New publication: Under-five mortality in the Democratic Republic of the #Congo: secondary analyses of survey and conflict data by province in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO) The Bulletin of the World Health Organization available here 👇🏾 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… & here 👉🏾researchportal.port.ac.uk/en/publication… 1/n

In The Bulletin of the World Health Organization we show that conflict alone is a poor predictor for child health in #DRCongo. #Diarrhoea strategies could help decrease subnational #inequities. Sustainable strengthening of the health system is a must to #savelives. #childmortality #SDGs ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Excellent summary by our group leader Tobias Alfvén on the multi-sectorial work and whole system approach needed to end preventable deaths in children in his Editorial in Acta Paediatrica. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ap…

DRC: Children in neglected areas worse off than in conflict zones An estimated quarter of a million children die each year before their fifth birthday in the DRC. Mattias Schedwin Espoir Bwenge Malembaka Helena Hildenwall Thorkild Tylleskär Carina King Miriam Mosesson globalbar.se/2022/10/drc-ch…

Children need access to high-quality care in all settings to decrease morbidity and mortality. Read this article on Essential Emergency and Critical Care, where I participated as a contributing author for the child section. #childmortality #CriticalCare sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Happy to present at ASTMH annual meeting. Come by and visit my poster and get to know if conflict is a good predictor of child health in the #DRC #IamTropMed #TropMed2022