Andrea L. S. Bulungu
@alspray.bsky.social
Public health nutrition researcher & consultant. #Mmeka #MMH4ECD Immigrant. 🇺🇬 Co-owner @NkilabaCoffee. #Tusoma book club.
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Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You. www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...
Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You.
The National Institutes of Health is canceling grants that are seen as conflicting with the Trump administration’s priorities. We want to hear from researchers who have been affected.
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March 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You. www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...
Medical doctors (MDs), post-doctoral (PhD) trainees, & other post-professional degree graduates from Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, & Uganda! Applications for the Fogarty Global Health Fellowship - ACHIEVE Global Research Training Program are opening soon! sites.wustl.edu/achieve/
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The 2026-2027 ACHIEVE Training Program Application will open on May 1! To learn more about the ACHIEVE Training Program and application process, plea...
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March 28, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Medical doctors (MDs), post-doctoral (PhD) trainees, & other post-professional degree graduates from Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, & Uganda! Applications for the Fogarty Global Health Fellowship - ACHIEVE Global Research Training Program are opening soon! sites.wustl.edu/achieve/
Oh sad, sad news! And somehow extra heartbreaking to lose him at such a dark period for #VOA. #Uganda #StraightTalkAfrica
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Veteran journalist Shaka Ssali is dead
A native of Kabale in Uganda, Ssali's career was marked by a passion for truth, accountability, and empowering Africa's youth
www.monitor.co.ug
March 28, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Oh sad, sad news! And somehow extra heartbreaking to lose him at such a dark period for #VOA. #Uganda #StraightTalkAfrica
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New WHO #MentalHealth guidance provides all countries with practical tools to strengthen policies & services.
It tackles social factors that affect mental health like poverty & housing, ensures people with lived experience have a voice, & promotes rights-based care.
Learn more: bit.ly/4lgVjjk
It tackles social factors that affect mental health like poverty & housing, ensures people with lived experience have a voice, & promotes rights-based care.
Learn more: bit.ly/4lgVjjk
March 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
New WHO #MentalHealth guidance provides all countries with practical tools to strengthen policies & services.
It tackles social factors that affect mental health like poverty & housing, ensures people with lived experience have a voice, & promotes rights-based care.
Learn more: bit.ly/4lgVjjk
It tackles social factors that affect mental health like poverty & housing, ensures people with lived experience have a voice, & promotes rights-based care.
Learn more: bit.ly/4lgVjjk
March 25, 2025 at 5:43 AM
😳 Non-American residents: Do not exit the U.S.? I cannot imagine this is only pertinent to Brown University staff ...
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March 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
😳 Non-American residents: Do not exit the U.S.? I cannot imagine this is only pertinent to Brown University staff ...
www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
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"#Cats have been so understudied ... They’re going to remain a black box unless something changes on the research side.” 🐾🥰
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/s...
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Why Are Cats Such a Medical Black Box?
Many aspects of feline health remain a mystery, even to experts. Our cat-owning reporter learned this the hard way.
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March 13, 2025 at 6:54 AM
"#Cats have been so understudied ... They’re going to remain a black box unless something changes on the research side.” 🐾🥰
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/s...
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Still not (yet) unfunded - check out my study on "Maternal Mental Health and Early Child Development in Kawempe", #Uganda #MMH4ECD
Mental health is the leading cause of preventable perinatal maternal mortality, according to a new #ScienceAdvances Focus.
Studying perinatal intrusions can shed light on determinants of maternal mental health. #WomensHealth scim.ag/41Y5uS6
Studying perinatal intrusions can shed light on determinants of maternal mental health. #WomensHealth scim.ag/41Y5uS6
Perinatal intrusions: A window into perinatal anxiety disorders
Mental health is the leading cause of preventable perinatal maternal mortality. Studying perinatal intrusions can shed light on determinants of maternal mental health.
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March 12, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Why is #WTA #IndianWells not on TV? Only the men ... 🙄
March 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Why is #WTA #IndianWells not on TV? Only the men ... 🙄
A little bit of good news for #nutrition in an otherwise dark horizon: New SDG indicator on Minimum Dietary Diversity adopted by UN Statistical Commission www.fao.org/newsroom/det...
New SDG indicator on Minimum Dietary Diversity adopted by UN Statistical Commission
FAO assumes joint custodianship of indicator seen as key to ending malnutrition
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March 11, 2025 at 9:50 AM
A little bit of good news for #nutrition in an otherwise dark horizon: New SDG indicator on Minimum Dietary Diversity adopted by UN Statistical Commission www.fao.org/newsroom/det...
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Breaking news: NASA announced today it will eliminate its Office of the Chief Scientist, along with offices advising the agency on technology, strategy, and coordinating its diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility efforts. scim.ag/3Ft8Xza
NASA to eliminate chief scientist position
Long-running advisory role cut along with two dozen others in agencywide reduction
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March 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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WHO shares more details about Uganda’s second Ebola Sudan cluster
Suspected cases, one of them a woman who became ill while pregnant, have links to the western part of Uganda.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/e...
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Suspected cases, one of them a woman who became ill while pregnant, have links to the western part of Uganda.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/e...
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March 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
WHO shares more details about Uganda’s second Ebola Sudan cluster
Suspected cases, one of them a woman who became ill while pregnant, have links to the western part of Uganda.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/e...
Photo: NIAID/Flickr cc
Suspected cases, one of them a woman who became ill while pregnant, have links to the western part of Uganda.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/e...
Photo: NIAID/Flickr cc
“It’s actually in the interest of American people to keep diseases down,”
How Trump's Foreign Aid Cuts Are Setting the Stage for Disease Outbreaks
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How Foreign Aid Cuts Are Setting the Stage for Disease Outbreaks (Gift Article)
Organizations funded by the United States helped keep dangerous pathogens in check around the world. Now many safeguards are gone, and Americans may pay the price.
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March 9, 2025 at 7:57 AM
“It’s actually in the interest of American people to keep diseases down,”
"We apologize for any disruption that this may have caused."
Programs supporting local health departments and public health labs never should have been cut in the first place, but it’s nice to see the administration has recognized their value and restored them.
'Read this e-mail immediately': CDC tells about 180 fired employees to come back to work
They were dismissed as part of President Donald Trump’s and billionaire Elon Musk’s cost-cutting purge
apnews.com
March 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
"We apologize for any disruption that this may have caused."
Treatment for measles is unspecific & only supportive. While there is evidence that vitamin A could reduce pneumonia & mortality in children w measles, this evidence comes from regions w high rates of malnourishment. Alternative treatments (herbal medicine, homeopathy, etc) are not evidence-based.
March 7, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Treatment for measles is unspecific & only supportive. While there is evidence that vitamin A could reduce pneumonia & mortality in children w measles, this evidence comes from regions w high rates of malnourishment. Alternative treatments (herbal medicine, homeopathy, etc) are not evidence-based.
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The Times obtained a recording of a meeting of U.S. health and security experts and Embassy staff, who described how the Trump aid freeze means that there is limited disease surveillance or contact tracing in Uganda's growing Ebola outbreak.
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As Ebola Spreads in Uganda, Trump Aid Freeze Hinders Effort to Contain It, U.S. Officials Fear (Gift Article)
Two more people are reported dead from the disease, and dozens are in isolation, as the outbreak grows.
www.nytimes.com
March 7, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The Times obtained a recording of a meeting of U.S. health and security experts and Embassy staff, who described how the Trump aid freeze means that there is limited disease surveillance or contact tracing in Uganda's growing Ebola outbreak.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/h...
Hey hey! Some actual information about the not-over #Ebola outbreak in #Kampala #Uganda. 🙄 Thank you, #AfricaCDC.
March 7, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Hey hey! Some actual information about the not-over #Ebola outbreak in #Kampala #Uganda. 🙄 Thank you, #AfricaCDC.
Science. It works ... bitches.
March 7, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Science. It works ... bitches.
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Calling Africa's upcoming researchers: #IamAPHRC's 2025 Research Internship program is now open.
Apply by March 21, 2025 for an opportunity to gain hands-on experience in population and health research starting April.
#APHRCResearch #WeAreAfrica
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Apply by March 21, 2025 for an opportunity to gain hands-on experience in population and health research starting April.
#APHRCResearch #WeAreAfrica
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2025 RESEARCH INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES - APHRC
The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is a premier research-to-policy institution, generating evidence, strengthening research and related capacity [...]Read More...
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March 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Calling Africa's upcoming researchers: #IamAPHRC's 2025 Research Internship program is now open.
Apply by March 21, 2025 for an opportunity to gain hands-on experience in population and health research starting April.
#APHRCResearch #WeAreAfrica
aphrc.org/career/2025-...
Apply by March 21, 2025 for an opportunity to gain hands-on experience in population and health research starting April.
#APHRCResearch #WeAreAfrica
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Breaking News: The Supreme Court rejected President Trump’s bid to freeze foreign aid payments, which were seen as a prime target for his plan to cut spending.
Follow live updates.
Follow live updates.
Trump Live Updates: Supreme Court Denies Bid to Freeze Nearly $2 Billion in Foreign Aid
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March 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Breaking News: The Supreme Court rejected President Trump’s bid to freeze foreign aid payments, which were seen as a prime target for his plan to cut spending.
Follow live updates.
Follow live updates.
$100 donation to the first news outlet that launches a special "Trump"-free version of their daily podcast. @therestpolitics.bsky.social @npr.org @nytimes.com @aljazeera.com
March 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
$100 donation to the first news outlet that launches a special "Trump"-free version of their daily podcast. @therestpolitics.bsky.social @npr.org @nytimes.com @aljazeera.com
#Uganda is the 6th most vulnerable country to aid cuts.
26 Countries Are Most Vulnerable to US Global Health Aid Cuts. Can Other Funders Bridge the Gap? www.cgdev.org/blog/26-coun...
March 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
#Uganda is the 6th most vulnerable country to aid cuts.
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The World Food Programme — which relied on the US for nearly half its budget — will close its southern Africa office after Washington slashed foreign aid.
World Food Programme closes southern Africa office after US aid cuts
The decision comes amid widespread drought throughout the region, as well as an increasingly fraught war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
www.semafor.com
March 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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