Hikaru Bolt
hikarubolt.bsky.social
Hikaru Bolt
@hikarubolt.bsky.social
PhD student @ CMMID LSHTM | Field Epidemiologist FETP/EPIET c2016 | mathematical modelling, vaccines, electronic health records, outbreaks
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1/ 🎉 Thrilled to share our new study: Quantifying the impact of pre-vaccination titre and vaccination history on influenza vaccine immunogenicity 🦠💉 Published in Vaccine! link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kD7x,60n7... with @adamjkucharski.bsky.social
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December 5, 2024 at 7:59 AM
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UK Field Epidemiology Training Programme recruitment (2025) commenced Monday 2nd December 2024 with a closing date of 22nd December 2024 at 23:59 hours.

[Job vacancy: Field Epidemiology Training Programme Fellow, UK Health Security Agency, London | trac.jobs](www.healthjobsuk.com/job/v6829019)
December 4, 2024 at 10:11 AM
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Very happy to share our new study out today in the New England Journal of Medicine, showing fewer PCV doses are non-inferior to standard schedules in maintaining control of vaccine-type carriage in Vietnam. This could make vacc programmes much more affordable for LMICs.

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Effect of a Reduced PCV10 Dose Schedule on Pneumococcal Carriage in Vietnam | NEJM
After pneumococcal disease and colonization have been controlled through vaccination campaigns, a reduced pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) schedule may be sufficient to sustain that control at ...
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November 28, 2024 at 7:37 AM
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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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Viral infection is often more severe in people with pre-existing conditions. Here we use chronic disease health outcomes as a marker for infections. In this case, norovirus & acute kidney injury.
Pre-printed, led by Hikaru Bolt w Frank Sandmann & Laurie Tomlinson
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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November 12, 2024 at 3:36 PM
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What would you do to avoid norovirus?

And why doesn't the same caution apply to other seasonal infections?

My new post: kucharski.substack.com/p/what-would...
November 18, 2024 at 8:53 PM
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Starter pack of infectious disease modellers from CMMID - the Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases at LSHTM.
We are 150 in CMMID but just getting started on Bluesky!

go.bsky.app/625gwoG
November 15, 2024 at 4:51 PM