Congratulations Dr Emily Cornish Emily Cornish on your award. 🎉We look forward to reading the article!

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📣 Calling UCL PhD students, post-docs & junior PIs. We're recruiting a new ECN Committee Co-Chair! This is an excellent opportunity for you to develop your leadership skills & help shape support for ECRs.

D/L 31 Oct. bit.ly/3rAf0YK

We are excited to share the full programme for the 2nd Nov 1:30-5pm Otto Wolff lecture and Catherine Peckham Symposium : tinyurl.com/mpebvmsh

In person & online, book your free ticket to avoid disappointment: tinyurl.com/yjufr7db #ICH_OWL #mentalhealth #ChildHealthResearch

🚨 Call for staff & students under the age of 30 (preferably male) to be bone marrow donors.

Cancer patients like Erin (4 yrs), urgently need a stem cell transplant.

Register with Anthony Nolan or DKMS UK to help.

➡️anthonynolan.org
➡️dkms.org.uk/erin

📢Join us on Tuesday 22 November at 4pm to hear from our experts, who will be attending COP27.

There will be a panel discussion with Dr Marina Romanello and Mita Huq (@UCLGlobalHealth), chaired by Prof Anthony Costello (@globalhlthtwit).

Register now 👇
bit.ly/3D7cKNO

🗓️ Join the Lancet Countdown 2022 Report Launch.

Taking place this Wednesday 26 October, with a great line up of speakers, including Marina Romanello (@UCLGlobalHealth) who will share the key findings and messages from the report.

Register now👇

A new process called Accelerated Partner Therapy is being used to treat chlamydia.

This new method, developed in part by UCL Global Health researchers, could be adapted for other STIs and infectious diseases like #Covid19 🦠

Read more⬇️
bit.ly/3SV0UNx

#SexualHealth

Lunch Hour Lecture | Managing Covid19 – how could we have done (and do) better? | 22 Nov @ 1pm

This Lunch Hour Lecture from Professor Susan Michie will look at the management of Covid19 and explore whether we could have done better.

Find out more & register 👉 bit.ly/3ePMtvy

Five hours’ sleep a night in mid-to-late life could be linked to higher risk of multiple diseases according to a new study led by researchers from UCL IEHC.

Find out more➡️bit.ly/3CM0ceB

#HealthyLiving #HealthNews

📅 Join the Joep Lange Chair & Fellows Symposium on 3 November.

Experts, including our Dean Ibrahim Abubakar, will share their interdisciplinary perspectives on #migration & #health .

Event is free & open to all.

Register here👇
bit.ly/3ghs9Dr

@AIGHD Joep Lange Institute

🗓️ Coming up this week...

📣 Calling all UCL researchers... Sign up for this face-to-face workshop on engaging with EU policymakers & the role of science advice in the European Union. UCL Global UCL Public Policy UCL European Institute.

21 Oct, 9:30-12:30. Register: bit.ly/3yeSpoc

How does social media make you feel?🤔

Dr Dr Ruth Plackett (@UCL_IEHC) shares her key points, based on research, about preserving your mental health

🧠Be mindful
👍Be active not passive
⛱️Take a break
⚙️Take control

Read more⬇️

The Otto Wolff Lecture & Catherine Peckham Symposium on the power of data for child and family mental health research, 2nd Nov, 1.30-5pm, followed by a drinks reception. Join us Population, Policy and Practice Department UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health UCL Events in person or online. Book your free place: eventbrite.com/e/ucl-ich-the-…

“Patients should take their [blood pressure] tablets when they are most likely to remember to take them': Prof Bryan Williams UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science UCL Population Health Sciences in The Mirror on his new research into the healthiest time to take heart medication
mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/y…

Congratulations Joyce Harper on your lifetime achievement award. She is doing work on reproductive health education.

📢 Introducing the LifeArc Gene Therapy Innovation Fund!

Today we're launching a new £5m annual fund that will provide grants to academic researchers working on innovative #GeneTherapy technologies.

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⚠️ Did you know warning systems could be developed as long-term societal processes?

This would help to stop future pandemics, warns Ilan Kelman (@UCLWRC UCL Global Health UCL IRDR)

Find out more⬇️
bit.ly/3yWw4ML

#InternationalDayforDisasterRiskReduction #COVID19

Dr Vasanti Jadva UCL-IfWH UCL Population Health Sciences on Radio 4 Analysis describes her work tracking the mental health of surrogate mothers, finding that those who expected to keep contact with the child but couldn't, were negatively affected.
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… (from 15:54)