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From December 2021 to March 2023, Dr. Alison Krentel served as co-chair for the Taskforce on Fairness and Antiracism to Enhance Academic...

Congratulations to James Sakeah for receiving uOttawa's International and Global Health Office's (IGHO) Advancements in Global Health...

Congratulations to Moussa Sangare on being selected as one of the nine recipients of the 2023 African Researchers’ Small Grants Program;...

Today, January 30th, is the day that we celebrate the work that is being done in Canada and around the world to end the neglect of...

The results of our project "Exploring Patterns of Non-Participation Across Multiple Health Campaigns - A Qualitative Study in Ghana and...

Congratulations to Kazeem Arogundade and his colleagues on their new paper "The Influence of Threatened Miscarriage on Pregnancy Outcomes: A Retrospective Cohort Study in a Nigerian Tertiary Hospital". They found that a spontaneous abortion rate of 13.7% among the study group compared with 3.4% in the control (P-value [p] = 0.005, odds ratio [OR]: 4.475; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.445 - 13.827). Women with TM had higher odds for placenta previa (p = 0.049, OR: 4.77, 95%

Check out this systematic review, authored by Obaraboye Olude, Carol Vlassoff, Julienne Niyikora, and Alison Krentel. It assesses participatory approaches to motivating positive change among health workers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Congratulations team!

The Threads Lab is delighted to celebrate Charles Thickstun, who won the Young Investigator Award at the American Society of Tropical...

If you are in Seattle, Toronto, Ottawa, and/or Benin, do check out the following posters and presentations, put together by our amazing...

The 4th annual Faculty of Medicine (at uOttawa) Research Day 2022 was held on Friday, September 23rd. Congratulations to Kruti Patel and...

On Monday, September 12, 2022, the FAST Package team participated in a Nursing Now Challenge webinar to raise awareness on Female Genital...

Congratulations to Dr. Alison Krentel for the very well deserved Faculty of Medicine International Impact Award 🎉This award "recognizes...

Congratulations to Moussa Sangare for his newly published paper: "No evidence of lymphatic filariasis transmission in Bamako urban setting after three mass drug administration rounds". Moussa and his colleagues found that there was no active lymphatic filariasis transmission in the low prevalence urban district of Bamako after three MDA rounds with ivermectin and albendazole.

Congratulations to Kruti on her successful thesis defense last week 🎉 The Threads Lab wishes you the best of luck in all your future...

Congratulations to Threads Lab team members Dr. Alison Krentel, Charles Thickstun, Daniel Dilliott and their colleagues for their newly...

Congratulations to Moussa Sangare for his newly published paper in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene! Together with...

Our Lab has received a new subgrant to explore lymphatic filariasis elimination in Indonesia in partnership with colleagues at Washington...

The Threads Lab is excited to welcome summer students 🎉 Joses Robinson, a first-year Master at the School of Epidemiology and Public...

Every few weeks, our team gets together on Friday for a social event. In May, we painted tulips just in time for the Canadian Tulip...

Congratulations to Moussa Sangare and Kruti Patel on their well-deserved awards! Moussa received the Bruyère Research Institute Graduate...