@UnitingStreams

We are the working group for global health (and field) research within the @NVTG. We share #globalhealth news, vacancies, funding, events and more.

 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
unitingstreams.org
Joined May 2019
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NVTG@_NVTG28 Oct 2023
Replying to @HLSColeman @JoyceBrowne @RenzoGuinto @ectmih2023 @JMattijsen
If you and other @UnitingStreams members would like to explore this question during #ECTMIH2023 and map good practices so we can share this post-ECTMIH: count us in! #ActionResearch 🤓
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NVTG@_NVTG13 Feb 2023
LESS THAN A WEEK to submit your organized session for the European Congress on Global Health, #ECTMIH2023 (Feb 19th)! #GlobalHealth #PlanetaryHealth #HealthEquity #HealthSystems #SDG3 #SRHR #NCDs #NTDs #InfectiousDiseases #MentalHealth 🌏🌎🌍 See: ectmih2023.nl/pages/ectmih20…
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Spurred by these tweets and ideas of writing for a different gaze (cc @seyeabimbola), had planned to submit an upcoming article to a global health journal in the global south, at which point realised how few i knew about. so made this... 1/n @emilie_skb xitter.cf/emilie_skb/status/1504…
Émilie KB 🇨🇲🇫🇷@emilie_skb18 Mar 2022
Walking the Talk - “This year, send one of your articles to a Global South journal and let Global North publishers know. If enough people do it, who knows… change needs to start somewhere.” - Breaking The Hierarchies. I want to publish in @PANAFRMEDJ this year!
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NVTG@_NVTG24 Nov 2022
Full house at @_NVTG, @_AIGT and @KCGHealth symposium on #DecolonizingGlobalHealth that just started! Watch this space to follow key highlights. With @MSF, @Tammamo, @themrise, @_HassanF, @UnitingStreams, @Wemo, @JudithvdKamp, @Rvandepas and many people in person and online!
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Recently I sat on a promotion panel as an external observer for which I had to read about 100 applications. Here are my takeaways 🧵: 1/
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Pharma largely failed to follow human rights principles with its Covid-19 vaccines and drugs statnews.com/pharmalot/2022/… via @statnews @edsilverman @StichtingFTV @peoplesvaccine

Pharma largely failed to follow human rights principles with its Covid-19 vaccines and drugs

A new scorecard finds that 19 of 26 pharmaceutical companies that marketed vaccines or therapeutics to contain Covid-19 ranked poorly on compliance with human rights principles.

statnews.com
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Joyce Browne@JoyceBrowne3 May 2022
May = #Preeclampsia Awareness Month! Join us on May 20th in Ho (🇬🇭) & online (🌎🌏🌍) for Action on Preeclampsia Ghana's scientific symposium. Call for abstracts is open until May 10th👇 #preeclampsia #maternalhealth #Ghana #SDG3 #WorldPreeclampsiaDay #abstract #GlobalHealth
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Sitara SR Ajjampur@ajjampur_s1 May 2022
Been asked to review an #NTD paper with 1/8 authors from the LMIC where it is obvious an army of local researchers were involved and have not even been acknowledged - how to #decolonizeglobalhealth during peer review? @paimadhu @iruka_okeke
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NEW on our blog: "Global health institutions of education are currently not fit-for-purpose. Whilst many have publicly committed to addressing inequalities, true transformative justice goes beyond ‘equality, diversity and inclusion’." speakingofmedicine.plos.org/…

What do colonialism, racism and global health education have in common? We wrote a toolkit about it.

Too commonly, the terms ‘decolonial’ and ‘decolonise’ are co-opted by institutions, used as metaphors, buzzwords or paid mere lip service, without a genuine understanding of their meaning, acknowle...

speakingofmedicine.plos.org
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William D. Lopez@lopez_wd28 Mar 2022
No one: Me: 2022 Oscar Outfits as Public Health Graphs
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Joyce Browne@JoyceBrowne25 Mar 2022
#MedEd, #GlobalHealth and #GlobalHealthEd community: does anyone have recommendations for short elearning courses to train medical students studying in other languages to take history and conduct consultations in English during international #internships? @JudithvdKamp
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WEBINAR: Do non-specific effects of vaccines #NSEvac protect against COVID-19? We will be a lot wiser on April 21, where the first results of the randomised trials of BCG, measles vaccine and oral polio vaccine will be presented. Sign up for free here. event.sdu.dk/pre-conference-…
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DGHFF@DGHFilmFestival13 Mar 2022
Another wonderful discussion yesterday, this time on #environmentalhealth and #planetaryhealth 🌱 Did you miss out? You can follow our next film screening on Saturday 19 March!
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DGHFF@DGHFilmFestival14 Mar 2022
Next up this Saturday: African Apocalypse. A young man’s epic journey across Africa in search of a colonial killer. He discovers the unknown story of a French army captain, Paul Voulet, who descended into unspeakable barbarity in the conquest of Niger.
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DGHFF@DGHFilmFestival9 Mar 2022
Meet our first panelist for Green Warriors / Cost of Cobalt! 🌱🪨 Jeffrie is a physician and public health specialist, specialized in environmental health. Jeffrie is currently mapping the effects of pollution using environmental toxicology, biomonitoring exposed individuals.
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DGHFF@DGHFilmFestival6 Mar 2022
Yesterday we kicked off #DGHFF2022! We started with Dying To Divorce, a documentary about intimate partner violence in Turkey, followed by a very engaging panel discussion.
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DGHFF@DGHFilmFestival4 Mar 2022
Our third and final panelist for Dying to Divorce: Maartje Goudswaard, a medical doctor since 2006. She now works as a forensic doctor with an interest in global health and human rights. She’s also doing her PhD research on forensic injury reports and injury dating.
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Christopher Starke@ch_starke25 Feb 2022
I'm just coming out of a brainstorming session with colleagues from all across the world to discuss "what academics can do" for 🇺🇦. Here are some things we came up with (feel free to add):
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DGHFF@DGHFilmFestival24 Feb 2022
Meet your DGHFF 2022 host and moderator! Mina Stanikic, MD, MSc will be hosting DGHFF for the third time in a row! She is a doctor of medicine and part-time film and theatre critic.
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Brown Epidemiology@Brown_Epi23 Feb 2022
🚨 JOB POSTING🚨: The Department of Epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health is seeking exceptional candidates for a new faculty position. See the link below for more information and to apply! apply.interfolio.com/101986
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