Ananya Gupta, a PhD student from the LKC School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, undertook a career development placement with the School of Public Health, Imperial College London, supported by the iHealth T2D, COV-Ind-UK and NIHR 132960.

Dr Awais Butt, a regular medical officer at Services Hospital, Lahore, undertook an research visit at LKC School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, supported by the NIHR 132960.

This year the MQScienceFestival challenged researchers to create a 3 minute 'TikTok' poster. This poster ‘Prevalence and predictors for anxiety and depression in residents of Lahore, Pakistan. A community-based surveillance program from LMIC’ by Afshan Shahid, Service Institute of Medical Sciences (SIMS), Pakistan, was awarded 2nd place by the judging panel.

The 2022 Emerging Leaders Seminar took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina and brought together a team of Emerging Leaders from 17 countries across five continents.

Aarthi Raveendiran, a PhD student from the Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, India undertook a career placement ‘Widening Horizons of Knowledge: Spatial Statistics and Data Analysis in Health Care ’ with Imperial College London supported by a Short Placement Award for Research Collaboration (SPARC), funded by NIHR Academy.