Liz Fearon
lizfearon.bsky.social
Liz Fearon
@lizfearon.bsky.social
Associate Professor in infectious disease epidemiology at UCL. Interested in transmission dynamics, health equity, networks, HIV, sexual health, epidemic response.
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🎓The deadline for Institute for Global Health Postgraduate Bursaries applications is June 27th.
Get £2,000 towards tuition if you're a UK or Overseas student in financial need, studying one of the three MSc programmes at IGH.
Scholarships and Funding
Institute for Global Health
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June 23, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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The gonorrhoea vaccine is an incredible breakthrough. It could also be a terrible missed opportunity | Benjamin Weil
The gonorrhoea vaccine is an incredible breakthrough. It could also be a terrible missed opportunity | Benjamin Weil
Vaccines that work need systems that work. Britain’s starved services must be supported to reach those most at risk, says researcher Benjamin Weil
www.theguardian.com
May 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Time is running out to apply for our Marketing and Communications Co-ordinator role. Deadline for application: Midnight Thursday 8 May.

Read our blog to find out more and how to apply: www.coproductioncollective.co.uk/news/job-opp...

#coproduction #livedexperience
May 7, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Come and work with us! Postdoctoral research job to look at methods for working with early pandemic "First Few X" datasets in resource-limited contexts. Please consider applying if of interest and circulate around your networks.

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Research Associate in Mathematical Epidemiology :Manchester
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
May 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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STATEMENT: 'Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia'
Read the statement online here: tinyurl.com/mud7va29
Co-sign the statement, fill in this form: forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...
Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia
We call on all trans-inclusive feminist academics and educators to sign this statement: ‘Not In Our Name’ We are non-trans feminist academics and educators. We write in support of trans rights, tran...
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April 30, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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We are open for recruitment! The @spearstudy.bsky.social is investigating antibiotic resistance and microbiome changes in people using and not using doxyPEP to prevent STIs. Visit doxypep.me/spear
@uclglobalhealth.bsky.social @cnwlnhs.bsky.social @thelovetankcic.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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SPEAR - a new study by UCL, CNWL NHS and @thelovetankcic.bsky.social is investigating the impact of #DoxyPEP (use of Doxycycline to prevent STIs after sex) on the gut microbiome 💊🔬

Participants can now apply - with incentives available.

More here: www.beyondpositive.org/2025/03/27/d...
UK DoxyPEP study recruiting participants - beyondpositive
SPEAR, a new study in the UK, is investigating the effect of DoxyPEP on the gut microbiome. The study is now recruiting participants.
www.beyondpositive.org
March 27, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Let's keep telling the story of the devastating impacts of funding and the fallout of ending USAID
Lives lost, livelihoods lost, compassion lost, kindness lost, solidarity and support lost.
Like HIV there is a "death" tracker telling the story of devastation to TB programs.
tb.impactcounter.com
March 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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thrilled that this is out in the lancet today, summarising the currently key considerations for doxyPEP roll-out - with @jgarciaiglesias.bsky.social @gilmorejnurse.bsky.social @edftmxxx.bsky.social and more!

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
DoxyPEP: thinking towards implementation
The rise in sexually transmitted infection (STI) rates over the last three years has renewed discussions about innovative approaches to prevention. Among these, doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (...
www.thelancet.com
February 19, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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British Scientists! The Royal Society is one of our great institutions, Fellowship of which is regarded as one of the highest honours. Please sign this to encourage them to revoke Elon Musk's fellowship; he is antithetical to our values.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values
If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...
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February 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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The NIHR HPRU in Blood-Borne and Sexually Transmitted Infections at UCL, in collaboration with UKHSA, is launching a newsletter! 📰

Stay informed about the latest research, innovations, and developments in the field of blood-borne and sexually transmitted infections.

Subscribe now!
NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Blood Borne and Sexually Transmitted Infections
NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Blood Borne and Sexually Transmitted Infections Email Forms
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January 31, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Join us this week for the virtual open day of our Global Health and Development MSc programme. Engage with our programme directors, discover our range of modules, and get your questions answered.

📅 12th February, 13:00-14:00

Reserve your spot today: https://buff.ly/3YFMAMW.

#GlobalHealth
Postgraduate taught open events | UCL Population Health Sciences
Join us for our upcoming postgraduate open events. Meet our programme directors, explore the Master's degrees that interest you, and get answers to any questions you may have. Book your place today.
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February 10, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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I'm conducting a review on existing evaluation frameworks for patient and public involvement #PPI and/or #co-production. If anyone has any papers, reports, docs that could help please share #academicsupport #academicsky

(P.S. it's my first post on here!👋)
January 20, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Register for our virtual open events to explore our postgraduate programmes.

🌎 Global Health and Development MSc: 12 Feb & 19 Feb
📈 Health Economics and Decision Science MSc: 18 Feb
🧬 Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology MSc: 20 Feb & 26 Feb

Find out more: https://buff.ly/3PuECSw
Postgraduate taught open events | UCL Population Health Sciences
Join us for our upcoming postgraduate open events. Meet our programme directors, explore the Master's degrees that interest you, and get answers to any questions you may have. Book your place today.
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January 22, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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UCL’s main research scholarship schemes are now open for 2025/26 entry! 🎓

Research Excellence Scholarship
UCL Research Opportunity Scholarship
China Scholarship Council-Joint Research Scholarships

Find out more information and apply now!
Research Degrees
The MPhil/PhD programme we offer at the Institute for Global Health is relevant to a variety of disciplines across the field of global health.
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December 10, 2024 at 12:00 PM
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Ready to start your journey in global health? Graduate applications are now open for our inspiring MSc programmes:

🌎Global Health and Development MSc
📈 Health Economics and Decision Science MSc
🧬 Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology MSc

Read more:
IGH Postgraduate Taught Programmes
The UCL Institute for Global Health offers cutting edge programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate level. These unite public health and clinical medicine with epidemiology, economics, political…
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December 12, 2024 at 7:00 AM
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**Please Circulate!**

Opportunity to join the project team for the co-produced Mathematical Modelling of Epidemics Together (COMMET) project. We are looking for two people to join our team and help co-produce this project.

www.coproductioncollective.co.uk/news/commetp...
Opportunity to join the project team for the co-produced Mathematical Modelling of Epidemics Together (COMMET) project | Co-Production Collective
www.coproductioncollective.co.uk
November 29, 2024 at 10:55 AM
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Starter pack of researchers linked to JUNIPER (Joint UNIversities Pandemic & Epidemiological Research).

JUNIPER (maths.org/juniper/) is a collaborative network of researchers who work at interface between modelling, infectious disease control & health policy. #IDSky #EpiSky 🧪

go.bsky.app/Mxh96pG
November 26, 2024 at 1:16 PM
Belated intro post: Hi, I'm Liz, interested in social influences on infectious disease dynamics, particularly in sexual health and always in the interests of health equity. We are looking for an ID modeller postdoc to work on co-production of epidemic models: join us! tinyurl.com/24ze4x5c
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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November 26, 2024 at 4:35 PM
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Our updated MPOX (monkeypox) info site is now available in English, Spanish and Portuguese (Polish to follow).

Stay up-to-date here - www.queerhealth.info/projects/mpox
MPOX 2024: what we know so far — QueerHealth
www.queerhealth.info
November 17, 2024 at 6:29 PM
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Work with @lizfearon.bsky.social and some other great people! Note job has flexibility on hours and salary. We are looking at public voices in epidemic modelling, with an initial focus on Mpox.

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 15, 2024 at 8:48 PM