You can listen here to me talking to Dr Chris Smith about how anonymised data from the NHS COVID-19 app provided fast, detailed insights into the drivers of the epidemic. Full paper (first release) in Science Magazine here: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Brilliant interview by mishkendall here explaining how data from the NHS COVID app provides a new level of insight into epidemic drivers, and what it means for future pandemics. A must-listen.

Crucial thread below. Several countries now have digital tools at the heart of their pandemic strategies, if they didn’t already (spoiler: these are countries that did relatively well against COVID). Meanwhile, many European countries seem to be taking a ‘play it by ear until

What's the best point to intervene to stop a pandemic? New post about the steps to emergence, and how they relate to current threats: blog.kucharski.io/?what-is-the-b…

Science must protect thinking time in a world of instant communication - true for all of us, and organisations small and large, thinking time, 10% time too often ignored. nature.com/articles/d4158…

New post on mpox, outlining how we got here – and where we might be going next: blog.kucharski.io/?how-we-got-he…

Delighted to see our research featured on the cover of Science Magazine this week! Current issue: bit.ly/3ArlXmv Our paper: doi.org/10.1126/scienc… Photo: Catherine Ivill - UEFA/UEFA via Getty Images

The history of three infectious diseases — smallpox, polio, and measles — before and after a vaccine was available. From my article on humanity's long fight against infectious diseases: ourworldindata.org/microbes-battl…

"Will we allow science to increasingly cause greater inequity around the world or will we use science to decrease inequity?" Jeremy Farrar at the opening plenery of the #GES2024. A question that all researches can think about. Research to Action World Health Organization (WHO) WHO Cameroon MinsanteCameroun Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

Great to have Adam Kucharski open the new Pandemic Sciences Institute seminar series. Here discussing our decomposition of R(t) into contributing factors & other epi monitoring through the covid app, led by mishkendall + Luca Ferretti, out last month ICYMI x.com/ChristoPhraser…

Data generated from the implementation of control measures during COVID-19 is filling epidemiology knowledge gaps & preparing us for future outbreaks. Thanks to Adam Kucharski from Centre for Epidemic Preparedness & Response, LSHTM for opening our new PSI seminar series yesterday. More ⬇️ psi.ox.ac.uk/news-and-opini…

Prof Dr Kevin Fong giving the most devastating and moving testimony to the Covid Inquiry of visiting hospital intensive care units at the height of the second wave in late Dec 2020. The unimaginable scale of death, the trauma, the loss of hope. Please watch this 2min clip.

The number of days per year that are simultaneously extremely hot, dry, and have a high fire risk have as much as tripled since 1970 in some parts of South America, according to a study in Communications Earth & Environment. go.nature.com/3zq1ONI

Thank you to the many thousands of people across the whole of the NHS & social care who helped deliver the care during the pandemic. Has been a strange and difficult day. But felt it was important to give witness to some small part of the enormity of the challenge we all faced.

Wise words ⁦Professor Chris Whitty⁩ “able conduct lightning-fast scientific research & reducing health inequalities deserved most focus. If not serious about tackling health inequalities between pandemics no way you’re going to be able to when pandemics occur” theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/s…

Two primers we wrote for UNAIDS now out: "Introduction to HIV phylogentics" jointsiwg.unaids.org/publication/in… "Practical uses of HIV phylogenetics in public health" jointsiwg.unaids.org/publication/pr…

I've had 7 phone calls this morning already, all saying the same thing - "I found a little hedgehog out in the day so I brought her home and I've got her in a box. She's fine really, just hungry, because she's eating well, shall I just release her in the garden?" Please remember

Mingas – a regular event of Indigenous communities in Ecuador, and what they represent. theguardian.com/global-develop…

🦟"#Dengue fever: with a record 12.4m cases in 2024 so far, what is driving the world’s largest #outbreak?" by Kat Lay Tiago Rogero & Kenneth Mohammed The Guardian theguardian.com/global-develop…

I'm a PhD student at University of Oxford and I think I'm living in a fairytale :-) Foxes playing around in the snow at Magdalen College this morning — absolutely magical!