📣 New funding alert

We’re awarding up to £5 million each to multidisciplinary teams to improve our understanding of dengue and Zika – and help implement effective interventions. [1/6]

A potential vaccine candidate for tuberculosis, supported by Wellcome and Gates Foundation, has started its Phase 3 clinical trial in South Africa.

If shown to be well-tolerated and effective, the vaccine could become the first tuberculosis vaccine in over a century.

📢WE ARE LIVE! 📢RT

We Wellcome have launched the #AcceleratorAwards ! This is funding to support researchers of Black, Bangladeshi and Pakistani heritage in the UK to advance their careers to the next stage.

Find out more and apply by 18 June 🗓️⤵️
wellcome.org/grant-funding/…

It's so important to consider how privilege affects the careers of modellers. This great talk from Anne Cori 💙 highlights some of the key issues we need to address and proposes a range of solutions

▶️ You can now view 100+ sessions, 1400+ abstracts e-posters & translated sessions from #IAS2023 , on our new digital platform, IAS+.

Check out IAS+ now!

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The deadline for applying to STEM for BRITAIN 2024 is fast approaching! Apply for the opportunity to present your research in Parliament by 27 November. stemforbritain.org.uk Royal Society of Chemistry Institute of Physics IMA Royal Academy of Engineering Royal Society of Biology Nutrition Society The Physiological Society ScienceinParliament

Stigma and discrimination still prevent many people from accessing life-saving HIV services.

We join IAPAC, NAZ, Fast-Track Cities Institute and the Global HIV Collaborative in commemorating this first #ZeroHIVStigmaDay .

To end AIDS, we must demand #ZeroDiscrimination for all!

Relationship between psychological distress, health behaviours and future reports of hypertension among adults in East Zimbabwe: a cohort study
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Check out the latest Manicaland Centre paper, led by our previous Imperial Medicine student Shehla Shamsuddin, on psychological distress & high blood pressure (bp)!

We found that psychological distress was associated with new reports of high bp after 6 years ❤️

dx.doi.org/10.1136/openhr…