Jane Hirst
@DrJaneHirst
Professor in Global Women’s Health at Imperial College London and the George Institute for Global Health. All views my own
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05-04-2011 12:13:48
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Exciting event from the Women’s Health Network Imperial College London.
Join the Designing Healthcare Interventions for Women and Girls: A Collaborative Workshop.
Open to all Imperial academics interested in women's health and gender equity: buff.ly/3Qmb8aE
Whole of Asia is reeling under a heat wave, threatening lives & livelihoods. Both #climate adaptation & mitigation are urgently needed, especially to protect the most vulnerable in each country. Ministry of Health MoEF&CC NITI Aayog UN Climate Change World Health Organization South-East Asia World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific
ICYMI my incredible colleagues at The George Institute for Global Health led by Jane Hirst are researching the implications of a heating planet on obstetric outcomes. Worrying and important.
'The risks to mothers-to-be are significantly higher than previously thought.'
bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…
And thats a wrap! Great The FSRH Post-Birth Contraception Conference at Imperial College London with superb speakers from around the UK Lesley Regan Michelle Cooper @HealthierNWL janet barter and many more. Now for a UK network to share learning, evaluate and support UK roll-out The George Institute for Global Health
Our Preterm Birth biomarkers study has been published. Lessons here around the importance of external validation of proteomic biomarkers before rushing to clinical use. @oucru Nuffield Dept of Women's & Reproductive Health The George Institute for Global Health @seraprognostics
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Proteomic biomarkers to predict preterm birth: more evidence to support IBP4/SHBG, but more evidence needed to guide rollout OUCRU Nuffield Dept of Women's & Reproductive Health The George Institute for Global Health tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Our latest paper on #gestationaldiabetes from TOBOGM study shows that women with early GDM who regressed to normal in 2nd Trimester of pregnancy have normal pregnancy outcomes Diabetes Care, a research journal of the ADA 🌟 Steven Kahn #TOBOGM #GDM
With Jane Hirst and Dr Usha Sriram, spent a great few days in Chennai, with funding from Imperial College London India Connect grant, developing new collaboration for work preventing Type 2 diabetes after Gestational Diabetes with fantastic colleagues FOGSI ICMR &DIPSI
Great to see coverage for The George Institute for Global Health's new Centre for Sex and Gender Equity in Health and Medicine.
Much to be done to address gender bias in medicine that leads to poorer health outcomes, evidence gaps and inefficient health spending theguardian.com/australia-news…
Robyn Norton, the founding director of The George Institute for Global Health, said: “Our knowledge about health has overwhelmingly come from studies done with male cells, male animals, male humans used as standard in the laboratory, and that’s got to change.” theguardian.com/australia-news…
Can portable ultrasound really reduce childbirth deaths in Africa?
telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
Can a portable ultrasound really reduce childbirth deaths across Africa?
Nuffield Dept of Women's & Reproductive Health INTERGROWTH-21st Intelligent Ultrasound NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre
