The Global Health Network is a platform to enable research by sharing knowledge and methods. Here you can find member areas, each a specific research community of practice, who use this space to work, disseminate and engage. There is also a vast array of resources to guide, train and support researchers in the design, planning and operation of their studies and in developing their research capacity.
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Hi everyone, this new group is a place for new members to introduce themselves in the community. Please post to introduce yourself and let others ...
A free workshop will be held on July 18th in Abuja, aimed at research nurses who are working in sexual and reproductive health. The workshop ...
HAS BEEN CREATED FOR OPEN LEARNING MODULES AND DISCUSSIONS
Bienvenidos a REDE. Esperamos poder trabajar juntos en crear una red integrada que unira a la comunidad cientifica y ayudara a mejorar las capacidades para ...
This course aims to give researchers and members of ethics committees confidence in thinking through the challenges of carrying out research with children and young people. The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has explored these issues through an expert Working Party, supported by a stakeholder group involving young people and parents.
The worldwide prison health research & engagement network (WEPHREN) has created an open group for promoting discussion regarding best practices for HCV management in correctional settings. These include but are not limited to effective HCV screening strategies, facilitators and barriers ... Read more
ZikaPLAN, ZikAlliance and ZikAction, the three EU funded consortia working on the development of a preparedness platform in Latin America and the Caribbean, published the latest cross consortia newsletter with updates on activities, publications and meetings. Read more
From WHO: Poor quality health services are holding back progress on improving health in countries at all income levels, according to a new joint report by the OECD, World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank. Read more
A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, has shown an alternative drug – heat-stable carbetocin – to be as safe and effective as oxytocin in preventing postpartum haemorrhage. This new formulation of carbetocin does not require ... Read more
Catch up and watch the webinar replay here. Speakers include: Kevin Marsh, Senior Advisor African Academy of Sciences and Professor of Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, UK Trudie Lang, Director of The Global Health Network and Professor of Global Health ... Read more
On 18 June 2018, 18 years after the launch of ICD-10, WHO released a version of ICD-11 to allow Member States time to plan implementation. This is anticipating the presentation of ICD-11 to the World Health Assembly in 2019 for ... Read more
The UK government has announced that it will be committing over £30 million of funding to the global fight against antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Read more
From WHO: In the past week, the teams have vaccinated more than 420 eligible people in rings around the four cases of Ebola which have been confirmed in Mbandaka. In addition, the vaccine has been offered to health care workers ... Read more
This free guide from the UK Trial Managers' Network (UK TMN) contains detailed, pragmatic information written by trial managers, for trial managers. Read more
Mesh had the pleasure of interviewing Dr Heidi Larson (Anthropologist and Senior Lecturer at LSHTM) who gave us her insights into public trust in vaccines and the role of engagement in tackling vaccine hesitancy in low- and middle- income countries, ... Read more
Awards & Funding Opportunities: ASTMH Annual Meeting 2018 ASTMH members and non-members alike are eligible to apply, whether they're a qualified student, early career investigator or scientist actively working in the tropical medicine field. The Society especially encourages non-U.S. citizens ... Read more
The Global Health Network and REDe hosted a live training webinar in November 2017 on data quality management using the ZIKAlliance 'Pregnant Women Cohort Study' as a working example. Collaborators include REDe (Research Capacity Network), ZIKAction, ZIKAlliance and ZikaPLAN. Read more
The PHE Health and Justice Annual Review is a recurring publication that captures a broad range of activity led by PHE’s National Health and Justice team across all domains ...
Abstract Injuries are a global public health concern, because most are preventable, yet they continue to be a major cause of death and disability, especially among children, adolescents, and young ...
This report (downloadable on the right hand side of the screen, along with pictures of the event) details the workshop held on 7th July 2018 at the Nigerian Airforce Conference ...
Amy Robinson, Helen Sweeting, Kate Hunt, Tobacco control, 2018 Prisoner smoking rates remain high, resulting in secondhand smoke exposures for prison staff and non-smoker prisoners. Several jurisdictions have introduced prison ...
The University of Liverpool has secured £2 million from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to improve the management of devastating brain infections in low and middle income countries ...
The aim of this study was to determine whether an intervention designed to involve the male partners of pregnant women in Burkina Faso in facility-based maternity care influences care-seeking and ...
This large trial compared a novel formulation of heat-stable carbetocin with oxytocin. The study enrolled women across 23 sites in 10 countries in a randomized, double-blind, noninferiority trial comparing intramuscular ...
Pettersson et al provide a short commentary on their research article Re-visiting the evolution, dispersal and epidemiology of Zika virus in Asia published in Emerging Microbes & Infections in May ...
