What an incredible day for #womeninsurgery in Sierra Leone!Today, our first female surgeon, Dr Constance Cummings-John graduates as a Fellow of the West African College of Surgeons! So proud! So inspired! #WACS2024 #IWD2024 #Trailblazer 🔥🔥🔥

Good morning from #Fajara! Happy International Women’s Day! We #InspireInclusion through the incredible women at our Unit who contribute to our leadership in health research in West Africa. Your dedication inspires us every day! #IWD2024

Happy International Women's Day to all the amazing WOMEN in our NIHR Global Health Research Group and brilliant Students! We are thrilled to share today some of our Ph.D Fellows' experiences and celebrate their inspiring determination! #InvestInWomen 👏🏾👉🏾bit.ly/3TqPkMJ

Enjoying being part of a NIHR Global Health Networking session- hearing about the results of a PhD project on point of care testing for childhood febrile illness in Gambia (Dr Marmadu Baldeh) NIHR Global Health TULAY Project Plymouth Research

🌎"Yes! we can End TB"🌎 On #WorldTBDay2024 Clinician Scientist under our Vaccines & Immunity Theme & Co-Director of LSHTM TB Centre Toyin Togun, PhD FFPH, stress the need for increased investments in TB Research & Devt, optimisation of existing tools, & collaboration across sectors to #EndTB.

Watch what happens as Gates Foundation stops paying article publishing fees, shifts to peer reviewed preprints, & advocates for “low-cost digital publishing platforms”. I predicted this 5 years ago! Advancing Equity and Innovation in Research Publishing cgdev.org/blog/advancing…

Long-lasing injectable PrEP is the kind of innovation #PEPFAR is eager to support as we work with our partners to accelerate progress toward the global goal to end HIV/AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. science.org/content/articl…

Peace, calm & serenity 📍Tokeh Beach, Sierra Leone 🇸🇱

Health is a right for all, not a privilege for some.

154 million lives. Six lives a minute. Every day for the last 50 years. Immunization is one of humanity’s greatest achievements. But there are still places where people don’t have access to vaccines. It’s time for immunization for all. #HumanlyPossible uni.cf/4dbDkXl

Dr Donald Grant stepped up to finish the work of his mentor who died from #Ebola. CEPI’ latest impact story looks at how he is now rebuilding the research programme on #lassafever in Sierra Leone: bit.ly/49ZCXwl

New study suggests that malaria infections might have protected Africans from COVID-19 deaths. Very interesting indeed! ~ This study by Yaw Bediako and team explored the link between prior malaria exposure and COVID-19 severity in Ghana. They found that individuals with previous

“Science must no longer be an enterprise that privileges profits and the elite.” “Communities most affected by problems must help drive the agenda on what science gets conducted, by whom, how, and who benefits the most from it.”

Just wrapped up a fantastic talk on transforming childhood febrile illness diagnosis in Sub-Saharan Africa! Mamadu Baldeh led an engaging discussion on the integration and potential impact of novel digital point-of-care tests in The Gambia.

The way “global health” people have stated the value of World Health Organization (WHO) to the US (and to the world) and what’s at stake in US withdrawal from World Health Organization (WHO) has been very revealing of the strong neocolonial tendencies/undercurrents that shape how people do “global health” and how the field works.

From CEI in digital health to co-production, to AI clinical decision support & drug discovery applications, to qualitative work on diagnostics in Gambia — our National Institute for Health and Care Research group brought powerful, African-led insights to #EDCTPForum2025 Better health, build together!

👏👏👏 to Mamadu Baldeh, our PhD fellow, for winning the Best Poster Prize at the 12th Global Health EDCTP3 forum! Mamadu's research focuses on evaluating implementation strategies for innovative point-of-care diagnostic tests to advance #InfectiousDisease management in #Africa. #EDCTPForum

Epidemics have a habit of revealing whether the last crisis was truly instructive or merely traumatic. Our Think Global Health piece tests that idea against Sierra Leone’s mpox outbreak and the promises of the Pandemic Agreement. Mamadu Baldeh #GlobalHealth #PandemicPreparedness

Sierra Leone is undergoing its largest mpox outbreak. M Bella and Mamadu Baldeh explain the difficulties of implementing lessons from the 2014-16 Ebola outbreak and COVID-19 pandemic that were supposed to guide national responses. thinkglobalhealth.org/article/mpox-s…

Essential read by M Bella & Mamadu Baldeh on how the #mpox outbreak in Sierra Leone is testing an improved system that still suffers gaps. "Fairness will be measured not by speeches in Geneva but by how quickly a doctor in Freetown receives the same vaccine she nearly