Epidemiologist @UCLGlobalHealth & @AHRI_News. Focus on data collection, social networks & health (HIV, dementia, Covid, other). Mostly in sub-Saharan Africa.
London (UK), Mtubatuba (RSA)
Joined November 2009
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Guy Harling retweeted
Sexual and Reproductive Health Knowledge and Behaviour among Adolescents in Rural Burkina Faso
@FasoInsp @santebf @OMS_Burkina @bernardilboudo @POuagaPF @UNFPABF
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When you student needs a second scorer for their #systematicreview, can we suggest ChatGPT?
bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcent…
(I'm sceptical of much AI support, but this seems like a strong use-case)
Guy Harling retweeted
Job alert 🔥 I'm hiring a Research Officer to join my team @AHRI_News in KZN! If you're looking for an exciting entry into the world of mental health research & a dynamic job with tons of opportunity for growth, please apply (& retweet for visibility): rb.gy/m4ycrj
A lovely (disturbing?) empirical example of the importance of how you build your questionnaire…
So what results do you get if you ask Sir Humphrey's polling questions? @IpsosUK decided to try it. We showed 1,000 Brits his pro national service poll and 1,000 his anti national service poll. Results:
Sample A: 45% in favour of national service, 38% say no.
Sample B: 48% oppose national service, 34% say no.
What does it all mean? Well, obviously we wouldn't ever do this poll for real, wording is too leading & there are rules about transparency of q wording / ordering.
But it does show the importance of question wording, watching the detail and looking at more than just one poll when you want to understand what the public really think on an issue. Especially in election year.
More here: ipsos.com/en-uk/yes-prime-mi…
Our first results from the Kaya study @AgincourtHDSS - so much careful work by Dr Brear and the team
Turns out “good care” takes many forms…
A thorough process evaluation of implementing high-frequency phone surveys with youth in 🇿🇦
Lovely mixed methods, real-time adjustments
Must have been a labour of love, from which we can all learn...
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Our latest publication from the ARISE study @CRSNNouna with @Heidelberg_HIGH. Highlighting high levels of adolescent violence its link to poor mental health in rural Burkina Faso
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🚨 🇿🇦 Job alert 🚨
Would you like to drive implementation & analysis of a multi-decade cohort study? Do you have 5 years post-doc experience, including team leadership? Com e work with us!
ahri.mcidirecthire.com/Exter…
Application deadline: 29 Dec 2023
@AHRI_News seeks a research associate to work at the centre of its HDSS programme in KZN. You'll coordinate a well-oiled machine with @CiwujiCollins, & build your own research programme. With lots of operational, research & public engagement support on site & through @saprin_mrc
I'm looking forward to @dorottya_hoor presenting this work, & getting ideas on how to deepen this work @AHRI_News
Looking forward to presenting our first findings from Sixhumene on the gendered nature of young people’s support landscape in South Africa and testing out some ideas on conceptualising personal network data collection as cognitive and emotional journeys tomorrow at @MitchellSNA
Guy Harling retweeted
Post-doc position at the @DondenaCentre. Epidemiology +modelling + behaviour + vaccination + network and peers effect + social media exposure + opinion formation. Interested? Apply now. Deadline is in two weeks. @Unibocconi @LucchiniLorenzo @DuilioBalsamo @chiarenna @laura_leone_
Hiring! Opening of a new post-doc position @Unibocconi @DondenaCentre on @ERC_Research funded project IMMUNE on epi modelling, vaccination and human behaviours.
Apply here: unibocconi.eu/faculty-postdo…
The least controversial Atlantic piece ever. Truly a window into the soul of parenting. I ❤️ this show so much. And the family tolerate me binging it and occasionally bawling my eyes out. Thanks @OfficialBlueyTV
“Bluey” is the kind of lively show a toddler anywhere on Earth can understand, but it’s also a sharp representation of contemporary parenting, @davidlsims writes: theatlantic.com/culture/arch…
A quick plug for our recent paper outlining the principles we followed in developing of a cross-country survey to measure adolescent health in lower-income settings.
Hopefully it is clear & useful to others:
doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.202…
If you like/love/use Tom Valente's 2012 Science paper on network intervention typologies: doi.org/10.1126/science.1217…
You should read Robin's et al.'s new(ish) paper on *multilevel* network interventions - expanding & deepening ideas w lots of real examples: doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.202…
@British_Airways I am disappointed & upset to learn that you have made impossible for families on multiple bookings to sit together
My partner may have to manage toddler + infant for 11 hours unless we can beg someone to swap seats onboard. This is unlikely to benefit anyone.
Since there is no infant on my ticket I cannot use the 3rd seat even if I pay. The (very kind) call centre team member tells me that since I cannot access this row online, neither can she. So I must hope I can grab the seat 24 hrs pre-flight, or that someone is willing to swap
I’m happy and proud to have be involved in HAALSI in the past and excited to see where it goes and what it teaches us in the next 5 years.
Decade-long research project that explores #aging in #SouthAfrica receives funding from @NIH @NIA for new waves & national expansion with special focus on #cognitivehealth
hsph.me/HAALSI
ALT HAALSI Letters with images from South Africa