20 AUG 2019
World Mosquito Day 2019
On the 20 August of 1897, Sir Ronald Ross discovered that female mosquitoes transmit malaria between humans. Since then, we've followed its devastating effect. In fact, it’s said to have killed half the people that ever lived - 54 billion people. Despite huge progress in the fight against our deadliest enemy, global efforts have now stalled and, for the first time, we're seeing malaria rising in the highest-burden countries. We can't let this happen. Together, we can be the generation that ends malaria for good.
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28 MAY 2020
NEON abstract accepted to the UK Implementation Science Research Conference
We are pleased to announce that our NEON team at UCL, London Borough of Newham, London Borough of Tower Hamlets (Dr. Logan Manikam, Shereen Al Laham, Dr. Michelle Heys, Dr. Clare Llewellyn, Dr. Neha Batura, Prof. Andrew Hayward, Yasmin Bou Karim, Jenny Gilmour, Kelley Webb-Martin, Carol Irish, Chanel Edwards, and Prof. Monica Lakhanpaul) have submitted an abstract entitled, “Implementation science in marginalised poorly resourced communities: a case study using the Nurture Early for Optimal Nutrition (NEON) Intervention to improve infant feeding, care and dental hygiene practices in South Asian infants aged <2 years in East London” that has been accepted for oral presentation at the 3rd UK Implementation Science Research Conference. The conference will be held online on 16th-17th July 2020, and the abstract will be published as a special collection within the Implementation Science journal.
4 FEB 2020
CHIP Workshop refining Conceptual Map
A key group discussion was held during the CHIP Consortium Workshop in Jakarta to refine the conceptual map by linking aspects of One Health with our experts from; UCL Child Health, CEGE UCL, Columbia University, Indohun, Save the Children India, HK University, JNU India, and other CHIP partners.
20 JAN 2020
Childhood Infection and Pollution (CHIP) Consortium Workshop held in Jakarta, Indonesia
The CHIP Consortium Workshop will take place in Jakarta, Indonesia, on the 4th-7th February 2020. This workshop is jointly organised by Aceso Global Health Consultants and Indonesia One Health Network (INDOHUN) and will be open to all members of the CHIP Consortium to discuss the research thus-far, future plans, and feedback.
10 JAN 2020
Rapid Response: Delivering Cost-Effective Healthcare Through Reverse Innovation
Dr. Logan Manikam and the rest of the NEON study team have responded to Skopec et al's article, "Delivering Cost-Effective Healthcare through Reverse Innovation". This presents how the UK healthcare system could benefit from adopting cost-effective innovations from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), highlighting our NEON study as an innovation that is currently being co-developed and evaluated in the UK by our team.
6 JAN 2020
NIHR Fellowship
Dr. Logan Manikam, our Director, has been awarded a prestigious NIHR Fellowship, a total of £805,844, to undertake the NEON trial in the London Boroughs of Tower Hamlets and Newham. He'll be supported by Shereen Al Laham and the rest of the Aceso GHC team.
7 DEC 2019
CHIP researchers travel to Chile
Next week our CHIP researchers will travel to Antofagasta, Chile to conduct the Feasibility Stage 1 study.
6 FEB 2020
Professor Pam Factor-Livak presents on day 3 of the CHIP Workshop
Prof. Pam Factor-Litvak, from Columbia University, presented on grants received for the Child Development CHIP projects in Jaipur and Jakarta on Day 3 of our Childhood Infections and Pollution (CHIP) Consortium Workshop.
24 NOV 2019
Yusuf Hamied Award
Prof. Pam Factor-Litvak, Co-Investigator of CHIP and Vice Dean of Research at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, has been awarded the Yusuf Hamied Fellowship Award of $15,000 towards future research and fellowship activities in India.
17 JUN 2019
Who Works at Aceso Series
Monday is our "Who works at Aceso?" day! This series will continue every Monday, so stay tuned! This Monday - 17th of June - we are going to introduce our India Co-Director, Dr. Kaushik Sarkar for you. Kaushik holds an MBBS from the Medical College of Kolkata and is a Gold Medalist in Community Medicine from the All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health. He is an expert in knowledge of policy translation, policy research, and systematic reviews. His research interests include national and sub-national disease control, exploratory data analysis, and infectious disease modeling. One of the greatest publication, Dr. Kaushik Sarkar has worked on is about Postpartum depression in India. If you would like to know more about it, please access this link.
Dr. Sarkar describes himself as, "a specialist in Community Medicine and an avid researcher, with experience of working with MoH and international organisations for malaria elimination. I have worked in a variety of positions related to strategic planning, grant seeking, research, monitoring, advocacy, and also as a clinician. I am Interested in the leading country or regional initiatives in the field of infectious diseases, especially vector-borne diseases." If you have any questions, please use our website to contact him directly!
18 JUN 2020
CHIP member, Dr Rajmohan Panda, joins Webinar on "A Virus Without Borders: COVID-19 and its lessons for Science, Society, State, and Solidarity in a Global World"
Dr. Rajmohan Panda, our CHIP team member, will be one of the panelists answering key questions at a webinar on, "A Virus Without Borders: COVID-19 and its Lessons for Science, Society, State, and Solidarity in a Global World". Key discussions will focus on how COVID-19 response policies are informed by the public health, legal, and healthcare fields, and how in turn, this pandemic is newly impacting these arenas.
11 JULY 2018
Aceso Systematic Review wins Best of Unicef Research 2018
"Quality Improvement Initiatives for Hospitalized Small and Sick Newborns in Low- and Middle-income Countries: A Systematic Review" was featured in Best of UNICEF Research 2018.
28 JUL 2020
A new publication: "Reducing Childhood Obesity: Evaluation of an Early Years Nutrition programme in a deprived London Borough"
Childhood obesity is a growing global health concern, with far-reaching implications on health in childhood and in later life. Early intervention strategies are key to reducing childhood obesity. The recent study by Priyanka Patil, Emma C. Alexander, Meghan Cupp MPH, Prof. Monica Lakhanpaul, Meradin Peachey, Alexander Light, and Dr. Logan Manikam aims to evaluate the implementation of an Early Years Nutrition programme in the London Borough of Newham’s children’s centres.
2 AUG 2019
UCL Grand Challenges Summer 2019 Reception
14 research projects have been funded by the Grand Challenges, UCL’s programme to support innovative cross-disciplinary endeavours. £56,000 has been distributed through the annual Small Grants scheme, to researchers in a wide range of academic disciplines who are set to carry out a range of research projects on subjects as varied as infections in under 5s, Brexit, inclusion in planning, and meditation in schools.
The idea of the scheme is to foster grassroots research by pairs of researchers, representing two different faculties at UCL. We believe that this cross-disciplinary approach makes the innovative thinkers at UCL even greater than the sum of their parts. CHIP was one of the projects whom received the grant and we were invited to give a speech on how it has been used to make an impact.
On 30th of July, Mr. Spencer Rutherford gave a presentation about how UCL Grand Challenges grant has been used in CHIP in the reception he was invited. He explained how the research focuses on One Health approach combining with community engagement to find more about the infections in urban slums and how there are risk factors in the environment and behaviours. Well done for giving us an amazing speech, Spencer!
For more information please visit this link.
2 AUG 2019
Notes from the CHIP Consortium Workshop in Jaipur
Between the 6th - 9th of May 2019, a joint UCL-SCI workshop was held in Jaipur to gather members of the Childhood Infections and Pollution (CHIP) Consortium. Multiple scientific and epidemiological disciplines were represented in this meeting with stakeholders attending from both the Global North and South; different cultures, organisations, perspectives, and ways of working were leveraged to inspire how new improvements could be made to the CHIP research programme.
Speakers included CHIP co-directors, Dr. Logan Manikam and Prof. Monica Lakhanpaul as well as a range of world-leading lecturers from CHIP partner universities and leaders at the NGO: Save the Children India.
This workshop was organised around the following topics:
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Setting the Context: Infections and Slums in India
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Visualising Research Goals and Engaging Local Communities
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Predecessors to the CHIP: Project PANChSHEEEL
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Slums and Infections: General Overview
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Slums and Infections: Indonesia and Chile specific examples
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Slum Visit: Site Visits and Transect Walks
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Extreme Citizen Science and its applications
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Review of CHIP Protocol
By breaking sector silos pooling research expertise, the CHIP project will work to collectively undertake rigorous studies and co-develop complex interventions. This event facilitated the share of best practice across all disciplines represented and briefed participants on some of the novel infection determinants that the CHIP studies had identified up until this point. Through this cross-disciplinary approach, the CHIP project aims to address these infection determinants through its efficient and cost-effective set of interventions.
Key Workshop Outcomes:
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Provided an opportunity for CHIP consortia members to network with local implementation partners
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Took stock of findings from existing feasibility work and further revise CHIP methodology
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Engaged with slum dwellers via slum visits
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Established scale and scope of projects and publications in subsequent work in India, Chile, and Indonesia
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Agreed the timings of subsequent CHIP workshops
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Identified follow-on grant opportunities
We have uploaded the presentation slides and Meeting of Minutes (MoM) from this workshop.
13 SEP 2019
Minutes of Meeting: UCL-ACESO Consortium Jaipur Workshop
The final minutes of meeting document for the UCL-SCI consortium workshop is here!
22 JUL 2019
JULY! Cord Blood Awareness Month!
Every year, CBR® looks forward to July because it also marks Cord Blood Awareness Month: a celebration to spread the word about the awesome powers of newborn stem cells found in a baby’s umbilical cord blood.
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22 JUL 2019
A Systematic Review of Household and Family Alcohol Misuse and Childhood Developmental Outcomes in Low- and Middle-income Countries
Another great news about the new publication from Dr. Logan Manikam, our director of ACESO GLOBAL. Published in BMJ Journals: Diseases in Childhood.
22 JUL 2019
PANChSHEEEL Conference
We are very thrilled to announce that the PANChSHEEEL conference was successfully held yesterday. Professor Chambers has explained about "Wash and Nutrition in India: Blind Spots and Frontiers for Research" and the heated discussions between the panels and the guests in the conference were very inspiring. Thank you Prof. Monica Lakhanpaul for organising this event, and congratulations on the milestones achieved by her team!
22 JAN 2019
New partnership with HKU will support health, poverty, and water security Research
The Childhood Infection and Pollution (CHIP) project recently received funding of £20,000, shared between Dr. Logan Manikam from UCL and Professor Joseph Malik from Hong Kong University.
7 MAY 2019
CHIP Workshop Opens
Chief investigator of the CHIP project Dr. Logan Manikam opens the inaugural CHIP workshop.