CHORUS Urban Health

Ikedichukwu Ayogu reflected on the impact of the urban health desk in Nigeria and how this can be used to strengthen the health system in urban areas in the country #UrbanOctober #WorldCitiesDay

Dr Andrews Ayim, shares how Ghana is using regulatory networks, facility networks and service networks to facilitate linkages between providers in urban areas in the country. #UrbanOctober #WorldCitiesDay

Subas Bastola provides an overview of the challenges in Nepal, while adding that 'private pharmacies are crucial for urban residents, however, we need to establish linkages through regulation, training, and data integration'

#UrbanOctober #WorldCitiesDay

Reflecting on the experiences of Bangladesh, Dr Khaleda Islam shares that 'informal providers can really support the urban health system as first responders, with sufficient training and supervision' #UrbanOctober #WorldCitiesDay

Prof. @h-elsey01.bsky.social, University of York, is chairing a panel discussion on how to address the plurality of providers working in urban contexts in low- and middle-income countries. #UrbanOctober #WorldCitiesDay

Read more: gh.bmj.com/content/4/3/...

Happening now at our webinar: Prof. Chinyere Mbachu is sharing evidence from low- and middle-income countries on how urban health systems can be strengthened to address the needs of the urban poor by creating more linkages between providers. Learn more: chorusurbanhealth.org/how-we-work/...

Don’t miss — happening tomorrow!

#UrbanHealth

Innovation Fund Holder Interview in 10 Series: Chibuike Agu - Chorus Chibuike Agu, at the Health Policy Research Group, University of Nigeria, leads a CHORUS Innovation...

Chibuike Agu at the Health Policy Research Group, leads a CHORUS Innovation Fund project exploring the quality and patterns of antimicrobial dispensing and consumption in urban slums in Ebonyi, Nigeria

Read an interview on his inspiration and learnings

chorusurbanhealth.org/innovation-f...

To mark #UrbanOctober & #WorldCitiesDay, join us for a virtual panel event with policymakers on strengthening #urbanhealth systems through provider partnerships and collaborations - & how we can move from fragmentation to harmonisation.

Register here: tinyurl.com/3tdsk83m

@herdintl.bsky.social

YouTube video by CHORUS Urban Health A CHORUS Innovation Fund Project promoting physical activity for girls and women in urban Bangladesh

#WorldCitiesDay
Urbanisation brings new challenges: rising health risks, inequality, and shrinking spaces for wellbeing.
Through CHORUS, ARK Foundation worked with women & girls to co-create inclusive urban solutions.

#UrbanHealth
@h-elsey01.bsky.social @b-ebenso.bsky.social

youtu.be/7ExY9WNAG4U

Today marks the start of #UrbanOctober!

This month, we will highlight priority health issues facing urban health systems and the strategies and practices needed to ensure the needs of the urban poor are prioritised.

Join us and learn more: chorusurbanhealth.org

As world leaders gather today at #HLM4 to accelerate progress on #NCDs, we stress the need for #urban specific approaches that respond to the diversity of urban populations and health providers, to #ActonNCDs for poorest urban populations

Read more👉https://shorturl.at/hVupy

New CHORUS Paper!
HPRG @Univeristy of Nigeria explore how community leaders in urban slums can help improve access to quality healthcare services - through their positional knowledge and leverage to support the linkages with informal providers

shorturl.at/5dDco

Shreeman Sharma shares insights from his CHORUS Innovation Fund project on how media reporting influences health policy making at the National Summit of Health and Population Scientists in Nepal - watch his presentation here
@herdintl.bsky.social @b-ebenso.bsky.social @h-elsey01.bsky.social

For #WorldHealthDay, the @globalfoodleeds.bsky.social, featured our work in developing resilient urban health systems.

Read here about how we are addressing the challenge of rapid urbanisation:
medium.com/globalfoodle...

Dr Bassey Ebenso is Associate Professor of International Health.

He leads the CHORUS consortium. A pillar of this explores food environments of the urban poor in Bangladesh, Ghana, Nepal & Nigeria & the associated prevalence of non-communicable (NCDs)

👉 chorusurbanhealth.org/blogs-news-a...
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Solving delayed referrals of childbirth cases from unskilled to skilled birth attendants in Nigerian urban communities: A case study exploration of new frontiers Delayed referrals of women from untrained traditional birth attendants (TBAs) to formally trained health personnel in primary healthcare centers and h…

#WorldHealthDay #HopefulFutures
New paper on delayed referrals from traditional birth attendants (TBAs) to formal healthcare centres. Stronger partnerships with TBAs could reduce referral delays, which contribute to maternal and child mortality in 🇳🇬
shorturl.at/oXRBf

Read insights from our policy dialogue event held in Bangladesh in January. The report identifies the prospects and challenges facing the strengthening of urban health systems, including the need for more coordination and information sharing:

chorusurbanhealth.org/chorus-polic...

New Paper!
CHORUS partners HPRG examine the inequities in out-of-pocket expenditure to access healthcare in urban slums in Nigeria, and that poorest households may be at risk of poor health outcomes due to reliance on informal healthcare providers

shorturl.at/UEtaC

💡INSIGHT: Delali Kumapley and Selase Odopey from CHORUS Ghana share experiences, lessons, and challenges in using participatory research approaches to co-produce health awareness materials with the Ghana Health Service:

chorusurbanhealth.org/blog-co-prod...

Our study in urban slums shows that "having >8 years of formal education & receiving on-the-job training have statistically significant effects on knowledge of malaria and diarrhea treatment

Policy Brief: How can the modalities for urban primary health care systems in Bangladesh be improved?

CHORUS researchers in Bangladesh worked with multiple stakeholders to develop strategies for health system resilience:
chorusurbanhealth.org/resources/po...

Frontiers | Assessing informal healthcare providers' knowledge of diagnosis and treatment of malaria and diarrhea: evidence from urban informal settlements in Southeast Nigeria

New CHORUS Publication

CHORUS partners in #Nigeria #HPRG highlight that by providing appropriate training and support to informal healthcare providers #IHPs, the quality of health service delivery can be improved in urban slums

www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub...

Driving Change: Rumana Huque on the Real Costs of Bangladesh’s Tobacco Dependency

Happy #InternationalWomensDay2025 !
Great to hear Prof. Rumana Huque, ARK Foundation Director, and a #CHORUSBangladesh lead, feature on the IMF podcast
discussing the real costs of tobacco dependency in Bangladesh - listen here: imf.org/en/News/Podc...

We have a number of presentations at the #AfHEA2025 conference, happening in Rwanda - this week!
Our partners at University of Nigeria will share insightful findings on how to strengthen health systems to improve health provision and services for people living in urban slums

The CHORUS team at HERDi is working with Budhanilkantha Municipality in #Kathmandu to establish an #UrbanHealth Data Hub.

This initiative aims to enhance data accountability, and integrate data from a range of sectors, to foster evidence based decision making.

@sushilbaral.bsky.social

How well does current methods guidance support health economists to produce evidence to improve healthcare access and equity? 🤔
doi.org/10.1017/S026...

In a new interview, CHORUS co-director Prof. @h-elsey01.bsky.social discusses the challenges facing urban health systems and how research findings from the consortium can be used to improve urban primary healthcare:

www.tbsnews.net/interviews/b...

Researchers from our cross country Innovation Fund project, on how research evidence is communicated by the media to inform #urbanhealth policies, meet to exchange updates and insights whilst in Dhaka.
ARK Foundation, BRAC JPG (Bangladesh) and HERD International (Nepal) @sushilbaral.bsky.social

Enhancing the role of mass media in the translation of evidence from health policy and systems research in Nigeria - Health Research Policy and Systems Background There are massive gaps in communication between health researchers and policy-makers in Nigeria, which constrains the use of research evidence for policy-making. Mass media can help in brid...

New CHORUS Paper 📢
Our partners in Nigeria (HPRG) share the importance of the media in communicating evidence, and how health policy and system researchers can harness the strengths of the media to connect with policy makers and the public
health-policy-systems.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....