Goylette Chami
@GoyletteChami
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Associate Professor @bdi_oxford @oxford_ndph. Clinical & social epidemiology + big data + NTDs. Working on schistosomiasis in SSA. Views are my own.
University of Oxford
Joined August 2020
A great video just out about @SchistoTrack by @OxfordSparks showing the importance of running community-based cohort studies & teamwork across diverse disciplines to answer complex questions of global importance!
Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease, estimated to affect 250 million people worldwide. @GoyletteChami (@SchistoTrack) takes us to Uganda to see how researchers are tackling the disease. 🎥 @bdi_oxford @oxford_ndph @mplsoxford @UniofOxford
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RT @cmmid_lshtm: 🚨 Opportunity for 11 new PhDs at @LSHTM @imperialcollege & @UKHSA in health analytics, epidemic modelling, and health econ…
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We've been extremely busy this year, out now on the 4th annual time point for @SchistoTrack, focusing on helping participants get the care they need.
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📢 Just out by Melissa Iacovidou & the @SchistoTrack malacology team - generalisable spatiotemporal modelling pipeline for intermediate hosts w/ limited mobility. Showing habitat switching for Biomphalaria in a changing climate @TheTaskForce @ISNTD_Press
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RT @Oxford_NDPH: A recent study by @bdi_oxford suggests that current @WHO guidelines for monitoring schistosomiasis-related diseases may no…
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Proxy indicators show relationships BEFORE the widespread use of MDA, but neither status nor intensity is informative in the context of routine MDA.
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RT @unlimit_health: We hope everyone who attended the 17th International Symposium on Schistosomiasis in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, had the c…
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RT @ASTMH: ASTMH is proud to announce the brand new Kwiatkowski Fellowship, which will be awarded annually to one early- to mid-career rese…
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RT @elimin8schisto: GSA members at🇧🇷 schisto symposium cont. Jennifer Downs @wcmglobalhealth, Genital Schisto CoP on #Schistosomiasis in ♀️…
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RT @MinofHealthUG: The objectives of the Big Catch Up Campaign are to; 👉Reach 90% of zero dose children below 5 years by the end of Novembe…
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And, opens new areas of enquiry on visiting the role and relative importance (weighting more emphasis potentially) on acquired immunity!
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Just back from the field, after conducting workshops on severe schistosomiasis in Pakwach, Buliisa, & Mayuge Uganda w/ all cadres of health workers & lab techs from Health Centre IIIs to hospitals! Bringing morbidity management to the health facilities w/ the MoH! @SchistoTrack
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Ellie is @MICCAI_Society this week - presenting excellent work on automated liver tissue segmentation in African populations! @ockee99 @SchistoTrack @HDSCDT @bdi_oxford Read more here
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RT @NobelPrize: BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfiel…
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📢Just out: Excellent work by Yin & @SchistoTrack-a full machine learning pipeline & analysis of 45 hepatosplenic conditions in schisto. endemic areas. Time to move beyond co-occurrence for multimorbidity & think more critically about this global problem!
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New research out from @SchistoTrack - excellent work by Christin Puthur analysing indiv, household, & community engagement factors for participant attrition. Incl. pipeline to evaluate cohorts in SSA, challenging std assumptions of community-based designs!
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