
Susan Hopkins
@smhopkins
Infectious diseases clinician & epidemiologist, Chief Medical Advisor @UKHSA, (also work @RoyalFreeNHS @UCLInfectImm). Hon CBE. Research: rb.gy/2lsfwa
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https://www.gov.uk/government/people/susan-hopkins#biography 27-01-2009 10:27:55
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Impressive presentation by World Health Organization (WHO) IMST at the WHO R&D Blueprint meeting today! They shared a helpful summary of #mpox clades and subclades, while highlighting that there’s still a lot to learn.


Advance notice: Recruiting London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine over next year Genomics Post-doc Clinical Post-doc/CL (maybe 2) for UK ID trainees Modelling Post-doc Diagnostics RA UK & Global Health. Focus STI/Syphilis but may be opportunities across my work. Adverts here/LSHTM. If interested get in touch!



Did you see professor Sanjay Bhagani, infectious disease consultant at the Royal Free London, on yesterday evening's BBC London? In the interview, Sanjay shares facts and busts myths about Mpox. Watch the interview from 12:30 on BBC iPlayer 👇 bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…


NEW: We're thrilled that Thomas Waite OBE has been appointed to our board of trustees. "I am looking forward to the opportunity of working with Terrence Higgins Trust towards a future where there are no new HIV cases and HIV stigma is a thing of the past," said Professor Waite.

â•ď¸ŹVery interesting AMR determinants in the oropharyngeal microbiome of MSM attending an #STIs clinic: â•ď¸ŹThe most frequently detected resistance gene was msr (D) (88.4%), followed by gyr (A) (67.1%) â•ď¸ŹYounger age associated with mtr (R) â•ď¸ŹUsing mouthwash associated with lower

Check out this excellent chart from World Health Organization (WHO) on confirmed #mpox cases across #Africa by clade & subclade. ✳️Clade Ia: DRC, CAR, Congo, Cameroon, Gabon, Sudan ✳️Clade Ib: DRC, Burundi, Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda ✳️Clade IIa & b: Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, South Africa, Liberia, Cameroon,


Public Health Minister Andrew Gwynne MP shares the experience of his grandson Lyle getting very unwell with #RSV when he was a baby. This was before the RSV vaccine was made available to pregnant women in the UK. đź“ą: Department of Health and Social Care






🆕World Health Organization (WHO) launches global framework for understanding the origins of new or re-emerging pathogens Work of WHO's Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO). Longer thread on this later... who.int/news/item/04-0…

As the UK initiates TWO RSV VACCINE programmes (older adults maternal women to protect their babies)- great to see US publication on vaccine effectiveness (VE) in older patients. VE against hospitalisation was 75%. UK Health Security Agency Department of Health and Social Care NHS #hellomynameis Steve (he/him) 💙 jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…



Delighted to see Neil Cunningham first author paper going upstream to detect food related outbreaks in Eurosurveillance #stec #climate UK Health Security Agency eurosurveillance.org/content/10.280…