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A record number of children impacted by conflict are having their rights brutally violated. UNICEF is calling for all parties to conflict, and for those with influence over them, to take decisive action to end the suffering of children.

Join @UBCDoM Division of Infectious Diseases Intercity Rounds on Tue, Jan 21 to learn how national action plans are reducing the burden of sepsis globally, and how we can leverage this progress for drive local improvements in sepsis care. @UBCmedicine HLI at St Paul's PICNet

Introduction to the African STARS Fellowship Program - One of the largest fellowship programs in Africa to generate employment and capacity to respond to new epidemics! Full video at: youtube.com/watch?v=i0CkDk… Press release: ceri.org.za/news/

Join us tomorrow at 8am and learn as we get insights from Mark Ansermino and team from The Institute for Global Health (IGH) Henon Ataryeba Uganda Catholic Medical Bureau -UCMB Mbarara Referral Hospital Emergency Medicine- Mbarara University Walimu Akampa Gilbert Kakurugu Dustin Dunsmuir Ahmad Asdo Yash (Yashodani) Pillay Aine Ivan Aye Ishebukara ubc.zoom.us/j/62541879586?…

📢 Are you a health professional, researcher, innovator, policymaker, or humanitarian working in a LMIC? We need your input! 🌍 These findings will directly inform a global roadmap for funding & policy. 📝 The survey takes less than 10 mins! climatehealthsurvey.com

So obvious that it feels absurd to even engage with this, but some statistics re the extreme economic position of white South Africans, in one of the most unequal countries in the world:

“We all have the same 24 hours” The 24 hours:

Low-income workers spend about 51% of their net wage on transport, according to a new World Bank report on inclusive economic growth in South Africa. brnw.ch/21wR1Pe

When governments & countries decrease funding, we invest more in Africa! When they go low, we go high! Please help to advertise 20 fellowships in the top scientific facilities in Africa (CERI and IPD), together we make the world a safer place - starsfellows.africa

Shameless self-plug, once again: My article on the introduction of a wealth tax as an equality imperative in SA tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.108…

📢 Attention African Researchers! #IamAPHRC, in partnership with Wellcome, has launched the Afrique Research Support Hub Program to help early-career researchers improve their grant writing skills. As part of this, we’re studying the challenges post-Ph.D. early-career

📢 Call for proposals! The Being is funding bold ideas that address the drivers of youth mental health in Colombia, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Pakistan, Romania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, & Vietnam! 🌍 Apply: bit.ly/3qG5m9E #RFP

Thank you Dr Mohammed Abdulaziz (Mohammed Abdulaziz) for starting our 2025 Global Health Conference with an engaging talk outlining existing capacity and policy for mental health and psychological support across Africa! 👏 Africa CDC BC Children's Hospital Research Institute BC Women's Hospital #globalhealth #mhpss

The view from Dustin Dunsmuir office after the fantastic The Institute for Global Health (IGH) conference and trainee session yesterday 😊 This place really is so beautiful

Action on Sepsis members and partners are driving innovation in pediatric sepsis within British Columbia and across the globe! 🌎 This #PediatricSepsisWeek, we’re highlighting some of the vital work making a difference for children everywhere. Stay tuned!

It's National Immunization Awareness Week! Learn about the importance of vaccinations to protect against sepsis and the work being done by the Vaccine Evaluation Centre (Vaccine Evaluation Center (VEC)): bcchr.ca/vec🔬 #NIAW2025

Excited to see our work featured during #MaternalSepsisWeek! Smart Discharges for Mom&Baby aims to quantify post-discharge morbidity, mortality and care seeking, build risk prediction models and identify opportunities to enhance postnatal care and outcomes. Prelim findings below

“We urge early childhood dev’t researchers to systematically address well documented biases when assessing needs & to shift to approaches that fully recognise & build on existing, context-adapted practices, expertise & aspirations of caregivers & their children around the world.”