Okumu
@MosesOkumu1
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Ass Professor @UofISocialWork @UofIllinois. Research areas: Youth sexual and mental health, digital tech, financial resilience, slum and refugee health
Busia, Uganda and Urbana, IL
Joined May 2011
In this week’s “Re-envisioning Global Mental Health” webinar, @USAID staff, researchers, & experts in #MentalHealth discuss the importance of partnerships in addressing the global mental health crisis, featuring @DTarapowell & @MosesOkumu1 Register ➡️ https://t.co/PBGRkc6H0m
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In a new review, an international team of researchers looks at #EconomicEmpowerment interventions & educational outcomes. The findings may surprise you. More: https://t.co/rdaPjPZngw
#FinancialCapability #AssetBuilding #CBEH #FCABAfrica #AcademicAchievement #AcademicPerformance
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Headed to #SSWR? Check out our list of #ILLINOISsocialwork presentations at the Society for Social Work and Research Conference: https://t.co/PtIvECSqCO
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In our latest paper, evidence from 10 sub-Saharan African countries shows that to slow the spread of diseases, interventions should address overcrowding, build household economic resilience, and invest in distinct risk communication strategies for rural/urban households
Now in from #SocialIndicatorsResearch! #FCABAfrica Faculty Directors I. Koomson (U. New England), M. Okumu (U. Illinois) & D. Ansong (U. North Carolina) offer a new tool for measuring #resilience & apply it in sub-Saharan Africa: https://t.co/U15Z17SHMk
@USAID @CAULalert @WHO
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HIV testing interventions with urban refugee youth can facilitate access to bonding (peers, partners) & bridging (family, professionals) social capital. With this approach, HIV testing interventions could advance sexual justice & rights and sex-positive practices @UofISocialWork
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Now in from #SocialIndicatorsResearch! #FCABAfrica Faculty Directors I. Koomson (U. New England), M. Okumu (U. Illinois) & D. Ansong (U. North Carolina) offer a new tool for measuring #resilience & apply it in sub-Saharan Africa: https://t.co/U15Z17SHMk
@USAID @CAULalert @WHO
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Call for Special Issue papers: Financial Capability and Assets for Socioeconomic Development in Global Social Welfare:
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With partners around the globe, CSD has launched #FCABAfrica, an effort to improve #FinancialCapability & well-being on the continent. If you missed the launch, stream it now: https://t.co/A7f5ADryxL
@cibghana @UnivofGh @UCUniversity @thebankofghana @UNC_SSW @uofisocialwork
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latest book came out today! grateful for all the stories shared and collaborations in the past decade. it's about love, hope, storytelling, possibility and creating beloved community in research
link.springer.com
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We are gearing up for next week’s July 15 launch of FCAB Africa during @ICSDOfficial 2021! Get a quick primer on the vision for this multinational collaboration: https://t.co/twh0eSxTLp
#FCABAfrica #FinancialCapability @csda_uj @UNC_GSDI @BrownSchool @MosesOkumu1
csd.wustl.edu
Ansong, D., Okumu, M., Huang, J., Sherraden, M. S., Johnson, L., & Zou, L. (2020, November). Financial capability and asset building in social and economic development: Advancing the Sustainab…
Concern for economic well-being impels most of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Why not leverage #FinancialCapability, #AssetBuilding (FCAB), & #fintech strategies to advance #SDGs in emerging economies? https://t.co/QNamaoG2bl
#GlobalGoals
@globalgoalsUN
@UNC_SSW
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Our community-based study amplifies urban #refugee #youth #HIV testing experiences & self-testing perspectives. Findings can inform tailored stigma-informed HIVST interventions. Future research should explore gender norms in HIVST @UNC_SSW @UofT_FIFSW @YARIDUganda @MinofHealthUG
“Intersecting stigma and HIV testing practices among urban refugee adolescents and youth in Kampala, Uganda: qualitative findings” Read the new Research Article in JIAS here:
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#Education is a #SDOH, yet its cost is out of reach 4 many in low-income countries. Our study highlights how savings accounts ownership & various income forms may help families prepare financially for future educational needs @UNC_SSW @BrownSchool @ikoomson2 @unebusiness @UNESCO
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"It is time to shift away from a narrative that looks at men from a “safe” distance, blames men for poor health‐seeking behaviour and focuses on men solely to improve the health of their partners and children." @iasociety calls for a narrative shift.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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New article on #digitalhealth: To support the increased access and use of quality digital technologies linked to #selfcare interventions for #SRHR and healthcare systems, community mobilization and online Health care providers training are critical. @UNC_SSW @UofT_FIFSW @WHO
Our latest article with @MNarasimhan_HRP and @MosesOkumu1 out today! Sexual and reproductive health mobile apps: results from a cross-sectional values and preferences survey to inform World Health Organization normative guidance on self-care interventions
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#HappyJuneteenth keep your blacc dollars my blacc ppl on our very blacc freedom day ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽✊
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"Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter" ~ Chinua Acebe HAPPY AFRICA DAY!
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New podcast aleart! 'Everybody Hates Me: Let's Talk About Stigma,' hosted by #FIFSW @carmenlogie, invites a range of weekly guests to talk about all different kinds of #stigma. Why does it matter? What does it look like? What can we do about it? https://t.co/IThBkeJeZU
#UofT
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🔥REGISTRATION IS OPEN🔥 for our FINAL episode of #30at830 Putting the Pieces Together. Join us next week as we bring together ALL of our panelists and dig deep to explore #solutions to the impact of #COVID19 on vulnerable populations, hosted by our fearless leader @DrTSharpe 👀
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As #AfricaResponds to the #Covid_19 pandemic, @matapatilah @BrownSchool and I @UNC_SSW provide cost-effective #COVID_19 compliant #strategies for supporting #HIV treatment adherence. https://t.co/Eqx3bfvY1E
@AIDSandBehavior @AfricaCDC @UNAIDS
@NCoVAfrica
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