Leading experts on public mental health at STIAS-Wallenberg Roundtable Some of the world’s leading experts on public mental health will participate in the second STIAS-Wallenberg Roundtable that takes place at the STIAS Wallenberg Research Centre on Monday and Tuesday 24 and 25 February 2014.
STIAS Fellow Abdallah Daar to serve on new United Nations Advisory Board Professor Abdallah Daar, STIAS Fellow and Professor of Public Health Sciences of the University of Toronto has been invited by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, BAN Ki-moon, to serve on the newly established United Nations Scientific Advisory Board.
STIAS and AAS hosts first joint workshop for young scientists Forty participants from thirteen countries convened in Stellenbosch during the last week of June 2016 to take part in a training workshop on stem cell science and its application in Africa.
Healthy mothers, healthy babies – understanding the developmental origins of health and disease - DOHaD Fellows' seminar What happens in pregnancy and childhood sets us on a trajectory and determines our lifetime risk of disease, said Prof.
Abdallah Daar named Permanent Visiting Fellow of STIAS Abdallah Daar, convenor of the STIAS Health in Transition theme and Professor of Clinical Public Health, Global Health, and Surgery at the University of Toronto in Canada, has accepted a nomination as Permanent Visiting Fellow of STIAS; he joins a select group of fellows who have an open invitation to work at STIAS whenever they can.
Even where the science is clear translating it is a challenge - Fellows' seminar by the DOHaD group As a paediatrician I’ve spent a lifetime caring for sick and critically injured children.
One coat with many threads - STIAS book launch by Abdallah Daar Martin Luther King’s dream is largely unfulfilled.
Clear evidence that needs implementation - DOHaD fellows' seminar Prevention of cardiovascular and other non-communicable disease starts with a wish for a child.
Looking at the power of digitisation to improve health An exploratory consultation/roundtable, organised by Bernard Lategan and Abdallah Daar, was held on 12 – 14 November at STIAS to look at the potential of digital diagnostics to improve health in Africa.
Need for African collaboration for pandemic studies - Fellows' seminar by Abdallah Daar This is a vision I’ve been developing based on what we’ve faced – everything we’ve lived through, experienced and participated in.
Everything is connected, linked and related to everything else Exploring the convergence of cardiometabolic conditions and pandemic preparedness in Africa Nothing happens in isolation, said STIAS permanent fellow Abdallah Daar of the Faculty of Medicine and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto.
Declaration on mental health in Africa: moving to implementation Abdallah S. Daar, Marian Jacobs, Stig Wall, Johann Groenewald, Julian Eaton, Vikram Patel, Palmira dos Santos, Ashraf Kagee, Anik Gevers, Charlene Sunkel, ...
Understanding and acting on the developmental origins of health and disease in Africa would improve health across generations Norris, Shane A., Abdallah Daar, Dorairajan Balasubramanian, Peter Byass, Elizabeth Kimani-Murage, Andrew Macnab, Christoff Pauw, Atul Singhal, Chittaranja...
Developmental origins of health and disease in Africa—influencing early life Davies, Justine Ina, Andrew John Macnab, Peter Byass, Shane A Norris, Moffat Nyirenda, Atul Singhal, Eugene Sobngwi and Abdallah S Daar. 2018. Developmenta...
