🚗🚨 In many African cities, access to emergency obstetric care is a race against time for pregnant women. Until now, models that calculate travel time have not accurately reflected the reality in those cities. Our latest #innovation , powered by Google Health, sheds light on the…

When 'researchers from more privileged institutions conduct studies in or collect data about marginalized communities with little to no involvement of local researchers' that is domestic helicopter research W. Marcus Lambert, PhD

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Three NIHR Research Academic Clinical Lecturers in Infectious Diseases London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @UCL Imperial College London oriel.nhs.uk/Web/PermaLink/… Adverts close May 13th. If you want to discuss the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine role then get in touch.

Nice article on “sociovirology”, describing the generation of defective particles and how those may regulate outcomes of viral infections quantamagazine.org/viruses-finall…

The debt crisis currently choking countries in Sub-Saharan Africa is not fate but is a man-made situation which can be unmade.

The global financial architecture needs an urgent reset!

👇🏾 Clear call to action from my colleague Jaime Atienza Azcona via Inter Press Service
ipsnews.net/2024/04/leader…

There's never been a disease-modifying drug for Parkinson's disease to slow its progression. Now there may be two emerging.
—GLP-1
nejm.org/doi/abs/10.105… NEJM
—anti-synuclein antibody nature.com/articles/s4159…
NATURE.med

Many people have no idea how these things work.

For example, right now, as a Brazilian, I can't accept invitations to speak at conferences in Europe because my visa to work in the U.S. has expired.
I am not illegal; I have a work contract with the University of California until…

'If health inequalities are increasing, inequalities in society are increasing, and dealing with these inequalities is urgently needed.'

Dr Lucinda Hiam, Bob Klaber, Dr Annabel, and Sir Michael Marmot call for action to tackle the UK's social determinants of health bmj.com/content/385/bm…

How fast are viruses spreading in the wild? Check out our latest study now available as a preprint on bioRxiv: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…. A study performed with Paul Bastide, Pauline Rocu, Denis Fargette, Olivier Hardy, Marc Suchard, Stéphane Guindon, and Philippe Lemey's lab (1/7)

Vaccination reduced the risk of #LongCovid by ~40% in the entire population (5.4 million) of Norway
thelancet.com/journals/lanre… and reduced cardiovascular and thrombotic events Nhung Trinh
The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

WHO Documents Rising Resistance to First-Line HIV Drug jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Mental Health Awareness Week is coming... 💙

Our programme of events has gone live today and it's time to start registering! 🖱️

From water aerobics to mindful drawing, there is something for everyone. Get booking now ⬇️

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Please RT!!! We are looking for an experienced 'Research Investigator' to join a collaborative team in our lab on developing novel approaches to mitigate toxicity and enhance efficacy of cancer therapeutics by modulating nutrient metabolism. Apply here: schooljobs.com/careers/cshl/j…

Five steps to connect genetic risk variants to disease go.nature.com/4an9gGC

This Sunday is #WorldHealthDay !

Ever wondered how #Brazil 's community health worker model can inspire global health initiatives? 🌎

Check out Matthew Harris from Imperial School of Public Health reflections in a blog he wrote.

#MyHealthMyRight .

More 👇
blogs.imperial.ac.uk/imperial-medic…

'Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.'
- Maya Angelou, #BornOnThisDay .

💙 Let's echo her words today and every day and stand up for one another!

Illustration: Anna Markevich

Making #HTLV -1 visible!
#neglected
Imperial College London HTLV.net nature.com/articles/s4156…

Spotlighting the people with #LongCovid who became patient activists and citizen scientists, shaping the research initiatives to find effective treatments
nature.com/articles/d4158… nature Patient-Led Research Collaborative Lisa McCorkell Hannah Davis Open Medicine Foundation It'sME(Jaime)

Outbreak surveillance is also a no-brainer, but it takes resourcing, including to develop medical virology expertise in low- and middle-income countries.

That's part of what we do.
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Please help spread the word about our #MECFS study with Putrino Lab 👇🏼 thank you 🙏🏼