The RSV vaccine has resulted in a 30% drop in hospital admissions in older adults across England. 📉
Our study in @thelancet.bsky.social demonstrates the benefit of the programme during its early stages.
📰🔗 www.gov.uk/government/n...

Join Epiverse at the Pandemic & Epidemic Intelligence Innovation Forum!

🗓️ 24 March
⏰ 13:00–14:30 CET
📍 Online

Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social & Hugo Gruson github.com/Bisaloo will present on cross-community collaboration!

👉 Register: shorturl.at/1h6Cc

#Hiring: Join our team! We're looking for a Research Advisor and an Epidemiology Advisor. Apply now! #IDSky #AidSky #MedSky

🚨 After 5 years of work, my latest preprint is live‼️

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Telling apart #dengue, #chikungunya, & #Zika without costly lab tests, especially in children, is a huge global health problem. We used 18 years of data to unravel this mystery

A lil' thread on our cool results 🧵

We're pleased to announce a new collaboration 🤝 with Eisai, supported by the GHIT Fund, to tackle #dengue & #Zika virus diseases. This partnership aims to discover new drug candidates to combat these mosquito-borne diseases affecting billions of people worldwide. bit.ly/4aOAqqG

#Zika outbreak: @who.int monitoring cases across #India 🦟🌏

Elizabeth Brickley highlights concerns for outbreaks in high-density urban settings, rare life-threatening complications & #pregnancy risks.

👉 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

🚀 𝐏𝐡𝐃 𝐎𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥

Looking for my first PhD student

🔬 Project: 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥, 𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐥, 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 & 𝐩𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨-𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡

Joint with LSHTM & UKHSA

See links below.

📅 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 7 March 2024

📩 Questions? DM me!

#PhD #HealthEquity #ImperialCollege

11 PhD studentships now available in Health Analytics, Epidemic Modelling and Health Economics, jointly between LSHTM, Imperial and UKHSA, to start autumn 2025. Deadline 7 March: www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

#USDA confirmed another dairy herd in California has been infected with #H5N1 #birdflu. The state's total is 727 herds at this point; the cumulative national total is 944 herds in 16 states. www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...

Job opening for full professor and head of dept in infectious disease epidemiology and dynamics at @lshtm.bsky.social. Deadline 31st Jan: jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

#USDA has confirmed 3 more #H5N1 #birdflu infected dairy herds in California, bringing the state's total to 294, nearly 27% of herds in the state. All those herds were recorded in the past 2.5 months.
The cumulative national total is 508 herds across 15 states. www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...

Since everyone’s finding old and new friends, take a moment to read my story, I’m a 32yo polio survivor because I was not vaccinated. Pass on my story, repeat it, tell it to any vaccine hesitate parent. No kid deserves vaccine preventable diseases

www.voicesforvaccines.org/as-a-polio-s...

Good day to remind everyone

Around the globe the measles vaccine has saved nearly 94 million lives over the past 50 years

www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

🪰🦠"A Case of Vertical Transmission of #Oropouche #Virus in #Brazil" by Carlos Garcia Filho et al. at #NEJM #arbovirus
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Short write-up in what we know about Oropouche, a mosquito borne virus that increased considerably in incidence in the Americas in the past year. What is it, how to recognise, diagnose. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39507390/

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction

Graphic from Edward Tufte
More graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d... 🧪

Global measles cases surged by more than 20% to an estimated 10.3 million last year, WHO and the CDC said. About 107,500 people, mostly young children, died — an “unacceptable” death toll from a disease that’s preventable through vaccination, the health groups said.