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Shay Soremekun

@seyisoremekun.bsky.social

Epidemiologist @ LSHTM: Designing and evaluating policy-changing interventions to improve global health and human development.

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If we want to '#decolonise' evaluation methods - we should do it properly, from the foundation up:
Our @lshtm.bsky.social Centre for Evaluation viewpoint out in this month's @lancetgh.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

02.02.2026 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Impact of Postpartum Depression on Early Child Development - paper one of first to consider impacts of depression at 12 months post delivery:
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1186...

22.01.2026 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Children and young people’s accounts of involvement in serious violence in the UKΒ  | Youth Endowment Fund The firstΒ systematic reviewΒ ofΒ UK basedΒ qualitative researchΒ with CYP involved in or at risk of serious violence.

Well done to my @lshtm.bsky.social colleagues for a really important piece of work on risk factors and experiences of young people involved in violence in the UK.
Report available here πŸ‘‡πŸ½:
youthendowmentfund.org.uk/reports/syst...

20.01.2026 11:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ₯³Congratulations to Dr Divya Kumar, our (now former) PhD student who passed her viva *this morning* with minor corrections!
🎊
Her PhD publications focus on drivers and impacts of maternal postpartum depression on child development in LMICs.

(here in post-viva chat)

19.01.2026 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is an unusually well-funded #PhD opportunity for your networks.
Our project on climate change and crime in children and young people in the UK is under this scheme - interested applicants please do get in touch!

mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk/2026-27-proj...

11.12.2025 12:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“’New #PhD project! For 2026 to offer under the MRC @ukri.org Doctoral Training Studentship Scheme.

The project will investigate the links between heat and crime rates in youth in the UK.

Fully funded+living costs - open to anyone in the world 🌍

mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk/2026-27-proj...

24.11.2025 13:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Surely the attendance of AI-generated pupils is going to be zero?

12.11.2025 06:58 β€” πŸ‘ 106    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“’I sat down with Dr Shubs Upadhyay from the brilliant Global Perspectives on Digital Health podcast 🌐
We talked #evaluation of #digital #health interventions in low resource settings, programme theory and equitable and decolonial approaches πŸ‘‡πŸ½

www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-shu...

11.11.2025 12:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dr Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock Meet Dame Maggie – this year’s Lecturer for the CHRISTMAS LECTURES from the Royal Institution.

We end this #BlackHistoryMonth2025 series with Dr Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock, multi-award winning British space scientist and physicist who'll be giving the 2025 @rigb.org #Christmas Lecture!
www.rigb.org/explore-scie...

Tickets:
www.rigb.org/whats-on/dis...

31.10.2025 11:44 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thoughtful @thelancet.com comment following an excellent Pumphandle Lecture by Professor Cesar Victora hosted by the John Snow Society earlier this month.

20.10.2025 19:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“’The 2025 Pumphandle Lecture will be given by:

Dr Cesar Victora, Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology at Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil!!

"From Local Insights to Global Impact: Four Decades of Child Health and Nutrition Epidemiology in Pelotas, Brazil."

More information to come.

07.08.2025 13:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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πŸ—£οΈNEW SPEAKER!

Professor Rebecca French will be speaking at LSHTM’s Health Misinformation UNPACKED, 15 September 2025, London/online. @lshtmcepr.bsky.social

www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

23.07.2025 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New MSc Health Data in Practice @qmul-wiph.bsky.social

Prepare for leadership or strategic positions in the NHS or wider public and private sector organisations.

Find out more at: www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Register to join our webinar on 24th July, 1-2pm at qmul.tfaforms.net/166

15.07.2025 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We won the John Snow Society inaugural quiz (a month ago)!

11.07.2025 17:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“’Our mother-child bonding paper is out in @plosone.org!

In 2020 we developed a new tool to measure bonding, assessed its underlying constructs with structural equations and regression, showing bonding is affected by mode of birth and maternal depression.

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

23.04.2025 09:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We co-developed a training initiative in quasi-experimental designs with LSHTM Centre for Evaluation and the Youth Endowment Fund πŸ“‰πŸ‘‡
Includes some great colleagues (most not on Bluesky)

www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

08.04.2025 13:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Call for Nominations: The 2025 Paul Farmer Lectureship and Award for Global Health Equity The McGill School of Population and Global Health is now accepting nominations for the 2025 Paul Farmer Award for Global Health Equity. The nomination deadline is Sunday, June 8th, 2025. Paul Farmer, ...

Call for Nominations: The 2025 Paul Farmer Lectureship and Award for Global Health Equity @mcgill.ca

www.mcgill.ca/spgh/about-u...

21.03.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I can't recommend this scheme enough - working with my MP and having him visit the LSHTM, give a talk and meet my colleagues (and doing the same in Parliament) was a fantastic experience with positive consequences. @royalsociety.org

21.03.2025 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I was interviewed by one of our great student liaison officers Whitney Langlee for International Women's Day πŸ‘‡

15.03.2025 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We independently analysed data for the Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la SantΓ©, Nanoro and Oxford University on their new #malaria vaccine candidate RH5.1!

⬆️Up to 91% efficacy against very high parasitaemia

More results to follow...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

26.02.2025 09:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸŽ‰New Grant Alert: Excited to start a new body of research with #BenWeobong on impacts of climate change 🌦️ on mental health in children, adolescents and women.
Even more so to meet fellow awardees in our first @medresfdn.bsky.social Equitable Partnerships week in Ghana.

26.02.2025 09:09 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How to organize a global health conference: a satirical guide Welcome to the chaotic world of organizing a global health conference

How to organise a global health conference (a guide):

'Your event will be one of 96% in the global north, but will probably be about global south problems'.

'Remember nothing says β€œglobal health” like a 5-star ocean view resort'
by Dr Hashim Hounkpatin

speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2024/07/26/h...

26.02.2025 09:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We need for better quality, translational trials of #AI interventions in healthcare - that incorporate proper implementation science.

Excited to join the steering committee of the new CANAIRI initiative led by @MMccradden and @DrXiaoLiu
@naturemedicine.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

26.02.2025 09:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The annual @JohnSnowSociety Pumphandle Lecture is always a fantastic event, this year given by the former @WHO Chief Scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan @doctorsoumya

My role, to introduce Dr Soumya in the ceremonial removal of the handle of a replica water pump was worth all the dress rehearsals.

26.02.2025 09:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Digital for zero-dose: Harnessing AI for global health equity Harnessing AI and innovative solutions for global health equity.

Great position piece in @UNICEF blog recently on the value of sustainable, scalable digital technologies to reach undervaccinated children in Africa, and good to see an increasing number of locally developed research studies in this area πŸ‘πŸ½
@kkallander

www.unicef.org/blog/digital...

26.02.2025 08:59 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0