Stop press: our latest DEPTH London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine blog is here! Former project manager Laura reflects on collaboration, community & power. It's a fascinating look at some of our own research processes, which we found really valuable lshtm.ac.uk/research/centr… #PPI #health #research #NIHR

Today's #throwbackThursday is our recent article for Global Health Action on mental health of vulnerable adolescent mothers in Zimbabwe through self-help groups, by Rudo Chingono, Constance Kasese & London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine staff Sam Miles & Joanna Busza. Read #free & #OA tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Today's #followFriday & #Fridayfeeling is the work of ALCS, who collect & distribute royalty payments for researcher and academics' books, chapters & articles. Learn more at alcs.co.uk and sign up! #openaccess #research #communit

Today's #Mondaymotivation is this powerful The Guardian Guardian Healthcare viewpoint piece on social determinants of #health Sir Michael Marmot: theguardian.com/commentisfree/… #global #media #research

Check out this recent London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine study in STI_BMJ incl. Pippa Grenfell Dr Rachel Stuart & colleagues for East London Project, which found that more than one in five sex workers have faced recent verbal, physical or sexual violence from police officers. Open access: sti.bmj.com/content/early/…

Do you have a passion for community engagement? We're trialling a different approach to research which puts community groups in the driving seat. Sound interesting to you? Find out more 🔗 britishscienceassociation.org/community-enga… Deadline 09:00, 27 June. #vacancy #communityengagement

Our new paper! What works (and what doesn't) when it comes to community-based surveillance of infectious diseases? BMJ Global Health USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre, LSHTM Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs Save the Children US gh.bmj.com/content/7/8/e0…

New systematic review on community-based disease surveillance: “[Surveillance] preparedness is more likely to be both successful and sustainable within communities that are actively engaged in designing and implementing ... public health solutions” ➡️ gh.bmj.com/content/7/8/e0…

New Lancet comment by DEPTH team member Catherine McGowan and others, looking at the relationship between climate change and humanitarian response: thelancet.com/action/showPdf…

Another DEPTH paper published today! Pippa Grenfell writes about policing and public health interventions into the lives of sex workers in London: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

An estimated 274 million people are now in need of #humanitarian assistance. In a Comment, Louisa Baxter & colleagues explore the relationship between climate change, health, & the humanitarian response: hubs.li/Q01rlMq40

Our latest paper has been published! We review guidelines for cervical screening amongst transmasculine patients: srh.bmj.com/content/early/…. "The evidence is limited, but existing guidelines provide recommendations to ensure life-saving screening services are available". BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health

We're back! Our new paper describing the spatial aspects of COVID-19 amongst migrant workers in precarious jobs is out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14… Sam Miles Cicely Catherine McGowan

Can you be considered 'vaccine hesitant' when it's the health system, and not the vaccine, you are hesitant about? Our new paper reporting on vaccination decisions amongst Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities is out: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Sam Miles Cicely Catherine McGowan

We built a web-based respondent-driven sampling solution!! Read about it here: bmcmedinformdecismak.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… ODK Catherine McGowan

Our paper 'Adult mortality patterns in Yemen before and during armed conflict: evidence from a web survey of the global diaspora' has been published: conflictandhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Our paper reporting on community-led responses to COVID-19 amongst Gypsy and Traveller communities is out!! Read about community resilience during the pandemic here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Cicely Sam Miles Catherine McGowan

They're back! Dialogue Evidence Participation Translation Health share publications from Department of Health and Social Care National Institute for Health and Care Research-funded 'Routes' project on #COVID19 & Gypsy, Roma & Traveller communities and migrant workers. I led this Wiley paper. It argues that migrant workers experience risks at work & bring them home:

How do we measure supply-side disruption to maternal and newborn health services? Check out our new review in BMJ_Open to find out! bmjopen.bmj.com/content/13/12/…

Researchers from Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre, LSHTM & JHU Humanitarian Health have developed projections of excess death due to the crisis in #Gaza. Reports will be available periodically with updated estimates for different scenarios of how the crisis could evolve. 👉 bit.ly/49pFOiu