Global Health research, M&E and dataviz professional & leader. Enthusiastic about digital health.
Affiliate faculty -- Univ of Washington Dept Global Health.
I look forward to sharing highlights of our new World Vision publication capturing evidence and learnings from digital programming under the AIM Health Plus project tomorrow. #communityhealthworker#digitalhealth#development
How can we harness #digitalhealth platforms to improve community health worker programming?
Join us for the monthly meeting next week to learn more from a panel of experts and to share your perspectives.
When: Thursday March 23, 2023 (7am PST/3pm GMT/4pm CET/6pm EAT)
A global health perspective teaches us that giving people access to a full range of high quality #reproductivehealth services saves lives #maternalhealth.
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Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland fought back tears as she described the emotional scars left by the U.S. government's former policy of forcibly removing Native American children from their homes and placing them in boarding schools https://t.co/FV8tO1nmvR
Support for the rights of Afghan women & girls is support that lifts children out of hunger & communities out of poverty.
I deeply regret that girls’ education above 6th grade remains suspended – an unjustifiable violation of equal rights that damages the entire country.
THREAD: @ArisKatzourakis wrote a brilliant @Nature commentary busting some popular - and unfortunately sticky - myths about the evolution of Covid and what this means for the pandemic.
I'll summarise its main points here but TLDR it's not over. 1/7
Here are some fast facts for #IWD2022 on where the world stands on the road to gender equality:
🌎 ZERO countries are on track to achieve gender equality by 2030
🌍 1 in 3 countries aren't making any progress
🌏 Progress IS possible by centering equality in policies and programs
I didn't know this pioneer of #globalhealth and #socialmed but his work has nudged all 9f us forward. Testimony from a colleague @Ethnography911
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“It took 10 years for five million children to be orphaned by H.I.V./AIDS, whereas the same number of children have been orphaned by Covid-19 in just two years,” Lorraine Sherr, an author of the study, said in a statement.
This is such a fun event! I met great evaluators last year and am looking forward to chatting with more this year! Plus the #introvert in me appreciates 1:1. Sign up on @EvalSeattle's website. #networking#Eval#datatalk#pnw
Join us for Evalu-Date! This is a great opportunity to connect 1:1 with other #Seattle based #Eval folks. Register on our website! You never know, these discussions may lead to your next job, a cool new collaboration, or the start of a great friendship! #networking
An important message. While global immunization efforts halved the number of childhood deaths in 2020, achieving #vaccinequity will require doubling down on efforts now to reach the 22M children who missed out on vaccines during the pandemic.
With the Omicron variant circulating, we need to double down on mask wearing. The Number 1 benefit of masks is the added layer of protection from spreading COVID-19.
Here are some other great benefits of mask wearing: