A highly effective malaria vaccine could be a game-changer, preventing so many deaths but also freeing up health systems that experience "second waves" of malaria year in year out.

SCIENCE LITERACY TIP: studies of new treatments (& vaccines) often don’t include pregnant people or children because of special issues with CONSENT. This means we DON’T KNOW FOR SURE how well treatment works in those groups. It does NOT mean we think it doesnt work or is harmful

Checkmate, scientists.

Exciting new opportunities are available to join Malaria Modellers and Katharina Hauck to work on a Wellcome funded project exploring strategies for malaria eradication: 3 posts epidemiologist, modeller and economist. Come and join a friendly and collaborative team to #endmalaria!

Happy Saturday!☀️At least 5 safe & effective vaccines means this pandemic could end without 2 million more deaths. Vaccine nationalism will put us backwards. In all countries' interests to ensure people in all countries are vaccinated, & virus isn't circulating & mutating.

Happy Tuesday!☀️Interesting moment: Rich countries pledge money to COVAX (facility to help poorer countries), but don't offer any doses. As Dr. Tedros says, 'If there are no vaccines to buy, money is irrelevant.' Pandemic will only be over when vaccines are distributed worldwide.

APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN for our annual short-course for professionals! ➡️Going virtual in 2021 ➡️Scholarships available ➡️Presenters incl. profs Azra Ghani, neil_ferguson, Nick Grassly, Christl Donnelly, Maria-Gloria Basáñez, & Roy Anderson ✏️Find out more infectiousdiseasemodels.org

This week we celebrate #imperialwomen with profiles of some of our teams role models. Read more about Gina Cuomo-Dannenburg - PhD candidate MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis who's research focuses on mathematical modelling techniques to understand spread of anti-malarial resistance 👇 imperial.ac.uk/school-public-…

Can we stop the narrative please that a prolonged first dose strategy is going to breed super variants. The immune system is NOT like antibiotic resistance. 1/n

Strongly disagree with this article. Kids are definitely not "like your vaccinated grandparent." Here's why: a ragey thread.

A very common WRONG claim I’m seeing lately: “once all adults are *eligible* to be vaccinated, anyone who isn’t only has themselves to blame so the vaccinated should’t have to take precautions” But “eligible” isn’t the same as available or accessibility. We need more than that!

Incredible looking back at how much out team has achieved over the last year.

AstraZeneca has successfully created a good COVID vaccine. Many people I care about have received the AZ vaccine & I am so happy for that. But they also seem to be doing the absolute worst at communicating. This is bad & risks scaring people away from *all* COVID vaccines. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Closing tomorrow (April 7th).

UK aid cuts undermine the eradication of polio. "The proposed 95% reduction will result in an enormous setback to the eradication effort at a critical moment" polioeradication.org/news-post/gpei…

If you’re an educator reading this, your friendly disabled professor of Disability Studies hereby grants you the power to distribute accommodations to any student, for any reason, at any time, regardless of their affiliation with Disability Services, from now until you die.

my unsolicited advice to people starting grad school in the fall: do not use this summer to “catch up” or “prepare”. you don’t need it. what you do need is a break

scholarships for candidates from LMICs cover fees, flights and accommodation for our short course on infectious disease modelling. application deadline 10 April infectiousdiseasemodels.org MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis

I feel extremely honored to be a recipient of a Schmidt Science Fellowship and to join a global community of Schmidt Fellows dedicated to interdisciplinary science for societal good. A heartfelt thank you to all my colleagues and collaborators for all their support