Latest news from COMDIS-HSD

Read our latest e-news: Open Access Week special edition

It’s Open Access Week 2017 and this is our special edition open access e-news with some hand-picked tools and resources to help you share your research and access other published work.   

BLOG: Is depression contributing to low global cure rates for multi-drug resistant TB?

This blog first appeared on the Stop TB Partnership website. Our thanks to the Partnership for their support. Blog by Dr Helen Elsey and Ian Walker of COMDIS-HSD. A marathon no-one wants to run It takes 2 years, 14,000 pills … Read on »

COMDIS-HSD awarded £2m extension by DFID

We are delighted to announce that COMDIS-HSD has been awarded a £2 million extension by the Department for International Development (DFID). This will run until December 2018. Our research will continue to focus on health service delivery for communicable diseases, and … Read on »

A partnership in pictures: our tribute to China and Ghana teams

Earlier this year the COMDIS-HSD team said goodbye to two highly-valued and long-standing partners, Global Health Research and Development (GHRD) in China and Centre for Global Health Research (CGHR) in Ghana. These partners have made an exceptional contribution to our … Read on »

World TB Day 2017: why we're leaving no-one behind

World TB Day is always a big date in the COMDIS-HSD calendar. This year, the ‘Leave no-one behind’ theme had particular resonance with our research. It gave us a global platform to promote our work to tackle the stigma, social isolation and mental … Read on »

Blog: Talking to Parliament about the women and girls agenda in the fight against malaria

Christian Rassi talks about his recent presentation in Parliament on our study exploring the barriers to uptake of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy (IPTp) in Uganda. Malaria in pregnancy is a good example of how health programmes need to take gender … Read on »

Putting the power and politics into health systems research: reflections from RinGs

Health Systems Global has opened a call for ideas on the theme of the 2018 Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, to be held in Liverpool, UK. Recognising this as great opportunity to help shape dialogue and debate on global … Read on »

COMDIS-HSD attracts global audience for our antibiotic findings in Vancouver

‘We need to be cautious not to romanticise communities as resilient, when what they are doing is coping in difficult situations. ‘Health systems resilience needs to be qualified by an explicit focus on equity and social justice, and support the … Read on »

Real people, real stories: how digital storytelling is supporting NCD work in Swaziland

Our partners at Good Shepherd Hospital in Swaziland are using digital storytelling to improve awareness and education about non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Working closely with the newly-formed Swaziland NCD Stakeholders Alliance, COMDIS-HSD is supporting a project to develop digital storytelling as … Read on »

Our tribute to Sylvia Meek: inspiration, powerhouse and dear friend

We were very saddened at COMDIS-HSD to hear about the death of our dear friend and colleague Sylvia Meek, Malaria Consortium’s Global Technical Director. She had an enormous presence within our consortium and her loss has been felt greatly among us. For over … Read on »