Happy to share one of our latest publications “Mass Online training of health care workers during COVID 19: Approach , impact and outcomes for over 10,000 health care providers” sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Aga Khan University #MedTwitter

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🔊 Imp! Deadline extended. Don’t forget to click play on the video in attached tweet.

Don't forget you have less than a week to get in an application for our distance-learning, part-time Studentships for a Masters in Health Economics. Details here: impactsouthasia.com/impact/apply-n… For applicants from Pakistan and Afghanistan. Deadline: Friday 12th July!

medrxiv.org/content/10.110… Milestone work by our colleagues and Prof Asad Nizami Centre for IMPACT “The weighted point prevalence of psychiatric morbidity in adults is 31.6%. That means one in three adults in Pakistan is reported to have a mental health Condition at any given time.”

Pakistan has reached “staff-level” agreement for a 25th waltz with the IMF. To make it official, we need “financing assurances from our development and bilateral partners.” This is Fund-speak for securing secret debt relief from China. It is wrong, incomplete and dangerous. A🧵

Reflections on the test and how we made sure others passed it too. Adil Haider Muhammad Haroon Khan MD Zafar Mirza

Did you know? Diabetes and depression are linked! But there's hope! Early detection, seeking support, regular physical activity, and a healthy diet can improve your life with diabetes. Take control of your health today! #DiabetesAwareness #MentalHealthMatters #NIHR

“we feel a strong responsibility to help build collective momentum towards a publishing model that no longer wastes massive public resources feeding private corporations, secures editorial independence against pressures of profit-making & makes research available free of charge.”

There’s really something going on in North America (US especially) with authorship. It’s not the first time the skew has been as stark. See this BMJ Global Health paper by Helen Schneider & N Maleka on authorship of papers about community health workers: gh.bmj.com/content/3/3/e0…

IHME x Aga Khan University 🤝 joining forces to generate scientific evidence that can inform public health policy in Pakistan 🇵🇰 ms.spr.ly/6018YYBQK

Aga Khan University NIH Pakistan Ali H. Mokdad Check out our conversation with Aga Khan University’s Zainab Samad to discuss how the two institutes are partnering to further health research in Pakistan 🇵🇰 ms.spr.ly/6011YYBQ3

“It is a team of health professionals at the PHC level, and not just a doctor, that can provide quality healthcare to the catchment population.” Zafar Mirza

In this editorial, MacIntyre et al. review the recent study by de Boer et al. on influenza infection and risk of acute myocardial infarction in light of the growing body of evidence that influenza triggers cardiovascular events. 🫀 Full editorial: eviden.cc/3RE2Jjt

The emergence of a new clade of #mpox, its rapid spread in eastern #DRC, and the reporting of cases in several neighbouring countries are very worrying. On top of outbreaks of other mpox clades in DRC and other countries in Africa, it’s clear that a coordinated international

#IoP & The Initiative teams attending an exclusive MEL workshop at #SONAM Aga Khan University We hope that this provides an incredible learning opportunity for the participants to this new yet essential component in research. Faiza Aslam Nida Afsheen Ali Kamran Baba رُباب

My Op-Ed published today in The Nation for smokeless tobacco in Pakistan. Zainab Samad Kamran Siddiqi Aga Khan University Research at AKU Fighting oral cancer: A silent epidemic in Pakistan nation.com.pk/23-Aug-2024/fi… via @the_nation

Excellent! Very timely written. Thank you Fyezah Jehan 👩🏻‍💻🇵🇰 for this. “This is not a time for complacency. The arrival of mpox in Pakistan should be a wake-up call for all — policymakers, healthcare providers, and citizens alike” AKU Paediatrics Aga Khan University dawn.com/news/1854798/w…

Community engagement is key for any community based intervention. Town hall meeting with the community representatives in #swabi. Centre for IMPACT Meritorious Prof Zia Ul Haq, VC KMU, MBBS PhD FCPS Zoheb Khan Saima Afaq Zainab Samad Romaina Iqbal Khyber Medical University Institute of Public Health & Social Sciences _ KMU ORIC - Khyber Medical University, Peshawar Farhad Ali PhD,MPH,MS Epi,MHR Noor Sanauddin

Fantastic work Khalid Rehman PhD - all the important when you are implementing participatory learning approaches to reduce the incidence of #diabetes Centre for IMPACT NIHR Global Health DiaDeM