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Prof Joy Lawn
@joylawn.bsky.social
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Prof LSHTM | Paediatrician & Perinatal Epidemiologist | Parent | Passionate about change esp for women & #everynewborn | Widow of Prof Steve Lawn
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Last call!!
Wonderfully inspiring applications over the last 8 years!!
Pls share and nominate!
tb-lshtm.bsky.social TB Centre LSHTM @tb-lshtm.bsky.social · Sep 10
We have extended the closing date! Please send in nominations by the revised date of 24 September 2025.
tb-lshtm.bsky.social TB Centre LSHTM @tb-lshtm.bsky.social · Aug 5
The Stephen Lawn TB-HIV Research Leadership Prize 2025 is currently open for nominations; closing date 10 September

Nominees for this prestigious award will be clinicians and/or researchers from any country who have completed post-graduate training (MPH, PhD, MD or post-doc)
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September 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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The ISSAD Board & Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) invites you to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations across a range of scientific and clinical topics related to GBS.

👉 issad.org/abstract-sub...

#issad2026 #FromEvidencetoAction #GBS #research #maternalhealth
September 19, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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We are delighted to unveil ISSAD 2026 theme, “From Evidence to Action Accelerating GBS Prevention in a Changing World.”

👉 Register today: www.issad.org/registration

#theme #issad2026 #FromEvidencetoAction #GBS #research #maternalhealth #Global #health
September 22, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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newborntoolkit.bsky.social
📢 To mark #WorldSepsisDay, catch our webinar on AMR, babies and bugs in Africa!

• AMR’s impact on newborn care
• HCAI pathway Launch
• Outbreak responses across Africa
• Vaccine role in reducing antibiotics

🎥 Watch here: newborntoolkit.org/events/babie...
September 12, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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newborntoolkit.bsky.social The Newborn Toolkit @newborntoolkit.bsky.social · Aug 29
📢 Join us for our upcoming webinar to mark World Sepsis Day!

🔎 “Babies and bugs in hospitals: Time to Act on Infections and AMR”
💭 with live French translation!
📆 9th Sept 2025
🕐 3pm EAT, 1pm WAT/BST, 8am EST
👉 buff.ly/K8kRKt0
August 29, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Exciting webinar on 9th Sept
#worldsepsisday #AMR #newborn
@gardp.bsky.social @lshtmamrcentre.bsky.social
newborntoolkit.bsky.social The Newborn Toolkit @newborntoolkit.bsky.social · Aug 27
📢 With #WorldSepsisDay approaching, watch our webinar recap on infections in African neonatal units:

🦠 Bugs affecting babies
🔬 Detecting & preventing outbreaks
💊 AMR & stewardship

🎥 newborntoolkit.org/events/afric...
August 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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"The future of newborns is in Africa and we are the people who have to ensure they survive and thrive" Dr Alex Stevenson opening first conference of African Neonatal Association in Kigali
August 20, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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PUBLICATION ALERT: Changes in service readiness across 65 facilities in Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, and Malawi dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... @joylawn.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social @lshtm-march.bsky.social
Small and sick newborn care: Changes in service readiness scoring between baseline and 2023 for 65 neonatal units implementing with NEST360 in Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, and Tanzania
Health Facility Assessments (HFAs) are important for measuring and tracking service readiness for small and sick newborn care (SSNC). NEST360 Alliance aims to reduce neonatal mortality in four countri...
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July 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Comment 2: #Neonatology’s future: securing most impact where most
#newborn infants die by Msandeni Chiume @joylawn.bsky.social‬ & colleagues

buff.ly/IcuIW03

"Medical technology must advance hand in hand with system-wide attention to sustainability..."
A team of health-care workers receives training in neonatal care in Kenya. Credit: NEST360-Kenya team
June 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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📢 TUES!! Pls share widely!

🔎 Launch #BornTooSoon Supplement: progress, priorities + pivots for preterm birth. Hosted by PMNCH

Opening Dr Tedros
Many exciting speakers!

Live Fr + Spanish translation!

📆24 June 2025
🕐 3pm EAT| 1pm WAT/BST| 8am EST |2pm CET

👉 newborntoolkit.org/events/born-...
June 23, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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In our Reflections section, an Essay by Anne Kamphuis, Lungile Jafta, and Tom Jacobs on behalf of the Penta Youth Trials Board

💫 Empowering young voices in clinical research: co-creation of an educational video to support informed assent

Read👉 buff.ly/96JEBnK
Watch 👉 buff.ly/8e6bTyd
Empowering young voices in clinical research: co-creation of an educational video to support informed assent
Thabo's eyes flicker as he steps into the familiar room of a clinic he has been visiting for as long as he can remember. He sees doctors and nurses like usual, but he doesn't quite understand why he's...
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June 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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newborntoolkit.bsky.social
It's #ToolkitTuesday! 🛠️

This week, we take a look at the paper that inspired our Research Funding Map: a systemic analysis of levels and trends in research funding for newborn health and stillbirths.

Find out more 👉 newborntoolkit.org/reading/rese...
- SSNC Implementation Toolkit
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June 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Great video of #IPA2025
7000 delegates fr 1 million #Pediatricians around 🌎
Congrats Naveen Thacker + team.

Priviledge to speak on 2 plenaries + 1 parallel session.

Many colleagues + friends and get a taster of Mexico

www.facebook.com/share/v/1Bjt...

@lancetchildadol.bsky.social
May 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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False dichotomy of defence spending vs development investment

Thoughtful, eloquent piece by @martinmckee.bsky.social @kentbuse.bsky.social in @bmj.com

Hope is read by politicians as well as us who see the impact every day of rapid cuts in aid

Please share widely @peterstefanovic.bsky.social
martinmckee.bsky.social Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · May 24
🧵1/ The UK government plans to cut international aid while ramping up defence spending. But must we choose between defence or aid? In a new @bmj.com piece, @kentbuse.bsky.social & I argue that we must invest in both. Here’s why. 👇
May 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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War on science
War on peace
neildegrassetyson.com Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · May 19
If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
May 20, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Calendar highlight for 2026!
2nd International Maternal Newborn Health Conference.
Looking fw to this in Nairobi Movement not a moment..
#IMNHC2026 @newborntoolkit.bsky.social @gatesfoundation.bsky.social @ciffchild.bsky.social @who.int
alignmnh.bsky.social AlignMNH @alignmnh.bsky.social · May 15
We are excited to announce #IMNHC2026! 🇰🇪

Join us 23-26 March in Nairobi, Kenya to help drive urgent action for the health of mothers and newborns and prevent stillbirths.

Learn more >> imnhc2026.org
May 15, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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newborntoolkit.bsky.social
📢 Happy World KMC Day!
To mark #WorldKMCDay, we hosted a dynamic webinar on high-quality KMC!

🔹 Latest updates from WHO
🔹 Launch of the KMC Quality Action Pathway - newborntoolkit.org/action-pathw...
🔹 Practical country examples&more!

🎥 Watch & get slides: buff.ly/3eU4y7c
May 15, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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On #WorldKMCday, meet Dr Sheila Oyella — a Ugandan paediatrician who became a preemie mum overnight when her baby arrived 11 weeks early, weighing just 1390g.

Her story shows the power of Kangaroo Mother Care 💛

Learn more: newborntoolkit.org/in_practice/...
May 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Trump2.0 1st 100 days.
Last days for 1000s around world with #HIV due to PEPFAR demise.
Even more for newborns, children with programmes slashed even more.
Plus deaths in USA with sliding vaccine protection.
More unconsciable then crashing the economy even if gets less news
thenation.com The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · May 1
"The millions who will die due to this administration’s policies have lives, names, friends and family who love them. Let them not just be figures in scientific papers—let their memorial be the whole earth." — @gregggonsalves.bsky.social
Trump's Legacy Will Be the Countless People Killed by His Policies
Millions across the world could die because of the choices Trump has made in his first 100 days.
www.thenation.com
May 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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newborntoolkit.bsky.social
📢 Join us for our next Newborn Toolkit webinar!

🔎 “Kangaroo Mother Care with quality: Duration, Nutrition and Data That Matter” With Live French translation!
📆13th May , 2025
🕐 3pm EAT| 1pm WAT/BST| 8am EST

👉 newborntoolkit.org/events/maxim...
April 30, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Full report open access in @TheLancet
Honoured to be one of many co authors

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The 2025 report of the Lancet Countdown to 2030 for women's, children's, and adolescents' health: tracking progress on health and nutrition
In line with previous progress reports by Countdown to 2030 for Women's, Children's, and Adolescents' Health, this report analyses global and regional trends and inequalities in health determinants, s...
www.thelancet.com
April 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Summary of 5 S actions from the report, with major call for focus across Africa
April 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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Pls join event and share. Countdown to 2030 Lancet Report analysing change for RMNCAH over last decade. Many important findings and actions of relevance for all of us. Important data for use esp across Africa.
April 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Heartbreaking measles in USA. 1st deaths for >10 years.
As a paediatrician in West Africa mid-1990s measles epidemic we saw wards of very sick children, deaths every day. Even 5yrs later deaths rare with measles vaccine high coverage.

World going backwards
= preventable deaths in USA + worldwide
who.int WHO @who.int · Mar 14
If you don’t get your child vaccinated against measles, it can put them at a high risk of this serious infection, which can lead to severe complications or even death.

Make sure your child’s measles vaccination is up to date.
If you don’t get your child vaccinated against measles, it can put them at a high risk of this serious infection, which can lead to severe complications or even death. Make sure your child’s measles vaccination is up to date.
April 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Happy Birth Day! Welcome @thelancet.bsky.social new journal on Obstetrics, Gynae & health!
Just in time for @who.int year of focus on maternal, newborn health and preparing stillbirths
#HopefulFutures #HealthyBeginnings
#WHD2025
lancetobgyn-wh.bsky.social The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology, & Women’s Health @lancetobgyn-wh.bsky.social · Mar 27
👋 Introducing The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology, & Women’s Health, a new journal dedicated to bridging clinical evidence and practice to transform the lives of women.
Find out more ➡️ tinyurl.com/4a4whxay

#medsky #physician-researcher #obgynsky #womenshealthsky
A special preview issue of The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology, & Women’s Health. On the cover is an illustration of overlapping silhouettes of women of different ages', bordered by various medical instruments and health-related icons. Together, these illustrations - in purple shades - depict a holistic vision of obstetrics, gynaecology, & women’s health. Credit: Lillian Li
April 13, 2025 at 9:03 AM