May 20th is International Clinical Trials day, and so today we celebrate the work of Sir Austin Bradford Hill – a pioneer in clinical trials. Sir Austin Bradford Hill is best known for his work with Sir Richard Doll on … Continue reading
All LSHTM Open Data Kit forms need to be fully encrypted in order to comply with the GDPR. The attached documents explain how to implement encryption in your forms. Any and all data currently stored on LSHTM ODK servers which … Continue reading
By Ingrid Vargas, Irene Garcia-Subirats, Amparo-Susana Mogollon Pérez, Marina Ferreira-de-Medeiros-Mendes, Pamela Eguiguren, Angelica-Ivonne Cisneros, María-Cecilia Muruaga, Fernando Bertolotto and María Luisa Vázquez[1] It is difficult when you get a referral form like this: “vascular” That’s all! Where is the clinical … Continue reading
BY CHIH HOONG SIN & ICHIRO TSUKAMOTO SIBs are emerging as a way to reconfigure relationships between the state and civil society in ways that their Western inventors may not have anticipated but may wish to replicate. Japan’s experience of … Continue reading
… then help is at hand, to see you through your summer project. ONE hour info skills sessions will be held during the summer months just for YOU ! Everything you wanted to know (and more) ….about constructing a search strategy … Continue reading
Our current MSc student, Rose Stevens, blogged for the female health app ‘Clue’. She writes about the natural variation in female reproductive biology and emphasizes the importance of ‘appreciating and recording’ this diversity.
Read Laura Brown’s blog about community outreach workers in the UK. She discusses the unmet need for sexual health services in England, especially among some high risk groups and young people, and the vital role played by outreach workers and community based … Continue reading
BY ELEANOR CARTER & CLARE FITZGERALD Evaluation should test key SIB promises to government: greater collaboration, prevention and innovation, argue two researchers from Oxford University’s Government Outcomes Lab. To discover whether Social Impact Bonds work, we would be wise, first … Continue reading
SHAPE-UTT supporting young African Scientists to conceptualize, prepare and present health systems research at AIDS 2018, The Netherlands and the INTEREST 2018 Workshop, Rwanda SHAPE – UTT (Strengthening Health systems for the Application of Policy to Enable Test and … Continue reading
In honour of the birth of Donald Reid (May 6th), this month’s collection of the month is the recently catalogued Whitehall Study. The Whitehall Study, led by Professor Donald Reid (1914-1977) and Dr Geoffrey Rose (1926-1993), was designed to detect … Continue reading