WHO Chief Scientist and Director of Africa CDC among new Honorary Fellows
WHO Chief Scientist and Director of Africa CDC among new Honorary Fellows 27 April 2021 London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine https://lshtm.ac.uk/themes/custom/lshtm/images/lshtm-logo-black.png
LSHTM’s most prestigious honour conferred to four leading global health figures Share
The 2021 Honorary Fellows are Professor Amadou Alpha Sall (Director of Institut Pasteur, Senegal), Dr Soumya Swaminathan (Chief Scientist at the World Health Organization), Dr Joanne Liu (former International President of Médecins Sans Frontières), and Dr John Nkengasong (Director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention).
Britain s medical regulator has accused ministers of stretching its approval of controversial lateral flow tests for coronavirus.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) warned the way they are currently being used risks infected people assuming they are clear and safe to mingle with others.
Regulators approved the controversial kits - which give a result in under half an hour - to be used as a way to find Covid cases, helping to keep schools and workplaces Covid-free after lockdown.
But due to fears about the accuracy of the tests, the MHRA stressed they were not to be seen as a green light for those who test negative to enjoy greater freedoms.
Schools to receive free resources to challenge Covid-19 vaccine conspiracy theories. (PA/Canva) Schools are set to be given free teaching materials to help challenge Covid-19 vaccine conspiracy theories. Critical thinking tools for school assemblies and lessons have been launched by the Stephen Hawking Foundation to help students discuss their concerns and uncertainties. It is hoped the move could help tackle hesitancy to take the jab in some communities. Available as a PowerPoint presentation, Are Vaccines Safe? provides teachers and school leaders with accurate, scientific information on a range of frequently asked questions about the Covid-19 vaccination programme. The Foundation worked with staff at Morpeth School in Tower Hamlets, east London, who initially devised the materials.
UNIONS and campaigners have backed plans for schools to be given access to free teaching materials to help challenge anti-vaccination conspiracy theories.
Critical-thinking tools for school assemblies and lessons have been launched by the Stephen Hawking Foundation to help students discuss their concerns and uncertainties.
Are Vaccines Safe? provides teachers and school leaders with accurate scientific information on a range of frequently asked questions about the Covid-19 vaccination programme.
The Foundation worked with staff at Morpeth School in Tower Hamlets, east London, before working with Queen Mary University of London and the vaccine confidence project at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
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