FRELIP Editorial Team

Global health and clinical research this week features 6 African-led studies and 4 global studies, with journals including PLoS ONE, The Lancet Regional Health – Europe, and JACC. This week: long-term Ebola stigma in Uganda, birth defects as a growing cause of child deaths in LMICs, growth faltering in HIV-exposed South African children, and BMI missing central obesity in Malawian diabetes patients.

This week in global health and clinical research, we feature 10 studies, including several African-led works, with journals cited. This week: long-term Ebola stigma in Uganda, prioritizing birth defects in LMICs, HIV growth trajectories in South Africa, BMI vs. waist-to-height ratio in Malawi, and more.

This week in interdisciplinary scholarship, we feature 10 studies, with 8 African-led and 2 global, all from open-access journals. This week: machine learning for sex estimation in forensic anthropology, apartheid South Africa and Israel as US outposts, post-repatriation conservation in Nigeria, and the rhetoric of Brahmanical ritual in early Buddhism.

This week’s education research digest covers 10 studies, 6 African-led and 4 from global settings, with journals cited throughout. This week: adult literacy textbook evaluation in Ethiopia, instructional leadership and teacher motivation in West Hararghe, andragogy in Ethiopia’s adult education programme, Nigerian medical students’ teaching-method preferences, and the unit circle method for trigonometry.

This week’s multidisciplinary digest features 10 studies, with 8 African-led and 2 global, all from high-impact open-access journals. This week: machine learning for sex estimation in South African forensics, apartheid and Israel as US Cold War outposts, post-repatriation conservation of Nigerian heritage, and hermeneutical reparations in philosophy.

Education research is the focus this week, with six African-led studies from Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Rwanda and three global studies, all cited with their journals. This week: Ethiopian adult literacy textbooks missing adult-learning principles, instructional leadership linked to student performance in West Hararghe, uneven andragogy in Ethiopia’s IFAE programme, Nigerian medical students’ teaching-method preferences, and a Rwandan framework for lecturer effectiveness.