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Craig Janes receives IDRC Women RISE funding for project in Uganda
The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) has funded 23 research projects through an action-based initiative called Women RISE, whose projects aim to better understand the disproportionate impact COVID-19 has had on women’s health and livelihoods.
New method for public health analysis shows trends in substance use among high schoolers
High-school students who have a large weekly allowance, friends who smoke and low levels of physical activity are more likely to use multiple substances over time.
Postdoc advances research and lands professorship, thanks to inaugural AMTD fellowship
Oluwakemi (Kemi) Amodu is dedicated to advancing the reproductive and sexual health of the Hausa women in displaced persons camps in northern Nigeria.