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📢Welcome to our dissemination event at Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp! Join in person or use this link to register for online participation of the first 1,5h presentation: itg.zoom.us/webinar/regist… Lenka Beňová Andrea B. Pembe Peter Waiswa @AlvessonM Dossou Jean-Paul

Babies with mothers exposed to high temperatures the week before childbirth have a 34% higher risk of perinatal death. A large proportion of these deaths are during labour in Benin, Malawi, Tanzania & Uganda. @Jeroen_de_Bont Lenka Beňová Dossou Jean-Paul rdcu.be/dSPDV

Analysing nearly 140,000 births in hospitals in 🇧🇯🇲🇼🇹🇿🇺🇬, the Alert project found that short-term heat exposure before birth may increase risk of perinatal death, particularly intrapartum stillbirths. #justpublished Nature Medicine Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp

"This #map represents what I know": the power of putting Lubumbashi’s #maternal healthcare services on the map 👉Together, Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, 🇧🇪 and École de Santé Publique of Université de Lubumbashi (ESP/UNILU) 🇨🇩, we have been #mapping all health facilities that offer maternal and newborn

***TOMORROW Sept 11 *** PhD defence of Okikiolu Badejo Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp 3pm CET live (Rochus, Aula Janssens) and online shorturl.at/laKy2 Adolescent-friendly Health Services and Outcomes Among Adolescents and Young Adults Living with HIV in Nigeria 🇳🇬 APIN Public Health Initiatives

Many congratulations to Dr. Okikiolu Badejo on successfully defending his PhD thesis today Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp 👏👏 We wish you nothing but good luck and prosperity in your career, and hope to keep welcoming you to our beautiful campus on numerous occasions. UAntwerpen APIN Public Health Initiatives

Congratulations to Bibian Robert for 💫best poster award💫 at #GeoMed2024. Her work highlights the need for geographically targeting interventions for anaemia among school children. Bibian is currently visiting Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp from KEMRI-Wellcome Trust. Full paper doi.org/10.1371/journa…

💡 Contribute to research tackling the transmission of obesity and mental health problems from parents to infants. We are recruiting for two PhD positions based in Trinity College Dublin and KU Leuven as part of the Healthy Adaptation to Pregnancy, Postpartum and Parenthood (HAP3) project.

You won't regret joining this event! **Tomorrow** at the ITM Rochus campus or online. 14:00 - presentations 15:30 - interactive spaces Zoom registration shorturl.at/ooMXe

🎤Raising STI testing awareness among Zambia's youth! While we help strengthen lab capacity at @ZambartResearch, the CHoNGeTSa team's music video is spreading the word on #sexualhealth and testing. Let's get more young people informed and tested! 🙌 youtu.be/EDyqn2Suolk?si…

We launched the UrbanBirth Collective Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp! Working with teams & cities in Benin, DRC and Guinea, our mission is to conduct impactful, context-specific research that addresses the complex issues of maternal and newborn health in urban settings. 💫 urbanbirthcollective.org

To understand complex issues of maternal & newborn health in urban settings: ►We make use of various datasets (primary data collection within the cities, secondary data from DHIS2 , @DHSprogram , WorldPopProject, OpenStreetMap, OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data, etc.) ►We use a range of

Join me at the inaugural UMass Chan Medical School's #GlobalHealth seminar on 13th November 2024, where I speak on 'Urban Inequalities in Accessing Emergency Obstetric Care in the Global South: State of Play and What is Needed for the Future'. Registration details below: #MaternalHealth #equity

"Meeting the target but missing the point: The politics of childbirth data" - a new blog post from our PhD candidate Jil Molenaar at MHTF mhtf.org/2024/11/07/mee…

Looking forward to the 20th International Conference on Urban Health (#ICUH24 - ) hosted by ISUH in Marrakesh, 🇲🇦(November 18–21, 2024) . ◾I will present our ongoing work (Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp & École de Santé Publique of Université de Lubumbashi) where we monitor local hourly

📢 join us for #WorldAIDSDay Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp at our event this upcoming Friday 22 November at 1:30 (CET), following the official theme “Take the Rights Path”. Find our programme full of interesting speakers and opportunities to register below 👇 itg.be/en/events/worl…

I'm happy to announce that my book titled "The Foreign Gaze: Essays on Global Health" is now out! You can order the print copy and download the e-copy (open access) here: editions.ird.fr/produit/728/97… The book comes with a playlist for your listening pleasure: open.spotify.com/playlist/5K5t6…

Merely making HIV prevention tools available is not enough: knowledge, accessibility, and responsiveness to the needs of target populations are critical. Jef formulates 4 key steps to bend the curve: 👉 itg.be/en/health-stor… #EndHIVstigma #WorldAIDSDay #WAD2024 #HIV

𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗲𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹-𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 #𝘂𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗻 SSA: UrbanBirth Collective (UBC) See our commentary launching the UBC, a portfolio of