As world leaders gather today at #HLM4 to accelerate progress on #NCDs, we stress the need for #urban specific approaches that respond to the diversity of urban populations and health providers, to #ActonNCDs for poorest urban populations Read more👉https://shorturl.at/hVupy

New CHORUS Paper! HPRG @Univeristy of Nigeria explore how community leaders in urban slums can help improve access to quality healthcare services - through their positional knowledge and leverage to support the linkages with informal providers shorturl.at/5dDco

Shreeman Sharma shares insights from his CHORUS Innovation Fund project on how media reporting influences health policy making at the National Summit of Health and Population Scientists in Nepal - watch his presentation here @herdintl.bsky.social @b-ebenso.bsky.social @h-elsey01.bsky.social

For #WorldHealthDay, the @globalfoodleeds.bsky.social, featured our work in developing resilient urban health systems. Read here about how we are addressing the challenge of rapid urbanisation: medium.com/globalfoodle...

Dr Bassey Ebenso is Associate Professor of International Health. He leads the CHORUS consortium. A pillar of this explores food environments of the urban poor in Bangladesh, Ghana, Nepal & Nigeria & the associated prevalence of non-communicable (NCDs) 👉 chorusurbanhealth.org/blogs-news-a... 5/7

#WorldHealthDay #HopefulFutures New paper on delayed referrals from traditional birth attendants (TBAs) to formal healthcare centres. Stronger partnerships with TBAs could reduce referral delays, which contribute to maternal and child mortality in 🇳🇬 shorturl.at/oXRBf

Read insights from our policy dialogue event held in Bangladesh in January. The report identifies the prospects and challenges facing the strengthening of urban health systems, including the need for more coordination and information sharing: chorusurbanhealth.org/chorus-polic...

New Paper! CHORUS partners HPRG examine the inequities in out-of-pocket expenditure to access healthcare in urban slums in Nigeria, and that poorest households may be at risk of poor health outcomes due to reliance on informal healthcare providers shorturl.at/UEtaC

💡INSIGHT: Delali Kumapley and Selase Odopey from CHORUS Ghana share experiences, lessons, and challenges in using participatory research approaches to co-produce health awareness materials with the Ghana Health Service: chorusurbanhealth.org/blog-co-prod...

Our study in urban slums shows that "having >8 years of formal education & receiving on-the-job training have statistically significant effects on knowledge of malaria and diarrhea treatment

Policy Brief: How can the modalities for urban primary health care systems in Bangladesh be improved? CHORUS researchers in Bangladesh worked with multiple stakeholders to develop strategies for health system resilience: chorusurbanhealth.org/resources/po...

New CHORUS Publication CHORUS partners in #Nigeria #HPRG highlight that by providing appropriate training and support to informal healthcare providers #IHPs, the quality of health service delivery can be improved in urban slums www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub...

Happy #InternationalWomensDay2025 ! Great to hear Prof. Rumana Huque, ARK Foundation Director, and a #CHORUSBangladesh lead, feature on the IMF podcast discussing the real costs of tobacco dependency in Bangladesh - listen here: imf.org/en/News/Podc...

We have a number of presentations at the #AfHEA2025 conference, happening in Rwanda - this week! Our partners at University of Nigeria will share insightful findings on how to strengthen health systems to improve health provision and services for people living in urban slums

The CHORUS team at HERDi is working with Budhanilkantha Municipality in #Kathmandu to establish an #UrbanHealth Data Hub. This initiative aims to enhance data accountability, and integrate data from a range of sectors, to foster evidence based decision making. @sushilbaral.bsky.social

How well does current methods guidance support health economists to produce evidence to improve healthcare access and equity? 🤔 doi.org/10.1017/S026...

In a new interview, CHORUS co-director Prof. @h-elsey01.bsky.social discusses the challenges facing urban health systems and how research findings from the consortium can be used to improve urban primary healthcare: www.tbsnews.net/interviews/b...

Researchers from our cross country Innovation Fund project, on how research evidence is communicated by the media to inform #urbanhealth policies, meet to exchange updates and insights whilst in Dhaka. ARK Foundation, BRAC JPG (Bangladesh) and HERD International (Nepal) @sushilbaral.bsky.social

New CHORUS Paper 📢 Our partners in Nigeria (HPRG) share the importance of the media in communicating evidence, and how health policy and system researchers can harness the strengths of the media to connect with policy makers and the public health-policy-systems.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Excellent news! 👏👏👏 @h-elsey01.bsky.social and ARK Foundation

Clear messages coming from stakeholders during our #PolicyDialogue in Dhaka, on the urgent need for better coordination across departments and a clear delineation of roles and leadership for improved urban health management. #urbanhealth #systemstrengthening

Urgent need to coordinate across ministries and local government to effectively address urban health says NCD line director @chorusurban.bsky.social

Dhaka South City Corporation sharing the challenges of delivering primary care equitably with only 1/3 of the urban population currently covered @chorusurban.bsky.social

Dr Baral explains @chorusurban.bsky.social findings that urban poor predominantly use pharmacies. We have to ensure health systems link private pharmacies with primary care to improve quality of care and address health inequity in cities.