1 in 3 adolescent girls are married before 18 in #Ethiopia. Our research suggests the national Health Extension Programme has contribued signficantly to recent declines in the practice and improved #GirlsEducation. Views here ⬇️

#Free online seminar “The Prevention and Management of Psychosocial Reactions to Traumatic Experiences” by Jon Bisson: 28 July, 4-6pm UK, hosted by Ukrainian Institute of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, will be streamed here: youtube.com/channel/UCv4DE…

UK women who've had a child miss out on est £70k earning, shows Understanding Society data. Women in developing nations are often married young and become young parents. Check out some of the work by YoungLivesEthiopia bit.ly/3nZV0Nu and @ninosdelmilenio bit.ly/3uJuz2j

Great to see our paper investigating #FoodSecurity for #HIV prevention among adolescent mothers in South Africa is now available! Novel research in a priority population! Lucie Cluver WFP Africa Mona Rachel Yates UKRI GCRF Accelerate Hub

Congrats Jenny Chen on her creative use of open ended survey questions among adolescents in Eastern Cape, South Africa UKRI GCRF Accelerate Hub 👏👏 Here's what adolescents living with HIV and not infected by HIV are most proud of about themselves For full paper: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🚨ESRC Funding Opportunity for Secondary Data Analysis on Global South Development: ukri.org/opportunity/us…

Congrats to the brilliant Silinganisiwe Dzumbunu for winning a prestigious Public Health Association of South Africa (PHASA) Fellowship 🎉🎉 cssr.uct.ac.za/news/aarhub/ph…

This week is the last week to apply for the following positions! 1.Senior Data, Evidence and Policy Officer girlsnotbrides.livevacancies.co.uk/#/job/details/… 2. Head of Asia girlsnotbrides.livevacancies.co.uk/#/job/details/… 3. Senior Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning for Impact Officer girlsnotbrides.livevacancies.co.uk/#/job/details/…

Come and do a fully-funded PhD with us SocialWorkUnivEdin on single father and grand-parenthood in South Africa. Open to international candidates. Apply for Option 1. HB Franchino-Olsen, PhD ed.ac.uk/student-fundin… ed.ac.uk/sites/default/…

📢EVENT-Multidimensional Child Poverty: New Approaches, Debates & Applications Oxford DSPI event featuring Enrique Delamónica UNICEF & Oliver Fiala/Save the Children UK who will discuss new approaches to measuring child #poverty 🗓️12:30-1:30 Tue 28 Mar talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/23c84…

Our research suggests that Health extension workers support multiple adolescent challenges beyond just health. Read more in our The Conversation Africa article Silinganisiwe Dzumbunu UKRI GCRF Accelerate Hub theconversation.com/community-heal…

I am hiring a 4-year Assistant Prof in Demography London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine to work with me on topics related to formal/statistical demography and population dynamics in LMICs PSG LSHTM Feel free to get in touch to discuss more and please share it with anyone that might be interested. Details 👇

New 3 wave analysis among adolescents in 🇿🇦's EC In girls, return to school and increased food security and caregiver supervision predict 11-50% lower prob. of HIV risk behaviours doi.org/10.1186/s12889… w/ @MiaG83 BB Elona Toska Yulia Shenderovich UKRI GCRF Accelerate Hub BMC PH

New insight on the cost-effectiveness of provincial rollout of Parenting support, Cash, and Parenting-support 'plus' cash to reduce violence against adolescents in MP 🇿🇦 Sopuru Obiesie Chris Desmond Lucie Cluver UKRI GCRF Accelerate Hub #Decision_analysis doi.org/10.1371/journa…

📢 NEW research: 30% of young mothers do not return to school after giving birth 📢 The study, based in Sub-Saharan Africa, shows that financial support for mothers is not enough – affordable resources and progressive laws are key. More The Conversation: ow.ly/jA3l50PGp0O

We are hiring!📢📢📢📢 Amazing opportunity for a 4 years vacancy to work on linked data from Brazil to assess the effects of in uterus exposure to infectious disease. #Vacancy jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r… MARCH Centre, LSHTM Cidacs London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Please share widely and sign up for our The Union workshop "Planning and implementing social protection programmes for people affected by TB: an introduction" led by WHO's Delia Boccia and Ernesto Jaramillo. Bhola Rai (Birat Nepal Medical Trust) and I (@lstmnews) will be facilitating.

Carlton Evans & Sumona Datta presenting on important psychosocial and wellbeing findings from the Innovation For Health And Development (ifhad.org) team's Community Randomised Evaluation of a Socioeconomic Intervention for People with TB (CRESIPT) trial...

The Child Atlas helps us to visualise, compare and understand the situation of children globally. I share a few examples in my new blog for World Bank Data 👇

Child poverty and climate change can become a vicious cycle—poverty makes children more vulnerable to shocks like severe weather and floods. These crises also impoverish them more. Excited to finally share our new report 👇 ENDchildpoverty UNICEF Social Policy Save the Children International