Colin S Brown
@colinbrown-id.bsky.social
ID physician focusing on Antimicrobial Resistance, High Consequence Infectious Diseases, Emerging Infections, Global Health Security: all in personal capacity
🦠 Our new study in the UK SIREN cohort over winter 2023/24: SARS-CoV-2 (21.8%), flu (5.3%) & RSV (7.3%) were common among healthcare workers - each linked to considerable staff absence (35.8% in total), with a combined 10,168 days of sick leave taken.
🔗 journalofinfection.com/article/S016...
🔗 journalofinfection.com/article/S016...
October 8, 2025 at 11:43 AM
🦠 Our new study in the UK SIREN cohort over winter 2023/24: SARS-CoV-2 (21.8%), flu (5.3%) & RSV (7.3%) were common among healthcare workers - each linked to considerable staff absence (35.8% in total), with a combined 10,168 days of sick leave taken.
🔗 journalofinfection.com/article/S016...
🔗 journalofinfection.com/article/S016...
Thrilled to be at my alma mater @LSHTM for the launch of the WHO/BMJ Global Health Community Hand Hygiene Guidelines—and to join the keynote panel. Sobering stats—1.7B still lack access to soap & water! Available here tinyurl.com/49333mmb 🧼🌍 #HandHygiene #PublicHealth #WHO
September 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Thrilled to be at my alma mater @LSHTM for the launch of the WHO/BMJ Global Health Community Hand Hygiene Guidelines—and to join the keynote panel. Sobering stats—1.7B still lack access to soap & water! Available here tinyurl.com/49333mmb 🧼🌍 #HandHygiene #PublicHealth #WHO
🚨The largest-ever regional training on molecular AMR detection just wrapped up in Trinidad, hosted by CARPHA, with support from UKHSA, PAHO, and the Fleming Fund.
Proud that my team contributed to this milestone, supporting regional efforts to build lab capacity.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/ysd2xztd
Proud that my team contributed to this milestone, supporting regional efforts to build lab capacity.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/ysd2xztd
September 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
🚨The largest-ever regional training on molecular AMR detection just wrapped up in Trinidad, hosted by CARPHA, with support from UKHSA, PAHO, and the Fleming Fund.
Proud that my team contributed to this milestone, supporting regional efforts to build lab capacity.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/ysd2xztd
Proud that my team contributed to this milestone, supporting regional efforts to build lab capacity.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/ysd2xztd
📢 New research from Oxford AMR/HCAI HPRU:
We applied an EHR-wide association study to uncover risk factors for E. coli bloodstream infections over 6 years
🧠 Frailty-related factors (renal/UTI, cancer, GI) drive risk
🛠️ Highlights need for multifaceted prevention strategies
doi.org/10.1016/j.ji...
We applied an EHR-wide association study to uncover risk factors for E. coli bloodstream infections over 6 years
🧠 Frailty-related factors (renal/UTI, cancer, GI) drive risk
🛠️ Highlights need for multifaceted prevention strategies
doi.org/10.1016/j.ji...
Redirecting
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September 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
📢 New research from Oxford AMR/HCAI HPRU:
We applied an EHR-wide association study to uncover risk factors for E. coli bloodstream infections over 6 years
🧠 Frailty-related factors (renal/UTI, cancer, GI) drive risk
🛠️ Highlights need for multifaceted prevention strategies
doi.org/10.1016/j.ji...
We applied an EHR-wide association study to uncover risk factors for E. coli bloodstream infections over 6 years
🧠 Frailty-related factors (renal/UTI, cancer, GI) drive risk
🛠️ Highlights need for multifaceted prevention strategies
doi.org/10.1016/j.ji...
The best thing about global ‘one health’ events that are held in the zoo, is that at the end of the day you get to go to the zoo….
June 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The best thing about global ‘one health’ events that are held in the zoo, is that at the end of the day you get to go to the zoo….
Delighted to have played an incredibly modest role in commenting on (and hopefully in some small way shaping) the draft pandemic agreement - this will be a great tool for global cooperation, preparedness plans, and equity in response and access for diagnostics/therapeutics for the challenges ahead.
World Health Organization members vote in favour of global pandemic agreement reut.rs/4kqLttQ
World Health Organization members vote in favour of global pandemic agreement
Members of the World Health Organization voted emphatically in favour of a potentially groundbreaking global treaty on improving pandemic preparedness at the World Health Assembly on Monday.
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May 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Delighted to have played an incredibly modest role in commenting on (and hopefully in some small way shaping) the draft pandemic agreement - this will be a great tool for global cooperation, preparedness plans, and equity in response and access for diagnostics/therapeutics for the challenges ahead.
Delighted to help launch our Caribbean Antimicrobial Resistance Alliance (CARA) in Barbados - a joint initiative between the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) and the UK Health Security Agency Health (UKHSA), supported by the UK’s Fleming Fund - with joint working with PAHO
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May 8, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Delighted to help launch our Caribbean Antimicrobial Resistance Alliance (CARA) in Barbados - a joint initiative between the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) and the UK Health Security Agency Health (UKHSA), supported by the UK’s Fleming Fund - with joint working with PAHO
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Over the weekend I said to my 4 year old son 'let's race' - and he held my hand and said 'let's win together'. Need to bring more of that spirit to work and life....
May 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Over the weekend I said to my 4 year old son 'let's race' - and he held my hand and said 'let's win together'. Need to bring more of that spirit to work and life....
Had a wonderful chat with @emrsa15.bsky.social, Andy Borman, and Mariyam Mirfenderesky on the @icmatters.bsky.social podcast about C. auris control - could have chatted for hours about this difficult bug and the present and future challenges it presents
infectioncontrolmatters.com/2025/04/30/c...
infectioncontrolmatters.com/2025/04/30/c...
Candidozyma auris from the lab to the front line: A discussion with UKHSA experts
In this episode Martin talks to Dr Andy Borman, (Acting Head and Consultant Clinical Scientist, UKHSA National UK Mycology Reference Lab. also Hon Professor of Medical Mycology, MRC CMM, University…
infectioncontrolmatters.com
May 2, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Had a wonderful chat with @emrsa15.bsky.social, Andy Borman, and Mariyam Mirfenderesky on the @icmatters.bsky.social podcast about C. auris control - could have chatted for hours about this difficult bug and the present and future challenges it presents
infectioncontrolmatters.com/2025/04/30/c...
infectioncontrolmatters.com/2025/04/30/c...
Pope Francis was a true servant leader, a most decent man, inclusive and humble, and forthright about social justice. A great loss indeed.
April 22, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Pope Francis was a true servant leader, a most decent man, inclusive and humble, and forthright about social justice. A great loss indeed.
A very happy Easter to all who celebrate - many things as I get older and (somewhat) wiser continue to amaze me. That Peeps (truly an abomination) are ‘artificially flavoured’ is not one of these things…
April 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
A very happy Easter to all who celebrate - many things as I get older and (somewhat) wiser continue to amaze me. That Peeps (truly an abomination) are ‘artificially flavoured’ is not one of these things…
Very useful @onisillos.bsky.social - as a reviewer also
Given discussions at I had at #ESCMIDGlobal, it might be useful for new researchers to know how a journal editor screens submissions (obviously this is my approach and so it might differ for others).
April 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Very useful @onisillos.bsky.social - as a reviewer also
There are many ways that my homeland of Northern Ireland produces talent and influence beyond its diminutive size, very well done to Rory
GLORY FOR RORY 🏆
The wait is over. Rory McIlroy has finally won his first Masters — and completed a career grand slam in the process.
The wait is over. Rory McIlroy has finally won his first Masters — and completed a career grand slam in the process.
April 14, 2025 at 1:36 AM
There are many ways that my homeland of Northern Ireland produces talent and influence beyond its diminutive size, very well done to Rory
Our review of novel antimicrobial surveillance for the novel drug subscription model pilot - ceftazidime/avibactam use and susceptibility testing increased in the lead up to the pilot, as did (low) levels of resistance, and in the context of treatment
www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2...
www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2...
The importance of monitoring a new antibiotic: ceftazidime/avibactam usage and resistance experience from England, 2016 to 2020
Background
Ceftazidime/avibactam, launched in the United Kingdom (UK) in March 2017, is an antibiotic against multidrug-resistant Gram-negative pathogens. It was selected for the government’s subscrip...
www.eurosurveillance.org
April 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Our review of novel antimicrobial surveillance for the novel drug subscription model pilot - ceftazidime/avibactam use and susceptibility testing increased in the lead up to the pilot, as did (low) levels of resistance, and in the context of treatment
www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2...
www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2...
Reposted by Colin S Brown
We just published a study identifying the role/needs of teachers/schools in infection prevention and control post COVID-19, highlighting their pivotal place in preventing communicable disease, and further training needed to support the educational workforce. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The role and needs of teachers/schools in infection prevention and control post COVID-19
COVID-19 highlighted the importance of infection prevention and control (IPC) across all settings. This study aimed to understand current teacher IPC …
www.sciencedirect.com
March 31, 2025 at 12:59 PM
We just published a study identifying the role/needs of teachers/schools in infection prevention and control post COVID-19, highlighting their pivotal place in preventing communicable disease, and further training needed to support the educational workforce. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Very useful summary of public health infectious disease threats seen in England since the COVID-19 pandemic, including work highlighting the economic benefits of health protection interventions and in identifying health inequalities across infections
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March 31, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Very useful summary of public health infectious disease threats seen in England since the COVID-19 pandemic, including work highlighting the economic benefits of health protection interventions and in identifying health inequalities across infections
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67e281...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67e281...
Delighted to have appeared on this excellent www.digitalamr.org / The Naked Scientists podcast on current and future AMR challenges - if you are interested, we have an entire lecture series available on YouTube at youtube.com/@digitalheal...
March 27, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Delighted to have appeared on this excellent www.digitalamr.org / The Naked Scientists podcast on current and future AMR challenges - if you are interested, we have an entire lecture series available on YouTube at youtube.com/@digitalheal...
Delighted to announce the updated national Candidozyma auris (Candida auris) guidance (for healthcare settings in England) is now available: gov.uk/government/p...
A summary of recommendations provides a concise overview of the guidance to support adoption and implementation across acute healthcare
A summary of recommendations provides a concise overview of the guidance to support adoption and implementation across acute healthcare
gov.uk
March 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Delighted to announce the updated national Candidozyma auris (Candida auris) guidance (for healthcare settings in England) is now available: gov.uk/government/p...
A summary of recommendations provides a concise overview of the guidance to support adoption and implementation across acute healthcare
A summary of recommendations provides a concise overview of the guidance to support adoption and implementation across acute healthcare
For everyone who is Irish or holds Ireland dear to them - lá fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh
March 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
For everyone who is Irish or holds Ireland dear to them - lá fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh
Some incredible talks here today - fungal infections affected by conflict, planetary changes (increasing temperature and natural disasters), and HIV care; neglected tropical infections; integration with pandemic preparedness; and horizon scanning for novel therapeutics and diagnostics. #mycology2025
March 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Some incredible talks here today - fungal infections affected by conflict, planetary changes (increasing temperature and natural disasters), and HIV care; neglected tropical infections; integration with pandemic preparedness; and horizon scanning for novel therapeutics and diagnostics. #mycology2025
What a wonderful venue to have a conference dinner at - and to see some old pals @drneilstone.bsky.social @neleshg.bsky.social
- looking forward to some exciting fungal resistance talks tomorrow at #FungalUpdate2025
- looking forward to some exciting fungal resistance talks tomorrow at #FungalUpdate2025
March 14, 2025 at 11:24 PM
What a wonderful venue to have a conference dinner at - and to see some old pals @drneilstone.bsky.social @neleshg.bsky.social
- looking forward to some exciting fungal resistance talks tomorrow at #FungalUpdate2025
- looking forward to some exciting fungal resistance talks tomorrow at #FungalUpdate2025
We just published analysis that in England ethnicity and socioeconomic deprivation are associated with a higher risk of acquiring blood-stream infections caused by E. coli, K. pneumoniae, P. aeruginosa, and MSSA/MRSA - now we must redress that imbalance
www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2...
www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2...
Health inequalities in incidence of bacteraemias: a national surveillance and data linkage study, England, 2018 to 2022
Background
Health inequalities exist globally, but limited data exist on this topic for bacteraemia.
Aim
In this study we investigated health inequalities surrounding bacteraemia in England, to identi...
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March 7, 2025 at 12:19 PM
We just published analysis that in England ethnicity and socioeconomic deprivation are associated with a higher risk of acquiring blood-stream infections caused by E. coli, K. pneumoniae, P. aeruginosa, and MSSA/MRSA - now we must redress that imbalance
www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2...
www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2...
We just published our national point prevalence survey on healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs), antimicrobial use (AMU) and antimicrobial stewardship in England, 2023
Overall HCAIs were present in 7.6% of patients, a 1% increase since 2016, with AMU static at 37.3%
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Overall HCAIs were present in 7.6% of patients, a 1% increase since 2016, with AMU static at 37.3%
www.gov.uk/government/n...
UKHSA publishes latest survey on healthcare-associated infections
The report finds that overall healthcare-associated infections were present in 7.6% of patients, a 1% increase on the last reported figures in 2016.
www.gov.uk
March 6, 2025 at 1:40 AM
We just published our national point prevalence survey on healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs), antimicrobial use (AMU) and antimicrobial stewardship in England, 2023
Overall HCAIs were present in 7.6% of patients, a 1% increase since 2016, with AMU static at 37.3%
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Overall HCAIs were present in 7.6% of patients, a 1% increase since 2016, with AMU static at 37.3%
www.gov.uk/government/n...
This is another excellent output from our @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social HPRU - highlighting how blending academic expertise with national public heath responses brings immense benefit. Please see @aliciad3.medsky.social’s past posts to see the wealth of output on the S. capitis response alone.
Funded by @ukhsa.bsky.social, NIHR HPRU in HCAI and AMR at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, and @wellcometrust.bsky.social, this work has been carried out over the last 3 years, with supports from @cstewartb.bsky.social @aliciad3.medsky.social @elitajaun.bsky.social @izziepotterill.bsky.social, etc.
February 17, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This is another excellent output from our @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social HPRU - highlighting how blending academic expertise with national public heath responses brings immense benefit. Please see @aliciad3.medsky.social’s past posts to see the wealth of output on the S. capitis response alone.