Mel Etti

@NIHResearch ACF in ID/microbiology @UniofOxford. @HarvardChanSPH and @USUKFulbright alum. Passionate about health equity, global & public health

[Equal Breath @EqualBreath]

A message from Tamara, a GP registrar working within the Equal Breath Priority Setting Partnership. We want to hear from other healthcare professionals👨🏿‍⚕️👩🏾‍⚕️to understand what research is needed to improve the lung health of the Black community in the UK📋➡️ https://t.co/JpxWRYT0Gp

[Equal Breath @EqualBreath]

A message from Omotola who has lived experience of a lung condition 🫁 We want to better understand what research is needed to improve the lung health of young people like Omotola living in the UK

Easy read survey link 📲: https://t.co/d76XzshWaE

[Equal Breath @EqualBreath]

Young people! 🧑🏿‍🦱👩🏾‍🦱 We want to hear your opinions too! 🗣️ If you are Black and living with a lung condition in the UK 🫁 we want to know what YOU think can be done to make your breathing better. Click the link below to answer our short anonymous survey📋 https://t.co/d76Xzsiu0c

[Equal Breath @EqualBreath]

The Equal Breath survey 📋 is now LIVE 📢 We want to hear YOUR views on what is needed to improve Black respiratory health in the UK 🫁 Please click the link below to submit your opinions to the conversation 🗣️ #healthequity #blackhealth

https://t.co/JpxWRYT0Gp

[Global Institute for Disease Elimination @GLIDE_AE]

Over the past 50 years, vaccines have saved 150+ million lives. That’s 6 lives every minute for five decades. On #WorldImmunizationWeek, we’re reminded that #VaccinesWork in creating a healthier, more equitable world free from preventable diseases.🌍💉
#Equity #GlobalHealth

[Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá @seyeabimbola]

The Lancet and colonialism: past, present, and future https://t.co/2Xvh77PDnA

Please read our brief look @TheLancet's past, what it says about its present, & might about its future.

"Influence unfairly accumulated through colonialism must be redirected to egalitarian purposes."

[Segun Fatumo @SFatumo]

If you are a Black early-career researcher who is interested in genomic research. Here is your opportunity to work @sangerinstitute

Deadline: 25th March '24

https://t.co/IlV6Eqbx1s

[Mel Etti @drmeletti]

@Microbedoc2 We were celebrating your CCT with CCT (cocktails, conversations and trays of food!) ☺️

[Wellcome @wellcometrust]

Minoritised communities are underrepresented in UK research – particularly those of Black, Bangladeshi or Pakistani heritage.

We're launching £20mn in new funding to help address this ⤵️ [1/3]

[Mel Etti @drmeletti]

Our work demonstrates an urgent need for greater resources in antenatal and primary care to protect the most vulnerable women and girls in this region during pregnancy. Eternally grateful to my mentors @marciacastrorj and @Antonio33716006 for supporting this important work!

[Mel Etti @drmeletti]

Incredibly delighted to see the results of my MPH practicum project exploring the determinants of congenital syphilis in Fortaleza, Brazil published in @PLOSGPH Our work demonstrates an association between social vulnerability and increased disease risk 🔗 https://t.co/YmXm2kZTPE

[Mel Etti @drmeletti]

Returning home after a fantastic few days at #IDWeek2023. It was such a pleasure to attend so many great sessions and hear from so many experts in the field. I’m leaving feeling incredibly inspired, with a few new friends and lots of new knowledge!

[BMJ Global Health @GlobalHealthBMJ]

"Only by recognising the deep ties between racism and poor health can a coordinated response be woven into both the teaching and practice of the medicine within our society that so urgently, so desperately quests for change." @JesseBump

📣 New Editorial➡️ https://t.co/FCYcHOzpL0

[Mel Etti @drmeletti]

@kentbuse @JesseBump @seyeabimbola @mallamyaks1016 @M3hrManzoor @khosla_rajat @zr_z @AKapilashrami @DrMishalK @Unni_Gopinathan @rasanathan @sudhvir Thank you so much for sharing, Prof. Buse 🙏🏾

[Mel Etti @drmeletti]

@paimadhu @JesseBump @GlobalHealthBMJ Thank you so much for sharing, Dr Pai 🙏🏾

[Jesse Bump @JesseBump]

Black skin and white skin. What reasons in the natural environment? What consequences in the social environment? @drmeletti, MyMai Yuan, + I explore. Spoiler alert: racist society is disastrous for health.

https://t.co/RjaldpvTem

[Mel Etti @drmeletti]

I’m so pleased to see our article “Sun, skin and the deadly politics of medical racism” published in @GlobalHealthBMJ. Eternally grateful to my co-authors, MyMai and @JesseBump, and to @seyeabimbola for giving our work a platform. https://t.co/CsBKe0BAnE

[Mel Etti @drmeletti]

Thank you @malone_mk for inviting us to have this important conversation 👏🏾 more needs to be done to redress the racial imbalance in clinical academia. Listen here to the podcast here👇🏾

[Nuffield Department of Medicine @NDMOxford]

NDM's @AfropeanD and @BiochemOxford's @drmeletti discuss the lack of #racialdiversity and challenges Africans face in clinical academia, in the Mind the Gap 🎙️Podcast hosted by @malone_mk.

Listen now 🎧 https://t.co/bE8v3AKYXx

[Mel Etti @drmeletti]

@UCLTB @DrEmilyShaw @AHRI_News Great! Thank you