West Africa is a climate change hotspot. More than 75% of the population is affected as often as once every two years by natural phenomena such as floods or droughts that are increasing in their frequency and severity directly because of climate change. However, insufficient research and a lack of urgency in the response is […]
Professor Tumani Corrah, Emeritus Director of the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has been appointed honorary Knight Commander of the the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, in recognition of his services to medical research in sub-Saharan Africa. The award was presented by Her […]
Fatou Joof, PhD student under the Nutrition Theme at the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is one of twenty (20) winners of the 2019 L’Oréal- UNESCO Young Talent Award for Sub-Saharan Africa for Women in Science. Ms. Joof was recognised for her research on ‘Developing […]
A new study published in Nature Climate Change suggests that pregnant women who are exposed to hot weather are more likely to give birth earlier, which could affect infant health. In an analysis of daily weather compared to daily birth rates in the United States, researchers have found an association between extreme heat and increased […]
A new publication in Scientific Reports, led by Dr Grant Mackenzie and Professor Beate Kampmann from the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, provides the necessary background information to determine if the introduction of vaccines against Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) could be beneficial in The Gambia. […]
The Worldwide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN) Clinical Scientific Group have published new research in BMC Medical Research Methodology, Dealing with indeterminate outcomes in antimalarial drug efficacy trials: A comparison between complete case analysis, multiple imputation and inverse probability weighting. It is the continuation of two earlier studies which explored approaches for comparing different statistical methods […]
The Sustainable Cardiovascular Health Equity Development Alliance (SCHEDA) recently donated medical equipment to the Clinical Services Department of the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. SCHEDA is a global non-profit organisation, co-founded by two Gambian – Americans Dr. Ngoneh Jallow and Dr. Sheikh Omar Jobe, and […]
Dr Sheikh Jarju, a member of the Vaccines and Immunity (VIT) lab team at the MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM won one of 58 travel grants to present his poster entitled “Viral aetiology, clinical features and antibiotic use in children under five years old presenting with influenza-like illness in The Gambia” at the Respiratory […]
Babies born too soon Every year on the 17th November, we celebrate World Prematurity Day in recognition of preterm births – babies born alive before 37 weeks of pregnancy are completed. This year’s theme is Born Too Soon: Providing the right care, at the right time, and in the right place. Worldwide, nearly 15 million […]
The Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, in collaboration with the World Health Organization, hosted the Paediatric Bacterial Meningitis (PMB) Bacteriology and External Quality Assurance Program (EQAP) Surveillance and Laboratory Training Workshop in The Gambia, from 28th October to 1st November 2019. The training was attended […]
The best of science, entrepreneurship and politics is required to avoid ‘turning the clock back on immunisation’, argue a group of global health experts in a new Nature Review. Authored by scientists from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), the World Health Organization (WHO), the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, […]
The Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine hosted its first workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Health, at the Unit’s Bray Lecture Theatre from 28th to 29th October 2019. The two-day workshop was conceived to create awareness on data-driven methods that are applicable to health research, and […]