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December 21, 2023

Carolina Coll wins Paula Kantor Award from ICRW: A great recognition for her research on gender inequalities and the monitoring of violence against women and girls in LMICs

It is with great satisfaction that we share the news of the achievement of Carolina Coll, an ICEH collaborator, who was honored with the Paula Kantor Award, granted by the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW). Carolina was recognized for her dedication to studies on violence against women and health inequalities. Their work not only draws attention to these issues, but also drives action to promote positive change. The ICEH team is happy with the well-deserved recognition of o

December 11, 2023

Workshop: 3rd International Conference on Public Health in Africa

Associate Professor Fernando C. Wehrmeister traveled to Lusaka, Zambia, to participate in two events. The first event took place on November 27th as part of the 3rd International Conference on Public Health in Africa. In a satellite event coordinated by the Countdown to 2030 African Population Health and Research Centre, Dr. Wehrmeister discussed the identification of impoverished groups in the largest cities in 38 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. This scientific work has been accepted for publi

December 08, 2023

E. coli contamination of drinking water sources in rural and urban settings: an analysis of 38 nationally representative household surveys (2014–2021)

The world is not on track to achieve universal access to safely managed water services by 2030, and access is substantially lower in rural areas. This target, and many other global indicators, rely on the current classification of improved water sources for monitoring access. We aimed to investigate contamination in drinking water, comparing improved and unimproved sources in urban and rural areas. We analysed a sample of 95,070 households in 38 low- and middle-income countries, using MICS surv

November 16, 2023

Workshop: Strengthening health equity in ECOWAS countries

The ICEH, represented by researchers Franciele Hellwig and Larissa Adna, attended an important workshop to strengthen the production and sharing of data and information on health. Between November 6th and 10th, 2023, Hellwig and Adna were in Guinea-Bissau to participate in the '14th Joint Annual Workshop of Managers of National Health Information Systems (NHIS) and Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) Programs of Economic Community of West African Countrie

November 13, 2023

Workshop: ICEH enhances Health Inequality Assessments in Mozambique

Between November 6th and 10th, the ICEH researchers Fernando Wehrmeister and Luis Vidaletti, worked in Maputo with representatives from Mozambique's Ministry of Health and National Institute of Health. The aim was to provide guidance on best practices for analyzing simple and complex data as well as trends in health inequalities in Mozambique. This workshop represents another of the capacity building training initiatives that the International Center for Health Equity (ICEH) is constantly

October 09, 2023

ICEH joins World Evidence-based Healthcare Day initiative

The International Center of Equity in Health (ICEH) is proud to announce its participation in the global initiative World Evidence-based Healthcare (World EBHC) Day, as Evidence Ambassador. Held on October 20th each year, the initiative aims at promoting awareness for the importance of evidence-based healthcare policy and decision-making to enhance health outcomes across the globe. The World EBHC initiative strives to engage in discussions on global healthcare trends and challenges, while als

September 18, 2023

Measures of women's empowerment based on individual-level data: a literature review with a focus on the methodological approaches

In an ongoing effort to understand gender roles and promote gender equality, scholars around the world are dedicating themselves to analyzing women’s empowerment as a central piece of development monitoring. Given the increasing interest in this topic, ICEH researchers conducted a literature review aimed to describe the quantitative measures of women’s empowerment, focusing on the methodological approaches used to build the indicators. The results of this work are based on 36 publ

September 01, 2023

Are we making progress in reproductive, maternal, neonatal, and child health (RMNCH)? Change in coverage and equity of essential interventions in 101 countries using the composite coverage index

The Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (BMJ Journals) published this week a special supplement that highlights the papers that will be presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting da Society for Social Medicine & Population Health, which will take place in Newcastle (6–8 September 2023). During the meeting, the director of the International Center for Equity in Health (ICEH), Aluisio Barros will show the results of the investigation on the changes that have occurred in cover