CeSHHAR Zimbabwe
Early Career Research Initiative
ECRI 2026 Symposium
22–23 OCTOBER · HARARE

Programme

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Climate, Environment and Health
Seeing Through Their Eyes: Photovoice as a Community Capacity-Strengthening Tool for Identifying and Documenting Climate-Health Impacts in Mt Darwin, Zimbabwe
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Climate, Environment and Health
Community Heat Champions: Strengthening Heat Adaptation Uptake in Routine Maternal Care in rural Zimbabwe
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Climate, Environment and Health
Barriers to implementing co-designed heat adaptation and mitigation interventions in rural Mt Darwin District, Zimbabwe: a qualitative descriptive study
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Climate, Environment and Health
Occupational heat exposure and psychological distress: Lived Experiences of Healthcare Workers in Rural Mt Darwin, Zimbabwe
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Climate, Environment and Health
Implementation Fidelity and Contextual Factors Shaping a CHW-Delivered Heat Early Warning System for Maternal Health in Rural Zimbabwe
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Climate, Environment and Health
What Time-Motion Cannot See: Measuring the Quality of Maternity Care Under Extreme Heat in Rural Zimbabwe
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Climate, Environment and Health
From Carbon Measurement to Climate Action: Lessons from Designing, Implementing and Assessing Low-Carbon Health System Interventions in Southern Africa
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Climate, Environment and Health
Optimising Healthcare Workers' Performance, Well-being, and Quality of Care: An MRC Framework-Guided Analysis of Stakeholder Perceptions on Heat Interventions in South Africa and Zimbabwe
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Climate, Environment and Health
Engaging citizen scientists in community-based evidence generation and co-creation: Lessons from the REACT Climate and Health Project in Nepal and Zimbabwe
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Climate, Environment and Health
Uptake and Operationalisation of Heat–MNCH Indicators in Zimbabwe: Findings from the GHAP Project
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Climate, Environment and Health
Closing the Location Data Gap: An Open-Source AI Tool for Spatially Precise Health Research and Service Delivery in Africa
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Climate, Environment and Health
ETIQUET – EXtrapolating Temperature and aIr QUality Exposure in Space and Time: A Semi-Supervised Learning Framework for Environmental Intelligence in Data-Scarce Settings
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Climate, Environment and Health
SPECTRA transforms low-cost sensor and GPS data into personal air pollution exposure intelligence for African maternal health research
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Climate, Environment and Health
Postpartum Personal PM₂.₅ Exposure and Pregnancy Outcomes in Three Sub-Saharan African Countries: An Exploratory Multi-Country Analysis
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Climate, Environment and Health
Joint and Interactive Effects of PM₂.₅ and UTCI on Preterm Birth: Evidence from 3 countries The Gambia, Mozambique and Kenya
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Climate, Environment and Health
Integrated governance for improved climate and health outcomes in southern African cities. A review
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Climate, Environment and Health
From Greening to Functionality: Evaluating Urban Green Infrastructure for Climate and Health Resilience in Harare, Zimbabwe
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Climate, Environment and Health
Who gets left behind? Impact of extreme weather events on uptake of HIV service among female sex workers in Chikwawa, Malawi
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Climate, Environment and Health
The Climate SRHR Nexus: Evaluating Systemic Service Disruption and Gender-Based Violence in Post-Cyclone Idai Zimbabwe
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Climate, Environment and Health
Climate Change, Environmental Health and Community Resilience in Zimbabwe: A Desk Review to Inform a Locally Led Early-Warning and Action Framework
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Climate, Environment and Health
Adaptive Caliper Optimization for Propensity Score Matching: Application to the HAPI Study
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Climate, Environment and Health
Indigenous Environmental Health Knowledge and Climate Resilience: Insights from the Shangani Community of Mahenye, Zimbabwe
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Climate, Environment and Health
Climatic and socio-environmental drivers of Cholera epidemics: Cascading effects and spatial variability in developing regions
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Key Populations
Acceptability, feasibility and usability of VimbAI for HIV prevention and sexual and reproductive health among women in Gweru
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Lived experience of mental health and substance use among sex workers in Zimbabwe: A qualitative study
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Who Can I Tell? Secrecy, Distress and Trusted Support Among Women on the Edge of Sex Work
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“Look at My Age, Where Will I Say I Got the STI From?”: Moral Surveillance, Constrained Agency and Barriers to Adolescent SRH Care in Zimbabwe
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From Generic Messaging to Personalised Prevention: Using VimbAI to Deliver Risk-Stratified HIV Prevention Information Through WhatsApp
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Demand Generation Strategy for VimbAI: A Case Study from a Digital Health Pilot in Gweru, Zimbabwe
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Implementation of Zimbabwe's National Action Plan for Orphans and Vulnerable Children and the persistence of child sexual exploitation in Midlands Province
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Adapting Behavioural Activation as an intervention for young people on antiretroviral therapy with hazardous alcohol and substance use in Harare, Zimbabwe
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Investigation of Mendelian Disorders Associated with Liver Dysfunction in African Patients: A Genomic Approach
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Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health
Grief and Coping After Stillbirth: An Exploration of Women's Lived Experiences at Zomba Central Hospital, Malawi
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Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health
When Fever Cannot Wait: Understanding Household and Provider Decision-Making Around Antibiotic Use in High-AMR Communities in Southern Malawi
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Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health
Optimising the uptake of HIV prevention and contraception amongst pregnant-and-lactating adolescent girls and young women in Zimbabwe: a co-development exercise
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Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health
Exploring the practice and outcomes of syndromic management of sexually transmitted infections through simulated (mystery) clients in Zimbabwe
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Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health
Engaging diverse stakeholders in intervention development and evaluation in Zimbabwe
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Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health
Closing the Implementation Gap: Using Routine Data and Adaptive Learning to Strengthen Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in Zimbabwe
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Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health
Smart IoT box with WhatsApp Reminder
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Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health
Touch free dual dispenser for hand hygiene and condoms
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Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health
Unemployment, Stress and Peer Pressure Driving Youth Substance Use in Hatcliffe, Harare: Implications for Youth Sexual Health and HIV Prevention
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Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health
Risk of Obstetric Fistula in Women aged 16–40 years: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Retrospective Observational studies
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Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health
Feasibility of a gender-transformative intervention to promote positive masculinities and sexual health among very young adolescents in Zimbabwe