Alice Armitage

Academic paediatric trainee. Migrant child health, rights, complex safeguarding, global health, evidence-based medicine.

[Edwin Armitage @edwinarmitage]

🎉Our new study published today in @LancetMicrobe: SpyCATS longitudinal household cohort study of #StrepA carriage and infection and transmission in The Gambia! https://t.co/Mmx0MCux9M [1/7]

[Cardiff Refugee Health Project @CardiffRHP]

Talking all things child health this #refugee week! 👇

Video content based on advice from the @RCPCHtweets

#RefugeesWelcome #RefugeeWeek2023 #childhealth #paediatrics #medicalstudents #healthequity

[Anthony Costello @globalhlthtwit]

BREAKING: Sunak is reneging on many of the UK’s net zero commitments. The worst decision of any Prime Minister in my lifetime. A betrayal of our children, of our international responsibilities, and scientifically illiterate.

[Sarah Eisen @EisenSarah]

local ACF advertised now; ST4+ Paeds @uclh. Projects available in migrant/global health, sickle, safeguarding and more. DM for info @LondonPaeds @bpaiig @IntChildHealth @jround999 @HannahCJacob @yasmin_baki @terry_segal1 @HTropDis @RCPCHtweets
https://t.co/bzpGtBWeJc

[Sarah Eisen @EisenSarah]

Calling budding Gen Paeds academics!

Paeds Local ACF @uclh advertising soon...

Projects incl. #asylumseeker/ #inclusionhealth w RESPOND; obesity; sickle cell + more. Links to @uclpch @LSHTM

ST4+, Sept 2023. No OOP req; training approved. DMs open. @LondonPaeds @jround999

[Alice Armitage @ArmitageAlice]

Incredibly important work on Group A Strep @edwinarmitage @mrcunitgambia. Rheumatic heart disease is devastating and kills children across Africa; morally unacceptable that this has become a disease of the poor and gets so little funding and attention.

[Edwin Armitage @edwinarmitage]

#StrepA is a major cause of pharyngitis, pyoderma and iGAS globally, but the devastating rheumatic heart disease now mostly affects low-income countries, and marginalised communities within high-income countries. Why? Here's what we're doing to investigate @mrcunitgambia !

[Amreen @AmreenQureshi_]

Our analysis @IPPR of the immigration stats released today reveals that:

👉🏽Most arriving by small boat win asylum when their cases are considered
👉🏽 Cases awaiting asylum have doubled in the past 2 years
👉🏽 Resettlement numbers outside Afghan and Ukraine schemes remain very low

[Kent Refugee Action Network (KRAN) @_KRAN_]

Tonight the government succeeded in forcing through the Nationality & Borders Bill. Everyone working in the refugee sector has been united in pushing back but we failed. This isn't the end though - kindness and decency WILL ultimately prevail 🧡 we are absolutely sure of it x

[Behrouz Nezafat Maldonado @DrBehrouzNM]

📢 Hot off the press - Variation in initial health assessment of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children: a cross-sectional survey across England @BMJ_PO summary 🧵 @ArmitageAlice @BhanuWilliams
https://t.co/iveuEARZLD
#childmigrant #childrefugee #migration #migranthealth (1/)

[Prof Michelle Heys @m_heys]

@ArmitageAlice

[Joe Ward @_joe_ward]

Summary of our pre-print papers describing risks of death and intensive care admission due to COVID-19 in children and young people in @Nature. @clareruthsmith @RachelHarwood10 @lornafraser10 @KarenLuyt @UCLchildhealth @russellviner @lizWWyld and others

https://t.co/s3et27ygkj

[Camilla Sen @camilla_sen]

Come and join our fantastic team at UCLH!
Exciting jobs out now - applications close 4th March 😀😀

General Paediatrics SHO
https://t.co/KvAqPmpUJj

General Paediatrics SpR
https://t.co/HSwiQc38ZI

Paediatric Oncology SHO
https://t.co/LMDaw82Jm0

[Kitty Stewart @kittyjstewart]

Research evidence strongly suggests that giving low income families more money improves children’s outcomes. Here’s our systematic review. It’s not exactly a shock result but it seems to need saying. And saying again and again and again and again https://t.co/LqEz3xL8N8

[Ilana @ilana_abc]

Not sure that non medical people quite understand the immense skill of intensive care nurses. Imagine the attention to detail & concentration required to make up all of these infusions, set to correct rate, ensure each is titrated appropriately to vital signs, know when finishing

[Alice Armitage @ArmitageAlice]

https://t.co/9onphi36WU

FAO healthcare professionals, add your name to an open letter to have the "Right to food" written into the law. Vital issue in view of child poverty and food insecurity. #BuildBackFairer

[Alice Armitage @ArmitageAlice]

Nice to see family popping up on my twitter feed this morning @edwinarmitage

[Fiona Cresswell @cresswell_fiona]

Fascinating to hear about work of PhD fellows:
@BonellAna climate change & pregnancy outcomes @Ceri_Evans immunology of HIV-exposed uninfected infants
Wrapped up by an attempt at carol singing, piano from Zimbabwe 🇿🇼🎼. Hilarious, but this Zoom activity is not going to catch on.

[Alice Armitage @ArmitageAlice]

Just a cheeky plug for Cathy @catherinesings and Eimear's podcast #operabluffs making me laugh out loud on the tube this week. Utterly vital opera trivia with frequent detours into true crime, politics and feminism. If only we were all this talented.

[Opera Bluffs @OBluffs]

https://t.co/mwm8dxC0Qx

[Michael Marks @dr_michaelmarks]

Very interesting data Scotland @medrxivpreprint Houses many young children associated lower risk hospitalisation #COVID19 https://t.co/hSowJhNAvJ

[Sir Michael Marmot @MichaelMarmot]

The PM said in Parliament that child poverty had gone down since 2010. And cited a specific number. He was wrong. Child poverty went up. Is there an obligation for him to correct the record in Parliament? Not to mention a longer term obligation to get the numbers right.