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Can cash transfers help pregnant women adapt to extreme heat? This is what our recently published study sought to understand - read more about the study below 😄

Last week, researchers from across London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine launched the Climate and Maternal & Child Health special interest group. A collaborative forum to share knowledge and accelerate research to make a difference in the health of women in a changing climate. More 👉 bit.ly/436qvJb

"There is a real push to include maternal and child groups as vulnerable group to heat exposure" On @BBC__newsday Ana Bonell discusses research into the impact of extreme heat on pregnant farmers in The Gambia.☀️🤰 MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM Centre on Climate Change & Planetary Health, LSHTM 👇2ly.link/1x6V6

"We found that the pregnant subsistence farmers didn't have a single day where they were not exposed to some degree of heat stress" Ana Bonell, Assistant Professor in MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM & CCCPH member speaks to @BBC__newsday on the impacts of heat on maternal health in The Gambia👇

Contributing to the global #MaternalHealth discourse! Our Associate Professor Ana Bonell on @BBC__newsday discusses the impact of heat stress on pregnant women in rural #Gambia☀️🤰🏾 📻bitly.ws/3guTh

Impact of cash transfers on the association between prenatal exposures to high temperatures and low birthweight: retrospective analysis from the LEAP 1000 study obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14… Sarah LaPointe Public Health and Health Professions | UBuffalo @UAlbanySPH Public Health and Health Professions | UBuffalo Ana Bonell Public Health and Health Professions | UBuffalo

FGM's real price tag? The health, wellbeing and limitless potentials of our girls. We cannot afford it❗️💔🚫 #EndFGM220

Fantastic showcase of plastic recycling action and future plans by Aliyu, an amazing PhD student who led the student jubilee team - thanks Aliyu! Centre on Climate Change & Planetary Health, LSHTM

The Gender thematic working group are continuing their monthly meetings with a focus on the urgent issues surrounding #FGM/C. We're committed to raising awareness, advocating for change & supporting victims .Together, we can make a difference & end FGM. #endfgm220

As part of #PlanetaryHealthWeek, we organised a bring-and-share vegetarian breakfast competition, a fun way to promote healthy eating to protect our planet. We also visited our on-site biogas plant, an innovative facility to advance our contribution to a healthier environment.

Job opportunity @lshtm for a mathematics /engineering /computer science or highly quantitative social scientist /health economist on the REACH project. REACH aims to Build Resilience to Floods and Heat for Maternal and Child Health in Brazil & Zambia. jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/PHP-GHD-2024-09

“[These are] populations that have contributed almost nothing to climate change and are at [the] front lines of the #climate crisis." Ana Bonell tells Vox about MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM research on impact of extreme heat on #pregnant farm workers 👇vox.com/climate/351471…

🗺️Researchers from our global community emphasise the importance of #resilience in tackling the impact of #extremeheat. ▶️Watch the video: buff.ly/3zeeK8V Jason Lee Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine AIIMS Jodhpur Ollie Jay Heat and Health Research Incubator University of Namibia Ana Bonell MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM

We call on National Assembly members to protect the health and well-being of women and girls by standing firmly against the repeal of the #FGM law. #EndFGM220 #HandsOffOurLaw #DoNoHarm

1st contribution of the #ACTUALproject Swiss National Science Foundation ISPM Bern @OeschgerCentre we show the complex relationship between heat-humidity-health using DAGs. This is crucial to defining your analytical model, which indeed is rarely considered when modelling humidity in heat-health studies!

A study funded by Wellcome published on The Lancet Planetary Health shows that heat exposure may impact both the growth of foetuses during pregnancy & infants up to the age of 2⃣. Read more👉tinyurl.com/55h7nuww

First evidence suggests heat stress may still affect babies once born Ana Bonell explains impact of heat stress on foetal development & newborns, supporting calls for urgent interventions to reduce impact of climate change on pregnant women & children. bit.ly/3ZXmxDb

High levels of heat found to affect foetuses & infants up to age 2 In Business Standard Ana Bonell discusses 1st analysis to show heat stress impact on development of babies after birth as #publichealth interventions needed for #climatechange. MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM 👇 bit.ly/4eZYoAk

Join me and my friends/colleagues Elizabeth Gulugulu and Zainab Yunusa in the climate and gender space who have been championing actions for the past years! We will talk about the intersection of Gender Justice and Climate Justice organised by Clean Earth Gambia and UNDP The Gambia.

#IamAPHRC's #ClimateAction4NCDs, supported by Medical Research Foundation, aims to study the interactions between climate change, air quality, and the loss of urban green spaces in four cities in Senegal. In this context, #APHRCinWestAfrica, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine & Ministère de la Santé et de l'Action sociale convened experts to tackle