‼️Register now‼️Climate Conference 🌍
Climate Change, Environmental Hazards & Population Dynamics
🗺️ Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)
📆Nov 11–12, 2025
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www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
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Climate change’s hidden cost:
Rainfall instability may cause 290 under-five child deaths per 10,000 every year. Stability in rain is vital for children’s survival.
See: Rainfall variability and under-five child mortality in 59 low- and middle-income countries www.nature.com/articles/s44...
📢 Short-term teaching role in Sexual & Reproductive Health !
Join our award-winning MSc @lshtm.bsky.social as a Research Fellow (Education) (maternity cover).
Full-time role until December 2025
Apply: EPH-DPH-2025-08-R – jobs.lshtm.ac.uk
@lshtm-march.bsky.social @chidodc.bsky.social
Why does the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) only include live births? 🤔
In our study using 46 DHS surveys, we explore what happens when stillbirths & pregnancy losses are included.
We suggest an alternative: MMR+
Led by Ursula Gazaley & Hallie Eilerts Spinelli.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
High temperatures worsen pregnancy outcomes like preterm birth—but what can families do to stay safe? Find out in our study on a community-based heat-health intervention in Kilifi, Kenya:
🔗 academic.oup.com/heapol/artic... @lshtm-march.bsky.social
🌟Our STAR South Africa project has created a respectful-care intervention for mothers & babies via improving the culture of organisational learning.
Baseline results👇@lshtm-march.bsky.social
Organisational learning culture in maternity units: A mixed-method stu... sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Some good news—but already outdated in light of recent foreign aid cuts that could severely impact maternal mortality? 🤔The progress in this report is incredibly fragile.
At last, some good news for research in the UK:
www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/uk...
Thank you for telling me @chlobrim.bsky.social !
Impressive: 👏Perinatal mortality ⬇️18%, neonatal mortality ⬇️40%, maternal mortality maybe by ⬇️75% in this well-designed quality improvement study 👏
I like it that it is a stepped-wedge cluster-randomized trial!
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
🎉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.
JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to resume hundreds of millions of dollars in payments for U.S. Agency for International Development projects.
A global map shows the share of mothers aged 20–44 who have lost a child under five years old. The data is categorized into four ranges: less than 1% (light yellow), 1% to 5% (yellow), 5% to 10% (orange), 10% to 30% (dark orange), and more than 30% (red). Higher rates are concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa and parts of South Asia, while lower rates are seen in North America, Europe, and parts of East Asia. Data is sourced from Smith-Greenaway et al. (2021) and reflects single-year estimates between 2010 and 2018.
In some countries, more than one in three mothers have lost a child younger than five
Want to learn the basics of statistical analysis for observational & experimental research?
If you're an epidemiologist, biostatistician, or health researcher, master the essentials on this short course.
Running online, 17 - 19 June 2025.
Apply now👉 bit.ly/3Q2zs0i
Our STAR intervention aims to transform respectful care for women & babies in South Africa (KZN) through learning & participatory action.
📸 from recent workshop
Full article on intervention design : www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🙂Intéressant ; tu as raison : "revue de portée" n’est pas facile à comprendre, et "revue exploratoire" communique sans doute mal la rigueur des scoping reviews?
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing "a lot uncertainty, fear and panic"
Hard to understand this. Could be terrible. But any new director would want scientists to work
www.science.org/cont...
1/3
glad to know the translation of scoping review!
✒️🗓️ Sign up now for our March 3rd 🌍 🩺 @climatehealthcafe.bsky.social pre-conference workshop on climate measurement.
Led by researchers from HIGH Horizons and @lshtm.bsky.social, facilitated by @debrajacksonnole.bsky.social.
➡️ Register: climatehealthcafe.org/conference-w...
#ClimateHealth
Thank you to the study’s authors: Georgios Charvalis, Michalis Koureas, @chlobrim.bsky.social, Chara Bogogiannidou, Fani Kalala, Varvara Mouchtouri, Christos Kadjichristodoulou, and the HIGH Horizons Study Group. 🧵6/6
@1verofilippi.bsky.social @daalenkim.bsky.social
#Gaza war death toll could be significantly higher, researchers say
BBC News reports on new @lshtm.bsky.social study suggesting number of Palestinians who died from traumatic injury underreported by 41%.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Act now to improve bereaved mothers' mental health globally:
1️⃣ Raise awareness of challenges after stillbirths/neonatal deaths
2️⃣ Train healthcare professionals in communication
3️⃣ Campaign to reduce stigma
See our commentary: obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
@lshtm.bsky.social
⚡ OUT NOW ⚡
1️⃣st comprehensive study on health and climate change in small island developing states shows lack of climate action is endangering lives and livelihoods - despite island states spearheading international attention on climate and health
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
RECRUITING: Could you lead our work on health and climate change in Africa?
🌍 Steer the direction of our research in Africa
👥 Build regional representation in upcoming centre
📝 Inform a health-centred climate change response
Find out more: lancetcountdown.org/news/vacancy...
Celebrating Kate Onursal's successful PhD viva on maternal employment, health & wellbeing in Turkey! 🎉
A pleasure to co-supervise with @hannahbargawi.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social
Another success for the Bloomsbury Scholarships for interdisciplinary research! #PhDsuccess @lshtm.bsky.social
Great first meeting of the @nihr.bsky.social Maternity Disparities Consortium. Our Aberdeen and Cardiff collaboration (i6) is led by Prof Mairead Black. And a pleasure to meet you, Veronique!
Looking forward to collaborating with you, Louise!
🌍Despite small steps in the right direction, #COP29 fell short in delivering commitments needed to protect health, according to LSHTM researchers.
Our experts reflect on the outcomes of #COP29, and what they mean for the future of #climate and #health.
#PublicHealth
👉 bit.ly/4gdA0vD
"The presence of a companion, whether spousal or non-spousal, positively influenced birth satisfaction, though it did not significantly affect postpartum postnatal depression scores" www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
