PUBLICATION ALERT: Changes in service readiness across 65 facilities in Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, and Malawi dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... @joylawn.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social @lshtm-march.bsky.social

How does weight gain during pregnancy affect the health of newborns? 🤰 Professor Eric Ohuma (@ohumaeric.bsky.social) discusses new research on maternal weight gain and its potential implications for practice. 🔗 www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen... @lshtm.bsky.social

EXCITED! Our newly published work in AJCN contributes to efforts towards establishing appropriate thresholds/guidance for appropriate weight gain during pregnancy pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40250762/

FULL SCHOLARSHIP for African students to study at one of UKs top universities. Hyundai Motor Group is offering five scholarships intended to nurture talent from Africa at SOAS University of London www.soas.ac.uk/study/studen...

Pleased to have mentored Rehema Ouko on her NIHR pre-doctoral fellowship leading to published work on scoping review on applications of joint modellling doi.org/10.1186/s128...

Pleased to see our R package "gigs" published. A package for standardising fetal, maternal, and child growth assessment using INTERGROWTH-21st and WHO Child Growth International standards @intergrowth21st @FetalUltrasound joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21...

FULL SCHOLARSHIP! MSc in Medical Statistics at LSHTM + 1 year placement for nationals of SSA with degree in mathematics/statistics and 1+ year of work experience in medical statistics or epidemiology www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

New paper exploring the relationship between gestational weight gain and fetal body composition. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... and accompanying editorial www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This publication showcases our #ScopingReview protocol, focusing on the role of #DataScience in improving #MNCH in #Africa. 'The State of Data Science for Health in Africa' writing initiative. bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/1...

Contributing to the State of Data Science for Health in Africa Initiative. fic.nih.gov/About/center-g… funded by @Fogarty_NIH

NewlyPublished "Unlocking data science to improve maternal, newborn & child health in Africa: a scoping review protocol." Exploring:1️⃣ Infrastructure2️⃣ Data quality3️⃣ Governance4️⃣ Digital health5️⃣ Capacity building6️⃣ Collaboration 7️⃣ Scaling 🔗bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/12/…