There is an open opportunity for a PhD fellow who wishes to build skills in statistics and modelling, to be based in Uganda, to contribute to the design, analysis and modelling of integrated strategies to optimise vaccine access, uptake and effectiveness among vulnerable populations. The PhD student will enrol at LSHTM. Potential supervisors include Professor Emily Webb (LSHTM) and Professor Caroline Trotter (Cambridge)

Purpose: To inform the Special Rapporteur’s forthcoming report to the Human Rights Council

The MOOC on Science and Human Rights is free and open to participants (scientists, university-level science students, researchers and policy makers) from all over the world who want to understand and practise a HRBA to scientific freedom and scientific responsibility.

The Southern African Research and Innovation Management Association (SARIMA) will host the 2023 INORMS Congress. SARIMA is a membership organization for research and innovation professionals and managers. Its purpose is to strengthen research and innovation (R&I) in Southern Africa and ensure that there is social and economic development of the region.

CARTA seeks to create CARTA research hubs at our partner institutions as we progress through the third phase of the CARTA strategy (2021-2025) dubbed CARTA2025 which aims to strengthen our proven CARTA approach to research capacity strengthening by establishing research hubs aimed at providing research knowledge, training and expertise in specific thematic areas.

The organizers of a symposium on health care among forcibly displaced persons are inviting abstracts on the topic of ‘Continuity of chronic health care.’ Ten abstracts will be selected for oral presentation and ten for poster presentation, with a focus on experiences of continuity and health system responses. Early-career researchers are encouraged to apply, with half of all selected abstracts reserved for this group. The authors of the ten oral presentations may submit their papers to a journal Special Issue, and selected presenters can apply for travel grants.