IMPALA: Publications & Resources
IMPALA blog
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Rising stars: women researchers working together for lung health across Africa4 Mar 2021 -
IMPALA community volunteers and healthcare workers receive important Chronic Lung Disease intervention training in Gezira State, Sudan, September 2020.22 Oct 2020 -
IMPALA health workers receive important Chronic Lung Disease intervention training in Dodoma, Tanzania, August 2020.20 Aug 2020 -
NEW Malawi Health Economics Network (MwHEN) formed in Blantyre30 Mar 2020 -
KASH Conference, Nairobi, Kenya9 Mar 2020 -
Reflections from the Women Leaders in Global Health Conference 201917 Dec 2019 -
IMPALA at the 50th Union World Conference on Lung Health12 Nov 2019 -
#HealthforAll @UHC203023 Aug 2019 -
IMPALA supports first ever International Post-TB Symposium30 Jul 2019 -
IMPALA represented at International Lung Health Conference4 Jul 2019 -
Leave no one behind! Health for all Reflections of an IMPALA PhD student on the Fifth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research31 Oct 2018
The Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS)
IMPALA has already taken policy-related action by supporting the petition to the Director General of the WHO for action to improve lung health around the world by supporting the FIRS Charter for Lung Health.
The FIRS Charter has been signed by Jeremiah Chakaya on behalf of the Union and Heather Zar on behalf of PATS.
IMPALA / LuLi questionnaires
February 2018
The IMPALA team have completed the first version of the respiratory questionnaires which have been a real collaborative effort. We have involved community groups in urban and rural areas and we have tried to get a question set which is useful for everybody. These questionnaires will now be used for our forthcoming projects and each investigator is in the process of translating them in the local language.
The questionnaires can be found here.
Spirometry Training
February 2018
IMPALA is supporting several Spirometry Training courses across Africa and we have worked with colleagues at the Pan African Thoracic Society to create the PATS Spirometry Training Manual.
This manual will soon be made freely available online. Please visit the PATS page for updates.
Community prevalence of chronic respiratory symptoms in rural Malawi: Implications for policy.
14 December 2017
Researchers at LSTM have collaborated with colleagues at the REACH Trust to carry out the first study looking at the prevalence of chronic respiratory symptoms in rural Malawi to improve the rates of diagnosis and treatment for tuberculosis (TB) and chronic airways disease. Find out more.