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📢 Announcing a dissemination workshop "Social Medicine for Neglected Tropical Diseases #NTDs," organized by the 5S Foundation and @ESSSWA. May 31, 2024, at Ras Amba Hotel, #AddisAbaba. We will share research insights on #Podoconiosis #Scabies. #NTDs #beatNTDs 🌍🗓️

Social Medicine for #NTDs conference during the 19th annual conference of @ESSSWA in Addis Ababa kicked off today. The 5S Foundation team will present their research findings on #Podoconiosis and #Scabies. #NTDs #beatNTDs 🌍📊

Getnet Tadele kicked off our session with an insightful overview of the 5S Foundation project and highlighted the upcoming presentations from the rest of the team. Stay tuned for more exciting research findings! #5SFoundation #NTDs #Research #PublicHealth 🌍📊

.Kibur Engdawork Melese presentation highlighted the contextual setting and implementation factors in #podoconiosis reduction interventions. Among the 7 factors identified were wrong beliefs, gender inequality, and political commitment not backed by financial resources. #beatNTDs 🌍📊

.Kibur Engdawork Melese presentation recommended home-based interventions, psychosocial and economic support, expanded health education, utilizing community assets, and presenting #podoconiosis as a global health issue. #5SFoundation #NTDs #Podoconiosis 🌍📊

The Leprosy Mission International are hosting a #COSP17 side event on the rights of persons with disability to work and employment in low and middle income countries with a focus on practical steps for governments and NGOs on disability. Tune in on Thu 13 June at 10am ET : bit.ly/3VrJzzC

Our ‘Rethinking Global Health’ symposium with keynote speaker Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá will cover: 1⃣Challenges of new digital technologies 2⃣Decolonial approaches to Global Health methods 3⃣Geopolitics & regulations 4⃣Humanitarian crises and climate change Book 👉 tinyurl.com/2ajv5wmc

Being schooled by the brilliant trainers from NaPAN + IOCC Relief + people with #podoconiosis who are experts in self-care on how to properly wash feet and legs was one the best and more useful things I've done recently! UK Coalition against NTDs #peoplematter #beatnds #skinntds

This endeavour very much speaks to the 5S Foundation Time for Action policy themes around love, common humanity and how to operationalise them for good #peoplematter UK Coalition against NTDs James Sunderland Patrick Grady Lord Jonny Oates APPG on Malaria and NTDs

Check out (and vote😉) for BSMS's entry to the Sussex Researchers competition this year: Gem Aellah's Alternative Theory of Change. You can also swing by the ACCA (Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts) tomorrow and see this image and others in context at an immersive installation:⬛️Box of Policy.

🥳Congratulations to Gem Aellah for being runner-up in the BSMS Early Career Research (ECR) day yesterday. 📢Gem is also exhibiting the Policy Black Box installation at the Sussex Researchers ECR symposium tomorrow. 📽️Here is a little preview: youtu.be/MfQY6LY4LaY?si…

👣Step inside the Black Box of Policy to find out the role that 🩷🍀⚖️🗣️ play in shaping policy, today at the ACCA (Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts) as part of Sussex Researchers Early Career Researcher Day This pop-up installation presents #anthropology research findings from NIHR Global Health 5S Foundation

Some years back, I wrote about research staff and research participants perspectives on the double-edged meanings of 'exposure' to scientific knowledge in a Kenyan city with an economy driven by HIV. It seems it might still be relevant See: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27990029/ 5S Foundation

Are you an ambitious project manager looking for an international role where you can apply your skills, knowledge & expertise to make a difference in the lives of people living with #podoconiosis, an entirely preventable disease? Join us Global Health @BSMS 👉🏽tinyurl.com/4by37m38

Great to see our PDRF, Gem Aellah presenting her work at #EASA2024, reminding us of the importance of love when making and designing policy to #BeatNTDs 👏 #EndTheNeglect

Continuing the presentations at #EASA2024, our PhDs Badraldeen Ali & Dereje Wonde now present their work on Mycetoma in Sudan and Scabies in Ethiopia respectively. This work is so important in showing the devastating effects of NTDs. Their work proves it is time to #EndTheNeglect

Great presentation from our PDRF Kibur Engdawork Melese showing the importance of social science research in Neglected Tropical Diseases 👏 #EndTheNeglect

Great paper from our colleagues, showing the damaging effects of Skin NTDs and the difference in genders. Make sure to check it out 🙏

Congratulations to our PDRF on the publication of his new article! Go check it out 👇

At the APPG's inaugural meeting, we launched our report on our delegation visit to #Ethiopia in May - with Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi MP Baroness Hayman Lord Jonny Oates James Sunderland Patrick Grady - where we saw the devastating impact of #NTDs #malaria and the incredible work being done to fight them 👇