Akanksha Mimi Malhotra

Scholarships and Funding Institute for Global Health

Are you keen on pursuing an MSc in Global Health and Development at IGH? You could be eligible for the African Graduate Scholarship, which provides a one-time award for a year's study at UCL.

Submit your application by May 30th, 2025

#ScholarshipOpportunity #GlobalHealth

Pulmonary rehabilitation is an evidence-based, personalized, comprehensive intervention that improves physical and psychological function and reduces healthcare consumption in people with chronic respiratory conditions #PRweek2025 #COPD

This is a really exciting opportunity. Please consider applying if you are interested in health economics. @thruzim.bsky.social @emarambire.bsky.social @tb-lshtm.bsky.social

TB is a disease of poverty, but 70/100 observational TB studies we read didn’t account for deprivation.

We have some ideas about poverty— an oft overlooked confounder in TB research.

Link: bit.ly/4b9oDn4

@tomwingfield.bsky.social
@madhupai.bsky.social
@theunion-tblh.bsky.social

Amazing news! Huge congrats 🙌🏼

PhD position (London, UK)
Quantify the effects of climate change on TB
with @cfmcquaid.bsky.social @reinhouben.bsky.social @laragosce.bsky.social
at @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social @tb-lshtm.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2253

I had the most incredible time at the TBnet Academy in 2023 ☀️🫁!

An amazing opportunity and experience that I would 100% recommend to any clinicians or academics interested in #Tuberculosis and #NTM.

Applications open for this year until 2nd March www.tbnet.eu/tbnet-academy

PhD opportunity @lshtm-tbmod.bsky.social modelling intersection of TB (world #1 infectious killer) & climate change. Do apply to be part of a great group doing impactful work! www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a... @lshtm.bsky.social @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social @reinhouben.bsky.social @laragosce.bsky.social

👏🏾 We are delighted to share that we have officially completed the follow up for PreFIT study. HURRAY!! 🙌🏾

PreFIT study addresses the need for better diagnostic tools for tuberculosis.

➡️ Learn more about it: predictingtb.org

Applications for the MSc in Sexual & Reproductive Health Policy and Programming are currently open…

The MSc is fully online with full time or part time study options.

There are also 50 Scholarship awards available for candidates from Africa!

www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/course...

Yesterday we met with our TB community advisory board. Their insights & feedback are invaluable. Thank you for making the time to meet us! @thruzim.bsky.social @emarambire.bsky.social @clairecalderw.bsky.social @mimimalhotra.bsky.social

@thruzim.bsky.social ran a abstract mentorship day in preparation of the call for abstracts for the 2025 TB Union conference. We had v engaged discussion & plan to continue the mentorship with online sessions. @clairecalderw.bsky.social @mimimalhotra.bsky.social @emarambire.bsky.social

New preprint (with all pre-print caveats!) tinyurl.com/589ffhu4 on Mtb infection risk by sex & age.
Men are at higher risk of #tuberculosis v women- but unclear how much driven by higher infection vs progression to disease. We meta-analysed Mtb immunoreactivity surveys to find out more🧵 #tbsky

HIV and alcohol misuse among miners in Zimbabwe Zimbabwe has successfully reached the UNAIDS 95-95-95 HIV testing, treatment, and viral suppression targets; however, gaps remain particularly among the growing population of artisanal and small-scale miners, who are highly vulnerable to HIV. Sex work, gender-based violence, and sexual harassment, which are all risk factors for HIV infection, are common in artisanal and small-scale miners’ communities in Zimbabwe.1 More than 50% of artisanal and small-scale miners engaging in extramarital sex reported not using condoms.

Our article on HIV & Alcohol Misuse among artisanal miners in Zimbabwe is published 💃🏽

It is a call to action for research in a high risk group where high levels of alcohol abuse, high HIV prevalence & poor access to health services are reported.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Figure showing exposures, at-risk people, mitigation strategies and ILD outcomes.

Figure 2: Conceptual framework of at-risk individuals, select environmental and occupational exposures, risk mitigation strategies, and adverse health outcomes associated with inhalational exposures in patients with #ILD

The IMPACT Scholarship

If you're thinking of applying for a Masters in Public Health & have experience of inequality, consider applying for the IMPACT Scholarship at UCL.

Happy to answer any questions you have!

www.ucl.ac.uk/epidemiology...

Belgium becomes first EU country to ban sale of disposable vapes Products banned on health and environmental grounds, while Milan outlaws outdoor smoking

Belgium becomes first EU country to ban sale of disposable vapes

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Out now in @thetxidjournal.bsky.social!

T-SPOT.TB is more likely to produce actionable results than QFT-TB in patients with cancer being screened for latent TB.

#TxID #IDSky

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Grateful to have the most amazing MPH & now PhD supervisor @kkranzer.bsky.social @thruzim.bsky.social 🤩 🍰 !

Geographical variation in lung function: Results from the multicentric cross-sectional BOLD study Spirometry is used to determine what is “unusual” lung function compared with what is “usual” for healthy non-smokers. This study aimed to investigate regional variation in the forced vital capacit...

New #BOLDstudy paper –

Geographical variation in lung function: Results from the multicentric cross-sectional BOLD study www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"The relation of FVC to age and height varies geographically, but there is no geographical variation in the FEV1/FVC ratio."

#TeamAmaral

Attended 3 day national #TB conference in #Zimbabwe. Great presentations & discussions. TB caucus breakfast - MPs from all provinces present prioritising #TB control. @mimimalhotra.bsky.social

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C - new guideline very much on my reading list though!

A

But hopefully E in the UK soon too 🤞🏼