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Text: ‘Publication, Paper Tuesday - Valuing health states for infants and toddlers: challenges and methodological considerations in EQ-TIPS preferences elicitation. by Devlin, N. et al. (2025).' The background is a gradient blue with overlaid images of books and the world map.

EQ-TIPS was developed to meet growing interest in evaluating the effectiveness & cost-effectiveness of treatments in very young children 👶

In this paper, @prof-nancy-devlin.bsky.social et al. examine issues in valuing the EQ-TIPS and possible adaptations to valuation methods 👉 bit.ly/4oxl4gF

Una gran mejora, largamente esperada. Las nuevas funciones de edición de gráficos en el programa de análisis estadístico Jamovi impresionan gratamente. Jamovi se puede descargar e instalar gratis desde www.jamovi.org

"Non-White scientists endure longer waiting times between the submission and acceptance of their manuscripts, and upon publication, their papers receive fewer citations than would be expected based on textual similarity."

Antwerp on a cloudy day. (📷Canon T70 - 🎞️Fujicolor 200) #filmisnotdead

📰 Check out all the oral abstracts from #IAS2025 in the new Journal of the International AIDS Society IAS 2025 abstract supplement: bit.ly/JIAS2025

Maria Ciência: Application of Artificial Intelligence for Audience-Specific Health Communication and Knowledge Dissemination Background: Scientific misinformation remains a major barrier to effective health communication. Bridging the gap between academic research and public understanding requires tools that simplify...

🇧🇷 #Tuberculosis “This study presents 👩🏽‍🦱Maria Ciência… The tool supports researchers in translating peer-reviewed scientific findings through simple prompts into accessible, ethically appropriate materials tailored for children, general public…”
Preprint🔗⬇️
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In the past week, 90 students have finished their studies at ITM, ready to take on global health challenges!
To all our graduates: your hard work, resilience, and dedication have brought you here. You're not only graduating. You're joining a powerful global community of changemakers. #ITMAlumni

Screenshot of the cover of the linked report.

Important new @msfaccess.org report highlights how even EU countries lack appropriate access to #tuberculosis medicines💊.
"Bridging the gap: Securing access to essential #TB medicines in the EU and EEA"
msfaccess.org/bridging-gap...
(other high-income countries like Canada face similar challenges)

Mycobacterium tuberculosis biology, pathogenicity and interaction with the host Nature Reviews Microbiology - In this Review, Warner, Barczak, Gutierrez and Mizrahi explore essential aspects of Mycobacterium tuberculosis physiology and biology, present recent advances related...

💥 Very excited to share this review in Nature Reviews Microbiology.
Contributing to this review with Val, Digby and Amy was an enlightening experience! Hope people in the community find it useful- we managed to cite around 200 papers...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How do research careers compare across countries? New global database has some answers Online tool from the Research and Innovation Careers Observatory allows users to compare salary, typical career destinations, and more

How do research careers compare across countries? New global database has some answers
Online tool from the Research and Innovation Careers Observatory allows users to compare salary, typical career destinations, and more
www.science.org/content/arti...

🆕 Journal of the International AIDS Society (JIAS) supplement, “PEP in Africa: prospects, opportunities and challenges”, just launched!

📰 Access all the articles for free now:

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Teaching rational prescribing to general practice registrars: A guide for supervisors Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines. – Paracelsus…

Quality use of medicines is: 1) selecting wisely treatment options
2) choosing suitable medicines only if necessary
3) using medicines safely to get the best possible results
4) choosing only medicines that benefit the patient. But, how to teach QUM? www.racgp.org.au/afp/2017/mar...

The ethics of health research priority setting: A casebook
www.who.int/publications...

Productive informal meeting with CAD-LUS4TB colleagues at the EDCTP Forum! 🤝 Discussing our upcoming AI-powered TB diagnosis project with this amazing international team. Can't wait to start working together to improve TB care in sub-Saharan Africa using innovative lung ultrasound technology.

New work on relational reasoning in transformers!

TLDR: Inductive biases of In-Weight and In-Context Learning in transformers are really different for relational reasoning, and pretraining can make a big difference for in-context.

Check out @jessegeerts.bsky.social's thread for more!

Well deserved outstanding team award to Zambart from Zambia #EDCTP2025

On my way to participate in the 12th EDCTP Forum 😀.
If you're attending the forum, I'd love to connect! Feel free to reach out or stop by the session! #EDCTPForum #EDCTP2025 #GlobalHealth

Health effects of the Brazilian Conditional Cash Transfer programme over 20 years and projections to 2030: a retrospective analysis and modelling study CCT programmes have strongly contributed to the reduction of morbidity and mortality in Brazil, having prevented millions of hospitalisations and deaths in the past two decades. During the current per...

🧐Health effects of the Brazilian Conditional Cash Transfer programme over 20 years and projections to 2030: a retrospective analysis and modelling study - The Lancet Public Health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Better healththrough globalresearch partnerships Global Health EDCTP3 and the EDCTP Association are delighted to invite you to participate in the Twelfth EDCTP Forum, a unique platform for policymakers,…

I'll be presenting at the 12th EDCTP Forum in Rwanda next week! "Collaborative training networks to build leadership for research excellence and biotech innovation in sub-Saharan Africa" - Innovations in capacity building parallel session. 📅 Tue, June 17th at 2:00 PM. More at: edctpforum.eu

Win some, lose some. Just got word that a proposal didn't make it through a competitive call 🫤. Always learning for next time!

How a mysterious epidemic of kidney disease is killing thousands of young men Repeated damage from extreme heat over time seems to be a leading factor causing kidneys to fail.

"Although the cause of the epidemic hasn’t been definitively determined, most scientists agree that, at least among sugar-cane workers, intense labour in extreme heat is one of the major drivers of this condition." #ClimateChangeAndHealth #OccupationalHealth

Antwerpen #filmisnotdead

TB's extraordinary evolution reveals why the ancient disease lives on Once thought to have originated in cows and spread through dust, the surprising evolutionary story of tuberculosis reveals why it's so hard to stamp out this ancient disease, writes Carl Zimmer

“M. tuberculosis has evolved into an astonishingly adept human pathogen. And one of its greatest skills is its ability to fly through the air”

@carlzimmer.com on why TB has killed millions over the ages

www.newscientist.com/article/2481...

Cracking The Cost Code: Why Transparency In TB Is A Matter Of Life And Death - Health Policy Watch This stands in stark contrast to the opaque norms of pharmaceutical research and development (R&D), where there is no transparency about what it costs to

Cracking the Cost Code: Why Transparency in TB is a Matter of Life and Death

INSIDE VIEW - Farhat Mantoo & Bern-Thomas Nyang'wa

Every year, 1.3 million people die of tuberculosis, making it the world’s deadliest infectious disease. LEARN MORE ⬇️

@msf.ca | #EndTB | #TBPRACTECAL | #MSF

An extension of the Spiegelhalter-Knill-Jones method for continuous covariates in clinical decision making - BMC Medical Research Methodology Background There is still demand for algorithms that can be used at the point of care, especially when dealing with events that do not present with a single obvious clinical indicator. The Spiegelhalt...

New article published in BMC Medical Research Methodology led by our @itmantwerp.bsky.social statistician Bart KM Jacobs. We describe an extension of the Spiegelhalter-Knill-Jones method allowing the inclusion of continuous covariates. bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Chapters 3 and 14 are a good starting point.

Welcome | Data Management in Large-Scale Education Research This is the in-progress version of Data Management in Large-Scale Education Research.

Despite its focus on education research, Crystal Lewis's textbook 'Data Management in Large-Scale Education Research' provides an excellent overview of the process! datamgmtinedresearch.com

"If scientists are more concerned about where the next grant is coming from than about figuring out first and foremost what issues to research to improve people’s lives, then this aim will remain a challenge to accomplish"

www.medanthrotheory.org/mat/article/...

Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde (ITG) in Antwerpen Het ITG streeft naar de vooruitgang van wetenschap en gezondheid, met focus op onderzoek, onderwijs en professionele dienstverlening (hiv/soa en reisgeneeskunde).

Apply now to eSCREM – Protocol Development. Our 3 ECTS online short course from the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp.
🗓️ Apply by: July, 1st!!
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Analysis of 2023 World Health Organization cancer Essential Medicines List and concordance with resource stratified guidelines AbstractBackground. The Essential Medicines List (EML) and Resource Stratified Guidelines (RSG) both prioritize high-value medicines. We compare the 2023 E

The study reveals significant gaps in the 2023 Essential Medicines List for cancer, highlighting the need for evaluating effective treatments.

by Wilson BE, Wright K (...) Booth CM et 8 al. in J Natl Cancer Inst #MedSky

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