#⃣2🎙️ Dr Ed Newman, Dr Nadine Beckmann & Sophie Everest from the UK-Public Health Rapid Support Team, a collaboration between UK Health Security Agency, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine & funded with UK aid Global Health Security, DHSC UK, discuss the use of #vaccines outbreak response.

🗓️Full episode 24 April bit.ly/49GV5uy
Trailer👇

🎧“Responding to Outbreaks” podcast series

#⃣1 🎙️Researchers from Imperial College London & MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM discussing recent phase 3 clinical trial of novel oral #poliovirus #vaccine in The Gambia.

🗓️ Full episode 👉22 April bit.ly/49GV5uy
Listen to the trailer now👇

What role do #vaccines play during an infectious disease outbreak? Are they silver bullets that solve everything?
This #WorldImmunisationWeek we explore these questions and more. 💉 🦠

👂Hear from a range of experts about the role of #vaccines in responding to #outbreaks . 👇

Local communities play a key role in effective disease outbreak prevention & response.

ProEpi, Ministério da Saúde de Cabo Verde, Ministério da Saúde 🩵, #INSPCapeVerde & #UKPHRST are working with local community leaders to test a new outbreak early warning system in 🇧🇷&🇨🇻.

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#UKPHRST 's Prof Gwenda Hughes:

'We are delighted to be part of this exciting research collaboration to test a new community-led disease outbreak surveillance system in Brazil & Cape Verde.'

UK Health Security Agency London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Global Health Security, DHSC UK UK in Brazil🇬🇧🇧🇷 Ministério da Saúde de Cabo Verde Ministério da Saúde 🩵

🤝 #UKPHRST has launched a research project to develop and test a new disease outbreak surveillance system directly involving local community leaders in Brazil 🇧🇷 & Cape Verde 🇨🇻, in partnership with ProEpi, Ministério da Saúde de Cabo Verde, Ministério da Saúde 🩵 & #INSPCapeVerde .

🧵 The UK Public Health Rapid Support Team (UK-PHRST) is an innovative partnership between UKHSA and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, funded with UK aid by Department of Health and Social Care Global Health Security, DHSC UK. Their work sees them partner with low & middle-income countries, supporting responses to outbreaks by deploying public 1/3

... health specialists quickly to where they’re needed, helping to build & strengthen public health systems and perform operational research. Olive Leonard is the Social Equity & Human Rights Officer in the team, who briefs staff on deployment about the context they'll be 2/3

... working in, delivering training on issues around equity & human rights, and supporting UK-PHRST in delivering its work more equitably.
She shares her thoughts on the importance of weaving women’s rights into outbreak responses: uk-phrst.tghn.org/community/blog…
#WorldHealthDay2024

🗣️Our Centre co-Director Adam Kucharski talks to Lara Keay about the next pandemic and what it would mean for societies.

📰Read the full piece 👇

Ebola 10 years on: why trust remains key

Today marks a decade since the start of the largest #Ebola outbreak yet, which spread across West Africa.

Luisa Enria & Shelley Lees Vaccine Centre reflect on the importance of trust to epidemic response:

👉lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/exp…

🚨HAPPENING TOMORROW🚨

🗣️Hear from Dongxuan Chen about epidemiological analysis of COVID in Hong Kong and mainland China, from superspreading to generation intervals.

📆25 Mar 2024
⏰13:00 - 14:00 UK time
📍LSHTM/Online

More info 👉bit.ly/CEPREvents
CMMID

📢Today we’re launching the LIFE Zika Study alongside our Brazilian partners 🇧🇷

🥼The 7-year research collaboration aims to understand the long-term health & learning needs of children whose mothers were infected with Zika virus in pregnancy.

More info👉 bit.ly/LIFEZikaStudy

🌟UPCOMING EVENT🌟

🗣️Dongxuan Chen will discuss two studies using data from mainland China and Hong Kong exploring changes in key epidemiological parameters from different perspectives​.

📆25 Mar 2024
⏰13:00 - 14:00 UK time
📍LSHTM/Online

More info 👉bit.ly/CEPREvents

📢Our online short course in Pandemics: Emergence, Spread and Response is designed to support the development of skills & knowledge critical to effective pandemic preparedness & response.

📅3 June - 5 July 24
📍 Online
💻Apply by 3 May

Find out more👉bit.ly/PandemicsShort…

It was a privilege to celebrate our amazing graduates last week and meet so many proud families and friends 🎉🎓

We can’t wait to see your future #GlobalHealth achievements!

Check out our #LSHTMGrad highlights from the day📽️👇

Keep in touch👉bit.ly/3T6EhXH

🦠Looking to looking to further your knowledge and skills specific to pandemics?

🎓Try our online short course in Pandemics: Emergence, Spread and Response.

📅3 June - 5 July 2024
📍Delivered online
💻Apply by 3 May

Find out more👉bit.ly/PandemicsShort…

Want to increase your knowledge of statistical analysis?🔍

Our short course for Epidemiologists, biostatisticians & health researchers will teach you how multiple imputation can be used to handle missing data in statistical analyses.

Running: 18-20 June 2024

𝗡𝗜𝗠𝗥 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗗𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗢𝗩𝗜𝗗-𝟭𝟵 𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲

On 7th March, 2024,

🗣️ #UKPHRST ’s Implementation Science Lead Farhana Haque on what science can do to help young women and girls pursue #STEM careers.

#Inspireinclusion #InternationalWomensDay2024
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine UK Health Security Agency Global Health Security, DHSC UK