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Do smaller servings of alcohol in pubs, bars and restaurants help us drink less?
In a blog for Dry January, Dr Eleni Mantzari and Professor Theresa Marteau discuss a series of studies registered at the ISRCTN registry which investigate the impact… Read more »
Preventing upper respiratory tract infections with ion air disinfection
Renate Weisböck-Erdheim discusses the AirDisP_URTI study that is testing the effectiveness of ion air disinfection in the workplace for the prevention of upper… Read more »
More On Health posts
World Breastfeeding Week 2023: The Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) Way
Vinay Pratap Singh discusses the iKMC study of integrating Kangaroo mother care for small babies immediately after birth into… Read more »
Training for Community Health Workers embraces the new normal
Community health workers in Bangladesh had to adapt quickly during COVID-19 to continue their accurate and much-needed support.… Read more »
Healthier homes for families – introducing the INQUIRE project
Lisa Melymuk discusses the INQUIRE study of improving indoor air quality, registered at the ISRCTN registry.
Maximizing researcher contributions to science and policy
A recent article in the Israel Journal of Health Policy Research (IJHPR), analyzes the factors behind a recent surge in high… Read more »
“Yathu Yathu”(For us, By us!): an innovative and co-designed intervention to deliver peer-led community-based sexual and reproductive health service to adolescents and young people in Lusaka, Zambia
In a blog for World AIDS Day, Mwelwa Phiri and her colleagues discuss the Yathu Yathu trial of community-based peer-led sexual and… Read more »
Science versus the virus: Science is saving millions of lives, but how is it so rapid, and why is the death rate so variable?
Estimates show millions of additional deaths have been averted, or avoided, as a result of scientific advances during the… Read more »
Meet the SDG3 researchers: Tatenda Mawoyo and Stefani Du Toit
Tatenda Mawoyo joined the Institute of Life Course Health and Research (ILCHR) in the Department of Global Health at Stellenbosch… Read more »