The palliative care workstream within the NIHR-funded ASSET programme has launched a free online training programme for health professionals, caregivers and family members. COVID-19 has reduced access to formal health services such as clinics. This course will teach basic palliative care skills so that the patient can be cared for in the community. Access is […]
Leading up to International Women’s Day on 8 March, we’re sharing the stories of many womxn researchers working in ASSET. Today Dr Ruwayda Petrus shares her journey by answering a few questions. How did you become interested in research? Being a curious young mind; I have always wanted to know why things were the way […]
Leading up to International Women’s Day on 8 March, we’re sharing the stories of many womxn researchers working in ASSET. Today s a clinical psychologist, works as psychotherapist and is the co-developer of the Friendship Bench intervention, Dr Ruth Verhey shares her journey by answering a few questions. How did you become interested in research? […]
Leading up to International Women’s Day on 8 March, we’re sharing the stories of many womxn researchers working in ASSET. Today medically trained Statistician and Epidemiologist from King’s College London, Prof Wei Gao shares her journey by answering a few questions. How did you become interested in research? To me, research is a career in […]
Leading up to International Women’s Day on 8 March, we’re sharing the stories of many womxn researchers working in ASSET. Today general medical practitioner and University of Cape Town-based researcher Dr Lindsay Farrant shares her journey by answering a few questions. How did you become interested in research? While doing my MPhil in Palliative Medicine […]
Leading up to International Women’s Day on 8 March, we’re sharing the stories of many womxn researchers working in ASSET. Today University of Cape Town-based Dr Zulfa Abrahams shares her journey by answering a few questions. How did you become interested in research? I worked for many years as a community dietician at the SA […]
Leading up to International Women’s Day on 8 March, we’re sharing the stories of many womxn researchers working in ASSET. Today PhD student, Roxanne Keynejad, shares her journey by answering a few questions. How did you become interested in research? I became interested in research after I realised that there was a lot we could […]
The COVID19 pandemic has required health and health system researchers across the globe to pivot their focus, and the same is true for ASSET’s work package 6 team at the University of Cape Town. Initially researching maternal mental health and violence against women in South Africa – specifically in Cape Town – the team found […]
Like pandemics and epidemics (SARS 2002 and Ebola 2014-2016) of the past, COVID-19 is causing mental health problems and consequences globally. In particular healthcare workers and frontline workers have been impacted significantly (1,2), with COVID-19 survivors (3) and the general population also being affected (4). Addressing mental health in a timely manner is critical. Untreated […]
Just like many countries in the world Malawi has been affected by COVID-19 and the cases are rising every day. As of June 8th, 2020, there were 443 cases with confirmed COVID-19, with 55 who have recovered and four deaths [1]. Located in sub-Saharan Africa, Malawi is a landlocked nation bordering Tanzania to the north, […]