‼️Register now‼️Climate Conference 🌍 Climate Change, Environmental Hazards & Population Dynamics 🗺️ Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) 📆Nov 11–12, 2025 Sign up here: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even... @mpidr.bsky.social @iussp.bsky.social @conteristo.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social

Climate change’s hidden cost: Rainfall instability may cause 290 under-five child deaths per 10,000 every year. Stability in rain is vital for children’s survival. See: Rainfall variability and under-five child mortality in 59 low- and middle-income countries www.nature.com/articles/s44...

📢 Short-term teaching role in Sexual & Reproductive Health ! Join our award-winning MSc @lshtm.bsky.social as a Research Fellow (Education) (maternity cover). Full-time role until December 2025 Apply: EPH-DPH-2025-08-R – jobs.lshtm.ac.uk @lshtm-march.bsky.social @chidodc.bsky.social

Why does the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) only include live births? 🤔 In our study using 46 DHS surveys, we explore what happens when stillbirths & pregnancy losses are included. We suggest an alternative: MMR+ Led by Ursula Gazaley & Hallie Eilerts Spinelli. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

High temperatures worsen pregnancy outcomes like preterm birth—but what can families do to stay safe? Find out in our study on a community-based heat-health intervention in Kilifi, Kenya: 🔗 academic.oup.com/heapol/artic... @lshtm-march.bsky.social

🌟Our STAR South Africa project has created a respectful-care intervention for mothers & babies via improving the culture of organisational learning. Baseline results👇@lshtm-march.bsky.social Organisational learning culture in maternity units: A mixed-method stu... sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Some good news—but already outdated in light of recent foreign aid cuts that could severely impact maternal mortality? 🤔The progress in this report is incredibly fragile.

At last, some good news for research in the UK: www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/uk... Thank you for telling me @chlobrim.bsky.social !

Devastating academically 👇 www.lemonde.fr/en/united-st...

Impressive: 👏Perinatal mortality ⬇️18%, neonatal mortality ⬇️40%, maternal mortality maybe by ⬇️75% in this well-designed quality improvement study 👏 I like it that it is a stepped-wedge cluster-randomized trial! www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

🎉New Grant Alert: Excited to start a new body of research with #BenWeobong on impacts of climate change 🌦️ on mental health in children, adolescents and women. Even more so to meet fellow awardees in our first @medresfdn.bsky.social Equitable Partnerships week in Ghana.

JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to resume hundreds of millions of dollars in payments for U.S. Agency for International Development projects.

In some countries, more than one in three mothers have lost a child younger than five

Want to learn the basics of statistical analysis for observational & experimental research? If you're an epidemiologist, biostatistician, or health researcher, master the essentials on this short course. Running online, 17 - 19 June 2025. Apply now👉 bit.ly/3Q2zs0i

Our STAR intervention aims to transform respectful care for women & babies in South Africa (KZN) through learning & participatory action. 📸 from recent workshop Full article on intervention design : www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring Researchers facing "a lot uncertainty, fear and panic" Hard to understand this. Could be terrible. But any new director would want scientists to work www.science.org/cont... 1/3

✒️🗓️ Sign up now for our March 3rd 🌍 🩺 @climatehealthcafe.bsky.social pre-conference workshop on climate measurement. Led by researchers from HIGH Horizons and @lshtm.bsky.social, facilitated by @debrajacksonnole.bsky.social. ➡️ Register: climatehealthcafe.org/conference-w... #ClimateHealth

Thank you to the study’s authors: Georgios Charvalis, Michalis Koureas, @chlobrim.bsky.social, Chara Bogogiannidou, Fani Kalala, Varvara Mouchtouri, Christos Kadjichristodoulou, and the HIGH Horizons Study Group. 🧵6/6 @1verofilippi.bsky.social @daalenkim.bsky.social

#Gaza war death toll could be significantly higher, researchers say BBC News reports on new @lshtm.bsky.social study suggesting number of Palestinians who died from traumatic injury underreported by 41%. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Act now to improve bereaved mothers' mental health globally: 1️⃣ Raise awareness of challenges after stillbirths/neonatal deaths 2️⃣ Train healthcare professionals in communication 3️⃣ Campaign to reduce stigma See our commentary: obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @lshtm.bsky.social

⚡ OUT NOW ⚡ 1️⃣st comprehensive study on health and climate change in small island developing states shows lack of climate action is endangering lives and livelihoods - despite island states spearheading international attention on climate and health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

RECRUITING: Could you lead our work on health and climate change in Africa? 🌍 Steer the direction of our research in Africa 👥 Build regional representation in upcoming centre 📝 Inform a health-centred climate change response Find out more: lancetcountdown.org/news/vacancy...

Celebrating Kate Onursal's successful PhD viva on maternal employment, health & wellbeing in Turkey! 🎉 A pleasure to co-supervise with @hannahbargawi.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social Another success for the Bloomsbury Scholarships for interdisciplinary research! #PhDsuccess @lshtm.bsky.social

Great first meeting of the @nihr.bsky.social Maternity Disparities Consortium. Our Aberdeen and Cardiff collaboration (i6) is led by Prof Mairead Black. And a pleasure to meet you, Veronique!

🌍Despite small steps in the right direction, #COP29 fell short in delivering commitments needed to protect health, according to LSHTM researchers. Our experts reflect on the outcomes of #COP29, and what they mean for the future of #climate and #health. #PublicHealth 👉 bit.ly/4gdA0vD

"The presence of a companion, whether spousal or non-spousal, positively influenced birth satisfaction, though it did not significantly affect postpartum postnatal depression scores" www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

@lshtm.bsky.social joins the NIHR Challenge: Maternity Disparities Consortium! The consortium will tackle #inequalities in UK #maternity outcomes, with LSHTM leading the REFRAME Collaboration. 👉 lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen... @nihr.bsky.social Excited to be part of the REFRAME team!

Come do a PhD with us at @lshtm.bsky.social! We're advertising two projects: Understanding and predicting vector-borne epidemics (with Rachel Lowe): mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk/2025-26-proj... Kinetics of immunity to influenza and SARS-CoV-2 (with @dchodge.bsky.social): mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk/2025-26-proj...

Loving this paper 'Rethinking barriers and enablers'. How many thousands of weak research studies have reduced complex change to 'identifying and addressing barriers and enablers'? Here's how to do better! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Heatwaves in Kenya pose risks for mothers and infants, yet many interviewed mothers are unaware of early warning systems or weather updates journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... Bridging this gap with affected communities is crucial for safeguarding health during extreme heat. 👩‍👧

Out from colleagues in Zimbabwe www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... STITCH was cluster RCT evaluating if access to screening reduced STI prevalence in young people. Intervention reduced GC but not CT or TV. One of 1st studies anywhere (not just global south) to show some impact of STI screening.

Sudan death toll far higher than previously reported In BBC News Maysoon Dahab discusses study estimating 61,000 deaths in Khartoum State alone, with 90% of deaths going unrecorded. Mortality levels also thought to be much higher in other regions. #PublicHealth www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I updated the data in my article about the history of child mortality. Without any large exceptions, every second child died — in Ancient Rome, in hunter-gatherer societies, in the pre-Columbian Americas, in Medieval Japan, in Imperial China, or the Renaissance. ourworldindata.org/child-mortal...

Ahead of #WorldPrematurityDay, Debra Jackson, MARCH Co-Director at LSHTM alongside partners, highlight the importance of increasing global efforts to reduce #premature births, particularly in the context of climate change. #FocusOnHealth #PublicHealth 👉 www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

#Sudan war deaths are likely much higher than recorded Reuters covers new LSHTM study estimating over 61,000 deaths in Khartoum State alone during first 14 months of war & death rate up 50%. These deaths have "largely gone undetected". 👇 #PublicHealth www.reuters.com/world/africa...

sorry, wrong link. here it is www.nature.com/articles/s41...

During heatwaves, odds of obstetric complications increase by 1.25 & odds of preterm birth by 1.26 See latest review rdcu.be/dZONs by HIGH Horizons colleagues at Wits

🎉LSHTM rises to 2nd in the world for #PublicHealth in the 2024 ShanghaiRanking! It's LSHTM's highest ever position in the ranking (up from #3 in 2023) & recognises our prestigious research & study programmes in public and #GlobalHealth. www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...