Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre,
We are a cross-faculty team of researchers @LSHTM focused on supporting and improving the health of people affected by #humanitarian crises.
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Climate Change is a Health Emergency | LSHTM
Climate change is the greatest threat to human health in the 21st Century. As we try to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic we are faced with an urgent need to re-build a sustainable and healthy society that is able to adapt and respond to the climate...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Women Leaders in Health and Conflict Seminar and Webinar Series: Highlighting the role of women leaders in the COVID-19 response in Syria. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining t
In this series we will hear from inspirational individuals working in health and conflict who are driving health research, policy and programmatic interventions in conflict-related humanitarian contexts. Through their unique experiences, we will...
Student opportunities 2020-21 | LSHTM
Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre,
Happy Friday y'all! Some good news...we are currently recruiting 3 Student Liaison Officers (SLOs) for this academic year - which could be YOU! ✨✨✨
Open to all current LSHTM MSc students - details here: bit.ly/3jJg5HX
Deadline: Monday 19 October✍️🏾 pic.twitter.com/WFMs4dKckN
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Disadvantage begins at birth for women caught up in conflict | David Milliband
Gender action plans must be implemented in crisis zones to alleviate the suffering of women and girls
Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre,
Since 1995, the number of people caught up in #humanitarian crises has risen dramatically with a 44% increase in the number of refugees, 50% of whom are women 🧕🏿👩🏽👩🏾🦱
Covid-19 exacerbates the problem @MARCH_LSHTM @RESCUEorg @DMiliband
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: COVID-19 & Humanitarian Settings: Exploring the Controversial Issues. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
The READY initiative, the Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the Geneva Centre of Humanitarian Health at University of Geneva, and the Center for Humanitarian Health at Johns Hopkins...
“You said the hospital can't be bombed”
Like many a movie, For Sama starts with a bang that sets the scene for the explosions
that pepper the rest of the film. Unfortunately, this is no Hollywood action blockbuster
with jaw-dropping special effects. The explosions are not pyrotechnics but...
PERC | Prevent Epidemics
Partnership for Evidence-Based Response to COVID-19 (PERC) is a public-private partnership that supports evidence-based measures to reduce the impact of COVID-19 on African countries
Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre,
One of the worrying secondary impacts of the #COVID pandemic is its effect on health-seeking behaviours.
In this new report from #PERC, 40% of people who needed health care reported skipping or delaying services across 18 African Union Member States 🌍
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'Confounding': Covid may have already peaked in many African countries
One explanation for virus not behaving as expected could be previous exposure to other infections, experts tell MPs
Estimates of crisis-attributable mortality | LSHTM
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New report retrospectively estimating mortality in #Somalia 🇸🇴, which has been marred by recurrent climate & armed conflict-driven crises @abdihamid_, @amyg225, S Frisson & F Checchi
2017-18 drought-triggered crisis led to ~45,000 attributable deaths ➡️bit.ly/3mtEl2E pic.twitter.com/J3YR4Dwqcg
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£3.8 million funding boost to investigate alcohol misuse in humanitarian settings | LSHTM
Every two seconds someone in the world is forcibly displaced as a result of conflict, violence or persecution. These populations affected by conflict are particularly vulnerable to psychosocial distress and much higher levels of mental disorders,...
“To die is better for me”, social suffering among Syrian refugees at a noncommunicable disease clinic in Jordan: a qualitative study
Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre,
'To die is better for me' - @EimhinA new paper on the interaction between physical & mental suffering of Syrian refugees w/ #NCDs in Jordan. Powerful & highly important @LSHTM_CGCC @bayardroberts @KiranJobanputra
Read it here ➡️
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Field Experience
COVID19 Humanitarian........
Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre,
Read our new field experience from #Libya 🇱🇾 which documents the efforts of @ICRC & Libyan Red Crescent Society to implement a community engagement strategy for #COVID and enlist volunteers among the population➡️ bit.ly/2D3prhQ
@Hum_StudiesGVA @Humanit_Health pic.twitter.com/ttuz440Qej
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300,000 people lose homes, incomes, food supplies and belongings due to catastrophic flooding in Yemen
An estimated 300,000 people in Yemen have lost their homes, crops, livestock and personal belongings in the last three months due to torrential rains and
Shielding Approach - Videos | LSHTM
Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre,
The shielding approach aims to protect those most vulnerable from #COVID infection by helping them to live in dignity, safely and separately from the general population -📽️ are now available in Arabic, Spanish, French & Swahili
Check them out here ➡️ bit.ly/2FiLOjX pic.twitter.com/XnbU5E4C8l
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COVID-19: Supporting Forcibly Displaced People in the Middle East and East Africa - Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform
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Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform
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COVID-19 is compounding vulnerabilities experienced by populations forcibly displaced by war
SSHAP and Africa CDC webinar: Lockdowns and the easing of restrictions - Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform
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Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform
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What can be done to adapt to local contexts and to protect those who are vulnerable?