Amazing to be in Stockholm for #LISSSD2022 for all things #strep #strepA and #rhd

Including African Americans in genomic studies can result in 5x more accurate prediction of disease risk in the African population. 🆕study published in Nature Medicine reveals that lack of diversity could mean missing out on earlier diagnosis & care. 👉 bit.ly/3x6y2cH

‘The Lancet’ journal rejects papers that don’t acknowledge African researchers – Africa needs equitable collaborations between researchers from the continent and those from outside the continent. buff.ly/3xSLK3m

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A powerful speech by the Head-boy of the affluent Heritage School. He talks about how his family hit economic hard times, and had to move to Epworth sharing 2 rooms. He sleeps on the sofa chair, and used a Kombi, but didn’t let that deter him. He became the head boy regardless.

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford set to make announcement with health minister cp24.com/news/ontario-p…

From Paré, Engel, + team: Rationale, Design, and the Baseline Characteristics of the RHDGen (The Genetics of Rheumatic Heart Disease) Network Study ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.116… AHA Science #AHAjournals #genetics #CardioTwitter

Celebrating all the amazing young ladies in our group The African Computational Genomics Research Group on this year's international day of women and girls in Science. @somberyl Tafadzwa Machipisa Brenda Udosen

In the February 2023 issue of #Health Reports: www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quoti…. • Mortality Inequalities of Black Adults in Canada • Online Digital Media Use and Adolescent Mental Health

Today, an interesting piece on “Mortality Inequalities of Black Adults in Canada” was released. Congrats to our Statistics Canada team for making this a reality 🥳🎉 . Publication link: www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/catalogu…

ICHG 2023 Cape Town: "An African Agenda for Africa by Africans". Dr Francis Collins pays tribute to Prof Bongani Mayosi. Prof Mayosi was Principal Investigator of the project "Genetics of Rhematic heart Disease in Africa" (RhDGen), an NIH- Wellcome funded Human Heredity and Health in Africa project.#ICHG2023

An awesome read...

Prof Mark Engel presenting on #RHD from an African perspective RHDAction PASCAR lieslzuhlke

The worst thing you write is better than the best thing you didn't write. Just get something down on paper. Then you can improve on it. Keeping it all in your head is no good. You need to write it down. #PhDchat #ECRchat #postdoc #PhDforum #AcademicTwitter

It's International Day of Women and Girls in Science, and today, we celebrate the incredible young ladies in our group who are pushing boundaries and pursuing excellence in science! Their dedication to research is inspiring, and will undoubtedly shape the future of science.

I've written about race, genetic ancestry, analyses of large biobanks, and human history gusevlab.org/projects/hsq/#… I'll summarize the key points here 🧵: