Health

Former UI VC receives award of Rising Star, Gold and Silver of Japan

Apr 27, 2022Apr 27, 2022 awouniversity

By Moyosore Salami The Japan Republic Ambassador of Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Federal Republic of Nigeria, Matsunaga Kazuyoshi, has awarded Professor Adewole the Order of Rising star, Gold and Silver Star of Japan in Abuja. According to ambassador Kazuyoshi, the award was in recognition of his performance as Minister of Health, Nigeria and also for promoting a closer Japanese-Nigeria relationship. Professor Isaac Adewole who was the former Vice Chancellor university of Ibadan, is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He was Nigeria’s Minister of Health from November 2015-May 2019. He…

Best scientist in the country: Oye Gureje, NNOM, DSc

Apr 27, 2022Apr 27, 2022 awouniversity

By Opeyemi Babalola Apart from being the first to earn the Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) in the field of Neuropsychiatry from the University of Ibadan, Professor Oye Gureje, has established for himself an excellent lifestyle for others to follow in the research world and particularly in psychiatry, mental health research, and epidemiology. Gureje, regarded as the best scientist in Nigeria, has unmatched success academically and in conducting scientific research. On 19 November 2019, a subsidiary of Clarivate Analytics based in the United States, The Web of Science Group, released a…

Nigerian lecturing in UK bags Google funding for research to save lives of mothers and new-borns

Apr 26, 2022Apr 26, 2022 awouniversity

By Opeyemi Babalola A Nigerian, Dr. Aduragbemi Banke-Thomas, who is lecturing and based in the UK has been awarded an undisclosed amount of funds to further conduct more research on how Google Maps could be used to help pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa. Dr Banke-Thomas, a Senior Lecturer in Public Health at the University of Greenwich, had in October last year, explored how Google Maps could be used for generating closer-to-reality travel time estimates for pregnant women in emergency situations. While reacting to the news, the beneficiary explained that “This…

Student visas for the US: what has changed under Covid-19?

Jan 12, 2022Jan 12, 2022 awouniversity

Culled from Times Higher Education Due to the pandemic, the visa application process has had to adapt to ensure that students are still able to obtain visas to study abroad. These are all the changes you need to know about for the US student visa application process Joy Hunter Student content curator, Times Higher Education If travel restrictions and online lessons weren’t enough, the US government has made some temporary changes to the usual F-1 and J-1 visa regulations to accommodate Covid-19. A few different student visas are available to study in the…

NUC, NPHCDA Collaborate to Ramp Up Covid Vaccinations in Varsities

Dec 27, 2021Dec 27, 2021 awouniversity

By Moyosore Salami The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) led by the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Faisal Shuaib, has solicited for inter-agency collaboration in the area of strengthening sensitisation of the academic community on the need to get vaccination and building synergy in research generation. The aim of the collaboration is to tackle the current Covid-19 Viruses and mitigate against other possible diseases that could emerge in the nearest future. The Executive Director and CEO of NPHCDA, Dr. Shuaib, commended NUC for its compliance with…

AUB Global Health Institute looks into scaling up its flagship project for refugee health ‘Sijilli’

Nov 5, 2021Nov 5, 2021 awouniversity

By Moyosore Salami The Global Health Institute (GHI) at American University of Beirut has provided 10,000 refugees across Lebanon with cloud-based electronic health records (EHR) as part of one of its flagship projects ‘Sijilli’. The Sijilli project, which was launched as a response to the increasing need of refugees to securely access their health information throughout their migration journey, served as the focus of a strategic roundtable discussion organized by GHI on October 28, 2021. The event, which took place on campus, brought together ambassadors, representatives of embassies, and heads…

Stanford U School of Medicine: Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective in controlled study

Nov 3, 2021 awouniversity

In a double-blind controlled study, high doses of magnetic brain stimulation, given on an accelerated timeline and individually targeted, caused remission in 79% of trial participants with severe depression. From Stanford University School of Medicine Website/News A new type of magnetic brain stimulation brought rapid remission to almost 80% of participants with severe depression in a study conducted at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The treatment, known as Stanford accelerated intelligent neuromodulation therapy (SAINT) or simply Stanford neuromodulation therapy, is an intensive, individualized form of transcranial magnetic stimulation. In the…

Stanford Medicine earns top ranking for quality, safety from Vizient

Nov 3, 2021Nov 3, 2021 awouniversity

Vizient, an organization that promotes and measures improvement in health care performance, has ranked Stanford Medicine among the top academic medical centers in the United States. Stanford U School of Medicine Website/News Stanford Medicine was ranked in the top 10% of comprehensive academic medical centers for inpatient and outpatient care by Vizient, a national health care performance improvement organization. Stanford Medicine earned “5 Star” status in the Vizient Quality and Accountability Ranking — a notable achievement, given the difficulty medical centers have faced during the coronavirus pandemic, according to David Levine, senior vice…

Hundreds of global universities ‘yet to set net zero target’

Oct 31, 2021Oct 31, 2021 awouniversity

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/hundreds-global-universities-yet-toset-netzero-target?mc_cid=25862e22f5&mc_eid=45b29e2869 THE research finds that high share of institutions that have specified goal are not counting indirect emissions such as travel Ellie Bothwell Source: GettyTreading warily: universities shy from targets as ‘they imply a recognition of the crisis and a need to transform business as usual’ Read the THE report, The Race to Net Zero: How global universities are performing Almost half of global universities that suggest they are committed to taking climate action are yet to set a target date to reach net zero, according to a new report from Times Higher Education. While more than 550 universities across the world submitted data relating…

Running a university during a pandemic

Oct 31, 2021Oct 31, 2021 awouniversity

Culled from https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/leaders-survey-2021-running-university-during-pandemic When the current generation of university leaders applied for their posts, none of the job descriptions mentioned Covid-19. So how have they found the past 18 months? And what about the future, economic, political and environmental? We asked 180 leaders from around the globe. Paul Jump reports October 28, 2021Paul JumpTwitter: @PaulJump Source: Sorbetto/istock It may or may not have been Abraham Lincoln who first noted that a leader can’t please all of the people all of the time, but never did the observation appear more apposite than during…