Dr Xin Hui Chan 🕊️
@drxhschan.bsky.social
#Infection #GlobalHealth #Equity #Leadership • Academic Clinical Lecturer🦟🧫🦠🍄🪱💊💉• call me ‘Sin Hway’• she/her • views my own • reposts ≠ endorsements
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Dr Xin Hui Chan 🕊️
@drxhschan.bsky.social
· Jun 17
Call for public consultation ̶ Target Product Profiles for Treatments for Dengue Fever
The World Health Organization (WHO) is seeking feedback on the TPP from experts in the industry, product developers, the scientific community, NTD programme personnel and clinicians currently involved...
www.who.int
📆 15 June is World Dengue Day
🦟 Dengue is the most important vector-borne viral infection in humans, with record cases in 2024, but no licensed treatments
💊 @who.int are seeking feedback on target product profiles for dengue treatments
🗣️ Do share widely - thank you!
www.who.int/news-room/ar...
🦟 Dengue is the most important vector-borne viral infection in humans, with record cases in 2024, but no licensed treatments
💊 @who.int are seeking feedback on target product profiles for dengue treatments
🗣️ Do share widely - thank you!
www.who.int/news-room/ar...
Reposted by Dr Xin Hui Chan 🕊️
Not all medicines are equal
⏱️ Some need to be taken at a certain time
🍽️ Some need to be taken with food
🍂 Some may interact with herbal remedies
#MedSafetyWeek
⏱️ Some need to be taken at a certain time
🍽️ Some need to be taken with food
🍂 Some may interact with herbal remedies
#MedSafetyWeek
November 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Not all medicines are equal
⏱️ Some need to be taken at a certain time
🍽️ Some need to be taken with food
🍂 Some may interact with herbal remedies
#MedSafetyWeek
⏱️ Some need to be taken at a certain time
🍽️ Some need to be taken with food
🍂 Some may interact with herbal remedies
#MedSafetyWeek
😅🦟🩸🥵
Infectious Disease Doctor Goes To A Soccer Game
YouTube video by Dr. Glaucomflecken
youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
😅🦟🩸🥵
Reposted by Dr Xin Hui Chan 🕊️
Reposted by Dr Xin Hui Chan 🕊️
Our framework that informed the @who.int TB & climate change policy brief out now in @lancetrespirmed.bsky.social, exploring the intersections and implications of climate change for the TB epidemic. Key message? TB should be considered a climate-sensitive disease
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Climate change and tuberculosis: an analytical framework
Climate change is likely to exacerbate a range of determinants that drive tuberculosis,
the world's leading cause of death from a single infectious agent. However, tuberculosis
is often neglected in w...
www.thelancet.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Our framework that informed the @who.int TB & climate change policy brief out now in @lancetrespirmed.bsky.social, exploring the intersections and implications of climate change for the TB epidemic. Key message? TB should be considered a climate-sensitive disease
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Reposted by Dr Xin Hui Chan 🕊️
SO excited to see this work come out, led by the incredible Laura Marks: doi.org/10.1093/ofid...
Infectious Diseases in People Who Use Drugs Introduction
Over the past 2 decades, there has been an unprecedented increase in infectious diseases among individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs). These inclu
doi.org
October 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM
SO excited to see this work come out, led by the incredible Laura Marks: doi.org/10.1093/ofid...
Reposted by Dr Xin Hui Chan 🕊️
New Review
Core outcome measurement set for clinical trials in dengue: an international Delphi consensus study (DEN-CORE)
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Core outcome measurement set for clinical trials in dengue: an international Delphi consensus study (DEN-CORE)
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Core outcome measurement set for clinical trials in dengue: an international Delphi consensus study (DEN-CORE)
Dengue, caused by any one of four distinct virus serotypes, is the most rapidly spreading
mosquito-borne viral disease worldwide. It is a primary arboviral infection with increasing
global incidence, ...
www.thelancet.com
October 8, 2025 at 10:57 AM
New Review
Core outcome measurement set for clinical trials in dengue: an international Delphi consensus study (DEN-CORE)
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Core outcome measurement set for clinical trials in dengue: an international Delphi consensus study (DEN-CORE)
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Reposted by Dr Xin Hui Chan 🕊️
"Usutu, which mainly infects birds, was first detected in London blackbirds in 2020 and has been found in birds or mosquitoes every year since, making it now endemic to the UK … Usutu often establishes first, with West Nile following as temperatures rise."
theconversation.com/first-eviden...
theconversation.com/first-eviden...
First evidence in the UK of breeding aegypti mosquito – the main spreader of dengue, chikungunya and Zika
The first discovery of Aedes aegypti eggs in the UK shows how climate change and global travel are helping mosquitoes that spread dengue and Zika expand northwards.
theconversation.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
"Usutu, which mainly infects birds, was first detected in London blackbirds in 2020 and has been found in birds or mosquitoes every year since, making it now endemic to the UK … Usutu often establishes first, with West Nile following as temperatures rise."
theconversation.com/first-eviden...
theconversation.com/first-eviden...
Reposted by Dr Xin Hui Chan 🕊️
Pleased to see this out today in @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... We estimate the independent effects of AMR genes on MIC at a drug-bug level and challenge the idea that resistance is a binary phenomenon.
Estimating the association of antimicrobial resistance genes with minimum inhibitory concentration in Escherichia coli: an observational study
Surveillance and prediction of antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli relies on curated databases of genes and mutations. We aimed to quantify the …
www.sciencedirect.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Pleased to see this out today in @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... We estimate the independent effects of AMR genes on MIC at a drug-bug level and challenge the idea that resistance is a binary phenomenon.
Reposted by Dr Xin Hui Chan 🕊️
📢 "Invasive #mosquito surveillance in the #UnitedKingdom 2020 to 2024: First detection of #Aedes aegypti eggs in the UK and further detection of Aedes albopictus 🦟" by Colin Johnston et al. @ukhsa.bsky.social published in @plosglobalpublichealth.org
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
October 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
📢 "Invasive #mosquito surveillance in the #UnitedKingdom 2020 to 2024: First detection of #Aedes aegypti eggs in the UK and further detection of Aedes albopictus 🦟" by Colin Johnston et al. @ukhsa.bsky.social published in @plosglobalpublichealth.org
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
Reposted by Dr Xin Hui Chan 🕊️
The invasive form of Ae. #aegypti mosquito evolved within the Americas, after arriving from Africa ~320 ya. Our most recent paper is out @science.org. Years of work with collaborators all around led by J. Crawford! Great resource for the Vector Research community!.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
How the yellow fever mosquito conquered the world
Aedes aegypti further adapted to life around humans when it arrived in the Americas, study of hundreds of mosquito genomes reveals
www.science.org
September 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The invasive form of Ae. #aegypti mosquito evolved within the Americas, after arriving from Africa ~320 ya. Our most recent paper is out @science.org. Years of work with collaborators all around led by J. Crawford! Great resource for the Vector Research community!.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Reposted by Dr Xin Hui Chan 🕊️
🦟" #France 🇫🇷 reports 1st local #dengue case, #chikungunya cases rise to 25" via @outbreaknewstoday.substack.com.web.brid.gy
open.substack.com/pub/outbreak...
open.substack.com/pub/outbreak...
France reports 1st local dengue case, chikungunya cases rise to 25
According to French health authorities, a total of 10 new episodes of arboviral transmission transmitted by Aedes albopictus have been identified in mainland France: 9 episodes of chikungunya and 1 of...
open.substack.com
July 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
🦟" #France 🇫🇷 reports 1st local #dengue case, #chikungunya cases rise to 25" via @outbreaknewstoday.substack.com.web.brid.gy
open.substack.com/pub/outbreak...
open.substack.com/pub/outbreak...
Reposted by Dr Xin Hui Chan 🕊️
"Regardless of its justification—be it financial, convenience, or otherwise—a lone actor should not be allowed to unilaterally undermine the ethical provision of healthcare in the United States."
academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...
academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...
Pulling the Drug Out From Underneath: Ethical Considerations in the Discontinuation of the Antimalarial Quinidine
Abstract. In 2017, the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly announced it would stop manufacturing quinidine, the only Food and Drug Administration–approved tre
academic.oup.com
July 1, 2025 at 9:47 AM
"Regardless of its justification—be it financial, convenience, or otherwise—a lone actor should not be allowed to unilaterally undermine the ethical provision of healthcare in the United States."
academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...
academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...
📆 15 June is World Dengue Day
🦟 Dengue is the most important vector-borne viral infection in humans, with record cases in 2024, but no licensed treatments
💊 @who.int are seeking feedback on target product profiles for dengue treatments
🗣️ Do share widely - thank you!
www.who.int/news-room/ar...
🦟 Dengue is the most important vector-borne viral infection in humans, with record cases in 2024, but no licensed treatments
💊 @who.int are seeking feedback on target product profiles for dengue treatments
🗣️ Do share widely - thank you!
www.who.int/news-room/ar...
Call for public consultation ̶ Target Product Profiles for Treatments for Dengue Fever
The World Health Organization (WHO) is seeking feedback on the TPP from experts in the industry, product developers, the scientific community, NTD programme personnel and clinicians currently involved...
www.who.int
June 17, 2025 at 6:03 AM
📆 15 June is World Dengue Day
🦟 Dengue is the most important vector-borne viral infection in humans, with record cases in 2024, but no licensed treatments
💊 @who.int are seeking feedback on target product profiles for dengue treatments
🗣️ Do share widely - thank you!
www.who.int/news-room/ar...
🦟 Dengue is the most important vector-borne viral infection in humans, with record cases in 2024, but no licensed treatments
💊 @who.int are seeking feedback on target product profiles for dengue treatments
🗣️ Do share widely - thank you!
www.who.int/news-room/ar...
Reposted by Dr Xin Hui Chan 🕊️
Applications for the Barnett Christie Lecture at FIS 2025 are now open!
Each year the BIA invites applications to deliver this highly prestigious lecture at the conference of the Federation of Infection Societies. Find out more and apply 👉 champ.ly/2kIjacU-
Each year the BIA invites applications to deliver this highly prestigious lecture at the conference of the Federation of Infection Societies. Find out more and apply 👉 champ.ly/2kIjacU-
June 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Applications for the Barnett Christie Lecture at FIS 2025 are now open!
Each year the BIA invites applications to deliver this highly prestigious lecture at the conference of the Federation of Infection Societies. Find out more and apply 👉 champ.ly/2kIjacU-
Each year the BIA invites applications to deliver this highly prestigious lecture at the conference of the Federation of Infection Societies. Find out more and apply 👉 champ.ly/2kIjacU-
Reposted by Dr Xin Hui Chan 🕊️
Given #YellowFever vaccination seems to have become topical, this article might be of interest.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Yellow fever breakthrough infections after yellow fever vaccination: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Yellow fever breakthrough infections documented in literature are rare, and not necessarily
more common 10 years or more after primary yellow fever vaccination. This finding
suggests that a single dos...
www.thelancet.com
May 31, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Given #YellowFever vaccination seems to have become topical, this article might be of interest.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Reposted by Dr Xin Hui Chan 🕊️
Read our June issue!
Featuring effectiveness of RSV vaccination in older people in the US, malaria prevention in children with sickle-cell anaemia, and testing new serological tools for arboviral infections
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Featuring effectiveness of RSV vaccination in older people in the US, malaria prevention in children with sickle-cell anaemia, and testing new serological tools for arboviral infections
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
May 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Read our June issue!
Featuring effectiveness of RSV vaccination in older people in the US, malaria prevention in children with sickle-cell anaemia, and testing new serological tools for arboviral infections
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Featuring effectiveness of RSV vaccination in older people in the US, malaria prevention in children with sickle-cell anaemia, and testing new serological tools for arboviral infections
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
🏅Thank you,
@tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk @ndm.ox.ac.uk and @medsci.ox.ac.uk
for the news coverage on my work on drugs for vector-borne infections 🦟💊
@escmid.bsky.social
www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-...
@tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk @ndm.ox.ac.uk and @medsci.ox.ac.uk
for the news coverage on my work on drugs for vector-borne infections 🦟💊
@escmid.bsky.social
www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-...
Oxford clinical lecturer receives ESCMID Young Investigator Award and is touchINFECTIOUS DISEASES Future Leader 2025
www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk
May 14, 2025 at 7:13 AM
🏅Thank you,
@tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk @ndm.ox.ac.uk and @medsci.ox.ac.uk
for the news coverage on my work on drugs for vector-borne infections 🦟💊
@escmid.bsky.social
www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-...
@tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk @ndm.ox.ac.uk and @medsci.ox.ac.uk
for the news coverage on my work on drugs for vector-borne infections 🦟💊
@escmid.bsky.social
www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-...
Thank you Touch Medical Media for the lovely profile of @escmid.bsky.social Young Investigator Award winners🏅
It was so good to have those precious few minutes amidst the buzz of #ESCMIDGlobal2025 to reflect on my career path in global health 💊🦠🦟☀️
touchinfectiousdiseases.com/insight/qa-w...
It was so good to have those precious few minutes amidst the buzz of #ESCMIDGlobal2025 to reflect on my career path in global health 💊🦠🦟☀️
touchinfectiousdiseases.com/insight/qa-w...
Q&A with ESCMID Young Investigator 2025 Dr Xin Hui Chan: touchINFECTIOUS DISEASES Future Leader 2025 - touchINFECTIOUS DISEASES
Dr Xin Hui Chan’s research focuses on developing equitable therapies for high-threat infectious diseases. She combines clinical trials, evidence synthesis, and modelling to address neglected infections and improve global health outcomes.
touchinfectiousdiseases.com
April 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Thank you Touch Medical Media for the lovely profile of @escmid.bsky.social Young Investigator Award winners🏅
It was so good to have those precious few minutes amidst the buzz of #ESCMIDGlobal2025 to reflect on my career path in global health 💊🦠🦟☀️
touchinfectiousdiseases.com/insight/qa-w...
It was so good to have those precious few minutes amidst the buzz of #ESCMIDGlobal2025 to reflect on my career path in global health 💊🦠🦟☀️
touchinfectiousdiseases.com/insight/qa-w...
A packed #ESCMIDGlobal2025 #ESCMIDGlobal! So good to meet old friends and new from around the world in beautiful Vienna.
Thank you @escmid.bsky.social
for the Young Investigator Award and an amazing conference.
Well done Shanghavie Loganathan, Alice Scharmeli, and Tom Whitehead on your posters!
Thank you @escmid.bsky.social
for the Young Investigator Award and an amazing conference.
Well done Shanghavie Loganathan, Alice Scharmeli, and Tom Whitehead on your posters!
April 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
A packed #ESCMIDGlobal2025 #ESCMIDGlobal! So good to meet old friends and new from around the world in beautiful Vienna.
Thank you @escmid.bsky.social
for the Young Investigator Award and an amazing conference.
Well done Shanghavie Loganathan, Alice Scharmeli, and Tom Whitehead on your posters!
Thank you @escmid.bsky.social
for the Young Investigator Award and an amazing conference.
Well done Shanghavie Loganathan, Alice Scharmeli, and Tom Whitehead on your posters!
What a special Saturday night receiving the @escmid.bsky.social Young Investigator Award 2025 in Vienna 🇦🇹 from President Robert Skov at the #ESCMIDGlobal opening ceremony recognising a decade of work on drugs 💊 for tropical infections with many amazing global collaborators- thank you 🕊️
@ox.ac.uk
@ox.ac.uk
April 13, 2025 at 6:07 AM
What a special Saturday night receiving the @escmid.bsky.social Young Investigator Award 2025 in Vienna 🇦🇹 from President Robert Skov at the #ESCMIDGlobal opening ceremony recognising a decade of work on drugs 💊 for tropical infections with many amazing global collaborators- thank you 🕊️
@ox.ac.uk
@ox.ac.uk
Looking forward to meeting many of you again at @escmid.bsky.social Global 2025 in Vienna, Austria later this week.
Pleased to share our presentations. Thanks to fantastic resident doctors and senior co-authors for their energy and teamwork to bring these years of work to an international audience.
Pleased to share our presentations. Thanks to fantastic resident doctors and senior co-authors for their energy and teamwork to bring these years of work to an international audience.
April 9, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Looking forward to meeting many of you again at @escmid.bsky.social Global 2025 in Vienna, Austria later this week.
Pleased to share our presentations. Thanks to fantastic resident doctors and senior co-authors for their energy and teamwork to bring these years of work to an international audience.
Pleased to share our presentations. Thanks to fantastic resident doctors and senior co-authors for their energy and teamwork to bring these years of work to an international audience.
Reposted by Dr Xin Hui Chan 🕊️
Just published. Our review estimated that vertical transmission of hepatitis B in the WHO African region could be eliminated with birth dose vaccination and maternal antiviral prophylaxis.
An exciting possibility- will we find the political will?
#idsky #hepsky
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
An exciting possibility- will we find the political will?
#idsky #hepsky
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Vertical transmission of hepatitis B virus in the WHO African region: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Vertical transmission is an important contributor to HBV transmission in the WHO African
region. Scaling up of hepatitis B birth dose vaccination and antiviral prophylaxis
is urgently needed, which co...
www.thelancet.com
February 27, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Just published. Our review estimated that vertical transmission of hepatitis B in the WHO African region could be eliminated with birth dose vaccination and maternal antiviral prophylaxis.
An exciting possibility- will we find the political will?
#idsky #hepsky
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
An exciting possibility- will we find the political will?
#idsky #hepsky
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Thrilled to share the PREPARE (now
@ecraid.bsky.social) MERMAIDS Arbovirus study (21 hospitals in 7 countries over 4 years) coordinated by @ndm.ox.ac.uk in @thelancet.bsky.social ID. Think arbovirus!🥵🦟🦠🌡️
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
@laurenhookham.bsky.social @marionkoopmans.bsky.social
Thrilled to share the PREPARE (now
@ecraid.bsky.social) MERMAIDS Arbovirus study (21 hospitals in 7 countries over 4 years) coordinated by @ndm.ox.ac.uk in @thelancet.bsky.social ID. Think arbovirus!🥵🦟🦠🌡️
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
@laurenhookham.bsky.social @marionkoopmans.bsky.social
Prevalence, clinical management, and outcomes of adults hospitalised with endemic arbovirus illness in southeast Europe (MERMAIDS-ARBO): a prospective observational study
Our data highlight the need to strengthen arbovirus surveillance systems for the early
detection of emerging and re-emerging outbreaks, including investments to increase
awareness of arbovirus infecti...
www.thelancet.com
February 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Thrilled to share the PREPARE (now
@ecraid.bsky.social) MERMAIDS Arbovirus study (21 hospitals in 7 countries over 4 years) coordinated by @ndm.ox.ac.uk in @thelancet.bsky.social ID. Think arbovirus!🥵🦟🦠🌡️
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
@laurenhookham.bsky.social @marionkoopmans.bsky.social
Thrilled to share the PREPARE (now
@ecraid.bsky.social) MERMAIDS Arbovirus study (21 hospitals in 7 countries over 4 years) coordinated by @ndm.ox.ac.uk in @thelancet.bsky.social ID. Think arbovirus!🥵🦟🦠🌡️
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
@laurenhookham.bsky.social @marionkoopmans.bsky.social
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!
I'll be reprising the British Infection Association 2024 Barnett Christie Prize Lecture today at the Clinical Infection Departmental Seminar. This time with the opportunity for questions.
Come say hello!
@ox.ac.uk @ouhospitals.bsky.social
I'll be reprising the British Infection Association 2024 Barnett Christie Prize Lecture today at the Clinical Infection Departmental Seminar. This time with the opportunity for questions.
Come say hello!
@ox.ac.uk @ouhospitals.bsky.social
February 11, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science!
I'll be reprising the British Infection Association 2024 Barnett Christie Prize Lecture today at the Clinical Infection Departmental Seminar. This time with the opportunity for questions.
Come say hello!
@ox.ac.uk @ouhospitals.bsky.social
I'll be reprising the British Infection Association 2024 Barnett Christie Prize Lecture today at the Clinical Infection Departmental Seminar. This time with the opportunity for questions.
Come say hello!
@ox.ac.uk @ouhospitals.bsky.social