Update 216: COVID-19 pandemic in Alberta (April 27, 4 p.m.)
Cases and hospitalizations continue to rise in Alberta. Follow all public health guidelines to stop the spread of COVID-19 and protect the health-care system.
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There are 635 people in hospital due to COVID-19, including 143 in intensive care.
There are 20,721 active cases in the province.
To date, 162,052 Albertans have recovered from COVID-19.
In the last 24 hours, there were seven additional COVID-related deaths reported: one on April 22, one on April 24, and five on April 25.
"The overarching goal is to create a comprehensive yet adaptable framework to examine the effectiveness of communication approaches to address FGM related social norms, which can serve as a guide for programming across countries and contexts." Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a complex harmful traditional practice that persists due to factors inc
Organisation: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Role: Associate Professor in Social Science and Director - Gender, Violence and Health Centre, Global Health and Development
Country: United Kingdom
Research and scholarship: I am a social scientist with 18 years experience in conducting research and training at the intersection of gender, health and development across low-middle- and high-income settings (Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Ecuador, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Bolivia and the UK). My areas of expertise include gender-based violence, sexual exploitation of children and adolescents (SECA) and intervention development. My work draws on social norms and social theory, social psychology and feminist theories such as gender theory, and power analysis. My experience with research and programme evaluation designs includes cluster RCTs with nested qualitative methods; mixed-methods quasi-experimental evaluations; and feasibility studies.
Marjorie Pichon
Role: Research Assistant
Marjorie is a Research Assistant in the Gender Violence & Health Centre at LSHTM. She is Coordinator of the Collaboration on Infidelity, Romantic Jealousy and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), which brings together partners from around the globe to better understand the mechanisms and pathways between infidelity, romantic jealousy, and IPV. She also supports research and dissemination for the Learning Initiative on Norms, Exploitation and Abuse (LINEA) project, a global initiative on how social norms can be used to prevent the sexual exploitation of children and adolescents.
Prior to this position she supported the writing of evidence-based health policy reports at the Insitutue of Medicine in Washington, DC. She holds an MSc in Public Health from LSHTM and a BA in Psychology from Lewis & Clark College. For her MSc dissertation she conducted a qualitative analysis of parental perceptions of transactional sex in Uganda.
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