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Claire-Lise Kessler
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Communications & Information Officer for the Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Oxford University. Sings in local choir, mountain climber, sustainable travel
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📢New paper alert!
Rapid, low-cost tests repurposed by researchers can now detect deadly contaminants in medicinal syrups that could help prevent the tragic child deaths seen worldwide
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Rapid, low-cost tests to help prevent child deaths from contaminated medicinal syrups | Infectious Diseases Data Observatory
Professor Paul Newton, who heads the Medicine Quality Research group, is the project lead for large collaboration that has demonstrated that simple, rapid, and inexpensive tests can detect deadly…
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December 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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VACANCY

We’re hiring a Research Culture Facilitator to help shape a research environment that’s supportive, inclusive and equitable.

#ResearchCulture #Equity #Inclusion #AcademicExcellence

📅Apply by 22 December

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December 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Speaker Spotlight: Tashi Lhazom

She will speak on solidarity in the context of climate disasters, exploring how communities, governments, and international bodies understand and act differently in moments of crisis.

Register:
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#globalhealth #nepal
December 5, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Calling all researchers working in #InfectiousDiseases #EmergingInfections or #NTDs? You can use our free tools, resources to support your work www.iddo.org/tools-and-re...
#BeatNTDs
December 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Have you viewed our open-access #malaria tools recently? Use them to visualise molecular markers of resistance by location and year www.iddo.org/wwarn/tracki...
December 5, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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🎉 Big news! Our website just got a makeover - cleaner navigation, fresh layout and a brand-new blog section.
Take a look and tell us what you think! 👀✨
👉 www.iddo.org
December 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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NEWS: ‘Creeping catastrophe’: Climate change is driving global rise in infectious diseases, leading health experts warn

The @ndm.ox.ac.uk study confirmed the three main drivers are climate change, socioeconomic inequality, and antimicrobial resistance.
‘Creeping catastrophe’: Climate change is driving global rise in infectious diseases, leading health experts warn
Infectious diseases such as malaria, dengue, and tuberculosis are considered to pose as great a challenge to global health as new or emerging pathogens, according to a major international study led by The Global Health Network at Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Medicine and commissioned by Wellcome.
www.medsci.ox.ac.uk
December 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Speaker Spotlight: Prof. Sundararaman Thiagarajan

He is one of South Asia’s most influential voices in health systems strengthening, public health policy, and people’s health movements.

Register:
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#Global #Solidarity #GlobalHealth #Bioethics #SouthAsia #India #Nepal
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: A Pluriverse of Solidarities: Solidarity at the Margins, in Institutions, and in Sacred Spaces. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email abo...
This webinar builds directly on insights from the South Asia Regional Global Health Solidarity Workshop held in New Delhi, where experts, youth leaders, grassroots activists, researchers, funders, an...
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December 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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📢 📢 New paper alert!

Read new paper on developing a #VL data reuse platform and research agenda and how they can play a vital role furthering knowledge and optimal treatments for #VisceralLeishmaniasis
#BeatNTDs
www.iddo.org/news/data-pl...
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December 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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🎥 Watch Dawit Getachew Assefa #DillaUniversity #Ethiopia talk about how his year with IDDO/WWARN - through the @who.int #TDRnews Postgraduate Research Fellowship - how it has positively impacted his career, his institution and his students.

👉https://bit.ly/49ZZU6l
Dawit Getachew Assefa’s Fellowship reflections | Infectious Diseases Data Observatory
Dawit Getachew Assefa, based at Dilla University, Ethiopia, joined IDDO in 2024 for a 12-month placement as part of the WHO/TDR Postgraduate Research Fellowship.  He worked on projects across…
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December 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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The Nairobi City County Health Policy, Planning and Financing Directorate team visited @kemriwellcome.bsky.social in Kilifi and met with Executive Director, Prof. @edwinebarasa.bsky.social to discuss research collaborations in national health financing reforms and primary healthcare financing.
December 3, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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📝 Read blog by Dr Nathalie Beloum, one of our new WHO/TDR Fellows!
She shares insights into the application process, her upcoming projects, first impressions and hopes for the placement.
@who.int #TDRnews

👉 Read her story www.iddo.org/news/introdu...
December 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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🎥 Watch Dawit Getachew Assefa, of Dilla University, Ethiopia, share his experience about his 12-months with IDDO!
@who.int #TDRnews
👉https://www.iddo.org/news/dawit-getachew-assefas-fellowship-reflections
December 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Low-cost, rapid tests like alcohol test strips & breathalysers can detect toxic contaminants in medicinal syrups
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With over 300 child deaths worldwide linked to syrup contamination, these simple tools could save lives.

Read more 👉 www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/news/rapid-l...
December 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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#ResearchHighlight from James Njunge and Jay Berkley @kemriwellcome.bsky.social

Inflammation impairs post-hospital discharge growth among children hospitalised with acute illness in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia

Read more 👉 www.ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi
Paper 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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🎉 Big news! Our website just got a makeover - cleaner navigation, fresh layout and a brand-new blog section.
Take a look and tell us what you think! 👀✨
👉 www.iddo.org
December 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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#ResearchHighlight from Lynne Elson @kemriwellcome.bsky.social

Guidelines for the treatment of #tungiasis

This neglected tropical skin disease lacked evidence-based treatment until the recently PAHO/WHO guidelines

Read more 👉 www.ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi
Publication 👉 www.paho.org/en/documents...
December 3, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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The Global Health Network Latin America and the Caribbean invite you to join the upcoming webinar on: Building Capacity and Collaboration in Health Research: Lessons from Pathfinder Studies in Latin America and the Caribbean

Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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🚨Hypertension is a silent emergency in rural coastal Kenya.
📚Our research identifies low awareness, late screening, drug shortages & high costs as barriers to hypertension care, underscoring an urgent need for patient-centered care & enhanced health system capacity.
Read more 👉: shorturl.at/H0HSp
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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The #OxfordGlobalHealth Summit brought colleagues together from across the University to shape a bold, collaborative vision for global health in a period of turbulence

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#HealthEquity
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November 26, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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“When hope, kindness, and forgiveness are built into our solidarity institutions during times of conflict, we can bring people together.”

🎥 Watch Mr. Dennis Lallienzuol from the South Asian Workshop here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4wl...

#Solidarity #SouthAsia #Mizoram #GlobalHealth #GHSP
Solidarity in Displacement: Dennis Lallienzuol on Hope, Kindness & Community Strength | GHSP
YouTube video by Solidarity in Global Health Project
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November 26, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Track news reports of #SubstandardMedicines and #FalsifiedMedicine in your country. View our Medicine Quality Monitoring Globe, which filters by key words, time-periods, locations, and language. #medswecantrust
@tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk @moru-mip.bsky.social
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Medicine Quality Monitoring Globe | Infectious Diseases Data Observatory
Substandard and falsified medical products, including medicines, vaccines, diagnostic tests and devices are critical global public health issues. Discover a new interactive, online tool mapping…
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November 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Researching #malaria in pregnancy? Check out the malaria in pregnancy library, an ¬online resource to search published and unpublished literature www.iddo.org/wwarn/malari...
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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🧪 Ever wondered how safe COVID-19 vaccines really are?
📚 New research shows that the COVID-19 vaccine remains safe, with mild, short-term reactions and no increase in pregnancy risks, highlighting the importance of active vaccine safety monitoring.
Read more here 👉: shorturl.at/xmYwO
November 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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“A Pluriverse of Solidarities: Solidarity at the Margins, in Institutions, and in Sacred Spaces”

Join us for the 6th and final Bi-Monthly Webinar of 2025!

👉 Register here:
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#Global #Health #Solidarity #GlobalHealth #Bioethics #SouthAsia #India #Nepal
November 24, 2025 at 11:50 AM