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Ben Cooper
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Professor of infectious disease epidemiology at Centre for Global Health Research, Oxford. 🤓🧀☕️🚴🏼🦠💉💊
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Ben Cooper @bugwonk.bsky.social · May 1
Many hospitals in LMICs lack access to microbiology services. @cherrylim128.bsky.social et al asked if such services are a good use of limited resources. The answer: emphatically yes. Such services are likely to improve patient outcomes & reduce overall costs. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Cost-effectiveness of maintaining an active hospital microbiology laboratory service in Timor-Leste
Maintaining an active hospital microbiology laboratory allows definitive antibiotic treatment for bacterial infections to be given in a timely manner.…
www.sciencedirect.com
Reposted by Ben Cooper
tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk
#ResearchHighlight from Yewei Xie & Mo Yin @moru-mip.bsky.social

One health perspective of antibiotic resistance in enterobacterales from Southeast Asia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Read more 👉 www.ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi
Full publication 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 21, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Reposted by Ben Cooper
erictopol.bsky.social
The new cover and feature @nature.com www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
January 21, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Reposted by Ben Cooper
tghn-news.bsky.social
Webinar: AMR tools and resources: An introduction for health
professionals and researchers
📅 Date: 29 January 2026

👉 09:30–11:00 GMT
Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

👉 15:00–16:30 GMT
Register:
zoom.us/webinar/regi...
WEBINAR AMR tools and resources: An introduction for health professionals and researchers 29th January 2026 Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a pressing global health challenge, and access to high-quality data and analytical tools is essential for effective decision-making. This webinar introduces key resources designed to support researchers, health professionals, and policy partners working to understand and address AMR. Two identical sessions available to enable global participation. Please register for the time that best suits you. Session 1: 09:30 - 11:00 (GMT) Session 2: 15:00 - 16:30 (GMT) REGISTER NOW GRAM IDDO THE GLOBAL HEALTH NETWORK
January 8, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Reposted by Ben Cooper
esthervk.bsky.social
New PREPRINT! tinyurl.com/yynzevrh Thanks to a true transdisciplinary collaboration, we developed and evaluated a low-cost community #AMR intervention set in rural Burkina Faso and DRCongo. Combining #WHO #AWaRe–based feedback/training (medicine providers) and AMR awareness campaigns (community).
December 20, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Reposted by Ben Cooper
tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk
#ResearchHighlight from Phaik Yeong Cheah @moru-mip.bsky.social

Engagement and justice considerations in mitigation of antimicrobial resistance #AMR

Read more 👉 www.ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi
Full publication 👉 www.cell.com/trends/micro...
Phaik Yeong Cheah
December 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Reposted by Ben Cooper
iddonews.bsky.social
✨ Exciting news! ✨
Our website just got a fresh new makeover! 🙌
We’ve reorganised things to make everything easier to find, smoother to navigate & more enjoyable to explore. Plus we’ve launched an new blog section!
Take a look around & let us know what you think
👉 www.iddo.org
December 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
bugwonk.bsky.social
Super exciting opportunity to work on an ambitious project both developing novel statistical methodology for infectious diseases and applying it to real world AMR problems in the UK:
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Research Associate/Fellow in Statistics (Fixed Term)
We are looking for a highly motivated researcher, whose expertise lies in statistics, to work with Prof Theodore Kypraios on a project at the forefront of infectious disease modelling. The role focuse...
jobs.nottingham.ac.uk
December 2, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Reposted by Ben Cooper
gram-oxford.bsky.social
The AMR data repository, supported by Fleming Fund and Wellcome Trust, now covers nearly 70 countries! Apply today to use this data in your research. #GRAM #WAAW
Data: see QR code
Story: bit.ly/4o4oNkz
@bugwonk.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk @ndm.ox.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Reposted by Ben Cooper
ingelbeen.bsky.social
Open position for an ID modeler @itmantwerp.bsky.social on community-level + healthcare transmission of resistant #AMR bacteria in LRS, working with Clinical Research Unit Nanoro, @esthervk.bsky.social, @bugwonk.bsky.social, KEMRI-wellcome Kilifi, myself,... #IDSky #EpiSky
www.itg.be/en/jobs-and-...
Epidemiologist
Epidemiologist for modelling AMR transmission in LMICMore than 500 staff members at the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) contribute e...
www.itg.be
June 23, 2025 at 7:40 AM
bugwonk.bsky.social
Congratulations to Sai Thein Than Tun @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk ‬for passing his PhD viva & overcoming some formidable obstacles in the process. Sai’s work on malaria elimination is a great example of simple models supporting clear thinking about complex processes
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Screenshot from viva for DPhil candidate Sai Thein Than Tun with examiners Ben Cooper and Jennifer Flegg. All are smiling as Sai has just passed his viva with minor corrections and the examiners were hugely impressed at the quality of the work .
June 14, 2025 at 5:46 AM
bugwonk.bsky.social
Many hospitals in LMICs lack access to microbiology services. @cherrylim128.bsky.social et al asked if such services are a good use of limited resources. The answer: emphatically yes. Such services are likely to improve patient outcomes & reduce overall costs. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Cost-effectiveness of maintaining an active hospital microbiology laboratory service in Timor-Leste
Maintaining an active hospital microbiology laboratory allows definitive antibiotic treatment for bacterial infections to be given in a timely manner.…
www.sciencedirect.com
May 1, 2025 at 6:02 AM
bugwonk.bsky.social
Kudos to 16yo son, Joe, who has a learning disability due to #ADNP syndrome, for completing his 50th #parkrun last week in Abingdon. Inspired by @johnharris1969.bsky.social ’s new book Maybe I'm Amazed www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie... Joe’s post-run chill-out was spent drumming to Kraftwerk’s Autobahn.
Joe running in a parkrun event in a field next to the Thames in Abingdon Joe lost in music while listening to Kraftwerk's Autobahn and drumming on a small Kenyan drum. In the background is John Harris's book Maybe I'm amazed next to lava lamp
April 6, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Reposted by Ben Cooper
iddonews.bsky.social
Track news reports of #SubstandardMedicines and #FalsifiedMedicine in your country. View our Medicine Quality Monitoring Globe, which filters by key words, time-periods, locations, and language. #medswecantrust
@tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk @wellcometrust.bsky.social @moru-mip.bsky.social
March 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM
bugwonk.bsky.social
Just back from teaching on a 4 day policy-focused AMR workshop in Nairobi hosted by the brilliant cema-africa.uonbi.ac.ke (with generous funding from @wellcometrust.bsky.social). Great to meet so many inspiring people from throughout Africa working to reduce the number of lives lost to #AMR.
students on short course point at laptop screens which is running an R Shiny web application about cost-effectiveness of maintaining a microbiological diagnostic lab which is based on this paper https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.14.24307355v1
March 16, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Reposted by Ben Cooper
tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk
#ResearchHighlight from Mo Yin @moru-mip.bsky.social

Cost-effectiveness of a short-course #antibiotic treatment strategy for the treatment of ventilator-associated #pneumonia: an economic analysis of the #REGARDVAP trial

Read more 👉 www.ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi
👉 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Mo Yin
March 4, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Reposted by Ben Cooper
iddonews.bsky.social
Are you researching #InfectiousDiseases #EmergingInfections #malaria or #NTDs? The datasets we host harmonise tens of thousands of individual patient data, enabling researchers to answer new questions from existing data. Learn more www.iddo.org/data-sh... #BeatNTDs
February 21, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Reposted by Ben Cooper
jonathanrydermd.bsky.social
Systematic review of antibiotic durations in @jac-amr.bsky.social

n=315 RCTs

85% demonstrated equivalence or non-inferiority of shorter therapy

Only 7% in ICU, 14% in LMIC, and 15% low risk of bias

academic.oup.com/jacamr/artic...
January 30, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Reposted by Ben Cooper
rleonsampedro.bsky.social
🚨 New preprint!! How can antibiotic-resistant bacteria increase in abundance in the human gut microbiome, even without antibiotics? 🧐 We show that strain-specific ecological interactions are key to understanding resistance dynamics in microbial communities. 🧵👇 1/5
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org
December 11, 2024 at 12:30 PM
Reposted by Ben Cooper
marcbonten.bsky.social
Seven is the new fourteen..... for days of antibiotic treatment of bloodstream infections?

Read my new post, inspired by the BALANCE study published in NEJM 👇

letstalkscience.eu/2024/11/26/s...
Seven is the new fourteen - Let's talk science with Marc Bonten
Some think of medicine, or at least antibiotic treatment duration, as a religion. In the Bible “seven” stands for completeness (I got that from Wikipedia), and therefore infections should be treated w...
letstalkscience.eu
November 26, 2024 at 1:43 PM
Reposted by Ben Cooper
tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk
#MeetOurResearchers interview with Proochista Ariana @ndmoxford.bsky.social

Building capacity for #GlobalHealth impact

Our MSc in International Health and Tropical Medicine fosters effective solutions & global health leadership

Watch the video 👉 www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/wall-of-face...
November 20, 2024 at 5:38 PM
Reposted by Ben Cooper
absteward.bsky.social
🔥BALANCE RCT🔥
74 hospitals in 7 countries
3,608 patients
A 7-day course of antibiotics for hospitalized patients with bloodstream infections was non inferior to 14d within a 4% prespecified margin for mortality at 90 days #idsky
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Antibiotic Treatment for 7 versus 14 Days in Patients with Bloodstream Infections | NEJM
Bloodstream infections are associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. Early, appropriate antibiotic therapy is important, but the duration of treatment is uncertain. In a multicenter, non...
www.nejm.org
November 20, 2024 at 1:07 PM
bugwonk.bsky.social
Read more about this here -> www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 18, 2024 at 7:24 PM
bugwonk.bsky.social
Today 3pm GMT, 4pm CET: webinar to discuss latest Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance study www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... with panelists Dr. Mohsen Naghavi, Dr. Tomislav Mestrovic,  Dr. Gisela-Robles Aguilar. Register here washington.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance 1990–2021: a systematic analysis with forecasts to 2050
This study presents the first comprehensive assessment of the global burden of AMR from 1990 to 2021, with results forecasted until 2050. Evaluating changing trends in AMR mortality across time and lo...
www.thelancet.com
November 18, 2024 at 11:19 AM
Reposted by Ben Cooper
angelahuttner.bsky.social
Just finished recording next #Communicable show w/ Ben Cooper (Oxford @bugwonk.bsky.social) & Pernette Bourdillon (WHO) on falsified antimicrobials & how they affect #AMR
Turns out they're true-crime detectives (if a little nerdy 😎) @cmicomms.bsky.social will do a better teaser soon!
IDSky MicroSky
Still shot of Communicable host A. Huttner & guests Ben Cooper (Oxford) & Pernette Bourdillon Esteve (World Health Organization) discussing substandard & falsified antimicrobials & their effects on antimicrobial resistance.
November 11, 2024 at 4:39 PM
bugwonk.bsky.social
Bet practices in AMR surveillance - lecture/webinar series from Dr Geetanjali Kapoor of the One Health Trust www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/gram/researc... #AMR
AMR surveillance best practices: a series
The series addressed real-world challenges of AMR surveillance, based on prior experiences in the field
www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk
October 30, 2024 at 7:33 AM