Fredros Okumu
@Fredros_Inc
Public Health Researcher; Director of Science, Ifakara Health Institute; @WEF Young Global Leader; Senior Fellow @AspenNewVoices; #Health #Mosquitoes #F1 #Space
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01-08-2012 01:44:04
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🗓️Nov 10, 17:00hrs CET
Join our upcoming webinar to hear Fredros Okumu, Shunmay Yeung from London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Steffen Borrmann CAIDERA from Uniklinikum Tübingen share their research and discuss the challenges for #Malaria control.
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📢 Get a social science perspective on mosquito control in the next GLOHRA Academy Series with Uli Beisel, professor of Human Geography at Freie Universität [rescheduled from October]
📅 2 November, 17-18:00 CET
ℹ globalhealth.de/news/view/gloh…
🔗 to register: uni-bonn.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
![📢 Get a social science perspective on mosquito control in the next GLOHRA Academy Series with Uli Beisel, professor of Human Geography at @FU_Berlin [rescheduled from October] 📅 2 November, 17-18:00 CET ℹ globalhealth.de/news/view/gloh… 🔗 to register: uni-bonn.zoom.us/meeting/regist…](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FgEw-0PWIAAVOuk.jpg "German Alliance for Global Health Research (@globalhealth_de) on Twitter photo 2022-10-27 12:02:03 📢 Get a social science perspective on mosquito control in the next GLOHRA Academy Series with Uli Beisel, professor of Human Geography at @FU_Berlin [rescheduled from October] 📅 2 November, 17-18:00 CET ℹ globalhealth.de/news/view/gloh… 🔗 to register: uni-bonn.zoom.us/meeting/regist…")
#DidYouKnow that frogs were used as pregnancy tests until the 1960s?
Dr Jeff Streicher, Senior Curator of Amphibians and Reptiles, explains how clawed frogs played an important role in improving women's healthcare. 🐸🐸
'Nigerians are used to managing. If not, we would have all died. Nigerians care for themselves, we're just like infants with no father or mother.'
Our #NigeriaFloods LIVE report on CNN from Yenagoa in Bayelsa state where residents are angry at the government's response
![In 2018, three colleagues and I published a front-cover paper in @PNASNews It has > 170 citations as of 2022, and it was a success that might not have happened: • We had $0 budget • We had no PI (Principal Investigator) • We had no credentials [Here's how we did it] 🧵](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ff8LXkLXgAoFwIk.jpg "Ruben Dario Palacio, Ph.D. (@rdpalacio) on Twitter photo 2022-10-25 22:38:57 In 2018, three colleagues and I published a front-cover paper in @PNASNews It has > 170 citations as of 2022, and it was a success that might not have happened: • We had $0 budget • We had no PI (Principal Investigator) • We had no credentials [Here's how we did it] 🧵")
'I worry a lot of big pharma extending its grip on #PandemicPreparedness ; we cannot repeat the mistakes of covid' says Mark Malloch-Brown in response to a question about the The People's Vaccine at @Devex event on funding inclusive/equitable #PPPR
