📢 Exciting Contract Opportunity for Mental Health Lived Experience Innovation! 🧠 We want these collaborations to create innovative, substantial, and sustainable projects to advance lived experience involvement in mental health science.

🔍 Looking for real impact? It's time to move beyond numbers and to redefine success TOGETHER with communities. Join us on April 18 for a conversation on #MeasurementIsPolitical and why its important to measure what matters to communities #ShiftThePower email.globalfundcf.org/t/r-e-tikiktiy…

'We need brand new voices at the table if we are going to solve these problems' - how the work at Africa Health Research Institute is involving communities in flipping traditional power structures and making changes to the scientific ecosystem

Last week The Health Foundation published Health Inequalities in 2040. A ground breaking report looking at current patterns of diagnosed illness & what the future holds Essential reading for anyone wanting a fairer, healthier society. My key takeaways in this blog: health.org.uk/news-and-comme…

Reimagining ethics through the lens of TheIdeasFund

We need to double down on international collaboration for solving global health challenges. Even more so when political tensions weaken battle against the biggest diseases. Wellcome is committed to doing our part. ft.com/content/108dc9… via @ft

What a start to our first day on this brilliant and vital program. Thank you for bringing together such important voices in rethinking global health, a privilege to take part

Day 2 of the 'Reimagining Global Health' McGill Global Health Programs kicks off with the inspiring Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá speaking on Unfair knowledge practices in global health Read this new piece: academic.oup.com/heapol/advance…

Join my team! Community engagement is a vital part of Wellcome approach to health equity and this Senior Manager role will lead work to advocate for and centre those affected by health challenges. Please do share or take a look! Deadline 5 Jun tinyurl.com/5bd8tt5j

If global health truly valued 'lived experience' then it would not be so dominated by the most privileged, elite and Global North actors

⭐️📢 Time for GloCAN’s second seminar! Check out “GOVERNING: Can a global citizens’ assembly be organised democratically?” next Thursday! 😊 📆 June 13 ⏰ 12:00-13:00 CEST 📍 Virtual via Zoom Click the 🔗 to register and learn more! glocan.org/events/ DelDemUCan

A winner after 10 years of the Longitude Prize - momentous! Congratulations trisdyson and all #AMR

Join us in a webinar to launch the Mesh comprehensive (and free) online course: An Introduction and Practical Guide to Community Engagement and Involvement in Global Health Research zoom.us/webinar/regist… Noni Mumba 🇰🇪💐 Gill Black Helen Latchem

"Mattering" is the belief that we’re significant to the world around us. When people feel they matter, they feel seen, important & needed through how others treat them. Scholars have deemed mattering to be a core instinct that drives all human behaviour. That’s why, when someone

What a privilege to join this event today and to be imagining the future with a permanent global citizens assembly. An amazing range of experience and influence contributing to making this happen!

Keir Starmer says the fight for trust is "the battle that defines our era" In Taiwan the government went from 9% approval rating to a peak of over 70%. There are lessons we can learn and it starts by politicians trusting the people Me in the The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

"Women die when they don't have to, not because of lack of attention, science or evidence on what works for women's health, but because of the exploitation of women's health as a means of attaining and sustaining power in the world" Sophie Harman, Sick of It (2024)

📣Are you a pioneer of storytelling for social change? AKO Storytelling Institute are offering free fellowships to support storytellers and campaigners to make a greater social impact through their work.🌍✨ 🗓️Applications close on 5 September. Find out more👇 arts.ac.uk/storytelling-i…

Long thread; A lot of the violence we have seen over the last few days has been stoked by years of misinformation about migration, often from many of the politicians condemning it now. So, let's address some of that misinformation. 1/

All of us at Wellcome have been appalled by the organised violence aimed at migrants and other minorities in the UK, motivated by racism and Islamophobia. Our thoughts are with those affected, and our thanks with those working to keep people safe.