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Professional Development Programme on Adolescent Health begins in Harare.
The inaugural Professional Development Programme on Adolescent Wellbeing started this week. This is a new modular 18-month course for...
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Oct 4, 20211 min read


Prof. Rashida Ferrand gains a Wellcome Trust Doctoral training programme
Rashida Ferrand led successful bid for a Wellcome Trust Doctoral training Programme- Global Health Research in Africa Awarded GBP...
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Oct 1, 20211 min read


A Million Girls Foundation Champion.
Mandi Tembo becomes a ‘A Million Girls Foundation champion’. The A Million Girls Foundation is a South African foundation focused on...
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Oct 1, 20211 min read


Presentations at the Annual Meeting of the National Association of Physicians Zimbabwe (NAPAZ)
This year’s meeting featured two talks from our researchers titled: Integrated occupational health services for health care workers in...
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Oct 1, 20211 min read


Youth Researchers Academy Dissemination Meeting Update.
A Hybrid (in person & virtual) dissemination meeting with stakeholders for the Youth Researcher Academy was held in Harare. Youth...
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Sep 30, 20211 min read


Public engagement work gets showcased at LSHTM week.
The group received an opportunity to showcase its public engagement portfolio at LSHTM week earlier this month. The MARCH Centre...
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Sep 7, 20211 min read


Fractures E3 begins in Zimbabwe, protocol training
Fractures E3 (FE3) study begins training its team in Zimbabwe through its various work packages. FE3 is an international mixed methods...
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Sep 6, 20211 min read


CHIEDZA study begins training staff for prevalence survey
The study begins a two-week training program that covers identification of clusters, household enumeration, consenting procedures, data...
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Sep 6, 20211 min read


Fractures E3 study begins recruitment into work package 2.
The Wellcome-funded multi-country Fractures E3 study aiming to investigate the epidemiology, economics and ethnography of fragility...
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Sep 1, 20211 min read


Postdoctoral fellow, Chido Dziva Chikwari, becomes an elected PLOS Global Health Editorial Board Me
Dr Chido Dziva Chikwari, is now an editorial board member of the PLOS Global Health Journal which is a new open access public health...
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Aug 27, 20211 min read


PhD fellow, Tinotenda Taruvinga’s mock upgrading gets granted a pass.
On Wednesday the 11th of August, PhD fellow, Tinotenda Taruvinga, presented his PhD mock upgrading presentation titled, “Understanding...
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Aug 17, 20211 min read


LSHTM Crowdsourcing Event.
The theme of this event was crowdsourcing and its increasing popularity as a method to solving social problems. Stakeholders got the...
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Aug 12, 20211 min read


Prof. Rashida Ferrand joins the CDC-Africa SAGE (Strategic Advisory Group of Experts) for COVID19
Rashida becomes a member of this committee that meets on a monthly basis to provide policy guidance on the pandemic to CDC-Africa.
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Aug 6, 20211 min read


CHIEDZA study hosts the Menstrual Health & Hygiene Product Choice and Pain Management FGD
The study hosted a select group of female cohorts (aged 16-24years) to discuss the effects of COVID-19 on menstrual health & hygiene,...
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Aug 3, 20211 min read


The Group moves to bigger offices!
As of Monday 2nd August 2021, the group has moved to a larger premise to accommodate more staff members and upcoming projects. A warm...
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Aug 2, 20211 min read


Justin Dixon begins the Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship in Humanities & Social Sciences
Justin has begun his fellowship titled “Multimorbidity and knowledge architectures: An Interdisciplinary Global Health Collaboration”...
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Jul 19, 20211 min read


VITALITY Zimbabwe team visits VITALITY clinic in Zambia to ensure study synergies.
Three of our Zimbabwe based VITALITY study members: Nyasha Dzavakwa (Trial Co-ordinator), Vicky Simms (Trial Statistician) and Cynthia...
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Jun 29, 20211 min read


Dr. Aoife Doyle moves to Zimbabwe to lead the Y-Check Study
Dr Aoife Doyle, Associate Professor in Epidemiology at LSHTM, has as of late moved to Harare to lead the Y-Check study. Aoife, who has...
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Jun 8, 20211 min read


The Menopause Study Workshops
The Menopause Study (Improving experiences of the menopause for women in Zimbabwe and South Africa: co-producing an information resource)...
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Jun 1, 20211 min read


The CORD study led by Dr. Edith Majonga begins
As of June 1st 2021, the Characterisation Of caRdiac Disease in adolescents with perinatally-acquired HIV infection in the antiretroviral...
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Jun 1, 20211 min read
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