Professor of Epidemiology & Global Health @UCL. Director @UCL_NCD. Spend time thinking about #NCDs & the challenges of measuring & improving population health.
๐ฃ Are you an urban health researcher or practitioner ? in / of Africa?
Did you know that there's an Africa Urban Health Community of Practice
Apply to join the steer comm/ support team. And share!!
@IS_UrbanHealth@UrbanBetter
https://t.co/9PdOeCx4Zr
The path between socioeconomic inequality and cognitive function : A mediation analysis based on the HAALSI cohort in rural South Africa
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Nawi Ng @NgNawi
https://t.co/mSKFTsA9Y1
NEW: we may have passed peak obesity ๐๐๐๐
In what might be one of the most significant trends I have ever charted, the US obesity rate fell last year.
๐ข Landmark new report: Commercial Determinants of NCDs ๐ข
Chronic diseases account for 90% of deaths in the Region. New research highlights how big industries fuel them, obstructing health policy and targeting the vulnerable.
https://t.co/8bns6JeN9e
#NCDs#CDoH#SDGs#R2F
Applications are open for our quantitative post doctoral position @UCLGlobalHealth working with me & @fottrell on 3 year research about non communicable diseases in #urban Nepal & Bangladesh with @HERDIntl & CHRI BADAS
https://t.co/pqHl4wdymC
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Interactions between acute infections and NCD multimorbidity are poorly studied.
Do people living with MM experience more frequent acute infections and are they more severe?
What is the effect of acute infections on MM control and healthcare use?
In our new paper...
Verbal Autopsy reveals more than medical CoD
Care and avoidable mortality after fatal injury in Karonga, Malawi: a retrospective analysis of VA data
@drjackoids@MEIRU_MALAWI@AbenaPhD@AndyLeather1@BMJ_Open
https://t.co/oNVNljJNisโฆ
๐ง๐ท๐ฌ๐ง -we are hiring a biostatistician to support my group @uclmedsci in our collaboration with @renatagmendes' team @ufscaroficial.
We are interested in chronic respiratory multimorbidity.
The work is @NIHRglobal funded.
Apply!
Research Fellow at UCL: https://t.co/AkwRBnG4S8
Seminar ๐ฃ Co-creating knowledge exchange to inform alcohol research, policy and practice in Nepal w/@RanjitaDhital
Join us in person on Tuesday 26th March from 13.00-14.00 in the PUW 4 June Lloyd Room Ground Floor 30 Guilford Street WC1N 1EH
More than one billion people in the world are now living with obesity, global analysis suggests.
Find this and more in our latest issue: https://t.co/nJfpMnmjke
Join us for a lunchtime lecture with Dr Ranjita Dhital and hosted by @UCL_NCD discussing the urgent need for alcohol harm reduction initiatives and policies which engage with cultural and community practices.
๐ 25th March, 13:00-14:00
https://t.co/xR6QmKDmf6