v sad to leave Darwin after amazing World Melioidosis Congress superbly organised by Menzies Research - united in need for progress on recognition, diagnosis, treatment, & vaccines for #melioidosis. Look forward to EMC University College Dublin Siobhán McClean in 26 & WMCXI in Sarawak in 27

📣1st paper from CHARISMA Study now in Journal of Infection! Near real-time severe acute respiratory illness surveillance characterising #flu and #COVID19 epidemiology in hospitalised adults, 2021-22 doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf… Public Health Scotland MRC-Uni of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde GlasgowCRF A🧵/

New science leadership opportunities at the Babraham Institute

#ScienceReadForSunday: Predicting mortality in febrile adults: comparative performance of the MEWS, qSOFA, and UVA scores using prospectively collected data among patients in four health-care sites in sub-Saharan Africa and South-Eastern Asia thelancet.com/journals/eclin…

Transforming Global Health Education: WHO Academy It feels like yesterday, when President Emmanuel Macron and I held a corridor conversation at the G20 Leaders Summit in Argentina in 2018 about the potential to revolutionise training for health professionals by setting up an

The one-day programme from DMM Journal is on antimicrobial resistance and is organised by KateDuncan and Mostowy Lab. View the programme and speakers at 100yearsconference.biologists.com/programme/inte… #AMR #biologists100

🚨Application deadline!🚨 Apply now for the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust fully funded PhD studentships and beat the deadline! The studentships are an opportunity to acquire valuable skills & mentorship to address Africa’s health challenges. 🔗 Apply here: jobs.kemri-wellcome.org/article/phd-st… 🗓️

Many congratulations to my DPhil student Sandra Adele NDM Centre for Global Health Research for successfully defending her thesis on T cell epitope responses to SARS-CoV-2. Thank you ++ to examiners Leo Swadling and Miles Carroll. I am very proud of you and look forward to watching your career!

Huge congratulations to vilada Vilada Chansamouth (LOMWRU MORU) for passing her Tropical Medicine Oxford D.Phil viva with zero corrections (see pic below)! Vilada's project used a phone app to guide Laos doctors on appropriate antibiotic prescription to reduce resistance risk.

The deadline for our one-day programme on #AMR at the Biologists @ 100 conference has been extended to 🗓️Friday 17 January 2025. Organised by KateDuncan & Mostowy Lab. View the programme and speakers at 100yearsconference.biologists.com/programme/inte… #biologists100

One more week left to register for our programme offering a holistic view on #AMR at #biologists100, discussing drug discovery in the ‘omics era, cellular mechanisms of AMR and detecting and tackling AMR in the environment and clinics. Register here: bit.ly/3Ddp0QV

New in Nature Comms: We applied metagenomic and targeted NGS to serum samples from undiagnosed febrile patients across Uganda. This work highlights how NGS can transform viral surveillance in LMICs—especially with infrastructure now in place post-COVID. 🔗 nature.com/articles/s4146…

I want to thank the health & social care research teams leading the way to deliver life-changing research. Every year, our research volunteers make research possible by taking part in trials. On this #Red4Research day, join the growing list of volunteers to #BePartOfResearch

📣Professor Professor Alex Richter presenting "Testing times: developing diagnostics to meet contemporary healthcare challenges" BSI Congress & Events Immunology and Immunotherapy BSI Midlands Immunology Group Uni of Birmingham BSI Clinical Immunology Professional Network

As an National Institute for Health and Care Research Strategy and Engagement Board member, I'm supporting #Red4Research because global health partnership supports strengthening lab research capacity worldwide to develop new solutions #BePartOfResearch"

Incredible atmosphere at Oxford Women’s Health day yesterday - so much innovative and grass roots research happening to improve health and wellbeing of girls and women worldwide, including much work to tackle global health issues and UK intersectional inequalities

Holyrood parkrun in Edinburgh cuts different

#ResearchHighlight from Bipin Adhikari MORU Why should we be concerned by internalised #racism in global health? Read more 👉 ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi Full publication 👉 gh.bmj.com/content/10/6/e…

ATTENTION Malaŵian & other East African artist Would you like a 12-week fully funded artist residency in London starting Jan 2026? Delfina Foundation has an open call for proposals:

Spoke to BBC Scotland News on the myriad of reasons why uptake of vaccines in children & adults are lower in ethnic minority groups Understanding this is critical for public health agencies to develop targeted strategies to enhance uptake.