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March 23, 2016

International Center for Equity in Health received the visit of Dr Alexander Manu

This last week, the technical team of the ICEH received the visit of Dr Alexander Ansah Manu, who is a Lecturer and Project Module Coordinator of the Epidemiology distant learning unit at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. During his visit, Dr Manu could know about the work carried out for the team and he also participated in discussions that allowed information exchange on equity health and explored the possibility of further opportunities for collaborative research. Dr Manu

March 17, 2016

Putting Women and Girls at the Center of Development: Measurement & Evaluation Workshop

From February 21 th  to 24th, Professor Aluísio J D Barros and Fernanda Ewerling have participated to the workshop in Nairobi – Kenya. This workshop was designed to inspire innovative thinking, collective capacity on measurement and evaluation approaches, align around a learning agenda and help further the thinking on gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls. Professor Aluísio also had the opportunity to present preliminary results of the women empowerment

February 17, 2016

In 2011, an estimated 7% of all children under 5 years were overweight

Yesterday, February 16th, professor Victora took part in a meeting on child obesity in New York City. In the workshop, organized by UNICEF, he presented “Exploring the early life determinants of child overweight and the double burden of malnutrition”, in the first session called “The current situation of child overweight”. Concerning this topic, in 2013, Robert Black, Cesar Victora and collaborators have published a paper on the subject in the Lancet jou

February 16, 2016

Female Genital Mutilation Cutting

Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is a human rights issue that affects girls and women worldwide. Over the last few years, the United Nations have been working to end the practice of cutting women’s genitals, a practice that is still frequent in countries such as Burkina Faso, Egypt, Kenya, Liberia and Togo. Continuing an agreement adopted in 2012 in the United Nations General Assembly, on 2015, in the new set of development goals – the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a

February 12, 2016

Microcephaly in Brazil: how to interpret reported numbers?

Professor Victora with collaborators have published a paper in the Lancet jornal in wich they recomend that “national and international agencies should refrain from reporting suspected cases and speed up investigation to report on confirmed cases with laboratory or radiological evidence”. Read the full paper here.  

February 05, 2016

Monitoring subnational regional inequalities in health

Monitoring subnational regional inequalities in health: measurement approaches and challenges The paper from Ahmad Hosseinpoor; Nicole Bergen; Aluisio Barros; Kerry Wong; Ties Boerma e Cesar Victora describes and compares different methods to estimate subnational and regional inequalities, using data from the Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in Bangladesh, Egypt, Ghana and Zimbabwe. This paper is available at BioMed Central    

February 05, 2016

Breastfeeding in the 21st century: epidemiology, mechanisms, and lifelong effect

Breastfeeding in the 21st century: epidemiology, mechanisms, and lifelong effect The paper published in January 2016 by professor Victora and his collaborators is part of a series on breastfeeding in The Lancet journal, having large repercussion national and internationally. The research points that “The scaling up of breastfeeding to a near universal level could prevent 823.000 annual deaths in children younger than 5 years and 20.000 annual deaths from breast cancer.” The f

February 04, 2016

ICEH was visited by Joao Baptista Humbwawali from Angola

On 18th and 19th January this year, ICEH was visited by João Baptista Humbwawali, doctoral student at UFRGS. A nurse and college professor in Angola, João came here to get to know the work carried out in Pelotas for future academic collaborations.