Donald Brooks
@brooksdonald.com
Consultant epidemiologist, global respiratory threats @who.int. Doctoral student @yalesph.bsky.social. CEO of Initiative: Eau. Former: COVAX, Dalberg, Fulbright, Harvard. Views are my own.
@who.int has released the Strategic plan for #coronavirus disease threat management (2025–2030), the first unified plan for managing #COVID19, #MERS & emerging coronavirus disease threats.
Proud to have led the development process with colleagues across WHO: www.who.int/publications...
Proud to have led the development process with colleagues across WHO: www.who.int/publications...
Strategic plan for coronavirus disease threat management: advancing integration, sustainability, and equity, 2025–2030
The WHO Strategic plan for coronavirus disease threat management sets out the global framework for the sustained, integrated and evidence-based management of coronavirus disease threats including COVI...
www.who.int
December 5, 2025 at 2:42 PM
@who.int has released the Strategic plan for #coronavirus disease threat management (2025–2030), the first unified plan for managing #COVID19, #MERS & emerging coronavirus disease threats.
Proud to have led the development process with colleagues across WHO: www.who.int/publications...
Proud to have led the development process with colleagues across WHO: www.who.int/publications...
@who.int's Technical Advisory Group on #COVID19 #Vaccine Composition has issued a call for COVID-19 data ahead of its May 2025 meeting. Institutions / researchers generating relevant COVID19 data are encouraged to contribute: www.who.int/news/item/25...
Types of data requested to inform May 2025 COVID-19 vaccine antigen composition deliberations
The WHO Technical Advisory Group on COVID-19 Vaccine Composition (TAG-CO-VAC) continues to closely monitor the genetic and antigenic evolution of SARS-CoV-2 variants, immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 i...
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April 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
@who.int's Technical Advisory Group on #COVID19 #Vaccine Composition has issued a call for COVID-19 data ahead of its May 2025 meeting. Institutions / researchers generating relevant COVID19 data are encouraged to contribute: www.who.int/news/item/25...
@who.int is looking for experts to serve on a working group of the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE) on #chikungunya vaccine recommendations. Apps due by 15 May 2025. Please share this call for experts widely - more details available here: www.who.int/news-room/ar...
Call for nomination of experts to serve on the SAGE Working Group on Chikungunya Vaccines
BackgroundThe Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization was established in 1999 to provide policy and strategy advice on vaccines and immunization to the Director-General of the World...
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April 4, 2025 at 7:36 AM
@who.int is looking for experts to serve on a working group of the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE) on #chikungunya vaccine recommendations. Apps due by 15 May 2025. Please share this call for experts widely - more details available here: www.who.int/news-room/ar...
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A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved
March 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved
Reposted by Donald Brooks
Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization
Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region.
We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant
survival over the past 50...
www.thelancet.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
🦠💉😷 Our team at @who.int recently released the latest #COVID19 global risk assessment, now available online. Global risk remains high, as SARS-CoV-2 continues to circulate widely, even as the overall impact on health has declined.
A short thread with key insights🧵
www.who.int/publications...
A short thread with key insights🧵
www.who.int/publications...
COVID-19 Global Risk Assessment
Date of current assessment: 31 December 2024
www.who.int
March 12, 2025 at 9:16 AM
🦠💉😷 Our team at @who.int recently released the latest #COVID19 global risk assessment, now available online. Global risk remains high, as SARS-CoV-2 continues to circulate widely, even as the overall impact on health has declined.
A short thread with key insights🧵
www.who.int/publications...
A short thread with key insights🧵
www.who.int/publications...