Research into global and pyscosociocultural aspects of sexual & reproductive health @UCL_IfWH
United Kingdom
Joined January 2016
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Join us on 19 March for UCL’s flagship Women’s Health Tech event: Back to Basics: Re-centring Women’s Health in the Age of Big Tech. The event will bring together leaders from academia, clinical practice, entrepreneurship and industry.
Register: bit.ly/3MxHhNI
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Join @UCL_IfWH & UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science for Gender Differences in Women's Health: an empowering and informative talk dedicated to women’s cardiovascular health.
📅 Thursday 12 March
⏰ 12:00–13:00
📍 Theobald Lecture Theatre
Book here ⬇️
bit.ly/4tBmEkg
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Join @UCL_IfWH as we celebrate International Women's Day 2026 & UCL200! 🎉 Our events are open to all, and take place from 10-20 March 2026.
🧵 Take a look at our events in the thread and follow the link to book your place:
#iwd2026
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We're delighted to see Marcia Jacks, our @UCL_IfWH Institute Manager, featured in Faces of UCL, as part of #UCL200. New Faces of UCL will launch every month throughout 2026.
Learn more here: bit.ly/4clZpET
📷: Jørn Tomter
Fertility / SRH Research retweeted
We've selected our favourite words from @dr_mattmorgan's medical dictionary.
Every day between 1 and 25 December, a new word will appear in the 🔗⬇️ #BMJChristmas
Today's word is Cursorcrawl
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For this year's #BMJChristmas issue, we invite you to read @dr_mattmorgan's selection of 25 medical neologisms crafted for the experiences of doctors and healthcare workers.
Every day between 1 and 25 December, a new word will appear in the link ⬇️
bmj.com/content/391/bmj.r247…
Fertility / SRH Research retweeted
This @bmj_latest research finds that decentralised trials provide similar answers to clinical questions as traditional, non-decentralised randomised trials
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“Who holds the power? How is this product empowering women?”
Dr Bola Grace on why we must question who truly benefits from #FemTech innovation.
Part of The BMJ’s new Collection on women’s health innovation.
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#WomensHealth #HealthEquity #GlobalHealth
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“The research that led to that 28-day [menstrual] cycle statistic is not representative of Asian and Latina women.”
Carmel Shachar on the need for more inclusive data.
Part of The BMJ’s Collection on women’s health innovation.
bmj.com/collections/womens-h…
#WomensHealth
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“Innovations without equity can reproduce the same hierarchies and discriminations those innovations claim they wish to disrupt.”
Ebere Okereke on why global health innovation must include women.
Part of The BMJ’s Collection on women’s health innovation.
bmj.com/collections/womens-h…
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“There is a lot of fear in doing research, particularly around pregnancy and reproduction, which has led to a stagnating of innovation around those conditions.”
Jane Hirst on why women’s health research needs innovation.
Part of The BMJ’s Collection
bmj.com/collections/womens-h…
Fertility / SRH Research retweeted
Don't forget to sign up to UCL’s InTune and @WellbeingofWmen online discussion for World Menopause Day taking place tonight from 7-8pm.
Hosted by @ProfJoyceHarper & @DrNighatArif and featuring a fantastic guest panel of speakers.
Book your place:
🔗 bit.ly/4oogtwx
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New @bmj_latest research from the Women’s Health Innovation with @gatesfoundation ! With @BolaGrace7 we argue that using digital health technologies ethically can increase the scope and scale of research and connect systems to improve women’s health! Read: bmj.com/content/391/bmj-2025…
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“Undue focus on paracetamol would risk preventing families from using one of the safest medications to use in pregnancy when needed,” said Dr Dimitrios Siassakos (@UCL_IfWH) amid an announcement from President Trump about autism.
Read more here ⬇️
bit.ly/46B0eF1
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Great to see Catz & @CambridgeJBS alumna @BolaGrace7 (2019, Business Mgmnt) writing for @TheLancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Women's Health on how digital technologies & agile methodologies can be used to accelerate innovation in women's health research: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
ALT An illustration of the E3 (established, evolving, and emerging) model applied to digital health technology in women's health
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"Lifestyle medicine" shouldn’t be considered a separate branch of medicine.
If it’s kept inside the parameters of normal medicine, we’ll be better able to distinguish the evidence from the quackery, writes @mgtmccartney
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Learn more about the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of fibroids here: reproductivefacts.org/news-a…
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Age-appropriate sex education is critical for young people’s health.
Evidence shows that young people are more likely to delay having sex, and if they do have sex, practice safer sex, when they are better informed about sexual health and their rights 👉
bit.ly/3MWpPyO #YouthDay
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"Women in all their diversities are not passive to political tides but are powerful agents of change. Their leadership will strengthen women’s health, innovation, and rights—and the entire global health ecosystem."
@jocalynclark in Editor's Choice
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