Alex Chung

Health Misinformation: UNPACKED by @lshtmcepr.bsky.social was an awesome event🔥🔥🔥

🎯 What makes us susceptable to misinformation?
🎯 Why do actors push it?
🎯 What can we do tackle it?

Looking forward to repping @wfpha.bsky.social in the new network to fight #HealthMisinformation in the UK 💪

Superb opportunity to talk about #YouthLeadership and #YouthHealth on UB Radio yesterday evening on behalf of BSRHI and BHP

Full interview on UB Radio's Facebook page

All in preparation for next week's Youth Leadership Symposium 🇧🇼🎉

#YouthVoices #YouthAdvocacy

Whoo we have a new account 🥳

Evaluating the performance of verbal autopsy for assigning cause of death in older adults: A population‐based cohort study in Karonga, Malawi Background Verbal autopsy, where a close caregiver or relative of someone who recently died reports on the signs, symptoms and circumstances preceding death, is useful for producing population-based.....

New paper: how accurate is the Verbal Autopsy tool at assigning a cause of death in older adults?

Many global statistics use VA data 🙊 so let's keep finding way of improving how we use the tool to ensure that every death is counted 🙏

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Attending my first World Health Assembly in Geneva next week repping YoungWFPHA! 🙌 Anyone else around and want to connect?

#WHA78

Wow I've been really bad with my self promotion 🙈😆

Published last month!

Serious infections 2nd to drug use aren't widely reported but they have a huge impact on lives

A patient centred integrated team could be a solution to caring for these complex situations

#InfectiousDiseases #PWID

Very humbling to be celebrating International Women's day with Mebala Youth Studio 💛 and the French Embassy in Botswana 🇨🇵

Listening to the stories of GBV survivors and discussing solutions to these issues has been a very powerful experience 🫂

Statistics can change minds, but stories change hearts

One week to go to register an event for Global Public Health Week!! 📢

With international aid being cut around the world, now is the time to speak up on why we need to keep funding health programmes and how we can reimage power structures in this new era 🌐🙌

#GPHW25

www.wfpha.org/global-publi...

Britain’s Choice, More in Common’s new report on the UK The result of an 18-months examination of the hopes and fears, values and core beliefs in which we’ve engaged with almost 11,000 people across Britain through surveys, conversations and interviews.

Really interesting report on the different types of "political" groups in Britain:

❌ the labels "left" and "right" are often unhelpful
🌐 groups have common core beliefs which can unite us
🙌🏻 there is hope for working together and building a more resilient society

www.britainschoice.uk

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Marie Curie, Physicist and chemist.

Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science.

Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM

Job vacancies in BSRHI! 🥳

What: Research Physician & Post-doc Research Fellow
- community based studies on STIs, antenatal care, and HIV management

Where: Gaborone, Botswana

Requirements: see job ads, ideally 2-year minimum commitment

Website for more info:
bhp.org.bw/careers

UNAIDS welcomes US decision to keep funding life-saving HIV treatment UNAIDS has welcomed Wednesday’s emergency waiver from the United States Secretary of State that will allow the continuation of life-saving HIV treatment funded by the US across 55 countries worldwide.

Relieved to hear that PEPFAR will keep going after the scary news of USAID freezes earlier today

When patients are worriedly asking colleagues whether they will still be able to get their HIV medications, it really hits home how vital this service is

news.un.org/en/story/202...

We definitely need fact checking and active efforts to tackle misinformation now more than ever

Amplifying affected voices: neglected tropical diseases | Free exhibition A powerful exhibition to mark World Neglected Tropical Disease Day.

As the world marks Neglected Tropical Diseases Day, researchers from @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social are collaborating with the #RoyalSocietyofEdinburgh and #UnitingtoCombatNeglectedTropicalDiseases to host a free, public exhibition 31 Jan - 4 Feb. Get tickets now!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/amplifying...

A sign saying "BSRHI Botswana Sexual and Reproductive Health Initiative" and "BHP Botswana Harvard Partnership" on a white background is in front of a wire fence and portacabins. It is sunny with some clouds in the sky

I've arrived! 🇧🇼

The Botswana Sexual Reproductive Health Initiative (BSRHI) works to improve STI and family planning care in Botswana and Sub-Saharan Africa

Excited to be learning from the team about conducting clinical trials in a non-UK setting

Check out the BSRHI website:
www.bsrhi.org

Gaza death toll 40 percent higher than recorded, Lancet study estimates A study in the medical journal The Lancet estimated that 64,260 people have been killed in Gaza since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, which would mean the health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Stri...

Gaza death toll 40% higher than recorded, Lancet study estimates

@france24-en.bsky.social covers LSHTM research suggesting Palestinian Ministry of Health underreported number of deaths due to violence, & that 59% were women, children & the elderly.

www.france24.com/en/live-news...

"Redefining Equity: Decolonising Public Health for a Healthier World"

This year's theme for Global Public Health Week (GPHW), 7-11th April 2025 🎉

Want to join the conversation? Registration for hosting events is now open

More info:
www.wfpha.org/global-publi...

Off to Botswana this weekend to start my new role as a reproductive health research fellow, any recommendations on things to do and places to eat in Gaborone? 🇧🇼

What a year 2024 has been!

Some highlights:
- Dream F3 as an ID clinical research fellow
- Completing the DTM&H at LSHTM
- Joining YoungWFPHA, launching the Health Hub, and representing the NGO at WHO Euro's Regional Committee meeting

Warm shout out to the amazing folks I've met along the way 💕