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Charlie Firth
@charliefirth.bsky.social
📍Oxford, England.

DPhil* Student at the Univeristy of Oxford.

Global Health | Health Communication | Social Science

*DPhil is Oxford’s silly name for a PhD
Excited to share a new co-authored paper out today in Frontiers in Big Data:

“LISTEN: Lived Experiences of Long COVID”

We used social media data + digital ethnography to explore how people manage symptoms, mental health, & supplements in the face of uncertainty.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/big...
June 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
🎉 New paper published in Vaccine.

With 281M STI cases in 2020, and drug-resistant gonorrhoea rising, a vaccine is urgently needed.

The gonorrhoea human challenge model could accelerate development, but how feasible is it?

Well, find out here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
March 30, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Just finished reading ‘Pro-vax’, by Samantha Vanderslott.

In her new book, Sam pioneers a much-needed shift in the discourse surrounding #vaccination by spotlighting the often overlooked dimension of pro-vaccine activism.

A must-read for anyone working in the world of #vaccines & #publichealth.
January 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Reposted by Charlie Firth
Every year, it is estimated that typhoid and paratyphoid combined cause 13 million cases, resulting in 133 thousand deaths, mainly affecting school-aged children in Asia and Africa.

But have you heard of these diseases before? Learn more in our new video: https://youtu.be/-ziqgNxyRnI
January 13, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Reposted by Charlie Firth
Measles is a very infectious disease, but it can be prevented.

Since a measles #vaccine was introduced in the UK in 1968, the UK Health Security Agency estimates that 20 million measles cases, and 4,500 deaths, have been prevented.

vaccineknowledge.ox.ac.uk/mmr-vaccine
December 12, 2024 at 9:04 AM
Hi 👋 I’m Charlie, a second year DPhil (PhD) student at the University of Oxford!

My DPhil is looking into the acceptability, feasibility, and perceptions surrounding the changing of immunisation schedules.

I thought I’d start off with four of my fav moments from the past year!

#phd #phdstudent
December 10, 2024 at 4:10 PM