💡Takeaway: both design and price matter! Manufacturers should continue to iterate on HWF designs with emphasis on reducing costs. 🙌 Thanks to co-authors Katayi Mwila-Kazimbaya, Mwamba Mwenge, Elisabeth Tadiri, Jenala Chipungu, @rdreibe.bsky.social @lshtm-ehg.bsky.social

🚰 Our paper is out in PLOS Water! “Understanding end-user preferences for hand hygiene enabling technologies: A mixed-methods study in peri-urban Lusaka, Zambia” 📄 Read here: journals.plos.org/water/articl... Results 👇

New paper out in @plosglobalpublichealth.org from EHG PhD student @elliedelight.bsky.social exploring how gender, perceptions of disease severity, and behaviours shape zoonotic spillover risk in urban Brazil. See below! 👇

Excited to share our new research exploring gender and environmental health in four flood-prone communities in Salvador, Brazil. The study examines exposure pathways to leptospirosis through perceptions of disease and high-risk behaviours, using a sex-disaggregated and causally informed approach.

Pools are a great way to cool off and get exercise. While the benefits often outweigh the risks, pools have been linked to outbreaks of GI illness. Crypto is a common culprit given how long it can hang out in chlorinated water. Read more below! @lshtm-ehg.bsky.social @lshtmamrcentre.bsky.social

Shaping climate & planetary health: EHG member @laurabraun.bsky.social joins the new CCCPH steering committee! www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

Great morning spent with CONDER officials and collaborators at UFBA’s Institute of Collective Health, reviewing progress on the intervention we're evaluating for our project: ‘Simplified sewerage to interrupt multiple transmission pathways of environmental and zoonotic diseases in urban communities’

Excellent presentation today by @elliedelight.bsky.social to researchers at the Institute of Collective Health (Federal University of Bahia, Brazil) on her PhD studying vulnerability to environmentally persistent zoonoses ('ZAPs' in Portuguese!) during flooding events.

Excited to share our research! The study explores how data systems and economics can improve pandemic preparedness for climate-sensitive infectious diseases. Our review revealed gaps related to data interoperability and gender considerations, posing challenges to effective and equitable responses.

🚨 New EHG publication! 🚽 Manual pit latrine emptying is vital but costly EHG’s Hiroaki Tomoi, @laurabraun.bsky.social & Oliver Cumming worked with collaborators to identify barriers & enablers to applying a group-based service model to manual emptying 🔍 Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...

In this week's EHG seminar, Prof. Cleber Cremonese (UFBA) presented on an ongoing collaboration with EHG. The project evaluates how condominial sewerage reduces transmission of zoonoses (e.g. leptospirosis) and arboviruses in marginalised communities in Salvador, Northeast Brazil.

New scoping review out now on water, sanitation and hygiene in schools by @sarahbick.bsky.social et al! Check out a great explainer of key findings in Sarah's thread below.

👋 Hi Bluesky! Our scoping review of water, sanitation and hygiene in schools is now published in BMJ Global Health Read on if you’re interested in 🧼 #WASH 🤸‍♀️ #AdolescentHealth 🔍 #EvidenceSynthesis 🎨 #dataviz ?? @lshtm-ehg.bsky.social gh.bmj.com/content/10/5...

Great to see this Nature Water editorial highlighting the role of water management and nature-based solutions in malaria control, featuring insights from @laurabraun.bsky.social and Jo Lines!

Don't miss @rdreibe.bsky.social's inaugural lecture today! Congrats, Prof!

TODAY at 5:15pm: EHG’s very own Professor Robert Dreibelbis (@rdreibe.bsky.social) will deliver his inaugural lecture: “Everybody Poo(p)s: Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene in Global Health Research.” You can join in person or online, more details here: www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e... See you there!

🎙️ Check out our interview with @pmasselot.bsky.social and @maxeyre.bsky.social who discuss their recent seminar series focusing on causal inference in environmental epidemiology Read more 🔽 www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

Good morning from the DCD retreat @lshtm.bsky.social @lshtm-ehg.bsky.social @jackieknee.bsky.social @lshtm-malaria.bsky.social @maxeyre.bsky.social @laurabraun.bsky.social @rdreibe.bsky.social @mrcunitgambia.bsky.social

Bringing the #sketchnotes to Blue Sky! Today’s case studies at the LSHTM Dept of Disease Control retreat. @lshtm.bsky.social @lshtm-ehg.bsky.social @lshtm-malaria.bsky.social

And more sketches from the DCD retreat, this time representing high-impact research case studies from across the department.

Amazing live sketching of our Department of Disease Control (DCD) retreat from EHG PhD student @ninafinley.bsky.social from yesterday - providing a visual overview of the groups that make up DCD!

Following in the steps of Dr Snow... EHG out and about collecting and testing Thames water samples with this year's brilliant WASH & Health students @lshtm.bsky.social

Meet Cleber Cremonese, a professor at ISC/UFBA (Brazil), who is visiting @lshtm-ehg.bsky.social for three months to analyse data collected in a longitudinal leptospirosis sanitation trial in Salvador, Brazil and explore implementation science methods for evaluating sanitation interventions.

Meet Ellie @elliedelight.bsky.social, a new PhD student in EHG studying how vulnerability to climate-sensitive infectious diseases is characterised across epidemiological studies in relation to flooding. She aims to map zoonotic exposure pathways across demographic groups in Salvador, Brazil.

Meet Nina @ninafinley.bsky.social, a new PhD student at @lshtm-ehg.bsky.social and @nhm-london.bsky.social. Nina works alongside rice farmers in Madagascar to study the links between land use, snail habitat, and aquatic parasitic worms called schistosomes, which cause disease in 250 million people.

🚀 Today, we launched the Behaviour Change Lab (BC Lab) trial—a factorial RCT on hand hygiene in peri-urban Lusaka, Zambia. ⭐️ Huge thanks to my amazing colleagues at Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia for their contributions! 🔬Excited for the insights ahead! #GlobalHealth #HandHygiene

Our study reporting a discrete choice experiment to value the SanQoL-5 index in Mozambique was published www.valuehealthregionalissues.com/article/S221... [1/n]

Households with a handwashing facility (HWF) are more likely to wash hands at key times, but 70% of households in urban Zambia lack a functioning HWF. Read more about our ongoing research with Centre for Infectious Disease Research, Zambia on improved HWF acceptability & use: tinyurl.com/bddu274f

Households with a handwashing facility (HWF) are more likely to wash hands at key times, but 70% of households in urban Zambia lack a functioning HWF. Read more about our ongoing research with Centre for Infectious Disease Research, Zambia on improved HWF acceptability & use: tinyurl.com/bddu274f

Join a survey to prioritize 58 research questions on climate change's impact on hygiene and health. Questions cover diverse hazards, populations, and outcomes. Takes ~1 hour, in 5 languages. The deadline has been extended to January 5, 2025. qualtricsxmlf46zvb4h.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Join a survey to prioritize 58 research questions on climate change's impact on hygiene and health. Questions cover diverse hazards, populations, and outcomes. Takes ~1 hour, in 5 languages, due Dec 20. LINK: qualtricsxmlf46zvb4h.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_....

🎓 PhD Opportunity with @janewilbur.bsky.social Bridging the Menstrual Health Gap for Individuals with Learning Disabilities Develop & validate inclusive metrics for assessing menstrual health experiences 📅 Apply by 23:59 (GMT), Wed, 22 January 2025 🔗 More info and how to apply: bit.ly/3OkeKIH

Eco-epi data collection for our RGHI study with @oficialfiocruz.bsky.social in Salvador has begun! We're collecting soil, water, animal & human samples to study how sanitation in low-income urban areas impacts zoonotic pathogen transmission Read more here: tinyurl.com/3kr73neb @lshtm.bsky.social

Thanks to @oficialfiocruz.bsky.social colleagues for a fantastic visit to Salvador to kick-off our new RGHI project on the relationships between hygiene practices, a sewerage intervention, and enteric pathogen exposure! Read about it here: www.bahia.fiocruz.br/projeto-anal... @lshtm.bsky.social

Starter pack of researchers from EHG - the Environmental Health Group at LSHTM. There are >30 of us in EHG and our numbers are growing on Bluesky! go.bsky.app/TjBK8HU

EHG is on Bluesky! The Environmental Health Group at @lshtm.bsky.social is a team of ~30 multidisciplinary academics whose research focuses how WASH influences health and wellbeing, and how investments in these services can improve people’s lives. Read more about our work: tinyurl.com/3m4zh4sn