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Community health workers in Ethiopia set out to promote health - in the process they've empowered girls in other ways too

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Wednesday, April 12, 2023
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Adolescent girls and young women in Ethiopia continue to face challenges, especially in rural areas.

Key Points: 
  • Adolescent girls and young women in Ethiopia continue to face challenges, especially in rural areas.
  • The country has a national community health programme which aims to increase the availability of basic health services and promote healthy lifestyles.
  • Our study looked at the association between this health extension programme and 12 indicators of adolescent health and well-being.
  • However, our findings suggest that household visits from health extension workers have had a measurable impact on multiple interconnected adolescent challenges beyond just health.
  • Household visits from health extension workers appear to reduce rates of child marriage, early pregnancy and school dropout.

Health extension workers

    • It is delivered by local health extension workers, who are mostly young women.
    • The health extension workers promote routine medical check-ups at the local health post.
    • Our research suggests that household visits from health extension workers are linked to significantly lower risks of child marriage, early pregnancy and school dropout.
    • Health extension workers can modify families’ expectations for girls to marry early, and their reluctance to invest in girls’ secondary education.

The next steps

    • This remains a taboo issue among some communities where it’s believed that access to modern contraception will promote promiscuity.
    • Our study found no evidence that household visits from health extension workers had addressed common misconceptions among adolescent girls around fertility and preventing sexually transmitted infections.
    • There are still social barriers that prevent girls from getting information, services and support, and that foster misinformation around modern contraception.

Clarivate Supports Peer Review Week by Raising the Profile of Peer Reviewers

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Thursday, September 22, 2022
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LONDON, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Clarivate Plc (NYSE: CLVT), a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, today celebrates Peer Review Week with the announcement of new services for authors to better track their peer review activity. This includes academic publications, citation metrics and journal editing, now all in one place within the newly launched Web of Science™ Researcher Profiles.

Key Points: 
  • Academics worldwide seek to ensure the integrity of the scientific and wider research literature by providing peer review and assessment of work in their fields of expertise.
  • Some estimates place the time for every peer review completed at between a few hours and a day, which means that recognition for peer reviewers is crucial to provide credit for reviewers' contribution to the scholarly record.
  • Peer review is a vital part of this work and we want to ensure it receives the recognition it deserves.
  • "Clarivate is exploring how open peer review content from other peer review and preprint systems can flow into the Web of Science, alongside the published article.

Clarivate Supports Peer Review Week by Raising the Profile of Peer Reviewers

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Thursday, September 22, 2022
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LONDON, Sept. 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Clarivate Plc (NYSE: CLVT), a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, today celebrates Peer Review Week with the announcement of new services for authors to better track their peer review activity. This includes academic publications, citation metrics and journal editing, now all in one place within the newly launched Web of Science™ Researcher Profiles.

Key Points: 
  • Academics worldwide seek to ensure the integrity of the scientific and wider research literature by providing peer review and assessment of work in their fields of expertise.
  • Some estimates place the time for every peer review completed at between a few hours and a day, which means that recognition for peer reviewers is crucial to provide credit for reviewers' contribution to the scholarly record.
  • Peer review is a vital part of this work and we want to ensure it receives the recognition it deserves.
  • "Clarivate is exploring how open peer review content from other peer review and preprint systems can flow into the Web of Science, alongside the published article.

The 2021 Annual International Forum on Higher Education Was Held at Sun Yat-sen University

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Thursday, July 7, 2022
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On June 26, the 2021 Annual International Forum on Higher Education, was held at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou both online and offline, with the theme of "Building Quality Higher Education Systems".

Key Points: 
  • On June 26, the 2021 Annual International Forum on Higher Education, was held at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou both online and offline, with the theme of "Building Quality Higher Education Systems".
  • This year's forum also set up three parallel forums of "University Presidents Forum", "Scholars Forum" and "Doctoral Candidates Forum".
  • Supporting and leading national modernization with the modernization of higher education has become the main theme of high-quality development of higher education.
  • To build such a higher education system, we have to start from improving the following eight systems: collaborative education system, talent training system, disciplinary specialization system, teachers' professional development system, school classification system, education evaluation system, education opening-up system, and internal governance system.

The Rockefeller Foundation injects USD 55 million to get Covid-19 shots from airports to arms

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Wednesday, April 27, 2022
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NEW YORK, April 27, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Rockefeller Foundation announced the launch of the Global Vaccination Initiative, a USD 55 million investment over two years to support country-led efforts to fully vaccinate 90% of the most at-risk populations in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. With this new initiative, the Foundation is focusing its global health resources on supporting locally-driven interventions to increase vaccine demand – access, trust, and information – that have been consistently underestimated, misunderstood, and underfunded in the global Covid-19 response to date, while leveraging data from trusted, credible sources to strengthen health systems and ensure they are meeting the needs of the most vulnerable populations.

Key Points: 
  • While global supplies of vaccines increase and stabilize, challenging demand-side issues are preventing countries from accelerating vaccination campaigns.
  • The Rockefeller Foundation is a pioneering philanthropy built on collaborative partnerships at the frontiers of science, technology, and innovation to enable individuals, families, and communities to flourish.
  • Our focus is on scaling renewable energy for all, stimulating economic mobility, and ensuring equitable access to healthy and nutritious food.
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‘Archaeology Magazine’ Names Slave Tag Found at College of Charleston Among Top 10 Discoveries of 2021

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Monday, December 6, 2021
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The tag created opportunities for dialogue within the CofC community and beyond about the history of slavery in Charleston and ways to better shine a light on this difficult past.

Key Points: 
  • The tag created opportunities for dialogue within the CofC community and beyond about the history of slavery in Charleston and ways to better shine a light on this difficult past.
  • And its the magnitude of that context that led the editors ofArchaeology Magazineto include the slave tag as one of the Top 10 archaeological discoveries of 2021 from around the globe.
  • We are honored to see the Slave Tag, and the meaning behind the artifact, recognized byArchaeologyMagazineon the world stage, says geology professorScott Harris, who directs the Colleges Archaeology Program.
  • The tag is a physical reminder of how urban slavery worked in Charleston, saysBernard Powers, director of the Colleges Center for the Study of Slavery in Charleston.