We are a cross-faculty team of researchers @LSHTM focused on supporting and improving the health of everyone affected by #HumanitarianCrisis
London & worldwide
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📢 We're moving to Bluesky!
Join us over there for the latest updates on work across @LSHTM to improve the health of populations affected by humanitarian crises ⛑
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Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre, LSHTM retweeted
Amidst complex crises, #aid cuts and polarising #politics, how should researchers confront injustice and oppression? How can they amplify people's voices and experiences?
Explore these questions @LSHTM_Crises annual event in #London on 25 November.
ALT Flyer for an annual event hosted by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine's Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre on Tuesday 25 November 2025.
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🚨 New @WHO guidance for malaria in crisis settings 🌍 🦟
@drbhargavirao, co-author, highlights the significance of the manual for frontline workers and the need to integrate malaria control into broader emergency response.
Read more: bit.ly/469Q1kd
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📰 @LSHTM MSc Reproductive and Sexual Health Research students write in @TheLancet on the crisis of violence-related deaths in #Nigeria
With 1000s of deaths each year, the authors argue this constitutes a security threat & a public health emergency 👇
thelancet.com/journals/lance…
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🌟SHOWCASE EVENT🌟
Celebrate our 2025 Centre prize winners and hear about their award-winning research!
🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏰12:30 – 14:00
📍 LSHTM/Online
Full details 👉bit.ly/CEPRAwards2025
ALT Epidemic Preparedness Prize Winners Showcase 2025. Friday 21 July, 12:30 - 14:00, London/Online
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RT @LSHTM: We need to talk about health #misinformation🤔
Join our flagship event on 15 Sept 2025 for ideas on how to defend yourself & you…
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🎉Meet our 2025 epidemic preparedness prize winners!🎉
They won prizes for research ranging from exploring health worker experiences in refugee settings, understanding neglected diseases to listening to communities during outbreaks.
Hear more👉bit.ly/CEPRAwards2025
ALT Epidemic Preparedness and Response Prize Winner 2025 - Research Degree Student Prize: Georgia Venner
ALT Epidemic Preparedness and Response Prize Winner 2025 - Resource Prize: Nadine Beckmann, Sophie Everest, Olive Leonard, Yang Zhao (UK-Public Health Rapid Support Team)
ALT Epidemic Preparedness and Response Prize Winner 2025 - Resource Prize: Rania Al Mukhtar
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For #RefugeeDay, read about our GOAL partnership's health system research and the stories and participation tools we created with @WarChildLebanon for it...
#coproduction #participatoryresearch #Lebanon
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GOAL is a partnership between National Mental Health Programme Lebanon, @LSHTM, @AbaadMENA, @WarChildLebanon, @BeyondTextOrg & @USJLiban 🤝
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🌍 On #WorldRefugeeDay, discover how the GOAL project is strengthening mental health systems in Lebanon for displaced Syrians & host communities—through inclusive research, sustainable financing & creative tools.
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lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres…
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GOAL is a partnership between National Mental Health Programme Lebanon, @LSHTM, @AbaadMENA, @WarChildLebanon, @BeyondTextOrg & @USJLiban 🤝
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RT @LSHTM: Famine and the Need for a Collective Voice in Sudan
In @bmj_latest, Samantha Olson & Maysoon Dahab discuss how data gaps in con…
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Samantha Olson, Research Coordinator in Infectious Disease Epidemiology @LSHTM, writes about the severe & unmet challenge of famine in Sudan amid the latest conflict 👇
Say the “F” word: Famine and the Need for a Collective Voice in Sudan bit.ly/4jvbGXs
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Say the “F” word: Famine and the Need for a Collective Voice in Sudan bit.ly/4jvbGXs
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🆕Tigray, Ethiopia | Estimation of mortality caused by the 2020-2022 conflict
New survey of Tigrayan diaspora estimates conflict resulted in 100,000 deaths, suggests many casualties are women and older adults
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Interested in developing service user participation in services, systems and policies?
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Check out our @GcrfGoal @LSHTM Participation Toolkit made with, by and for mental health researchers and people with LX of using #mentalhealth services together with @jmh_lb
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Mental health is a universal human right. But it can’t be achieved without service users participating in all matters related to their mental health, including services, systems & policies.
📖 Use the toolkit: tinyurl.com/3mk3zkb5
#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
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🌍 As extreme weather events surge due to climate change, communities are leading the way in response & adaptation
New blog by @LSHTM MSc student @virafita explores how local responses to floods in Nigeria & Spain offer vital lessons for risk reduction
🔗buff.ly/0GpUTR4
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Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre, LSHTM retweeted
🚨 Don’t miss the final session of #MSFScientificDays 2025! 🚨
Session 4: Vaccination: a humanitarian lifeline under threat
🕦15:40–17:10 BST
🗓️ Thursday, 22 May 2025
📍 Royal Society of Medicine, London & 💻 Online
✨ Featuring keynote from Dr Sania Nishtar, CEO @gavi
🔗 Register: registration.crowdcomms.com/…
#GlobalHealth #Vaccines #ZeroDose #MSF
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Since Myanmar's 2021 coup, young people have faced threats to their safety, separation from family, displacement & many other stressors
A new mental health survey has revealed the impacts of the conflict on young women & girls 👩👩👧👧
Read here ⬇ lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres…
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