📢I sat down with Dr Shubs Upadhyay from the brilliant Global Perspectives on Digital Health podcast 🌐
We talked #evaluation of #digital #health interventions in low resource settings, programme theory and equitable and decolonial approaches 👇🏽

www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-shu...

📢Our mother-child bonding paper is out in @plosone.org!

In 2020 we developed a new tool to measure bonding, assessed its underlying constructs with structural equations and regression, showing bonding is affected by mode of birth and maternal depression.

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

We co-developed a training initiative in quasi-experimental designs with LSHTM Centre for Evaluation and the Youth Endowment Fund 📉👇
Includes some great colleagues (most not on Bluesky)

www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

We independently analysed data for the Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé, Nanoro and Oxford University on their new #malaria vaccine candidate RH5.1!

⬆️Up to 91% efficacy against very high parasitaemia

More results to follow...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🎉New Grant Alert: Excited to start a new body of research with #BenWeobong on impacts of climate change 🌦️ on mental health in children, adolescents and women.
Even more so to meet fellow awardees in our first @medresfdn.bsky.social Equitable Partnerships week in Ghana.

We need for better quality, translational trials of #AI interventions in healthcare - that incorporate proper implementation science.

Excited to join the steering committee of the new CANAIRI initiative led by @MMccradden and @DrXiaoLiu
@naturemedicine.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The annual @JohnSnowSociety Pumphandle Lecture is always a fantastic event, this year given by the former @WHO Chief Scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan @doctorsoumya

My role, to introduce Dr Soumya in the ceremonial removal of the handle of a replica water pump was worth all the dress rehearsals.