📝 Essay competition for sixth form students interested in Women’s Health Research 📝 ➡️ Pick 1Q, up to 2000 words! ⏰ Deadline 13 May 2022 📧 Feel free to email/DM with any questions!

Congratulations to Queen Mary University of London's Professor Sophie Harman on her upcoming book - exploring how #politics, #economics and other structural forces prevent women from accessing good healthcare and affect #womenshealth all over the world Queen Mary Politics and IR

Our #WomensHealth Unit hosts The Antenatal Screening Service - checking for #DownSyndrome & open neural tube defects since 1989 🤰👶 W/ 80,000 screening tests done each year, they are 1 of the largest #antenatal #screening #laboratories in the UK 👩‍🔬 #BARCwomen

Did you know that there is a dedicated Facebook page for the Festival of Communities? Head over to facebook.com/THFestivalofCo… and follow it so you don’t miss all the updates that are coming! #FestivalofCommunities @qmul #TowerHamlets #community Tower Hamlets Council

Are you seeking casual work? The Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry is recruiting unscripted simulated patients for OSCEs (Objective Structured Clinical Examinations) & clinical teaching. Deadline: 21 Apr 2022. Contact Hassan Noshib [email protected] for application documents.

WHRU is proud to host Katie’s Team - a diverse, user-led patient and public advisory group for #womenshealth #research 💁‍♀️ Based in #EastLondon and want to become a member? Email us: [email protected] ⭐️ barc-research.org/katies-team #BARCwomen KT Network Reproductive Health & Childbirth Research @ Barts Wolfson Institute of Population Health

Preliminary study (by Matina_Iliodromiti & colleagues) of placentas during #London's second #COVID wave found an increased frequency of a rare lesion, usually reported in <1% of #pregnancies 🤰 📑: doi.org/10.1093/cid/ci… KT Network Wolfson Institute of Population Health #WomensHealth #reproductivehealth

#Placental pathology for #covid affected pregnancies reveals rare lesions. We now do histology to all #covid placentas and follow up women with these lesions.

The impact of heavy periods - Is more awareness & research needed?

Delighted to be invited #OAA2022 and talk about #bigdata and maternity along with amazing talk from Rachel Harrison (Kearns). #realtime data and single maternity dataset with neonatal and anaesthetic data. Centre for Public Health & Policy (CPHP) Wolfson Institute of Population Health THIS Institute RoyalCollegeObsGyn

🌟Article in BMJ_Open by Jahnavi Daru & colleagues 🌟 'Deferred #consent in #emergency #obstetric research: findings from qualitative interviews with women and recruiters in the ACROBAT pilot trial for severe #postpartum #haemorrhage' pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35508349/ Wolfson Institute of Population Health KT Network

Congrats to all researchers and staff across the university 🌟🙌🤩

🚨New article @QMULQuitSmoking in Nature Medicine🚨 Researchers conduct a randomised controlled trial of pregnant smokers & posit that e-cigarettes may be more effective (and no less safe) than nicotine patches in attempts to quit smoking 🚭 nature.com/articles/s4159…

🩸Jahnavi Daru reflects on global rates of anaemia over 20y in The Lancet Global Health🩸 Progress has been made, but recent estimates remain sobering w/ anaemia prevalence only decreasing from 31% to 30% in non-pregnant women & from 41% to 36% in pregnant women 2000-2019. thelancet.com/journals/langl…

Jahnavi Daru warns that w/out ongoing efforts by politicians, policy makers, and clinicians, "we run the risk of ignoring this important, seemingly simple problem." #anaemia #anemia #research #WomensHealth #WomensHealthMatters Wolfson Institute of Population Health KT Network

Are you a Health Care Professional and interested in applying for a PhD fellowship in fertility and PCOS? Get in touch with Priya Bhide For further details about the fellowship head over to... bartscharity.org.uk/apply-for-fund…