- Nationality
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Affiliation
- Global Health Impact Hub, University of Birmingham
- Field of study
- Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences
- Residencies at STIAS
- 2018 2nd Semester / 2025 1st Semester
Projects
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DOHaD and SDGs: Moving towards Early Implementation
The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease & Sustainable Development Goals: Moving Towards Early ImplementationThe Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) paradigm provides us with a new and exciting way to think about causation of illness while at the same time providing us with both personal and population-level instruments for avoiding harm and promoting health. -
Bringing unique data to wicked problems: developing health system models for equitable access to healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa
Injuries are one of the leading causes of death and disability in low- and middle-income countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD): Consolidating Theory into Practice (postponed)
Postponed until further notice The Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), the African Academy of Sciences (AAS), the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Human Development at the University of the Witwatersrand, the DOHaD Africa Chapter and other partners are hosting a Summer School in April 2020 at STIAS titled Developmental Origins of Health and Disease: Consolidating Theory into Practice.
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Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD): Consolidating Theory into Practice
The Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) and the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Human Development at the University of the Witwatersrand (CoE-Human) together with the DOHaD Africa Chapter are hosting a Summer School in March 2022 at STIAS entitled Developmental Origins of Health and Disease: Consolidating Theory into Practice.
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Bolder action needed for health in Africa - policy brief on prevention of non-communicable diseases
To prevent non-communicable diseases (NCDs) we need to build systems for health not just health systems, said Tolu Oni, Public Health Physician and Clinical Senior Research Associate at the Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge; Honorary Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town; STIAS Iso Lomso fellow and Next Einstein Forum Fellow.
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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...
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An integrated approach to processing WHO-2016 verbal autopsy data: the InterVA-5 model
Byass, Peter, Laith Hussain-Alkhateeb, Lucia D’Ambruoso, Samuel Clark, Justine Davies, Edward Fottrell, Jon Bird, Chodziwadziwa Kabudula, Stephen Tollman, ...
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Are cardiovascular health measures heritable across three generations of families in Soweto, South Africa? A cross-sectional analysis using the random family method
Ware, Lisa J., Innocent Maposa, Andrea Kolkenbeck-Ruh, Shane A. Norris, Larske Soepnel, Simone Crouch, Juliana Kagura, Sanushka Naidoo, Wayne Smith and Jus...
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Bringing unique data to wicked problems
Injuries are one of the leading causes of death and disability in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), especially in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Wicked problems and the recovery of meaning: critical systems thinking for injury care in low- and middle-income countries
Recommended Citation D’Ambruoso, L., Chu, K., Tako, A. A., Bojke, L., English, R., Geduld, H., Lahri, S., Mahomed, H., Matzopoulos, R., & Davies, J. (2...