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Carla Rodrigues
@carla-rodrigues.bsky.social
Social scientist & Mom of twins 🤹🏻‍♀️
Researcher @UvA.nl
Honorary Research Associate @BristolUni

Studying Risk/Uncertainty/Trust • Medicines/Supplement use • Self-care • Antimicrobial Resistance • Microbiome

Coming from X: @carla_f_rod
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Really happy to see this paper out! 🥳

It was such a pleasure to work with Matthew McKenna, Nicola Gale, Patrick Brown and Hanna Bradby on this.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#amr #antimicrobialstewardship @aissr.bsky.social
Tackling wicked problems through street-level diplomacy: the case of antimicrobial stewardship in Northern Europe
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) can be considered a wicked problem because the phenomenon is characterised by multiple, interdependent factors, functio…
www.sciencedirect.com
Back from a short but intense and very productive fieldwork visit to the Greater Accra Region to study #healthcare practices, #antibiotic use, and participation in health research and #vaccinetrial studies. Lucky to work with such a dedicated and wonderful team!!
December 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Really happy to see this paper out! 🥳

It was such a pleasure to work with Matthew McKenna, Nicola Gale, Patrick Brown and Hanna Bradby on this.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#amr #antimicrobialstewardship @aissr.bsky.social
Tackling wicked problems through street-level diplomacy: the case of antimicrobial stewardship in Northern Europe
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) can be considered a wicked problem because the phenomenon is characterised by multiple, interdependent factors, functio…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Reposted by Carla Rodrigues
Paracetamol remains an important option to treat pain or fever in pregnant women.

Following rigorous assessment of the available scientific data, we find no evidence that taking paracetamol during pregnancy causes autism in children.

Read more 👉 www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/use-...
Use of paracetamol during pregnancy unchanged in the EU | European Medicines Agency (EMA)
Paracetamol medicines can be used in pregnancy, in accordance with official recommendations
www.ema.europa.eu
September 23, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Reposted by Carla Rodrigues
We @healthsciences.mcgill.ca are looking for an Assistant Professor (teaching, non tenure track), to help manage the Nkabom Nutrition and Sustainable Agri-Food Collaborative, a collaboration with several universities in Ghana

mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/mcgill...
May 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Reposted by Carla Rodrigues
#Jobalert! We're looking for new colleagues! ⏰

Like two PhD candidates for the ‘Political Masculinities in Europe’ research project, supervised by @lizamugge.bsky.social

Check them all 👇

➡️ English vacancies: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

➡️ Dutch vacancies: werkenbij.uva.nl/vacatures?o=...
March 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Microbiome Research | Interdisciplinary Funding Opportunity 📢

The University of Amsterdam (UvA) RPA ‘Personal Microbiome Health’ is organising a matchmaking event to connect researchers from different UvA faculties.

Join us on 17 March at Amsterdam UMC.
February 12, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Reposted by Carla Rodrigues
Want to help improve sexual & reproductive health outcomes in LMICs?🌍

This online programme will give you skills to design, implement & evaluate evidence-based #SexualHealth programmes.

50 scholarships available for students from sub-Saharan Africa.

www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/course...
January 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
It just keeps getting worse...

"(...) even if the drugs have already been obtained and are sitting in local clinics. ... Appointments are being canceled, and patients are being turned away from clinics... Many people with H.I.V. are facing abrupt interruptions to their treatment."
Trump Administration Halts H.I.V. Drug Distribution in Poor Countries
PEPFAR’s computer systems also are being taken offline, a sign that the program may not return, as Republican critics had hoped.
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM