The #WHOPandemicHub team visited Fiocruz in English including Cidacs with Ministério da Saúde 🩵, PAHO/WHO Country Office & Pandemic Sciences Institute to align on data-based & pathogen genomic surveillance activities for further collaboration with the aim to strengthen pandemic intelligence in the country

📢 We are delighted to announce Professor Helen Rees, Director of Wits RHI, will deliver a keynote speech at #PandemicSciences24 this summer.
 
🗓️ 1-2 July
📍 Oxford & online

There's just 1 month left to register to join us in person.
 
Register now ⬇️
psi.ox.ac.uk/conference24

Injecting Hope, the Science Museum exhibition about the development of COVID-19 vaccines, closes 12 May.

Featuring artwork, interactives & personal objects, including from University of Oxford scientists, the exhibit has been seen by millions in 🇮🇳 🇨🇳 🇬🇧

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PSI colleagues Peter Horby, Moh Family Foundation Fellow Md. Zakiul Hassan & Amanda Rojek met Prof Abu Faisal Pervez in Bangladesh this week, to review progress on a promising #Nipah virus study to improve patient care 🇧🇩

Study partners include icddr,b and IEDCR & CDC Global Health.

Antimicrobial resistance ( #AMR ) is a top 10 global public health threat 💊

Tess Johnson's new framework helps policymakers understand ethical justifications for coercive antimicrobial stewardship policies, such as bans on antibiotic use.

Full story ⬇️
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PSI researchers working with partners on a historic bubonic #plague clinical trial in #Madagascar have successfully enrolled a record number of cases, raising hope for improvements in research quality and treatment development. Read more👇🏽psi.ox.ac.uk/news-and-opini…

📢New paper from GLIDE Fellow Tess Johnson
Stewardship according to context: Justifications for coercive antimicrobial stewardship policies in agriculture and their limitations #AMR
Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics Oxford Population Health (OxPop) Pandemic Sciences Institute
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bi…

We're hosting various networking events alongside #PandemicSciences24 's scientific programme:

✅ Early-career breakfast
✅ Conference dinner at Oxford University Museum of Natural History
✅ Funders Forum

Tickets are going fast, so register now to join us in Oxford this July 👇

psi.ox.ac.uk/conference24

How can we accelerate vaccine development against outbreak pathogens and Disease X?

Join PSI Investigator Prof Dame Sarah Gilbert tomorrow for the Vaccine Centre Annual Lecture 2024 at Vaccine Centre to find out.

📅 23 April
📍 London or online
🔗 bit.ly/49sXRU9

Genital MPox was first identified SEVEN years ago. In retrospect, there have been clear red flags for years. We need to pay much closer attention. We need annual expert assessment of major infectious disease risks and their mitigation. science.org/content/articl…

Recent #dengue outbreaks around the world emphasise the importance of improving dengue treatment & patient care.

Join experts from World Health Organization (WHO) & ISARIC for a webinar on how we can improve our response.

📅 22 April

Register now 👇
bit.ly/dencore

🔴 LIVE UPDATE: #RECOVERYTrial has revolutionised the way we research #InfectiousDiseases . We're excited to host the first #RECOVERYMeeting2024 in Nepal to discuss its impact & future directions!

Nuffield Department of Medicine Oxford Population Health (OxPop) Oxford University Clinical Research Unit Indonesia Pandemic Sciences Institute Wellcome

RECOVERY update:

49,000 pts enrolled.

And on Sunday 31st March, we closed the final COVID comparisons.

We continue to study treatments for flu & community-acquired pneumonia.

And are ready to respond to future outbreaks if needs be.

Thank you to so many for so much support.

International collaboration is vitally important to protect the world from future pandemic threats.

We were delighted to welcome a delegation from Belgium yesterday to explore UK-Belgian collaboration on vaccine research 🇧🇪🇬🇧

Read the full story 👇
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Thank you to everyone who joined yesterday's Pandemic PACT launch, hosted with GloPID-R & UKCDR.

The new tool will:
✅ support funders to channel resources where they are needed most
✅ strengthen global #pandemic preparedness.

Read the full story 👇
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Together with GloPID-R, today we’ve launched Pandemic PACT, a new tool to track global funding for pandemic research.

🔗 Explore the tool:
pandemicpact.org

➡️ Find out how Pandemic PACT is supporting pandemic preparedness via The Lancet:
thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Join GloPID-R tomorrow for the online launch of Pandemic PACT, a new tool that tracks data about research funding & evidence for diseases with #pandemic potential.

➡️ 20 March | 13.30-15.30 GMT
➡️ Register | bit.ly/3OxJKW0

Catch up with 17 episodes of 'The Oxford Colloquy' podcast, featuring Sir Andrew Pollard.

Explore captivating stories and insights into infectious diseases, vaccines, and pandemics.

🎙️Tune in now! tinyurl.com/2rj434k3

Pandemic Sciences Institute Medical Sciences University of Oxford
Department of Paediatrics

This week Ox IHTM Masters students presented policy briefings on urgent global health issues to APPG on Malaria and NTDs at the Houses of Parliament.

They were joined by assignment leader PSI's Alice Norton, alongside Adebisi B Adenipekun & Nicolas Pulik.

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