Realising radical potential - read the latest paper from VAPAR with our lessons on participatory action research for primary care equityhealthj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

City planners, street vendors & spaza shops could help keep SA fed. Here’s how – Bhekisisa bhekisisa.org/health-news-so…

After 64 days, 7 procedures and losing almost 15kg, today… I go home!

Still have a tube coming out my side & will have a home nurse looking after me as I slowly build my strength, but nothing beats the healing power of being home with loved ones,the fresh air and garden. 😀🙏🏻

Reimagining health systems as systems for health | The BMJ bmj.com/content/379/bm…

Tackling #healthinequalities requires change in both communites + systems. We report on mutual empowerment thru safe spaces to develop/align community voice w/health systems capacity to respond VAPAR MRC/Wits-Agincourt Unit Maria van der Merwe Medical Research Council Sophie Witter journals.plos.org/globalpubliche…

Amplifying Community Health Worker Voices #CHW VAPAR MRC/Wits-Agincourt Unit MRC Impact Aberdeen Centre for Health Data Science University of Aberdeen CHW Central @chw_impact

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Important point. We had formal exchange in 2022 between South Africa and Scotland with useful co-learning and alliance building on community power in health systems #moreincommon 🇿🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Considering setting up a learning site?
Watch our panel of learning site veterans discuss the challenges & lessons learned from sites in Nepal, South Africa, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, Ghana & Guatemala.
Maria van der Merwe Jacinta Nzinga KEMRI-Wellcome Trust CEGSS Guatemala
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It’s the end of #hsr2022 for the ⁦ReBUILD for Resilience⁩ team. It has been a blast! Check our website for posters and recordings and musings over the coming weeks. Thank you for watching! ⁦HERD International⁩ ⁦Maria van der Merwe⁩ ⁦Haja Ramatulai Wurie, PhD (Mrs Kamara)🇸🇱⁩ ⁦Sophie Witter⁩ ⁦

Same tricks, new year Nestlé ESAR when will you stop valuing profits over children’s health? Your #childhoodmoments Masterclass tomorrow violates the R991. Like your stokvel event last year, this one should also be canceled!
#NotTodayNestle #SayNoToNido

'Voice needs teeth to have bite'! Expanding community-led multisectoral action-learning to address alcohol and drug abuse in rural South Africa medrxiv.org/content/10.110… Maria van der Merwe Sophie Witter Denny Mabetha @jayhove6 Rhian Twine MRC/Wits-Agincourt Unit Aberdeen Centre for Health Data Science @aberdeenuni_smd

In tribute to Peter Byass we present a new #verbalautopsy model connecting circumstances of deaths with outcomes for decision-making tinyurl.com/mpajhtn3
Maria van der Merwe
Kobus Herbst
Ed Fottrell
Jess Price
Mpumalanga Health
MRC/Wits-Agincourt Unit
Eilidh Cowan
Justine Ina Davies
Global Health Action

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Big Thread coming on ‘returning to on-site teaching’. Intended mainly for universities (because I work in one), but may also be useful for schools. Mute thread if not interested. I’ll base it around real questions I’ve been asked.
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Highly recommend the new flagship report ⁦of Alliance for HPSR⁩ on Learning health systems. ahpsr.who.int/publications/i…

Very pleased to share the 2nd paper from my PhD, on Big food and the World Health Organization 🥤🍔🇺🇳 gh.bmj.com/content/6/6/e0… #CDoH

📣 ‘Voice Needs Teeth to Have Bite!’ 📣
Strengthening social accountability in #healthsystems through participation & cooperative learning.

Watch the webinar at: buff.ly/34IbsrK CEGSS Guatemala VAPAR Health Systems Global

‘Voice Needs Teeth to Have Bite!’ Strengthening social accountability in health systems through participation & cooperative learning
CEGSS Guatemala
VAPAR
Health Systems Global

Watch the webinar at: youtube.com/watch?v=NDtYf-…

FORTHCOMING WEBINAR 2nd June
‘Voice Needs Teeth to Have Bite!’ Strengthening social accountability in health systems through participation & cooperative learning
CEGSS Guatemala
VAPAR
Health Systems Global

Questions to the panel? Send to [email protected] by 1500 BST 1st Jun

'Collective reflections on the first cycle of a collaborative learning platform to strengthen rural primary healthcare in Mpumalanga, South Africa' rdcu.be/ciZCW
VAPAR
Lucia D'Ambruoso 💚
MRC/Wits-Agincourt Unit
Rhian Twine
Denny Mabetha
@jayhove6
Sophie Witter