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GHN_Editors

Results Based Monitoring and Evaluation, Application of the Theory of Change & Contribution assessment

By GHN_Editors

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humairaerfanahmed

Africa-Oxford Travel Grant Form

By humairaerfanahmed

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Systematic review of community engagement approach in research: describing partnership approaches, challenges and benefits

by Getachew Redeae Taffere, Haftom Temesgen Abebe, Zenawi Zerihun, Christian Mallen, Helen P. Price, Afework Mulugeta

A systematic review of community engagement with health research.

16th July 2024 • comment

A consensus-based approach to identify research priorities for clinical trials and research in musculoskeletal trauma care across sub-Saharan Africa.

22nd February 2023 • comment

Practical considerations for a TB controlled human infection model; the case for TB-CHIM in Africa, a systematic review of the literature and report of 2 workshop discussions in UK and Malawi

by Stephen B. Gordon, Simon Sichone, Anthony E. Chirwa, Phoebe Hazenberg, Zacharia Kafuko, Daniela M. Ferreira, Joanne Flynn, Sarah Fortune, Shobana Balasingam, Giancarlo A. Biagini, Helen McShane, Henry Mwandumba, Kondwani Jambo, Keertan Dedha, Nimisha Raj Sharma, Brian D. Roberston, Naomi Walker, Ben Morton
10th February 2023 • comment
25th October 2021 • comment

These results suggest that populations carrying the same kdr mutations may respond differently to the same insecticide, stressing the need for complementary studies when assessing the impact of kdr resistance mechanisms in the outcome of insecticide-based control strategies.

8th May 2020 • comment

Orthopaedic Research Unit, UCT

by Professor Michael Held and Dr Maritz Laubscher

An introduction to the Orthopaedic Research Unit at University of Cape Town.

15th April 2020 • comment

Orthopaedic Research Unit at University of Cape Town

by Dr Maritz Laubscher and Dr Michael Held

An introduction to the Orthopaedic Research Unit at University of Cape Town.

15th April 2020 • comment

Findings from this article explain why explosive ZIKV epidemics occurred in DENV-endemic regions of Micronesia, Polynesia and the Americas where Culex-borne flavivirus outbreaks are infrequent, and why ZIKV did not cause major epidemics in Asia where Culex-borne flaviviruses are widespread.

1st February 2020 • comment

The authors of this study performed a phylogeographic and population genetics study of A. aegypti in Cape Verde in order to infer the geographic origin and evolutionary history of this mosquito.

20th June 2019 • comment

The authors of this study review the mosquito and vertebrate host species potentially involved in ZIKV vector-borne transmission worldwide; provide an evidence-supported analysis regarding the possibility of ZIKV spillback from an urban cycle to a zoonotic cycle outside Africa; and review hypotheses regarding recent emergence and evolution of ZIKV.

18th March 2019 • comment
17th July 2018 • comment

Art is a powerful medium for communication and engagement with science. To create a collaborative project that melds art with research creative practitioners and scientists must be brought together, but these individuals may think differently, have different priorities and work in different ways. This account of Genome Adventures, gives a little insight into the process of bringing different disciplines together and the challanges and benefits that result. 

16th September 2016 • comment

In 2013, Art in Global Health set up artist residencies in six Wellcome Trust-funded research centres as a way of teasing out some of the more personal, philosophical, cultural and political dimensions of health research. This exciting project was born out of Wellcome Collection's desire to engage the curious public globally with the health research that the Trust funds - in Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Thailand, Vietnam and the UK. 

26th August 2016 • comment

An online Research Communication Guide produced as part of a series of Development Research Uptake in Sub-Saharan Africa (DRUSSA) learning materials.

16th August 2016 • comment

A blog post addressing the issue of mental illness amongst people living with HIV and the presentation of the community engagement project Project Khuluma which will be presented at the 21st annual International AIDS conference.

21st July 2016 • comment

In East, Central and Southern Africa accurate data on the current surgeon workforce have previously been limited. The surgical workforce in each of the ten member countries of the College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa (COSECSA) was determined by gathering and crosschecking data from multiple sources including COSECSA records, medical council registers, local surgical societies records, event attendance lists and interviews of Members and Fellows of COSECSA, and validating this by direct contact with the surgeons identified. 

17th June 2016 • comment

In 2009, the Global Health Delivery Project collaborated with UpToDate to provide free subscriptions to qualifying health workers in resource-limited settings. 

17th June 2016 • comment

Migration, health and wellbeing in Southern Africa: Co-produced exhibition captures experiences of LGBTIQ migrants and asylum seekers in Johannesburg and migrant men, women and transgender persons who sell sex in South Africa

9th May 2016 • comment

In this article you can access and download the really interesting and useful Power Point presentations from the Global Health Laboratories panel seminar with regional experts held at the ASLM2014 last November.

15th December 2014 • comment