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IAS Research Associate Runner Up in Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Excellence in Health Research Prize

2 April 2019

Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo Research Excellence Award

We are very pleased to announce that Dr Kafui Adjaye-Gbewonyo, IAS Research Associate on the project, was awarded the 2nd place prize in the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Excellence in Health Research Prize 2019, which is given for recently published original research by Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø postdoctoral researchers.

Her award was for the paper, ‘Income inequality and cardiovascular disease risk factors in a highly unequal country: a fixed-effects analysis from South Africa’ which she and her co-authors published last year.

As part of the prize, she gave a presentation on the paper on 26 March at the Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Populations & Lifelong Health Domain Symposium where the awards were presented by Professor David Lomas. The 2nd place prize comes with £2,000 to use at Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø in 2019.