Safe Surface Science

Regular hand hygiene is crucial to fight COVID-19. Keeping hands safe depends on keeping surfaces we touch safe. Join the Challenge & spread the word #safehands

[Safe Surface Science @SafeSurfaceSci]

PAPER OF THE WEEK: @UduakOkomo & colleagues in @LancetMicrobe show poor #WASH leads to endemic #HAI & outbreaks w/ multi-drug resistant organisms & increased case fatality rates among newborns. Highlights need to strengthen #IPC procedures, particularly environmental cleaning.

[WaterAid @wateraid]

Clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene in health clinics and hospitals are key to curbing antimicrobial resistance #AMR 🦠

Governments at #WHA75 must invest in these essentials now 💦 🚽 🙌

[Veronique Filippi @1verofilippi]

I am at the Geneva Health Forum to discuss how climate change already impacts maternal and newborn health together with @Sari_Kovats @CHAMNHA1 @NicolasRay7

[Aoife Doyle @aoife_md]

Applications still open until 30th April for LSHTM/WHO Global Adolescent Health short-course. https://t.co/OYRNVlPk2m @MARCH_LSHTM @ThruZim @LSHTM @WHO @thePHFI @Nambusi

[CHAMNHA @CHAMNHA1]

Amazing opportunity! Climate change and health Fellowship. Deadline 31 May 2022. @LSHTM_Planet @MARCH_LSHTM
https://t.co/p2RFulKYRs

[James Henry Cross @JHenryC]

📣Calling experts & researchers of neonatal infection detection - Ward & Laboratory!🩸🧫

Pls RT➡️join webinar➡️discuss neonatal blood culture pathway, the gap, QI & actions to improve newborn outcomes!

Review end-to-end pathway, and learn from high-performing hospitals!

👇Link

[Sexual & Reproductive Health Group at ITM Antwerp @SRHgroup_ITM]

🆕📢 In a new paper, we call for inclusion of stillbirths in measuring csection rates and deeper understanding of #toomuchtoolate in addition to #toolittletoolate
➡️ https://t.co/xv8TO8R90D

🌟Co-authored by 2 @FWOVlaanderen postdoc fellows at ITM: @alichristou and @lenkabenova

[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @DrTedros]

I thank everyone involved in celebrating our dear brother Peter Byass' life & work. He was a leader & giant in global health, committed to championing science & research for the health of all. My tribute with @profwendygraham to our sorely missed friend: https://t.co/BGdmMqECiE

[Wendy J Graham @profwendygraham]

It’s out! - Special Issue of @GlobalHealthAct - in honour of Prof Peter Byass. Articles by finest experts in mortality measurement, health data science, use of data to inform action, & capacity strengthening. A fitting tribute to Peter. @UmeaUniversity https://t.co/WrETQGpbcG

[MARCH Centre, LSHTM @MARCH_LSHTM]

Interested in the art & science of counting deaths to inform action?

Join us tomorrow morning as @GlobalHealthAct launch their special issue, with an opening from @DrTedros 👉 https://t.co/l7YNpLkuFt

[ICANetwork @ICAfricaNetwork]

Basic Infection Prevention and Control for Healthcare Workers
Course date: 23-27 May 2022
Registration Closing Date: 6 May 2022
Contact Fikiswa: [email protected]
Office number: 087 822 2828
Registration link: https://t.co/V6KMrazGgj

[Lucia D'Ambruoso 💚 @luciadambruoso]

In tribute to @PeterByass we present a new #verbalautopsy model connecting circumstances of deaths with outcomes for decision-making https://t.co/20iL87v5E3
@MariavdMerwe
@kobusherbst
@fottrell
@Price_Jess
@MpuHealth1
@AgincourtHDSS
@EilidhCowan1
@drjackoids
@GlobalHealthAct

[Wendy J Graham @profwendygraham]

Interested in the art & the science of counting deaths to inform action? Join us for webinar on April 5th to hear state of art & innovations, as tribute to late Prof Peter Byass. Register at https://t.co/XMaRkQa1vD @UmeaUniversity @LSHTM

[MARCH Centre, LSHTM @MARCH_LSHTM]

Join @UmeaUniversity for the launch of a special issue of @GlobalHealthAct in honour of the late Prof Peter Byass.

The articles in the issue focus on key issues for the capture & use of data in low- & middle-income countries.

🗓️ 5 April
🕣 8:30am BST
👉 https://t.co/l7YNpLkuFt

[Wendy J Graham @profwendygraham]

Join @UmeaUniversity, @WitsUniversity & @LSHTM on 5 April for launch of special @GlobalHealthAct in honour of late Prof Peter Byass, covering health&demographic surveillance, verbal autopsy & mortality impact of emerging diseases 👉🏼 https://t.co/SzPehAJrSU

[Andrew Weeks @adweeks]

Looking forward to this great conference! Get the date in your diary! @ResearchSanyu @NIHRresearch @DameTina1 @HRPresearch @EDCTP @globalhlthtwit @GLOW_Conference

[Marian Knight MBE @Marianfknight]

Delighted that the @NPEU_UKOSS analysis comparing severity of maternal infection and perinatal outcomes during periods of SARS-CoV-2 wildtype, alpha, and delta variant dominance in the UK has been published as the 1st paper in the new BMJ Medicine journal https://t.co/1g5wUP0ipj

[MARCH Centre, LSHTM @MARCH_LSHTM]

Learn to strengthen health sector policies and programmes for safe abortion care in low- and middle-income settings through @LSHTM & @UnivofGh new online short course.

Several tuition fee waivers are available to applicants from Sub-Saharan Africa 🌍

👉 https://t.co/rRtcejAFsK

[Veronique Filippi @1verofilippi]

Lack of progress on deal with EU deeply problematic for awarded research in maternal and child health @DebraJackson58 @islange @GiuliaEGreco. Explanations below

[Anja/BLHL Zambia @AnjaStClairJone]

The first 50 liters of @WHO handrub manufactured at Kabwe Hospital in Zimbawe, trained and supported by UTH pharmacists @BrightonLusaka. A batch is handed over to the senior management for use by the Kabwe staff. #CwPAMS @THET @Professor_Hal @GlobHealth_BSMS @UHSussex

[London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @LSHTM]

Congrats to Sir Andy Haines for being awarded the 2022 @TylerPrize for Environmental Achievement! 🎉🏆

Through 30 years+ work on #ClimateChange & #PublicHealth, Andy has been instrumental in the world waking up to this #GlobalHealth emergency. 🌍

More 👉 https://t.co/oFXAxiZ7Nm