IAS Research Associate Runner Up in Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Excellence in Health Research Prize
2 April 2019
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.