Rodrigo Henríquez
@docmundele.bsky.social
Research Fellow at ITM's Tuberculosis Unit | Bridging global health, clinical decision-making and primary care for equitable healthcare access
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3094-4438 | @itmantwerp.bsky.social
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3094-4438 | @itmantwerp.bsky.social
Reposted by Rodrigo Henríquez
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
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
August 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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
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
August 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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
Reposted by Rodrigo Henríquez
"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."
August 1, 2025 at 11:47 PM
"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
July 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Antwerp on a cloudy day. (📷Canon T70 - 🎞️Fujicolor 200) #filmisnotdead
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📰 Check out all the oral abstracts from #IAS2025 in the new Journal of the International AIDS Society IAS 2025 abstract supplement: bit.ly/JIAS2025
July 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
📰 Check out all the oral abstracts from #IAS2025 in the new Journal of the International AIDS Society IAS 2025 abstract supplement: bit.ly/JIAS2025
Reposted by Rodrigo Henríquez
🇧🇷 #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....
Preprint🔗⬇️
s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/assets.jmir....
Maria Ciência: Application of Artificial Intelligence for Audience-Specific Health Communication and Knowledge Dissemination
Background: Scientific misinformation remains a major barrier to effective health communication. Bridging the gap between academic research and public understanding requires tools that simplify...
preprints.jmir.org
July 5, 2025 at 1:12 AM
🇧🇷 #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....
Preprint🔗⬇️
s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/assets.jmir....
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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
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
July 4, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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
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
Reposted by Rodrigo Henríquez
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)
"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)
July 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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)
"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)
Reposted by Rodrigo Henríquez
💥 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...
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...
Mycobacterium tuberculosis biology, pathogenicity and interaction with the host
Nature Reviews Microbiology - In this Review, Warner, Barczak, Gutierrez and Mizrahi explore essential aspects of Mycobacterium tuberculosis physiology and biology, present recent advances related...
www.nature.com
July 1, 2025 at 6:49 AM
💥 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...
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...
Reposted by Rodrigo Henríquez
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...
Online tool from the Research and Innovation Careers Observatory allows users to compare salary, typical career destinations, and more
www.science.org/content/arti...
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
July 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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...
Online tool from the Research and Innovation Careers Observatory allows users to compare salary, typical career destinations, and more
www.science.org/content/arti...
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🆕 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
📰 Access all the articles for free now:
zurl.co/MShcA
July 1, 2025 at 11:33 AM
🆕 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
📰 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...
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...
Teaching rational prescribing to general practice registrars: A guide for supervisors
Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines. – Paracelsus…
www.racgp.org.au
June 26, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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...
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...
Reposted by Rodrigo Henríquez
The ethics of health research priority setting: A casebook
www.who.int/publications...
www.who.int/publications...
June 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The ethics of health research priority setting: A casebook
www.who.int/publications...
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.
June 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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.
Reposted by Rodrigo Henríquez
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!
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!
June 16, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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!
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!
Reposted by Rodrigo Henríquez
Well deserved outstanding team award to Zambart from Zambia #EDCTP2025
June 16, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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
If you're attending the forum, I'd love to connect! Feel free to reach out or stop by the session! #EDCTPForum #EDCTP2025 #GlobalHealth
June 14, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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
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...
Health effects of the Brazilian Conditional Cash Transfer programme over 20 years and projections to 2030: a retrospective analysis and modelling study
CCT programmes have strongly contributed to the reduction of morbidity and mortality
in Brazil, having prevented millions of hospitalisations and deaths in the past two
decades. During the current per...
www.thelancet.com
June 12, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🧐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
Better healththrough globalresearch partnerships
Global Health EDCTP3 and the EDCTP Association are delighted to invite you to participate in the Twelfth EDCTP Forum, a unique platform for policymakers,…
edctpforum.eu
June 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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!
June 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Win some, lose some. Just got word that a proposal didn't make it through a competitive call 🫤. Always learning for next time!
Reposted by Rodrigo Henríquez
"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
How a mysterious epidemic of kidney disease is killing thousands of young men
Repeated damage from extreme heat over time seems to be a leading factor causing kidneys to fail.
www.nature.com
June 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
"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
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“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...
@carlzimmer.com on why TB has killed millions over the ages
www.newscientist.com/article/2481...
TB's extraordinary evolution reveals why the ancient disease lives on
Once thought to have originated in cows and spread through dust, the surprising evolutionary story of tuberculosis reveals why it's so hard to stamp out this ancient disease, writes Carl Zimmer
www.newscientist.com
June 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM
“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...
@carlzimmer.com on why TB has killed millions over the ages
www.newscientist.com/article/2481...
Reposted by Rodrigo Henríquez
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
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
Cracking The Cost Code: Why Transparency In TB Is A Matter Of Life And Death - Health Policy Watch
This stands in stark contrast to the opaque norms of pharmaceutical research and development (R&D), where there is no transparency about what it costs to
healthpolicy-watch.news
June 4, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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
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....
An extension of the Spiegelhalter-Knill-Jones method for continuous covariates in clinical decision making - BMC Medical Research Methodology
Background There is still demand for algorithms that can be used at the point of care, especially when dealing with events that do not present with a single obvious clinical indicator. The Spiegelhalt...
bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com
June 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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....