Professor Hannah Kuper has been awarded a prestigious Global Research Professorship by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to develop and test a new community-led intervention to improve health care for people with disabilities in Uganda.
In this panel, speakers will present their research on gender-based violence (GBV) within marginalised populations and highlight areas for further research in the field of GBV. They will discuss the challenges and opportunities of working with marginalised populations and explore areas where evidence is limited.
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People with learning disabilities in England are eight times more likely to die from Covid than the general population, according to research that highlights a âhidden calamityâ of the coronavirus crisis.
The study from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Oxford University and Public Health England found risks were particularly high for those with profound learning disabilities linked to Downâs syndrome and cerebral palsy. Among Covid patients with Downâs syndrome, for example, the risk of dying from the infection was 36 times higher than in the general population.
âThis is really stark. I was shocked at the increased death rates for people with learning disabilities and particularly for people with Downâs syndrome,â said Prof Hannah Kuper, director of the International Centre for Evidence in Disability at the LSHTM.