UCL Centre for Behavioural Medicine
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NEW ACCOUNT!! Tweeting on behalf of UCL Centre for Behavioural Medicine, @School_Pharmacy. All opinions are our own. Follow/RT ≠ endorsement
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Joined July 2024
Exciting news! The CBM is now now over on bluesky! You can find us @ ! Come and give us a follow!.
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Excited to have Prof Rob Horne delivering a seminar next week (20th May) on 'Why don't you do right?' Applications of the Necessity Concerns Framework (NCF) to understanding and addressing nonadherence' as part of the King's College London Health Psychology Open Seminar Series
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Lewis is particularly interested in addressing health inequalities, and supporting the development of services that responds to the needs of communities who are underserved and disproportionately affected by poorer health outcomes. Welcome Lewis!. 3/3.
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Prior to this he was awarded a funded PhD studentship that focused on understanding and strengthening service provisions to those who have experienced complex trauma and PTSD who are from Black backgrounds. 2/3.
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We are excited to welcome Lewis Benjamin to the Centre for Behavioural Medicine (CBM). He recently joined the CBM to work on the TRANSFORM project, and to lead on grant applications to expand on this work to other cancer care disparities. 1/3
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Dr Kayonda Ngamaba presented at the Men's Conference on Sat 29th March where the theme was "Let's Talk Health", covering various topics, including Prostate Cancer, Improving Black health Outcomes, Living well, Mental illness, Stroke survival, & the role of Robotics in healthcare.
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And Dr Ayşenur Kılıç presented on 'What is the Role of Tuberculosis Stigma in Testing and Treatment Uptake for Tuberculosis Infection? A Systematic Review'. 2/2.
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The CBM has been busy at the 2025 @UKSBM conference in Bristol this week!. Dr Comfort Sariem presented on 'Effect of a Cognitive Intervention Based on the Necessity-Concerns Framework on HIV Treatment Adherence and Outcomes in Jos, Nigeria'. 1/2
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Our Director, Prof Rob Horne, has been featured in the NZ Listener!
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While stigma around active TB disease is well recognised, findings highlight that stigma also acts as a hidden barrier in accessing care for latent TB infection — a key part of global TB elimination strategies. Check out the full paper! 2/2.
bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com
Background Tuberculosis (TB) stigma may be a barrier to engagement in testing and treatment for TB infection (TBI). We systematically reviewed the available evidence on how TB stigma influences...
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🚨New CBM Paper! . Aysenur Kilic explores how tuberculosis stigma can impact engagement with testing and treatment for TB infection – a crucial but often overlooked step in ending TB. 1/2.
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We are excited to have CBM group leader Prof Rob Horne all the way over with our friends in New Zealand delivering a seminar at @AucklandUni on 11th March!
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It was great to have @becca_todd18 representing us at the Edinburgh Breast Cancer Special Symposium (EBCSS) last month. She presented a poster on the SWITCH study highlighting the key aims of the study, proposed workstreams & ways HCPs attending the conference could get involved
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Kayonda was able to help athletes understand how their fundraising efforts directly supports research, hopefully inspiring them to raise even more funds!. The UCL CBM will be cheering on all those taking part in the 2025 @LondonMarathon!.
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Last month one of our research fellows - Kayonda Ngamaba – attended the @PCR_News London Marathon Fundraising Event on 15th February to present research from the TRANSFORM project (funded by @PCR_News) to athletes ahead of the @LondonMarathon next month. @reform_transfor
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RT @Beat_AMR_Bugs: 1/2 The INHALE WP3 randomised trial provides multi-centre evidence that rapid syndromic PCR, delivered at the point-of c….
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Intensive Care Medicine - INHALE investigated the impact of seeking pathogens by PCR on antibiotic stewardship and clinical outcomes in hospital-acquired and ventilator-associated pneumonia (HAP...
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Findings suggest that implementation strategies for technological solutions to antimicrobial resistance must be “behaviorally intelligent,” recognizing the challenges facing clinicians when making life or death prescribing decisions.
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Most acknowledged the importance of stewardship, BUT test results often didn’t impact their prescribing – especially if they were negative. Broad-spectrum antibiotics were often prescribed or continued even if the test suggested they weren’t necessary “just-in-case” of infection.
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