Leaving rural Uttar Pradesh today, just as the elections kick off 🇮🇳 I've been training local researchers to use #RapidMixedMethods to explore barriers to care + potential solutions Part of a major equity & access project, working with left-behind groups [All 📷☑️ consent]

I came across this today: Fully-funded #scholarships for international students to undertake any 1y Masters degree at any 🇬🇧 university Funded by Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, covers flights and expenses chevening.org/scholarships/

Fascinating analysis on GBD gender differences Both have CVD at the top. Major differences: Women: musculoskeletal & mental health Men: risky behaviours

🔥 New paper Led by Leonard Baatiema, exploring #PrimaryCare clinicians' experiences in 🇬🇭 Freely available here: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/bmjope…

Final and official copy of Global Report on Primary Health Care is released. Happy reading :) who.int/publications/i…

This is a great little conference - you get lot's of opportunities to talk with other like-minded delegates and speakers. I really enjoyed it last year 👇

🔥 Upcoming LSHTM #PHC Webinar: Empanelment & Gatekeeping in primary care 🗓️12 June ⏰12:45 - 13:45 UK 📺lshtm.zoom.us/j/96081458792 A conversation with: 🗣️Sophia Chan: Former 🇭🇰 Minister of Health 🗣️Karen Kinder: WHO consultant 🗣️Gregory Marchildon: Health policy professor

Great little commentary summarising the Political economy dichotomy in PHC from D. Rajan Faraz Khalid David Peiris josep figueras Erica Di Ruggiero, PhD et al thelancet.com/journals/lanep…

New Lancet guidance on reporting race and ethnicity thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Next London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine #PHC session on 'Empanelment and Gatekeeping in Primary Care' 📅 Wed 12 Jun 2024 ⏰ 12:45 - 13:45 London 🖥 Zoom lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/eve… ⭐ Karen Kinder-WHO PHC Consultant ⭐ Gregory Marchildon-University of Toronto ⭐ Sophia Chan-HKU PHC Academy Luke Allen

🔥 Glad to finally see these findings in print National assessment of Libya's #PrimaryCare system With the national PHC Institute and World Bank bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Worth taking a look at this month's special issue of The Bulletin of the World Health Organization on health system performance ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/issues/465…

There's a feel of trying to hold back the tide in the Lancet's response to AI Echoing JAMA, Nature, Science, and others No-one is really grappling with the fundamental demographic rift in how AI is being used by the next generation of scientists thelancet.com/journals/lance…

You can now 👁️ the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine empanelment & gatekeeping webinar here: 📺lshtm.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/… 🗣️ Sophia Chan, Greg Marchildon, and Karen Kinder

Dear #MedTwitter, Why don't bleeding haemorrhoids cause septicaemia? 🤔 It's always puzzled me I can't imagine smearing faeces over an open wound once or twice a day anywhere else on the body without causing serious problems 💩

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Really nice summary of the #NHS #GP collective action today started on 1st Aug The most common action has been turning off data sharing, which doesn't harm patients in the short term, but has important long-term ramifications pulsetoday.co.uk/analysis/pract…

🌍World Health Organization (WHO) #NCD Department and Alliance for HPSR are calling for experts at global, regional and country levels to help shape the WHO global implementation research agenda for #NCDs ➡️Apply by Sept 5, 2024 🔗who.int/news-room/arti…