Environmental Health Group (EHG), LSHTM

Congratulations on a well deserved promotion @jackieknee.bsky.social!

Meet Lara @laramoussa.bsky.social, a new EHG PhD student! Her work focuses on the links between climate change and acute malnutrition in the Sahel region. She aims to support and empower women in Senegal to mitigate the impacts of climate change on caregiving capacity and nutrition provision.

The Incubation Periods of Mpox Virus Clade Ib | Annals of Internal Medicine Background: Mpox virus (MPXV) clade Ib, first detected in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in September 2023, spread internationally within months, prompting an emergency declaration from th...

Our paper on the incubation periods of mpox clade Ib is out, with Javier-Perez Saez, @andrewazman.bsky.social @justinlessler.bsky.social Elizabeth Lee, @jackieknee.bsky.social @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social
www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

🦆🌾🐌 Ducks In Rice

Presenting the first year of my PhD research with @laurabraun.bsky.social in Cardiff.

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💡Takeaway: both design and price matter! Manufacturers should continue to iterate on HWF designs with emphasis on reducing costs.

🙌 Thanks to co-authors Katayi Mwila-Kazimbaya, Mwamba Mwenge, Elisabeth Tadiri, Jenala Chipungu, @rdreibe.bsky.social

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🚰 Our paper is out in PLOS Water!

“Understanding end-user preferences for hand hygiene enabling technologies: A mixed-methods study in peri-urban Lusaka, Zambia”

📄 Read here:
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Results 👇

This work was a collaborative work with @oficialfiocruz.bsky.social and the Institute of Collective Health at the Federal University of Bahia (Brazil)

New paper out in @plosglobalpublichealth.org from EHG PhD student @elliedelight.bsky.social exploring how gender, perceptions of disease severity, and behaviours shape zoonotic spillover risk in urban Brazil.

See below! 👇

Gender differences in Leptospira exposure risk, perceptions of disease severity, and high-risk behaviours in Salvador, Brazil: A cross-sectional study Vulnerability to climate hazards and infectious diseases is not gender-neutral, meaning that men, women, and other gender identities experience different risks. Leptospirosis is a zoonotic climate-sen...

Excited to share our new research exploring gender and environmental health in four flood-prone communities in Salvador, Brazil. The study examines exposure pathways to leptospirosis through perceptions of disease and high-risk behaviours, using a sex-disaggregated and causally informed approach.

Pools are a great way to cool off and get exercise.

While the benefits often outweigh the risks, pools have been linked to outbreaks of GI illness. Crypto is a common culprit given how long it can hang out in chlorinated water. Read more below!

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The Centre on Climate Change & Planetary Health welcomes a new Steering The Centre on Climate Change & Planetary Health welcomes a new Steering Committee | LSHTM

Shaping climate & planetary health: EHG member @laurabraun.bsky.social joins the new CCCPH steering committee! www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

Great morning spent with CONDER officials and collaborators at UFBA’s Institute of Collective Health, reviewing progress on the intervention we're evaluating for our project: ‘Simplified sewerage to interrupt multiple transmission pathways of environmental and zoonotic diseases in urban communities’

Excellent presentation today by @elliedelight.bsky.social to researchers at the Institute of Collective Health (Federal University of Bahia, Brazil) on her PhD studying vulnerability to environmentally persistent zoonoses ('ZAPs' in Portuguese!) during flooding events.

Gaps and opportunities for data systems and economics to support priority setting for climate-sensitive infectious diseases in sub-Saharan Africa: A rapid scoping review Climate change alters risks associated with climate-sensitive infectious diseases (CSIDs) with pandemic potential. This poses additional threats to already vulnerable populations, further amplified by...

Excited to share our research! The study explores how data systems and economics can improve pandemic preparedness for climate-sensitive infectious diseases. Our review revealed gaps related to data interoperability and gender considerations, posing challenges to effective and equitable responses.

This work was a collaboration with African Population & Health Research Center, International Livestock Research Institute and Nagasaki University

🚨 New EHG publication! 🚽

Manual pit latrine emptying is vital but costly

EHG’s Hiroaki Tomoi, @laurabraun.bsky.social & Oliver Cumming worked with collaborators to identify barriers & enablers to applying a group-based service model to manual emptying

🔍 Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...

In this week's EHG seminar, Prof. Cleber Cremonese (UFBA) presented on an ongoing collaboration with EHG.

The project evaluates how condominial sewerage reduces transmission of zoonoses (e.g. leptospirosis) and arboviruses in marginalised communities in Salvador, Northeast Brazil.

New scoping review out now on water, sanitation and hygiene in schools by @sarahbick.bsky.social et al!

Check out a great explainer of key findings in Sarah's thread below.

WASH and learn: a scoping review of health, education and gender equity outcomes of school-based water, sanitation and hygiene in low-income and middle-income countries School-age children in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) face health and educational challenges due to inadequate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in schools (WinS). Evidence for the ...

👋 Hi Bluesky! Our scoping review of water, sanitation and hygiene in schools is now published in BMJ Global Health

Read on if you’re interested in
🧼 #WASH
🤸‍♀️ #AdolescentHealth
🔍 #EvidenceSynthesis
🎨 #dataviz ??

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Great to see this Nature Water editorial highlighting the role of water management and nature-based solutions in malaria control, featuring insights from @laurabraun.bsky.social and Jo Lines!

Don't miss @rdreibe.bsky.social's inaugural lecture today! Congrats, Prof!

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Everybody poo(p)s: Water, sanitation, and hygiene in global health research with Safe water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services are basic human needs and critical for health, but billions of people lack access to safely managed services. Everybody poo(p)s, but the health and

TODAY at 5:15pm: EHG’s very own Professor Robert Dreibelbis (@rdreibe.bsky.social) will deliver his inaugural lecture: “Everybody Poo(p)s: Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene in Global Health Research.”

You can join in person or online, more details here:
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

See you there!

🎙️ Check out our interview with @pmasselot.bsky.social and @maxeyre.bsky.social who discuss their recent seminar series focusing on causal inference in environmental epidemiology

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Interested in learning more about EHG's work setting up the COVID-19 Hygiene hub with other collaborating networks? Check out www.hygienehub.info/en/covid-19

Bringing the #sketchnotes to Blue Sky! Today’s case studies at the LSHTM Dept of Disease Control retreat. @lshtm.bsky.social @lshtm-ehg.bsky.social @lshtm-malaria.bsky.social

And more sketches from the DCD retreat, this time representing high-impact research case studies from across the department.

Good morning from the DCD retreat @lshtm.bsky.social @lshtm-ehg.bsky.social @jackieknee.bsky.social @lshtm-malaria.bsky.social @maxeyre.bsky.social @laurabraun.bsky.social @rdreibe.bsky.social @mrcunitgambia.bsky.social

Amazing live sketching of our Department of Disease Control (DCD) retreat from EHG PhD student @ninafinley.bsky.social from yesterday - providing a visual overview of the groups that make up DCD!

Following in the steps of Dr Snow... EHG out and about collecting and testing Thames water samples with this year's brilliant WASH & Health students @lshtm.bsky.social