
Shay Soremekun
@seyisoremekun
Epidemiologist @ LSHTM: Designing and evaluating policy-changing interventions to improve global health. All views my own. @seyisoremekun. bsky.social
ID: 1441771674
19-05-2013 17:42:19
1,1K Tweet
236 Followers
93 Following

The annual The John Snow Society Pumphandle Lecture is always a fantastic event, this year given by the former World Health Organization (WHO) Chief Scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan. My role, to introduce Dr Soumya in the ceremonial removal of the handle of a replica water pump was worth the dress rehearsals.

Can't recommend this Youth Endowment Fund report enough which describes the experiences of involvement in violence of 10,000 children and young people across England and Wales - 27% involved as victims or perpetrators in the past year alone. That's a public health crisis.






We're calling for better quality, translational trials of #AI interventions in healthcare - that incorporate proper implementation science. Excited to join the steering committee of the new CANAIRI initiative led by Melissa McCradden and Xiao Liu Nature Medicine



🌳Unlocking the potential of trees to improve health and livelihoods New research led by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine reveals that tree-based solutions addressing environmental challenges have the potential to benefit health, but community needs must be carefully considered 👉bit.ly/42YzkXE




🎙️ Check out this interview with Shay Soremekun who shares her experience as a woman in science, her work developing decolonial approaches to evaluation, and more! Read the interview ⬇️ lshtm.ac.uk/research/centr…


🤱Mothers and newborns deserve a world where they can thrive. 🗣️On #WorldHealthDay, Dr Aduragbemi Banke-Thomas and Dr Hannah Blencowe London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine discuss the importance of advancing research to inform action and improve the lives of pregnant women & their babies. #HopefulFutures

We co-developed a training initiative in quasi-experimental designs with LSHTM Centre for Evaluation Youth Endowment Fund 📉 Includes some great colleagues (not all on twitter - but named in article) Daniel J Carter Ruth Keogh Julia Pescarini lshtm.ac.uk/research/centr…




Our Senior Country Technical Coordinator for #Nigeria, Olusola Dr Oresanya, shared insights w/ AfricaWithinPodcast on the progress, challenges & innovations shaping Africa’s fight to #EndMalaria — from prevention strategies to community-led interventions ➡️ brnw.ch/21wSpIA

