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The Center on Forced Displacement is honored to partner with @theNASEM and welcome colleagues from the US and across the world to @BU_Tweets (and the beautiful @BU_CDS building) for a workshop on "Forced Displacement and STEM Education". Stay tuned on reports & call for proposals

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An incredible first day of the workshop organized in partnership with

@theNASEM

bringing together colleagues from the US and across the world to

@BU_Tweets

to discuss #forced #displacement and #STEM #education.

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Samuel Hall

@Samuel_Hall_

1/7 Women’s inclusion in climate adaptation and mitigation efforts is integral to addressing inequalities and contributing to resilient communities. How do we ensure their meaningful leadership?- A 🧵 #SheSpeaksforClimate #InternationalWomensDay2023

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The New Humanitarian

@newhumanitarian

Western Sahara’s ‘frozen conflict’ heats up, but world’s attention elsewhere

The conflict in Western Sahara is a forgotten war the international community has effectively chosen to ignore.

thenewhumanitarian.org

While the international community looks away, Sahrawi refugees fight to be allowed to return to their homeland.

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Anita Zaidi

@AnitaZaidi

The country with the world’s highest cervical cancer rate – and why its women are needlessly dying

As a physician, my heart breaks for women like Zeione who reach a point when treatment is no longer possible for a preventable disease like cervical cancer. Increasing coverage of #HPV vaccines is crucial to saving lives.

telegraph.co.uk

Malawi reports around 51.5 cervical cancer deaths per 100,000 people each year, seven times the global rate

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The Center on Forced Displacement is honored to partner with

@theNASEM

and welcome colleagues from the US and across the world to

@BU_Tweets

(and the beautiful

@BU_CDS

building) for a workshop on "Forced Displacement and STEM Education". Stay tuned on reports & call for proposals

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An incredible group of scholars from diverse areas of research, scholarship and practice joining us.

@rebecca_everly

, Ana Deros,

@RANAwaytrain

&

@chrissy_luccini

made it all possible! Thank you!

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The Center on Forced Displacement is honored to partner with @theNASEM and welcome colleagues from the US and across the world to @BU_Tweets (and the beautiful @BU_CDS building) for a workshop on "Forced Displacement and STEM Education". Stay tuned on reports & call for proposals

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Center for Research on Population and Health

@CRPH_AUB

Maternal and infant outcomes of Syrian and Palestinian refugees, Lebanese and migrant women giving...

Our recent paper on maternal and infant outcomes in a public hospital showed that migrant women had poorer maternal and infant outcomes in Lebanon than the host population.

bmjopen.bmj.com

Objectives This study aims to assess whether the characteristics, management and outcomes of women varied between Syrian and Palestinian refugees, migrant women of other nationalities and Lebanese...

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Samuel Lovett

@samueljlovett

The mystery of the deadly poisoned cough syrup

‘Poisonous cough syrup killed 300 children – officials fear more could soon die’ Excellent deep dive here into the world’s largest poisoned medicine scandal in 17 years Team investigation by

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WHO officials race to find lethal ingredient behind largest poisoned medicine scandal in 17 years – Indian authorities aren’t playing ball

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Muhammad Ali Pate

@muhammadpate

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

Important, moving story from

@karen_nakawala

underlying the importance of the #HPV vaccine. Every death from cervical cancer is a preventable tragedy caused by a preventable cancer. This #InternationalWomensDay we must renew our commitment to eliminating this disease.

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@gavi

“We’re losing a lot of women unnecessarily.” Read @karen_nakawala describe her battle with cervical cancer and the impact the #HPV vaccine could have on girls and women around the world #InternationalWomensDay bit.ly/3J0u1v7

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Saif Hasnat

@saifhasnat

Mar 6

Inside the largest refugee camp, they become refugees again and again. They do not know when fires ravage their homes or when floods wash away their shanties. 📸 Ro Yassin

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Wajiha Hyder

@wajihahyder

thenews.com.pk“Memory is the place understanding comes from” | Literati | thenews.com.pkBorn in 1948 in Zanzibar, Abdulrazak Gurnah migrated to the UK in 1968 after the violent turmoil that followed the 1964 revolution. In 1982, he earned a PhD from the University of Kent, where he...

I caught up with Abdulrazak Gurnah at the Lahore Literary Festival last week to talk about the portrayal of migration and displacement in his novels, the purpose of literature and the significance of memory for a writer.

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Zia.Hero

@SahatZia_Hero

Himal Southasian and 6 others

Massive Fire in #Rohingya Refugee Camp, Camp 11. Date: 5th March. Thousands of #refugees lost their homes, foods and everything. #children lost their schools. It's just some weeks before the Ramadan month. #RohingyaRefugees #RefugeeCrisis #Fire #Emergency

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Jeff Crisp

@JFCrisp

Awful.

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Shafiur Rahman

@shafiur

Tragic news from Cox's Bazar as a massive fire engulfs #Rohingya refugee camp 11, or Balukhali 2, leaving thousands homeless. Barbed wire fencing further hindered their escape. Read more on this devastating story. refugees.substack.com/p/barbed-wire- #Myanmar #refugees

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BU Center for Innovation in Social Science

@BU_CISS

Mar 4

In "The Triple Assault,"

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) discusses the lack of empathy and understanding towards people experiencing addiction - tribune.com.pk/story/2398441/

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Sally Hayden

@sallyhayd

Ghaya Ben Mbarek غاية بن مبارك

Thread. #tunisia

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@Ghaya_BM

In front of @UNmigration Tunis, dozens of migrants have been camping out in the cold for over a week after getting evicted from their homes following last Tuesday’s @TnPresidency statement that targeted irregular migrants in the country.

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Rohingya in Bangladesh camps decry ‘devastating’ UN food aid cuts

Mohammed Jamjoom

@MIJamjoom

Mar 4

“#Rohingya #refugees in Bangladesh say they are struggling to survive after the United Nations slashed their food aid due to a massive funding gap.” via ⁦

@AJEnglish

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aljazeera.com

After a $125m donation shortfall, monthly food vouchers were cut from $12 to $10 per person, said World Food Programme.

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Muhammad Ali Pate has been appointed to lead the vaccine organisation. John Zarocostas reports from Geneva.

"My hope is

would be most efficient country-owned #globalhealth partnership expanding vaccine access for poorest&most vulnerable populations across life course, helping transform primary health care& strengthening globalhealth security"

@muhammadpate

thelancet.com

New leadership for Gavi

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World Refugee & Migration Council

@wrmcouncil

Mar 3

"What can you do to ensure that future refugees will not be condemned to live in my state of prolonged, destructive limbo?" writes Ndizeye Innocent in the

@newhumanitarian

. He is still searching for a "durable solution" after 20 years. thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/first-

@Eric_Reidy

thenewhumanitarian.org

Flipping the Narrative: ‘It’s like living in a waiting room to nowhere’

Millions of refugees like Ndizeye Innocent are left stranded in camps for a decade or more, unable to return, integrate, or resettle.

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Mishal Khan: challenging inequitable status quos in global health

Mar 3

Fantastic profile of colleague and friend

@DrMishalK

in

@TheLancet

today. Mishal's commitment to human dignity and her work has been an inspiration.

thelancet.com

Social epidemiologist Mishal Khan is no stranger to pushing boundaries. As Associate Professor at the UK's London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) in 2018, she did an analysis with...

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Veronika Wirtz

@VeroWirtz

Send us your feedback on the proposal of a matrix framework to assess the risk for #sustandard #antibiotics Carly Ching

qualitymatters.usp.org/innovative-mat

@USPharmacopeia

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Save the Children Global Media

In action.

on a recent trip with us to #Niger

@SaveChildrenNE

where conflict, the climate crisis and hunger are colliding putting so many lives at risk.

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A year into Ukraine war, food prices rise and aid drops in Niger. Great story from @guypeterson_ and @_stopdropnroll_ who came with us recently to #Niger @savechildrenNE. We have spox in Niger for media. aje.io/g3j0ye via @AJEnglish

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Caroline Davies

@caroline_gm_d

The Pakistani hockey player who died in Italy shipwreck

Shahida Raza died off Italy's coast on Sunday A professional hockey player for Pakistan, she was also the mother of a severely paralysed child We spoke to her sister who told us this is the reason she risked her life to get to Europe with

@uszahid

bbc.com

Shahida Raza had made the trip to get treatment for her three-year-old son, who had suffered a stroke.

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CMC Vellore (Official)

@OffCMCVellore

Intravenous Doxycycline, Azithromycin, or Both for Severe Scrub Typhus | NEJM

Landmark #multicentre #doubleblind #RCT - severe Scrub typhus causing 1000s of deaths, 7day combination of IV doxycycline & azithromycin found superior to either drug alone-from CMC led by

Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine — Intravenous Doxycycline, Azithromycin, or Both for Severe Scrub Typhus

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Tahera Hasan

@taherahasan

There are layers of discrimination or lack of awareness both equally dangerous.

@PBSofficialpak

the collection of census data does not list Bengali as a language despite that fact that we have #bengalispeakingpakistanis and #bengali is list as a nationality, which it isn't.

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A must read paper by

postdoc Dr

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(1/3) Happy to share the open access link to my new article "Maritime #borders in the #CentralMediterranean - #SearchAndRescue and Access to #Asylum "

revistas.um.es/analesderecho/

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I always love

work, especially on a much maligned people the Rohingya. Make sure to read his latest book published by

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"I wanted to make it about the Rohingya as refugees, because there’s an important story to be told about what continues to happen to them beyond Myanmar...how they got to this point" I spoke to @AJEnglish about my new book I Feel No Peace aljazeera.com/news/2023/2/28

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BU Center for Innovation in Social Science

@BU_CISS

Mar 1

Join

on March 7th and 8th for an upcoming hybrid Seminar on Migration to the US Southern Border - eventbrite.com/e/the-us-mexic

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Devin Bowes, PhD

@Dbowes_PhD

Please join us on April 24th at our inaugural conference event at

. Open to all and event is free! See link below to register.

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Could not be more excited about our inaugural conference at @cfd_center featuring Abdulrazak Gurnah, the 2021 Nobel laureate in literature. Please join us on 4/24. Event is free & open to the public. Register at: eventbrite.com/e/abdulrazak-g

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We are SO excited about our inaugural conference and the opportunity to hear from Abdulrazak Gurnah. More on his Nobel Prize at : nobelprize.org/prizes/literat Recent

@nytimes

article: nytimes.com/2022/08/21/boo Hope you all can join us! Registration at : eventbrite.com/e/abdulrazak-g

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Prof. Loretta Lees

@LorettaCLees

Great event: 👀

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AMAZING that

and team are bringing ***Abdulrazak Gurnah*** to

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Gurnah has written about migration and refugees with incredible moral clarity. We hope you, your colleagues and friends will join us to hear from one of the finest writers of our time.

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Could not be more excited about our inaugural conference at

Abdulrazak Gurnah - A Keynote Address at the CFD Annual Conference

featuring Abdulrazak Gurnah, the 2021 Nobel laureate in literature. Please join us on 4/24. Event is free & open to the public. Register at:

eventbrite.com

****OUR EVENT IS SOLD OUT BUT WE WILL HAVE A FEW SEATS AVAILABLE ON A FIRST-COME FIRST-SERVE BASIS FOR THOSE WHO COME TO THE VENUE TONIGHT.

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Robert Mardini

@RMardiniICRC

Yemen: Funding shortages risk pushing Yemen’s humanitarian crisis

More than anything, #Yemen needs durable peace - but in the meantime, some 22 million need vital humanitarian protection & assistance. It is imperative that we keep the spotlight on the crisis in Yemen - no matter how long it goes on.

icrc.org

Although 2022 witnessed some promising developments in Yemen, the conflict there is entering its eighth year with no clear long-term resolution in sight. Despite a months-long truce, Yemen remains in

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Giri Rajahram

@GSRajahram

Feb 27

10 big questions in AMR and #ADVANCEID network. Taking patient-centred clinical questions & answering them in the trial network. Fantastic listening to

@davidantibiotic

outlining the vision moving forward. An intersection of climate &infectious disease supported by

@wellcometrust

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Timothy Jinks

@TimothyJinks1

Thrilled to join the launch of

@wellcometrust

funded ADVANCE ID clinical trial network in SE Asia and S Asia. Connecting local clinical researchers and scientists through the network Hub based in Singapore with superb leadership of

@davidantibiotic

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@InfectiousMoYin

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Phoebe Williams

@phoebwill

@TimothyJinks1 opening the #ADVANCEID network launch with a promising overview of @wellcometrust’s vision- infectious diseases a key focus

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Kaamil Ahmed

@KaamilAhmed

‘Everywhere they go, the Rohingya are exploited’

"I wanted to make it about the Rohingya as refugees, because there’s an important story to be told about what continues to happen to them beyond Myanmar...how they got to this point" I spoke to

@AJEnglish

about my new book I Feel No Peace

aljazeera.com

Kaamil Ahmed, a British journalist, on his new book about the Rohingya’s extraordinary suffering.

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