Posted 03/02/2023. As societies become increasingly diverse, understanding the complex nature of racism for multiple ethnic, social, and economic identities is required. Sonia Lewycka and colleagues in New Zealand showed that indigenous and minority experiences of racism are heterogeneous, and flexible resources such as wealth and perceived whiteness can mitigate against some forms of systemic and interpersonal racism.

Posted 24/01/2023. Snakebite is a priority NTD that causes 94,000 deaths each year and many more cases of severe disability. In research led by PhD student Michael Abouyannis at KWTRP and LSTM, global academics, policy makers, and the Kilifi snakebite patient group developed a globally relevant set of core outcome measures to support future clinical trials.

Posted 17/01/2023. PLOS Global Public Health features a blog on The Global Health Network Conference 2022 that took place at the University of Cape Town, South Africa from 24 – 25 November 2022. The theme of the conference was Enabling Health Research in Every Healthcare Setting and 10 Years of addressing inequity in where research happens, who leads and who benefits. There were almost 900 abstract submissions and researchers, clinicians, practitioners, donors, and policymakers from across the world attended.

Posted 13/01/2023. Nancy Kagwanja and colleagues highlight the influence of social norms, structures, and actor power practices on responsiveness. Power practices were rooted in actors’ lived experiences which included social and organizational power relationships, personal characteristics, and worldviews. Our findings emphasize the need to consider actors’ lived experiences when intervening to strengthen responsiveness.