#Young people are initiators of social change. Together with the #EU, we are supporting #young people in becoming agents of change by involving them in our activities and investing in capacity-building opportunities across the WHO/Europe Region. #YouthDay

Kyoto University allows students to wear anything they want for graduation

New World Health Organization (WHO) variant under monitoring BA.2.86 V limited info available right now but large # of mutations needs closer monitoring Surveillance, sequencing & #COVID19 reporting critical to track known/detect new variants 🙏TAG-VE Updated page live soon⬇️ who.int/activities/tra…

So there's 3 feds in our garden waiting for the bomb squad to come because they found a land mine this morning

We now (finally) have a youtube account for the recordings of our seminars. youtube.com/channel/UC9qvw… Sadly some were lost to clicking cloud recording but watch here for monthly uploads.

As Israeli health facilities tend to the wounded from the horrendous attacks by Hamas, WHO/Europe commends all who provide lifesaving services at this time of crisis. We once again call for the immediate release of hostages, including children and the elderly. #HealthForAll

📢 Exciting News! The 2024 Project Call for OneZoo CDT is OPEN! We're tackling infectious diseases with a focus on the environment 🌎 Apply by January 1, 2024, 12pm (UK time) for a chance to make a difference! Details: onezoo.uk #OneZooCDT #Research

🚀 Exciting News! 📣 Join us for the OneZoo CDT Virtual Sandpit Event on November 16, 2023, from 2-4 PM (UK time). Let's foster transdisciplinary collaborations between academia and industry partners for our 2024 project call.

Day two of our policy training Defra UK ! Today we’re talking One Health and sitting in on a Human Animal Infections and Risk Surveillance group (HAIRS) meeting, listening to policy makers & scientists from across government discuss pressing issues in this area. #OneZooCDT

Does the UK realise it always looks desperate & insecure when constantly proclaiming ‘world firsts’ or ‘best’ in any policy area? (Especially mad given that the US announced an AI Safety Institute earlier this week). When and why did this weird rhetoric take over on this island?

Today is #OneHealth Day. Have you heard of One Health❓ It’s a relationship between humans, animals, plants & the environment. It relies on the understanding of how human actions and policies could affect animal, plant & environment health & how it impacts humans as a result.

Exciting to see this paper led by Katherine Horton out today in PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…! Putting years of work together to quantify the potential pathways people take following Mtb infection. Self-clearance, undulation, subclinical disease, something there for everyone. Enjoy!

We're hiring! Assistant Professor in infectious disease epidemiology/modelling employed by LSHTM and based in Nagasaki, to join the vaccine research team--John Edmunds, Kaja Abbass and myself Job Opportunity at LSHTM: Assistant Professor (Nagasaki, Japan) jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/EPH-EPED-2023-…

World’s first ‘dengue dashboard’ could predict outbreaks months before they happen “We’ve underestimated the impact that climate is having on the northward shift of diseases like dengue” 🦟🌍 Dr. Oliver Brady in The Telegraph 👇bit.ly/41antCS

'Next pandemic is around the corner' but would lockdown ever happen again? In Sky News Adam Kucharski says digital contact tracing "can limit disruption to those people at higher risk in a particular outbreak rather than reverting to blanket measures" 👇2ly.link/1xE1q

Join the LSHTM seminar on the Royal Statistical Society Best Practices for Data Visualisation. 11 April 2024 lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/eve…

We are recruiting an epidemiologist or modeller to work w Dr Roz Eggo & myself & team using OpenSAFELY. 3yr National Institute for Health and Care Research project predicting why/when/where NHS comes under pressure in Winter jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?i… - 1st of 4 jobs for project we will be advertising for project

🗣️ Hear from Dr Carla Mavian (@nartuhi) from the FLORIDA Emerging Pathogens Institute on genomic surveillance in #Haiti, including #cholera, arboviruses & #coronaviruses. 📅 24 May 2024 ⏰ 13:00-14:00 UK time 📍 LSHTM | Online More info👉 bit.ly/3UHcgXv

Supposedly this was fact-checked by The New York Times—not well enough. This matters. Watch this clip of Dr. Fauci talking about the sickening threats made against him & his family. Factually incorrect claims like those in this piece encourage these threats. cnn.com/2024/06/03/pol…

Happy to share that we FINALLY published version 2.0.0 of scoringutils on CRAN. scoringutils is an R package designed to facilitate the evaluation of forecasts. It operates on data.table, is very slick and has a lot of visualisations and extra features. epiforecasts.io/scoringutils/