Michelle Kendall
@mishkendall.bsky.social
Researching and communicating infectious disease epidemiology for public health protection at the Pandemic Sciences Institute, University of Oxford.
https://michellekendall.github.io/
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Michelle Kendall
@mishkendall.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Christmas and the Euros were associated with big increases in spread, driven by synchronised (likely inter-generational) meet-ups across England and/or Wales. Excess transmissions on Euro match days accounted for 29% of all app-recorded transmissions during the month-long tournament scim.ag/86t
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🆕 #UKHSAVirusWatch: The latest flu, COVID-19 & RSV data from our weekly winter surveillance report.
🟢 Flu has continued to increase - especially in children and young adults - in what has been an unusually early start to the influenza season.
Read the full report below. 🔎
https://bit.ly/47shfmB
🟢 Flu has continued to increase - especially in children and young adults - in what has been an unusually early start to the influenza season.
Read the full report below. 🔎
https://bit.ly/47shfmB
November 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
🆕 #UKHSAVirusWatch: The latest flu, COVID-19 & RSV data from our weekly winter surveillance report.
🟢 Flu has continued to increase - especially in children and young adults - in what has been an unusually early start to the influenza season.
Read the full report below. 🔎
https://bit.ly/47shfmB
🟢 Flu has continued to increase - especially in children and young adults - in what has been an unusually early start to the influenza season.
Read the full report below. 🔎
https://bit.ly/47shfmB
Reposted by Michelle Kendall
🆕 #UKHSAVirusWatch: The latest flu, COVID-19 and RSV data from our weekly winter surveillance report.
Flu has increased, particularly in children, and is now above baseline levels. This is an unusually early start to the influenza season
Find the full report here: https://bit.ly/3Lh27zJ
Flu has increased, particularly in children, and is now above baseline levels. This is an unusually early start to the influenza season
Find the full report here: https://bit.ly/3Lh27zJ
October 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
🆕 #UKHSAVirusWatch: The latest flu, COVID-19 and RSV data from our weekly winter surveillance report.
Flu has increased, particularly in children, and is now above baseline levels. This is an unusually early start to the influenza season
Find the full report here: https://bit.ly/3Lh27zJ
Flu has increased, particularly in children, and is now above baseline levels. This is an unusually early start to the influenza season
Find the full report here: https://bit.ly/3Lh27zJ
Reposted by Michelle Kendall
Want to build an interactive dashboard so others can explore epidemic scenarios? For COVID, @ngdavies.bsky.social spearheaded a great drag-and-drop approach, which made use of the JavaScript-based nature of RShiny... 1/
October 8, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Want to build an interactive dashboard so others can explore epidemic scenarios? For COVID, @ngdavies.bsky.social spearheaded a great drag-and-drop approach, which made use of the JavaScript-based nature of RShiny... 1/
I’m delighted to share that I’ve just started work on this @cepi.net project in Christophe Fraser’s group @christophraser.bsky.social
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Landmark African-led research to map the extent of Rift Valley fever impact | CEPI
The studies will help scientists figure out if trials assessing the efficacy of Rift Valley fever vaccines are possible.
cepi.net
September 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I’m delighted to share that I’ve just started work on this @cepi.net project in Christophe Fraser’s group @christophraser.bsky.social
cepi.net//landmark-af...
cepi.net//landmark-af...
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New paper: we argue that a promising approach for studying mpox vaccine effectiveness in Central Africa to incorporate mpox vaccination + testing data into existing cohort studies, especially those for HIV/STIs.
www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...
www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...
Clade I mpox vaccination: strategies for deployment and evaluation
Clade I mpox continues to spread in Central Africa with no sign of abating,1 however
very few doses of vaccine have been deployed. Mpox vaccination strategies using either
of the licenced vaccines, MV...
www.thelancet.com
August 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
New paper: we argue that a promising approach for studying mpox vaccine effectiveness in Central Africa to incorporate mpox vaccination + testing data into existing cohort studies, especially those for HIV/STIs.
www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...
www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...
"I have long felt that the risks of sharing your data - the possibility that your information will fall into the hands of people who are up to no good - are given far more prominence that the potential rewards in the form of advances in medicine."
open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... Health data - time to tell an upbeat story. I told the National Patient Data Day conference it was high time the Research community was a bit bolder in explaining the importance of sharing health data
Health Data - Time to Tell an Upbeat Story
The problem, I told the National Patient Data Day event in Leeds yesterday, could be summed up in one Guardian headline:
open.substack.com
June 25, 2025 at 8:35 AM
"I have long felt that the risks of sharing your data - the possibility that your information will fall into the hands of people who are up to no good - are given far more prominence that the potential rewards in the form of advances in medicine."
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open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... This post about the importance of knowing the difference between truth tellers and myth makers in healthcare has already attracted a comment from a member of the “plandemic” community which nicely makes my point about the dangers of disinformation
The Truth About the Covid App
Myths about its cost and effectiveness stop us learning lessons
open.substack.com
May 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM
open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... This post about the importance of knowing the difference between truth tellers and myth makers in healthcare has already attracted a comment from a member of the “plandemic” community which nicely makes my point about the dangers of disinformation
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New paper: long-term trends in antibiotic resistance show signs of stabilisation (thread). journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
The evolution of antibiotic resistance in Europe, 1998–2019
Author summary Antibiotic resistance is an important public health threat: resistant infections are currently associated with 5 million deaths per year globally. This burden may increase further in th...
journals.plos.org
April 7, 2025 at 8:36 AM
New paper: long-term trends in antibiotic resistance show signs of stabilisation (thread). journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
🪧 What do we want? 🪧
Help balancing work and family life!
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School pick-up time!
Help balancing work and family life!
🪧 When do we want it? 🪧
School pick-up time!
February 27, 2025 at 10:01 AM
🪧 What do we want? 🪧
Help balancing work and family life!
🪧 When do we want it? 🪧
School pick-up time!
Help balancing work and family life!
🪧 When do we want it? 🪧
School pick-up time!
@psioxford.bsky.social are hosting the International Pandemic Sciences Conference on 30 June – 1 July 2025 in Oxford and online, theme
'Getting ahead of the curve' 📈
Visit the website now to:
➡️ Register to attend
➡️ Submit an abstract
www.psi.ox.ac.uk/conference25
#episky #IDsky
'Getting ahead of the curve' 📈
Visit the website now to:
➡️ Register to attend
➡️ Submit an abstract
www.psi.ox.ac.uk/conference25
#episky #IDsky
January 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
@psioxford.bsky.social are hosting the International Pandemic Sciences Conference on 30 June – 1 July 2025 in Oxford and online, theme
'Getting ahead of the curve' 📈
Visit the website now to:
➡️ Register to attend
➡️ Submit an abstract
www.psi.ox.ac.uk/conference25
#episky #IDsky
'Getting ahead of the curve' 📈
Visit the website now to:
➡️ Register to attend
➡️ Submit an abstract
www.psi.ox.ac.uk/conference25
#episky #IDsky
Interesting thread about calculating the reproduction number and reflecting on its utility
In 2022 @sbfnk.bsky.social and I wrote this blog on what it was like estimating the effective reproduction number daily for 2 years and if it was helpful
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epiforecasts.io/posts/2022-0...
Reflections on two years estimating effective reproduction numbers – EpiForecasts
Over the last two years we have estimated reproduction numbers daily for several thousand locations, presented these estimates as a curated data set and visualised them at epiforecasts.io/covid. In th...
epiforecasts.io
December 19, 2024 at 3:29 PM
Interesting thread about calculating the reproduction number and reflecting on its utility
Reposted by Michelle Kendall
Hinch & Panovska‑Griffiths et al, Nature Sci Rep: we quantified how variable mpox case ascertainment delays over time in the UK distorted the relationship between growing case counts and the true epidemic growth
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Quantification of the time-varying epidemic growth rate and of the delays between symptom onset and presenting to healthcare for the mpox epidemic in the UK in 2022 - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Quantification of the time-varying epidemic growth rate and of the delays between symptom onset and presenting to healthcare for the mpox epidemic in the UK in 2022
www.nature.com
December 16, 2024 at 8:57 AM
Hinch & Panovska‑Griffiths et al, Nature Sci Rep: we quantified how variable mpox case ascertainment delays over time in the UK distorted the relationship between growing case counts and the true epidemic growth
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Kendall & Ferretti et al, Science: we showed anonymised data from app-based contact tracing enables analytics for epidemic monitoring that is virtually real-time, high-resolution & national scale. Nice Science mag front cover 👀 (Remember outdoors safer than indoors!)
045.medsci.ox.ac.uk/monitoring
045.medsci.ox.ac.uk/monitoring
December 16, 2024 at 8:57 AM
Kendall & Ferretti et al, Science: we showed anonymised data from app-based contact tracing enables analytics for epidemic monitoring that is virtually real-time, high-resolution & national scale. Nice Science mag front cover 👀 (Remember outdoors safer than indoors!)
045.medsci.ox.ac.uk/monitoring
045.medsci.ox.ac.uk/monitoring
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👋 Hello World! Some of our papers this year ICYMI
Ferretti & Wymant et al, Nature: using 7 million digitally recorded COVID exposures, we found app-based contact tracing successfully measured the actual risk of transmission and we decomposed contributors to risk 045.medsci.ox.ac.uk/risk_measure...
Ferretti & Wymant et al, Nature: using 7 million digitally recorded COVID exposures, we found app-based contact tracing successfully measured the actual risk of transmission and we decomposed contributors to risk 045.medsci.ox.ac.uk/risk_measure...
December 16, 2024 at 8:57 AM
👋 Hello World! Some of our papers this year ICYMI
Ferretti & Wymant et al, Nature: using 7 million digitally recorded COVID exposures, we found app-based contact tracing successfully measured the actual risk of transmission and we decomposed contributors to risk 045.medsci.ox.ac.uk/risk_measure...
Ferretti & Wymant et al, Nature: using 7 million digitally recorded COVID exposures, we found app-based contact tracing successfully measured the actual risk of transmission and we decomposed contributors to risk 045.medsci.ox.ac.uk/risk_measure...
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Another opportunity to come work @universityofoxford.bsky.social on the @oxmartinschool.bsky.social project on *Digital Pandemic Preparedness* together with Profs. Christl Donnelly, Christophe Fraser, Melinda Mills, Michael Parker, Luca Ferretti and me.
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Digital Pandemic Preparedness
This programme will develop a blueprint for digital health systems that can be deployed during pandemics, create a funding model for implementation, and…
www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk
November 18, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Another opportunity to come work @universityofoxford.bsky.social on the @oxmartinschool.bsky.social project on *Digital Pandemic Preparedness* together with Profs. Christl Donnelly, Christophe Fraser, Melinda Mills, Michael Parker, Luca Ferretti and me.
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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New article by me & Lucas at Our World in Data!
The COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to have killed more than 25 million people; it caused grief & suffering among their loved ones, impacted people's health worldwide & disrupted work & lifestyles.
We look back on the pandemic with 17 charts:
The COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to have killed more than 25 million people; it caused grief & suffering among their loved ones, impacted people's health worldwide & disrupted work & lifestyles.
We look back on the pandemic with 17 charts:
17 key charts to understand the COVID-19 pandemic
The pandemic has resulted in over twenty million deaths. In this article, we review the key insights from global data on COVID-19.
ourworldindata.org
November 18, 2024 at 10:21 AM
New article by me & Lucas at Our World in Data!
The COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to have killed more than 25 million people; it caused grief & suffering among their loved ones, impacted people's health worldwide & disrupted work & lifestyles.
We look back on the pandemic with 17 charts:
The COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to have killed more than 25 million people; it caused grief & suffering among their loved ones, impacted people's health worldwide & disrupted work & lifestyles.
We look back on the pandemic with 17 charts:
Really handy! Thanks!
I had a try at making this
bsky-follow-finder.theo.io
Enter your handle and it will find people followed by lots of the people you follow (but not you)
bsky-follow-finder.theo.io
Enter your handle and it will find people followed by lots of the people you follow (but not you)
November 12, 2024 at 9:01 AM
Really handy! Thanks!
Really enjoying the big migration of #IDSky and #EpiSky communities here 👋
Looking forward to having a daily feed of excellent science-y updates and discussions once again.
I think it'll be helpful to populate my profile with a quick round-up of my research, and I encourage others to do the same.
Looking forward to having a daily feed of excellent science-y updates and discussions once again.
I think it'll be helpful to populate my profile with a quick round-up of my research, and I encourage others to do the same.
a group of penguins are walking in a line with national geographic written on the bottom of the screen
Alt: A group of penguins migrating
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November 11, 2024 at 4:32 PM
I have returned to work today after a maternity leave. Time for some new science and a new social media platform!
October 21, 2024 at 2:42 PM
I have returned to work today after a maternity leave. Time for some new science and a new social media platform!