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 […]
In a historic celebration, the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine inaugurated its 501.33 Kwp Solar PV System on 30th November 2019, at its Fajara campus. The inauguration, organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy and the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation, celebrated […]
The Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at LSHTM, in collaboration with the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy and UNIDO, will inaugurate its 501.33 kWp Solar PV System on 30th November 2019, at its Fajara campus. The Project is implemented by the MRCG at LSHTM, as part of the UNIDO/GEF 5 project: “Greening the productive […]
The Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at LSHTM, in collaboration with the World Health Organization will host Bacteriology And External Quality Assurance Program (EQAP) Surveillance And Laboratory Training Workshop in The Gambia, from 28th October to 1st November 2019. The training will convene staff from the IB-VPD network laboratories that are supported by the […]
The Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine held an Open Day at the Brikama District Hospital on 9th October 2019, sensitise hospital staff, community leaders, local authorities, journalists and the community on the Pregnancy Interventions in Mothers Relating to Diabetes in Asian India and Low-income countries […]