Vortrag

„Links between neigh­bour­hood social com­po­si­tion and refugee men­tal health – evi­dence from a Dan­ish cohort study”
Speak­er: Peter Schofield
When: 22 May 2024 from 16:00–17:30 GMT
For­mat: Online

Reg­is­tra­tion:

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/links-between-neighbourhood-social-composition-and-refugee-mental-health

Abstract:

In this pre­sen­ta­tion, we present a sum­ma­ry of a large cohort study look­ing at the impor­tance of the neigh­bour­hood social envi­ron­ment for refugee men­tal health. A cohort of 44,033 refugees were fol­lowed who had orig­i­nal­ly been housed under the Dan­ish dis­per­sal pol­i­cy. Because hous­ing was assigned with­out any face-to-face con­tact with offi­cials, the effect of the neigh­bour­hood could be exam­ined inde­pen­dent­ly of indi­vid­ual char­ac­ter­is­tics. The results show how dif­fer­ent types of neigh­bour­hood social envi­ron­ments relate to a range of sub­se­quent men­tal dis­or­ders, and dis­cuss the impli­ca­tions for ser­vices and future pol­i­cy approaches.

About the speaker:

Peter Schofield is a Senior Lec­tur­er in Pop­u­la­tion Health in the Fac­ul­ty of Life Sci­ences and Med­i­cine at King’s Col­lege Lon­don. He uses mixed meth­ods approach­es com­bin­ing advanced sta­tis­ti­cal meth­ods with in-depth qual­i­ta­tive analy­sis to study how the social envi­ron­ment shapes our expe­ri­ence of men­tal dis­or­ders. Recent­ly, he has been work­ing on an MRC study inves­ti­gat­ing the role of place in refugee men­tal health and helped set up the Refugee Men­tal Health & Place Network.

For more infor­ma­tion and reg­is­tra­tion, please fol­low this link:

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/links-between-neighbourhood-social-composition-and-refugee-mental-health

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„Vac­cines encoun­ters in Nigeria’s Kano State”
Speak­er: Yashua Alka­li, Aminu Dukku, Umar Tarajim
When: 8 May 2024, 16:00 – 17:15

Please join the next LSHTM Med­ical Anthro­pol­o­gy Sem­i­nar Series. ​​Dr Yashua Alka­li, Dr Aminu Dukku and Umar Tara­jim will reflect on find­ings of their recent study on vac­ci­na­tion in Kano State, Nigeria.

​In 2019, the World Health Organ­i­sa­tion (WHO) named ‘vac­cine hes­i­tan­cy’ amongst its top glob­al threats. In recent years, and par­tic­u­lar­ly since the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, there has been renewed atten­tion world­wide on the need to build trust in vac­ci­na­tion. Com­mu­ni­ty engage­ment, for exam­ple, has become a key com­po­nent of health agen­cies’ efforts to deliv­er effec­tive vac­ci­na­tion cam­paigns. Sig­nif­i­cant chal­lenges how­ev­er remain, both in under­stand­ing dri­vers of vac­cine con­fi­dence in con­text and in engag­ing com­mu­ni­ties at all stages of the vac­cine deploy­ment process. In this Med­ical Anthro­pol­o­gy Sem­i­nar, researchers from the Child­care and Well­ness Clin­ics will dis­cuss find­ings from their recent study on com­mu­ni­ty engage­ment for vac­ci­na­tion in Kano State, North­ern Nigeria.

Fur­ther infor­ma­tion about the event and to join hybrid can be found in this link:
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/events/vaccines-encounters-nigerias-kano-state

Fur­ther infor­ma­tion about anthro­pol­o­gy at LSHTM can be found here:
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres-projects-groups/anthropology

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„Dis­abil­i­ty & Cli­mate: In con­ver­sa­tion with…”: Áine Kelly-Costello
16th May 2024
9–10.30am GMT

In Sep­tem­ber 2023, the Euro­pean Cen­tre for Envi­ron­ment and Human Health/University of Exeter launched a new online „Dis­abil­i­ty & Cli­mate: In con­ver­sa­tion with…” series for peo­ple that are inter­est­ed in reflect­ing on and/or shar­ing expe­ri­ences around dis­abil­i­ty and the cli­mate cri­sis. This is part of a new project on dis­abil­i­ty-inclu­sive cli­mate action led by the Uni­ver­si­ty of Exeter. The project web­site, „Sens­ing Cli­mate”, is com­ing soon but in the mean­time, you can read a lit­tle more about it online.

For the fifths con­ver­sa­tion they invit­ed Áine Kelly-Costello.

More details, dates and speak­ers to follow!

For Ques­tions please do email Sarah (Sarah.Bell[at]exeter.ac.uk) to share your interests.

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CBM Glob­al: „Dis­abil­i­ty & Cli­mate: In con­ver­sa­tion with…”
4th July 2024 with
tim­ings tbc

In Sep­tem­ber 2023, the Euro­pean Cen­tre for Envi­ron­ment and Human Health/University of Exeter launched a new online „Dis­abil­i­ty & Cli­mate: In con­ver­sa­tion with…” series for peo­ple that are inter­est­ed in reflect­ing on and/or shar­ing expe­ri­ences around dis­abil­i­ty and the cli­mate cri­sis. This is part of a new project on dis­abil­i­ty-inclu­sive cli­mate action led by the Uni­ver­si­ty of Exeter. The project web­site, „Sens­ing Cli­mate”, is com­ing soon but in the mean­time, you can read a lit­tle more about it online.

For the sixth con­ver­sa­tion they invit­ed CBM Global.

More details, dates and speak­ers to follow!

For Info please do email Sarah (Sarah.Bell[at]exeter.ac.uk) to share your interests.

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