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These Were Our Most Popular Tweets in 2016

02.1.2017

As we told you in one of our most recent posts, 2016 was an eventful year in global health. And it was also an eventful one for ISGlobal. With the incorporation of CREAL, we embarked on a new phase, broadening the scope of our work from infectious diseases to include chronic noncommunicable diseases and, in particular, their environmental determinants.

Looking at the tweets that had the most impact each month, we summarise some of the high points of the past year.

January 2016
The Spanish newspaper El País told the story of our fight against malaria with a first-hand account of the progress being made by the Mozambican Alliance Towards Elimination of Malaria (MALTEM).

February 2016
We analysed the global emergency caused by the spread of the Zika virus within the broader context of global health.

March 2016
A new ISGlobal study linked passive smoking during pregnancy with an increased risk of respiratory problems in infants.

April 2016
To mark World Chagas Day, we published a special interactive report entitled “Chagas: 5 Problems and a Series of Solutions”.

May 2016
Successful preview of the film  “Where the Roads End”, a documentary about Oriol Mitjà and the fight against yaws disease.

June 2016
In June we celebrated the completion of the merger between ISGlobal and the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL).

July 2016
We studied how green spaces and blue spaces influence our health.

August 2016
A series of infographics entitled the “Usual Suspects” introduced the tiny vectors that present a huge threat to our health.

September 2016
On World Carfree Day, we told you about the health effects of air pollution. 

October 2016
Two cases in Spain of infection with haemorrhagic fever virus, considered to be one of the nine most feared pathogens in the world today.  

November 2016
The publication of a report providing estimated mortality rates worldwide provides clear evidence of the risks associated with giving birth in low-income countries.

December 2016
A camera crew from “El Intermedio”, a programme broadcast on La Sexta TV in Spain,  travelled to Mozambique with the ISGlobal team to document the work of the Manhiça Health Research Centre (the programme will be aired very soon).

 

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