{"id":4149,"date":"2018-03-21T11:04:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T11:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/?p=4149"},"modified":"2018-05-29T10:35:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T09:35:33","slug":"monthly-update-institute-global-health-innovation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/2018\/03\/21\/monthly-update-institute-global-health-innovation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Monthly update from the Institute of Global Health Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"

News<\/h1>\n

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Plug-and-play prostheses wins IGHI Student Challenges Competition<\/h3>\n

Artificial limbs that patients can fit and maintain themselves won both the top prize of \u00a35,000 and an additional Audience Choice Award of \u00a31,000 at this year\u2019s\u00a0Student Challenges Competition<\/a>\u00a0hosted by the\u00a0I<\/a>nstitute of Global Health Innovation\u00a0(IGHI).<\/p>\n

Exploring Data-based and AI approaches to Healthcare<\/h3>\n

This month IGHI collaborated with the\u00a0EPSRC Centre for Mathematics of Precision Healthcare<\/a>\u00a0to discuss and learn about the latest advances in data-based and AI approaches in healthcare.<\/p>\n

Read the article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Former Special Adviser to UN Dr David Nabarro appointed Global Health Chair<\/h3>\n

Former Special Advisor to the UN and nominee for the WHO Director General, Dr David Nabarro has been appointed as Professor within Imperial\u2019s\u00a0Institute of Global Health Innovation<\/a>\u00a0(IGHI).<\/p>\n

Visit our\u00a0website\u00a0<\/a>to read more.<\/p>\n

Global Health Forum: Healthy cities<\/h3>\n

IGHI host forum to discuss the current research on air pollution and health cities.<\/p>\n

Visit our\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0to read more.<\/p>\n

The impacts of Ukraine\u2019s hike in tobacco tax<\/h3>\n

In the latest instalment of Imperial\u2019s\u00a0Global Health and Development<\/a>\u00a0lecture series, Dr Laura Webber (Director of Public Health Modelling at the UK Health Forum and Honorary Assistant Professor at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) presented evidence that predicted the avoidance of 127,000 new cases of smoking-related diseases by 2035 as a result of tobacco excise tax increases in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Visit our\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0to read more.<\/p>\n

Patient Safety Translational Research Centre host patient safety Committee<\/h3>\n

Imperial NIHR Patient Safety Translational Research Centre within IGHI hosted 3rd & final NASEM Committee on Improving Quality of Healthcare Globally.<\/p>\n

Visit our\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0to read more.<\/p>\n

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Events<\/h1>\n

Global Health Forum: Vaccines for life\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Join us on Thursday 19th April for our Global Health Forum with a focus this month on vaccines<\/a> and their uses in LMIC held jointly with the\u00a0Centre for International Child Health<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Vaccines Research Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Blogs<\/h1>\n

Cholangiocarcinoma \u2013 the rare disease that\u2019s on the increase<\/strong><\/p>\n

Professor Simon Taylor-Robinson<\/a> provides insight into the work being conducted in cholangiocarcinoma, a rare primary malignancy arising from cholangiocytes, the endothelial lining of the biliary ducts.<\/p>\n

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Visit our blog<\/a> to read the full article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News Plug-and-play prostheses wins IGHI Student Challenges Competition Artificial limbs that patients can fit and maintain themselves won both the top prize of \u00a35,000 and an additional Audience Choice Award of \u00a31,000 at this year\u2019s\u00a0Student Challenges Competition\u00a0hosted by the\u00a0Institute of Global Health Innovation\u00a0(IGHI). Exploring Data-based and AI approaches to Healthcare This month IGHI collaborated with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1013,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4149"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4178,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149\/revisions\/4178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}