RESPIRE Global

In our latest blog, Laura Evans reflects on how digital health interventions are being embedded into global health research - and what we can do better.

"You would think we have learnt our lessons by now, right? Apparently not fully. Apparently, we, researchers and implementers of digital health interventions, keep falling for the same mistakes over and over. If you don’t believe me, keep on reading.

Recently, we conducted a scoping review to map digital health interventions in South and Southeast Asia (including RESPIRE countries and a few more) to get a clearer picture of the existing evidence, technologies, opportunities, and gaps related to respiratory digital health interventions in the region and propose relevant recommendations.

The results were encouraging and disappointing all at once."

Read the blog post on our website:

https://usher.ed.ac.uk/respire/blog-lets-do-better-next-time

A two-day hybrid workshop, "Strengthening Open Science and Data & Methodological Guidance in LMICs" has started in India today, thanks to co-host King George's Medical University (KGMU), Lucknow.

Congratulations to our Platform III (Open Science, Data and Methodologies) team, the Methodologies Network and all of our Data Champions!

Learn more about RESPIRE's work in Open Science, Data and Methodologies on our website: https://usher.ed.ac.uk/respire/platforms/open-science-data-methodologies

Podcast recommendation: "Spotlight on CEI: Leaving no one behind" from NIHR Global Health!

In the most recent episode, "Engaging and involving mobile, stateless and displaced communities", Kay Nathan from RESPIRE Malaysia and Farzana Khan from Fasiuddin Khan Research Foundation reflect on the challenges, approaches and impacts of engaging with stateless communities in Sabah, Malaysia and the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh.

📰 Read the story on our website: https://edin.ac/42YWg8G
🎧 Listen to the podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2gDlCUpM16FXlsjmZpP18f

We're delighted to share that the RESPIRE team was awarded one of ten at last night's NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) Impact Award ceremony in Birmingham, UK.

Please join us in congratulating all RESPIRE partners, collaborators and supporters for joining us in delivering affordable and scalable solutions to reduce respiratory diseases and deaths in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka!

Read the full news story on our website: https://usher.ed.ac.uk/respire/news/nihr-impact-prize-award