- Nationality
- 🇸🇪 Sweden
- Affiliation
- Umeå University, Sweden
- Field of study
- Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences
- Residencies at STIAS
- 2016 2nd Semester / 2017 2nd Semester / 2018 2nd Semester
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African launch of the Lancet Countdown: Tracking progress on health and climate change
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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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Lancet Countdown report shows progress on climate change but more is needed
STIAS was delighted to host the African launch of the 2017 Report of The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change: From 25 years of inaction to a global transformation for public health.
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Child Mortality Is (Estimated to Be) Falling
Byass, Peter. 2016. Child Mortality Is (Estimated to Be) Falling. The Lancet 388(10063):2965–67. http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0140673616321...
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Understanding and acting on the developmental origins of health and disease in Africa would improve health across generations
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Patterns of adult body mass in sub-Saharan Africa
Nyirenda, Moffat J., Michèle Ramsay and Peter Byass. 2018. Patterns of adult body mass in sub-Saharan Africa. Global Health Action, 11(sup2), 1556497. http...
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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
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Enhancing the value of mortality data for health systems: adding Circumstances Of Mortality CATegories (COMCATs) to deaths investigated by verbal autopsy
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Correlation between noncommunicable disease mortality in people aged 30–69 years and those aged 70–89 years
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Clear evidence that needs implementation - DOHaD fellows' seminar
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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.
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Healthy mothers, healthy babies – understanding the developmental origins of health and disease - DOHaD Fellows' seminar
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