Centre for Health Systems Research and Development
@chesrad
A centre concerned with research into public health issues of Sub-Sharan Africa for the purpose of translation into meaningful positive change. #SDGs#UHC
This #pandemic is testing local, regional, country and global #leadership. It’s time to ditch rhetorics, ideologies and work together to #savehumanity. Period.
#Covid_19 has thrown unprecedented challenges to the global community...in terms of health, #economy, environmental and climatic. Probably one of the important adverse effects of the #pandemic is increase in #poverty, especially in #LMICs.
Indoor air pollution is a major global health issue. It’s killing women and children in LMICs. Strategies to address this challenge is on top of our priority list #NCDs
Less than 1 in 20 dengue infections are reported hiding a huge sub-clinical burden. With @WHO we built guidelines for countries to estimate this burden and improve their dengue surveillance systems. Three years and six countries later they are now live https://t.co/mfjSn1eiW2
Did you know: 3 of the leading causes of maternal death are severe bleeding after birth, infections, and high blood pressure during pregnancy. Skilled care before, during and after birth can manage ALL of these complications.