How can we build disability-inclusive health systems? Join the discussion in The Missing Billion Initiative & @LSHTM_ICED webinar highlighting lessons from disability training for health workers 🩺🌍 📅 18/9, Panelists: Dr Andrew Ssemata, Joao Arnaldo Vembane, Vallent Rachel Adhiambo, Lwala Community Alliance

Webinar alert! 🚨 Join us to learn how to create more inclusive healthcare systems. We'll share insights from our disability training for health workers. Register now! 🔗 bit.ly/3TuScrz 📅Wed 18 September ⏰1-2pm UK time

Happening today! Please join us to learn more about the importance of #HealthWorkerTraining

Investigating the heart of a critical issue: Are children with disabilities at higher risk of malnutrition compared to their able-bodied peers? 🌎 A comprehensive look into data from 30 different Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys. bit.ly/4cHUJ91 Sara Rotenberg

Our new paper from our Missing Billion pilot study in Uganda found low accessibility scores (median 17.8%) in 5 primary health facilities in Luuka District, but many low-cost improvement opportunities. Read the findings: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11… MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit National Institute for Health and Care Research London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

4th in our series on COVID-19 comes from S. Rotenberg, J. Cooper, & M. B. Downer: “Accessibility of Canadian COVID-19 Testing Locations for People with Disabilities During the Third Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic”: cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds… 6/8

Congratulations, @LaurenClarkeMHA, Zainub Dhanani, Louis Tan, Jonathan Altamirano, and Magali Fassiotto on our publication! We have a ways to go in training providers to better care for patients with disabilities, and it all starts with #DocsWithDisabilities

Investigating the heart of a critical issue: Are children with disabilities at higher risk of malnutrition compared to their able-bodied peers? 🌎 A comprehensive look into data from 30 different Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys. bit.ly/4cHUJ91 Sara Rotenberg…

📢 "Your voice and your questions matter." A powerful reminder from AHRI faculty member, Prof Dr Xanthe Hunt to women and girls in science - and those aspiring to be in science! #IDWGS #IDWGS2025 #womeninSTEM

As someone with a lisp I tried VERY hard to think about a non-s word relevant to my feelings about the barriers young women and girls face in science. But, the truth is, so much of why we aren't in science, and aren't in STEM, lies in socialisation. So: 🧵

How can we support ultra-poor people with disabilities to achieve sustainable livelihoods? Join our webinar tomorrow to learn about the Disability-Inclusive Graduation (DIG) programme in Uganda that showed significant income gains and improved inclusion lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/eve…

Trainers and trainees’ perceptions of #disability training for health workers in Ghana ✍️ Sara Rotenberg, Sara Ryan, Sue Ziebland & John Ganle in BMC #BMCMedEd   #DisabilityCompetencies bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Hannah Kuper and Sara Rotenberg hosted a fireside on the new Lancet Commission on Disability and Health! They discussed how the voices of people with disabilities can shape the Commission report!

🚨 No Health Without Inclusion 🚨 Proud to launch the first-ever The Lancet Commission on Disability and Health! 📅 21 May 2025 | 14:00–15:30 📍 Hotel Royal, Rue de Lausanne 41-43, Geneva 🎙️ With World Health Organization (WHO), The Lancet, OPDs & funders 📝 RSVP: bit.ly/3GMKLIQ

Here are some communication tips to help you #BeDeafAware. It's important to ask the person you’re communicating with what their preferences are and if they have tips they find helpful. For more advice, visit rnid.org.uk/information-an…

Today, we held an event in Geneva announcing the first Lancet Commission on Disability and Health. Read more here: Creating disability-inclusive health systems that leave no one behind - The Lancet thelancet.com/journals/lance…

So honoured to be part of this Commission and looking forward to sharing all the impactful research we have planned!

Introducing The Lancet Commission on Disability and Health, aiming to contribute to the creation of disability-inclusive health systems that leave no one behind. Find out more in a new Comment ⬇️ hubs.li/Q03njRtb0