. Susbscribe to the newsletter below or read more about Sara's research here: bit.ly/3vA03oQ

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Congratulations to @siwatson on the publication of his article "Efficient design of geographically-defined clusters with spatial autocorrelation" in Journal of Applied Statistics & JAS: Enviro Stats You can read the article here➡️ bit.ly/3iRywNi NIHR Global Health Uni of Birmingham

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Rebecca Evans, one of our NIHR Global Health PhD students, challenged University of Warwick design students to design a better sanitary waste bin as part of her study into the menstrual literacy of adolescents in low-resource settings. Read about the challenge & vote here bit.ly/35VwCmN

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Great to see our Unit Director Richard Lilford talking about the work his team are doing on another NIHR Global Health project that aims to transform the treatment and prevention of #Leprosy and #Buruliulcers

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Congratulations to one of our NIHR Global Health WMS Research Degrees students Ryan Rego who has been awarded a PhD in Health Sciences for his thesis on diarrhoea surveillance methods in #urbaninformalsettlements and #refugeecamps. Ryan was supervised by @siwatson Richard Lilford and Paramjit Gill

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Our partners APHRC held a dissemination webinar recently, where Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi Muzukulu wa Bityo presented on our @NIHRGlobal study outcomes and lessons learnt. You can read more about the event here and watch a recording to hear the interesting discussion. #GlobalHealth bit.ly/3ifLq6q

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The Aga Khan University are partners on our NIHR Global Health Unit and have created a documentary with #AzamBasti community members, looking at access to healthcare and the challenges faced. You can watch the documentary here📽️ bit.ly/3m9HqWd University of Ibadan APHRC Independent University, Bangladesh #GlobalHealth

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Working with our NIHR Global Health partners Aga Khan University & University of Ibadan our systematic review finds that affordability & social environment interventions could be promising avenues for improving population health in LMICs. Read more here bit.ly/2YD8lBJ WICID Warwick Ana Irache

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👏Dr Oyebode Morten F. Byskov Keith Hyams on their The British Academy paper. They present a framework to identify injustice in complex developmental challenges, demonstrated with a case study of climate-related health risks in Zambias informal settlements bit.ly/2YUtl7p

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Prof Richard Lilford will be an panellist @ the Malaria & Neglected Tropical Diseases All Party Parliamentary Group on 16 Nov, 10am, representing the NIHR RIGHT project on transforming the treatment & prevention of leprosy ulcers in LMICs. You can register here bit.ly/3c2Gezp

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This is a great output from our Waterproofing Data Project - Dados à Prova D'água colleagues. The FUTURUMCareers brochure shares information about the Waterproofing Data project & the use of community data & analytics to build resilience to flooding. This is a great read for the last day of COP26 #COP26