Members of the ALPHA Network have returned from AIDS 2016, which saw more than 15,00 global leaders, scientists, advocates, and frontline health workers gather in Durban for the 21st International AIDS Conference.
More than 17 million people living with HIV are on treatment, and both new HIV infections and…
This competition invites academics, in collaboration with non-academic partners, to submit proposals for studentship projects to begin October 2017.
Collaboration partners must be non-academic organisations with an operating base in the UK – they can be private, public or voluntary sector organisations.
The deadline Wednesday 30 November 2016.
For…
The symposium ‘HIV Mortality Trends in Africa in the Treatment Era: New Evidence from the ALPHA Network’ takes place on Monday 18th July (Session Room 13) from 17:00 – 19:00.
Since the introduction of Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) mortality has fallen dramatically in African countries affected by HIV. However, almost…
The UK Medical Research Council (MRC) and the UK Department for International Development (DFID) announce a further call for proposals for the prestigious African Research Leader awards.
This MRC/ DFID jointly funded scheme aims to strengthen research leadership across sub-Saharan Africa by attracting and retaining exceptionally talented individuals who…
The International Early Career Scientist Program is funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and will support up to 50 outstanding scientists working in selected countries outside the United States and United Kingdom.
The Funders seek to identify scientists who are or…
The ALPHA Network will join leading HIV researchers, advocates and public health experts at AIDS 2016 conference.
The bi-annual conference takes place 18-22 July, and is the largest gathering of the world’s top scientists, researchers, and global health experts.
The AIDS 2016 programme will present new scientific…
Applications are now open for an exciting five-day course on Stata Programming organised by Emma Slaymaker and Milly Marston
Dates: Monday 7 November to Friday 11 November 2016
Cost: £1,250
The course is aimed at researchers and other professionals, from any discipline, who regularly use Stata for analysis…
Tyler H. McCormick, Zehang Richard Li, Clara Calvert, Amelia C. Crampin, Kathleen Kahn & Samuel J. Clark (2016): Probabilistic Cause-of-death Assignment using Verbal Autopsies, Journal of the American Statistical Association, DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2016.1152191…
Dasgupta AN, Wringe A, Crampin AC, Chisambo C, Koole O, Makombe S, Sungani C, Todd J, Church K. HIV policy and implementation: a national policy review and an implementation case study of a rural area of northern Malawi. AIDS care. 2016 Apr 21:1-3…
Chodziwadziwa Kabudula presented on Enhancing Demographic Datasets Through Record Linkage in an invited session on the Data Revolution in Africa: Recent Developments in Practice
A pdf of the presentation is available here…