EQ-TIPS was developed to meet growing interest in evaluating the effectiveness & cost-effectiveness of treatments in very young children 👶 In this paper, @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social et al. examine issues in valuing the EQ-TIPS and possible adaptations to valuation methods 👉 bit.ly/4oxl4gF

Una gran mejora, largamente esperada. Las nuevas funciones de edición de gráficos en el programa de análisis estadístico Jamovi impresionan gratamente. Jamovi se puede descargar e instalar gratis desde www.jamovi.org

"Non-White scientists endure longer waiting times between the submission and acceptance of their manuscripts, and upon publication, their papers receive fewer citations than would be expected based on textual similarity."

Antwerp on a cloudy day. (📷Canon T70 - 🎞️Fujicolor 200) #filmisnotdead

📰 Check out all the oral abstracts from #IAS2025 in the new Journal of the International AIDS Society IAS 2025 abstract supplement: bit.ly/JIAS2025

🇧🇷 #Tuberculosis “This study presents 👩🏽‍🦱Maria Ciência… The tool supports researchers in translating peer-reviewed scientific findings through simple prompts into accessible, ethically appropriate materials tailored for children, general public…” Preprint🔗⬇️ s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/assets.jmir....

In the past week, 90 students have finished their studies at ITM, ready to take on global health challenges! To all our graduates: your hard work, resilience, and dedication have brought you here. You're not only graduating. You're joining a powerful global community of changemakers. #ITMAlumni

Important new @msfaccess.org report highlights how even EU countries lack appropriate access to #tuberculosis medicines💊. "Bridging the gap: Securing access to essential #TB medicines in the EU and EEA" msfaccess.org/bridging-gap... (other high-income countries like Canada face similar challenges)

💥 Very excited to share this review in Nature Reviews Microbiology. Contributing to this review with Val, Digby and Amy was an enlightening experience! Hope people in the community find it useful- we managed to cite around 200 papers... www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How do research careers compare across countries? New global database has some answers Online tool from the Research and Innovation Careers Observatory allows users to compare salary, typical career destinations, and more www.science.org/content/arti...

🆕 Journal of the International AIDS Society (JIAS) supplement, “PEP in Africa: prospects, opportunities and challenges”, just launched! 📰 Access all the articles for free now: zurl.co/MShcA

Quality use of medicines is: 1) selecting wisely treatment options 2) choosing suitable medicines only if necessary 3) using medicines safely to get the best possible results 4) choosing only medicines that benefit the patient. But, how to teach QUM? www.racgp.org.au/afp/2017/mar...

The ethics of health research priority setting: A casebook www.who.int/publications...

Productive informal meeting with CAD-LUS4TB colleagues at the EDCTP Forum! 🤝 Discussing our upcoming AI-powered TB diagnosis project with this amazing international team. Can't wait to start working together to improve TB care in sub-Saharan Africa using innovative lung ultrasound technology.

New work on relational reasoning in transformers! TLDR: Inductive biases of In-Weight and In-Context Learning in transformers are really different for relational reasoning, and pretraining can make a big difference for in-context. Check out @jessegeerts.bsky.social's thread for more!

Well deserved outstanding team award to Zambart from Zambia #EDCTP2025

On my way to participate in the 12th EDCTP Forum 😀. If you're attending the forum, I'd love to connect! Feel free to reach out or stop by the session! #EDCTPForum #EDCTP2025 #GlobalHealth

🧐Health effects of the Brazilian Conditional Cash Transfer programme over 20 years and projections to 2030: a retrospective analysis and modelling study - The Lancet Public Health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I'll be presenting at the 12th EDCTP Forum in Rwanda next week! "Collaborative training networks to build leadership for research excellence and biotech innovation in sub-Saharan Africa" - Innovations in capacity building parallel session. 📅 Tue, June 17th at 2:00 PM. More at: edctpforum.eu

Win some, lose some. Just got word that a proposal didn't make it through a competitive call 🫤. Always learning for next time!

"Although the cause of the epidemic hasn’t been definitively determined, most scientists agree that, at least among sugar-cane workers, intense labour in extreme heat is one of the major drivers of this condition." #ClimateChangeAndHealth #OccupationalHealth

Antwerpen #filmisnotdead

“M. tuberculosis has evolved into an astonishingly adept human pathogen. And one of its greatest skills is its ability to fly through the air” @carlzimmer.com on why TB has killed millions over the ages www.newscientist.com/article/2481...

Cracking the Cost Code: Why Transparency in TB is a Matter of Life and Death INSIDE VIEW - Farhat Mantoo & Bern-Thomas Nyang'wa Every year, 1.3 million people die of tuberculosis, making it the world’s deadliest infectious disease. LEARN MORE ⬇️ @msf.ca | #EndTB | #TBPRACTECAL | #MSF

New article published in BMC Medical Research Methodology led by our @itmantwerp.bsky.social statistician Bart KM Jacobs. We describe an extension of the Spiegelhalter-Knill-Jones method allowing the inclusion of continuous covariates. bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

"If scientists are more concerned about where the next grant is coming from than about figuring out first and foremost what issues to research to improve people’s lives, then this aim will remain a challenge to accomplish" www.medanthrotheory.org/mat/article/...

Apply now to eSCREM – Protocol Development. Our 3 ECTS online short course from the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp. 🗓️ Apply by: July, 1st!! 🔗 Apply here: www.itg.be/en/study/cou...

The study reveals significant gaps in the 2023 Essential Medicines List for cancer, highlighting the need for evaluating effective treatments. by Wilson BE, Wright K (...) Booth CM et 8 al. in J Natl Cancer Inst #MedSky 👉 get more here 📖 read the article:

There's something magical about not knowing if you nailed the shot until you develop it. 📷Nikkormat EL + Kodak ColorPlus 200 #FilmIsNotDead

The further a researcher or inventor moves from their previous work, the less cited their latest work will be https://go.nature.com/44VjEW9

Summary of findings tables present the key results of a systematic review. The latest article in the the Core GRADE series outlines how you should approach these summary of findings tables www.bmj.com/content/389/...

5 years since the start of the pandemic and it is frustrating that we still need to keep repeating: vaccines, masks, tests, and cleaning the air all play roles in reducing transmission. Wrongly claiming that any of these layers isn’t important is an anti-science stance.

🧪A recent study conducted in #Ethiopia and #Indonesia sheds light on the dx accuracy and usability of the VISITECT® CD4 Advanced Disease Assay in routine use. Insights: - ⬆️sensitivity (97.8%), and - a 10% ⬆️ in specificity when retraining providers (32.7% to 42.5%). #TBSky #TB #HIV #HIVSky

A new report published by CIOMS provides insights into the methods used to evaluate the benefit-risk (BR) balance of a medicinal product. cioms.ch/publications...

The Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) Program was central in improving the evidence base for health policies and interventions, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa and Central & Southern Asia - figure by @aasli.bsky.social. Our preprint on the termination of the DHS Program: osf.io/preprints/so...

Bravo a OMS por el efecto mediático, pero continuamos la tradición de aplicar paños tibios. Seguimos implementando medidas que calman temporalmente pero no resuelven el problema de fondo: un genocidio en curso.

This little Robin brings peace and beauty to my (self-imposed) busy days. This picture was taken yesterday at sundown.

#MSF has begun a large-scale "test and treat' campaign for #HepatitisC in the Cox's Bazar refugee camps in Bangladesh, aiming to treat 30,000 people by the end of 2026. www.msf.org/msf-launches...

🎉New preprint led by Greta Wood🚨 Among ~2000 adults with #TB in 🇿🇦 #multimorbidity was extremely common (86%) and strongly predictive of death at 15 months Need for screening and management. 🧪🛟🦠 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @tomwingfield.bsky.social @uofgshw.bsky.social @lstmnews.bsky.social

Amanecimos con inversión térmica y la concentración respectiva de contaminantes en el aire 🫤. Un recordatorio de que estamos muy lejos de cumplir metas mínimas de calidad del ambiente.

The Editorial Boards of leading health economics journals are issuing a Joint Statement of Principles on Editorial Independence. In these troubled times some scholars worry their work might suffer ideological attack. We reaffirm our commitment to unfettered scholarship. Please repost.

Working at the intersection of #evidence and policy? Check these 2 scoping reviews that explore the landscape of Evidence-to-Decision frameworks or structured tools designed to support evidence-informed decision-making in #PublicHealth 👉🏽 bit.ly/EUSscope1 👉🏽 bit.ly/EUSscope2 #IDSky #EpiSky 🦠🧪

Finally here! We have been working on this for three years. I feel the conversation is just starting.

💯 In a word? Adopted. 🦠 The Pandemic Treaty was just unanimously adopted by the World Health Assembly. 💊💉Bravo world. You did the right thing. apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf...

Una playlist para recordar a José "Pepe" Mujica en canciones cercanas a su filosofía y visión de la vida. #JoseMujica #PepeMujica

📢 #EUTestingWeek! Did you know TB can hide in your body for years without making you ill? 🗣️ If you have links to a country with high rates of TB or work in an occupation that increases your risk ask about a latent TB test. Prevention is better than cure. #LatentTB #Tuberculosis #eutestingweek

Wrote about Adriana Smith, who has been kept alive for months on a ventilator, brain dead, against her family's wishes—all because of Georgia's six-week abortion ban. www.thecut.com/article/adri...