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lenkabenova.bsky.social
Researching reproductive and (urban) maternal health at ITM Antwerp @srhgroup-itm.bsky.social www.urbanbirthcollective.org 🇵🇸
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We are raising an alarm about the effect of USAID funding cuts on essential population and health data. ssrn.com/abstract=513... @pete-m-m.bsky.social @srhgroup-itm.bsky.social @bhensen.bsky.social @jilmolenaar.bsky.social @onykepe.bsky.social @cbpolis.bsky.social @manueladr.bsky.social ocial

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

When was the last time you felt like a child in an amusement park? ✨ For us, just this Monday! Appreciating the science, patience and mad skills that it takes to raise a tsetse fly colony @itmantwerp.bsky.social Thank you to Prof Van Den Abbeele!🙏

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Just published: ‘Getting the numbers right’ - on how healthcare workers navigate power & pressure when collecting MNH data in Tanzania. Ethnographic insights on the social lives of health data 🏥 tinyurl.com/3n8tcefh @srhgroup-itm.bsky.social @lenkabenova.bsky.social

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Congratulations to PhD student Cathy Birabwa for this paper which took over a year to write - thoughtful, deep, contextually specific analysis of women's pathways to emergency obstetric care. www.ghspjournal.org/content/earl...

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Digital data systems hold a lot of promise, but we should avoid ‘techno-utopian’ views of digital technologies as straightforward ways to fix problems in routine health information systems. Our qualitative paper 'Data for whom?' is now out in BMJ Global Health! gh.bmj.com/content/9/11...

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

Dr Aliki Christou @alichristou.bsky.social presented at the 19th International Stillbirth Alliance Conference her FWO Vlaanderen post-doctoral research looking at the challenges with perinatal and stillbirth data availability, quality and use in health systems of Benin and Cambodia. 1/2

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

I haven't seen one out there yet, so I created a Sexual and Reproductive Health starter pack! Let me know who I missed that's here. Looking forward to building back community here, especially as we gear up for these next few years. go.bsky.app/6WuJVjj

submitted 110 days ago • 65 comments

Hi academics! Today's a great day to email the authors of a piece you have read and liked to tell them. Assigning a work in class? Tell the authors! Citing something bc it is smart and good? Tell the authors! Just liked something you read? Tell the authors!!

submitted 105 days ago • 15 comments

Looking forward to the International Conference on Urban Health in Marrakesh (18-21/11/24) ◾I will present ongoing work where we monitor hourly temperature in >30 locations in Lubumbashi city ◾This includes measurement in delivery rooms & within the compound of health facilities www.icuh2024.org

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

"This #map represents what I know": the power of putting Lubumbashi’s #maternal healthcare services on the map "Keeping the maps accurate therefore requires a continuous effort, which is unlikely to happen without local ownership." www.itg.be/fr/histoires... www.itg.be/en/health-st...

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

Pressure to meet targets to improve health outcomes for women and their babies can have unintended negative consequences. In this blog post, published on Harvard’s Maternal Health Taskforce website, I explain why. www.mhtf.org/2024/11/07/m...

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments