Rashida Abbas Ferrand (@rashida_abbferr) 's Twitter Profile
Rashida Abbas Ferrand

@rashida_abbferr

Physician & epidemiologist. Professor at LSHTM. I work and live in Zimbabwe and direct The Health Research Unit Zimbabwe @thruzim.All views my own.

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Palwasha Yousafzai Khan (@dopapus) 's Twitter Profile Photo

⚠️ Table 2 Fallacy ⚠️ We need to keep spreading the msg far and wide 🌎🌍🌏👩🏻‍🎓👨🏻‍🎓👨🏻‍⚕️👩🏻‍⚕️👩🏻‍🔬👨🏻‍🔬👨🏻‍💻👩🏻‍💻! It will take time to undo ↩️ but it can be done

ADAM (@adamemedia) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"Every time we build a home, they destroy it. Every time a child is born, they ki!! it. What can we do?" This documentary is 22 years old…

Humza Yousaf (@humzayousaf) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A must-read from christinalamb, who details the impunity with which Israeli settlers use violence against Palestinians they steal land & property from. What is more disturbing is the backing they are getting from the government and the lack of effective international sanction.

Rashida Abbas Ferrand (@rashida_abbferr) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I got a comment from a (very) valued colleague about a manuscript I have drafted “I think it is so brutally honest”- am feeling proud, chuffed, honoured. I can’t think of a better compliment 💃🏼

Mohamad Safa (@mhdksafa) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Is it self-defense when you target a UN World Food Programme convoy with 10 bullets forcing to suspend food distribution activities to a starving children in Gaza?

Is it self-defense when you target a UN World Food Programme convoy with 10 bullets forcing to suspend food distribution activities to a starving children in Gaza?
Celia Gregson (@celiagregson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

22% women with HIV in Zimbabwe age 40-60 has T-Score <-2.5, 8.8% already had a fragility fracture. Not one woman on osteoporosis treatment to reduce future risk. Real concern for future fracture burdens in Africa. THRU_ZIM

Michael Marks (@dr_michaelmarks) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Advance notice: Recruiting London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine over next year Genomics Post-doc Clinical Post-doc/CL (maybe 2) for UK ID trainees Modelling Post-doc Diagnostics RA UK & Global Health. Focus STI/Syphilis but may be opportunities across my work. Adverts here/LSHTM. If interested get in touch!

Advance notice: Recruiting <a href="/LSHTM/">London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine</a> over next year
Genomics Post-doc
Clinical Post-doc/CL (maybe 2) for UK ID trainees
Modelling Post-doc
Diagnostics RA

UK &amp; Global Health. Focus STI/Syphilis but may be opportunities across my work. Adverts here/LSHTM. If interested get in touch!
THRU_ZIM (@thruzim) 's Twitter Profile Photo

THRU ZIM recently presented findings from past and ongoing mental health research with WHO Zimbabwe, Ministry of HealthZW, Friendship Bench, & Pamumvuri. Key focus areas included adolescent mental health, substance use, carer well-being, & mental health in older persons. 1/2

THRU ZIM recently presented findings from past and ongoing mental health research with <a href="/WHO_Zimbabwe/">WHO Zimbabwe</a>, <a href="/MoHCCZim/">Ministry of HealthZW</a>, <a href="/friendshipbench/">Friendship Bench</a>, &amp; <a href="/Pamumvurizwe/">Pamumvuri</a>. Key focus areas included adolescent mental health, substance use, carer well-being, &amp; mental health in older persons. 1/2
Celia Gregson (@celiagregson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Are you based in Zimbabwe and ready for a #PhD opportunity? Are you a qualitative researcher? Are you passionate about #menopausal health and #Ageing ? Well you might want to apply to join us THRU_ZIM NIHR Global Health University of Bristol Centre for Health Equity Zimbabwe Wits University

Hopewell Chin’ono (@daddyhope) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Starlink has activated its signal in Zimbabwe and is now shipping equipment directly to consumers, according to its website. The cheapest hardware package costs US$223, including shipping, and the internet service costs US$30 a month. The top-end unlimited package costs US$373

Starlink has activated its signal in Zimbabwe and is now shipping equipment directly to consumers, according to its website. 
The cheapest hardware package costs US$223, including shipping, and the internet service costs US$30 a month.

The top-end unlimited package costs US$373
Hopewell Chin’ono (@daddyhope) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Today, many of my followers are telling me that Zimbabwean internet and phone companies are calling them, matching Starlink's package prices, and even offering cheaper packages than Starlink. It is interesting to see how the arrival of Starlink in Zimbabwe is already having an

Today, many of my followers are telling me that Zimbabwean internet and phone companies are calling them, matching Starlink's package prices, and even offering cheaper packages than Starlink.

It is interesting to see how the arrival of Starlink in Zimbabwe is already having an
Jonathan Cook (@jonathan_k_cook) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If you were horrified by October 7, but aren't more horrified by what Israel's been doing to Palestinians for 57 years in its prisons, then you're either in a state of deep ignorance – hardly surprising given the lack of coverage of Israel's despotic rule over Palestinians – or

If you were horrified by October 7, but aren't more horrified by what Israel's been doing to Palestinians for 57 years in its prisons, then you're either in a state of deep ignorance – hardly surprising given the lack of coverage of Israel's despotic rule over Palestinians – or
Quds News Network (@qudsnen) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Rescue teams successfully recovered 6-year-old Manar Al-Haddad, who had been trapped under rubble following an Israeli airstrike that struck his family's home in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood of southern Gaza City.

Thushan de Silva (@thushan_desilva) 's Twitter Profile Photo

And we have a ring fenced travel award each round for any undergraduates working on infection related projects (not just medics). Please spread the word and encourage engagement/application BIA

CREATE PhD Programme (@createphd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Applications for our 2025 UK PhD fellowships are open! This is a Wellcome-funded programme providing interdisciplinary PhD training in global health to outstanding UK health professionals, supported by 11 partner institutions in the UK and Africa. jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?r…