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Dr Roz Eggo @rozeggo.bsky.social · Aug 26

IDDconf 2025 is next week! Very exciting! Follow us on @iddconf.bsky.social where I will post updates on the neat infectious disease dynamics research presented!

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UK Health Security Agency @ukhsa.bsky.social · Aug 21

The UKHSA and @lshtm.bsky.social’s UK Public Health Rapid Support Team worked with the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) to deliver a 3-day training event in Trinidad, expanding regional public health emergency response capacity in the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA).

Text reads: 'UK and Caribbean outbreak response teams train Caribbean Health Professionals in emergency response.'

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · Aug 20

Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities

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Dr Roz Eggo @rozeggo.bsky.social · Aug 19

Great! We should catch up! We've seen your [very nice] pre-print in my group - may yet do a journal club on it!

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Dr Roz Eggo @rozeggo.bsky.social · Jul 29

PhD position for January start with me and Neil Ferguson, doing some neat model development for ethnicity-stratified transmission models. Please get in touch with any questions.

Home fees (UK) only unfortunately.

IDDjobs @iddjobs.org · Jul 29

PhD position (London, UK)
Health inequalities in infectious disease transmission in the UK
with @rozeggo.bsky.social Neil Ferguson
at @cmmid_lshtm.bsky.social @LSHTM.bsky.social Imperial College London
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2343

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Simon Procter @mert0248.bsky.social · Jul 1

Great to see our work on the value of better influenza vaccines published in Plos Med today. Led by the amazingly talented @lucygoodfellow.bsky.social, together with @rozeggo.bsky.social, @markjit.bsky.social and other colleagues @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social and elsewhere.

doi.org/10.1371/jour...

The potential global health impact and cost-effectiveness of next-generation influenza vaccines: A modelling analysis

Using influenza surveillance data, Lucy Goodfellow and colleagues model the potential global health impacts and cost effectiveness of next-generation influenza vaccines designed to increase efficacy a...

doi.org

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Dr Roz Eggo @rozeggo.bsky.social · Jun 10

Charlotte Rae telling us about the benefits of and methods to implement the 4 day working week.

Presenter showing figures of how attainment and engagement increase during a trial of the 4 day work week

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Dr Roz Eggo @rozeggo.bsky.social · May 28

Very exciting! Michael is a star!

Michael Marks @drmichaelmarks.bsky.social · May 28

Tomorrow (29th May) I will be giving my inaugural lecture @lshtm.bsky.social Open to people who are in London & online for those who are not.

Hugely grateful to a wonderful array of collaborators & colleagues around the world whose work really underpins the research I will be talking about.

What exactly is it that you do anyway, Michael? with Professor Michael Marks |

Professor Michael Marks’ inaugural lecture will explore his portfolio of research in global health, starting from his time as a clinical fellow at LSHTM living and working in the Pacific to his

www.lshtm.ac.uk

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Dr Roz Eggo @rozeggo.bsky.social · May 23

Hurray! Come join a fun infectious disease modelling conference near Lake Windermere!

iddconf.bsky.social @iddconf.bsky.social · May 23

IDDconf 2025 registration is open!

Information and sign up at IDDconf.org

Looking forward to it already!

IDDconf 2025

A Conference on Infectious Disease Dynamics. IDDconf is the second instalment of a new meeting series focussing on innovative research in infectious disease dynamics.

IDDconf.org

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · May 19

The amount of money that @who.int is asking for an entire year in its already reduced budget, $2.1 billion, is what the world spends on its military every 8 hours, @drtedros.who.int says in his opening remarks at the World Health Assembly in Geneva.
#globalhealth #IDsky

WHO @who.int · May 19

WHO faces a 21% reduction from the original proposed budget for the 2026-27 biennium.

“If we think US$ 2.1 billion a year is ambitious—or $ 4.2 billion for the biennium—then either we must lower our ambitions for what WHO is and does, or we must raise the money.” - @drtedros.who.int

bit.ly/3ZrwCXZ

Text on dark background reads:
4.2 billion dollars for two years – or 2.1 billion a year – is not ambitious,
it’s extremely modest.

2.1 billion dollars is the equivalent of:

8 hours of global military expenditure or,
1 stealth bomber or,
3 months’ advertising expenditure by the tobacco industry.

"It seems somebody switched the price tags on what is truly valuable
in our world."

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General

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Colin Angus @victimofmaths.bsky.social · May 19

I know that the US has seen worse life expectancy trends than other high income countries in recent years, but I hadn't realised things were so bad across all ages - particularly people of working age.

US 20-59 year olds are dying at several times the rate of their peers, and it's getting worse.

A 9-panel line chart with each panel representing trends in all-cause mortality rates since 1980 in the US and a range of high income countries including the UK, France, Canada and Japan. Each panel is an age group from 0-9, 10-19 etc. up to 80+. In each panel, the US line is both higher (i.e. higher mortality rates) and has a worse trend (rising or stagnant while others are falling).

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Dr Roz Eggo @rozeggo.bsky.social · May 12

This is neat!
And the music in the linked youtube video is by my cousin. 😀
(which I did not know when I clicked it!)

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · May 12

OK, this is wild.

In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.

What the HELL?

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Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

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eClinicalMedicine – The Lancet Discovery Science @eclinicalmed.bsky.social · Apr 28

The impact of the PEPFAR funding freeze on HIV deaths and infections: a mathematical modelling study of seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa

The sudden cessation of #PEPFAR funding likely results in tens of thousands of #HIV deaths and new infections

www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...
#MedSky

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Dr Roz Eggo @rozeggo.bsky.social · Apr 15

No need to apologise! To me anyway. I feel similarly. Keen to hear from others their thoughts!

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🎃nisillos @onisillos.bsky.social · Apr 15

Given discussions at I had at #ESCMIDGlobal, it might be useful for new researchers to know how a journal editor screens submissions (obviously this is my approach and so it might differ for others).

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Dr Roz Eggo @rozeggo.bsky.social · Apr 15

So, to the infectious disease modellers: how are we feeling about Epidemics conference this year?

(So sorry to US colleagues for what is happening. A true nightmare. )

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Dr Roz Eggo @rozeggo.bsky.social · Apr 15

MSCA Postdoc Fellowships - happy to hear from infectious disease epis/modellers who want to come to LSHTM.

Eligibility: "researchers of any nationality who wish to engage in R&I projects by...coming to Europe from any country in the world" marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p...

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary ...

marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu

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iddconf.bsky.social @iddconf.bsky.social · Apr 9

2025 here we come!
iddconf.org
IDDconf will be September 2-4 2025 in Ambleside.
Ticket info coming soon.

IDDconf 2025

A Conference on Infectious Disease Dynamics. IDDconf is the second instalment of a new meeting series focussing on innovative research in infectious disease dynamics.

iddconf.org

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · Apr 3

The richest Americans have survival rates similar to the poorest in northern/western Europe.
That’s the striking finding from a new study tracking 74,000 adults (50–85 yrs) in the US & 16 European countries (2010–2022). #MedSky 🧪
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Association between Wealth and Mortality in the United States and Europe | NEJM

Amid growing wealth disparity, we have little information on how health among older Americans compares with that among older Europeans across the distribution of wealth. We performed a longitudinal...

www.nejm.org

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Alex Richards @alexandra-richards.bsky.social · Apr 3

Great to be able to finally get this work out, closing out my time with @lshtm-tbmod.bsky.social

Peter MacPherson @petermacp.bsky.social · Apr 2

New preprint led by @alexandra-richards.bsky.social & @kchorton.bsky.social from @lightontb.bsky.social

Eliminating men’s excess risks for #TB & improving access to treatment to comparable rates to women could have major gains for men, women & children.

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Dr Roz Eggo @rozeggo.bsky.social · Mar 31

Exciting 2 year postdoc position with Ed Parker at LSHTM working on vaccines in EHR: jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Closes April 7. Visa eligible.

Job Opportunity at LSHTM: Research Fellow

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working i...

jobs.lshtm.ac.uk

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Epiverse TRACE @epiverse-trace.bsky.social · Mar 25

🚀 #rstats package of the week {finalsize}

Looking for an open-source solution to calculate the final size of a SIR epidemic?

#finalsize is part of the #EpiverseTRACE ecosystem, designed to support epidemiologists and public health professionals in tackling infectious disease challenges.

🧵 (1/5)

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Dr Roz Eggo @rozeggo.bsky.social · Mar 11

It sounds like that reviewer already did!

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Lisa Tozzi @lisatozzi.bsky.social · Mar 8

There are numerous reasons why Trump and his government’s pervasive blathering about turning Canada into the “51st state” shouldn’t be dismissed as a “Madman Theory”-negotiating tactic, or as performative MAGA trolling. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump's Threat To Take Over Canada Is a Scandal

Trump keeps threatening to annex Canada. Americans would never accept such talk from another country.

www.rollingstone.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Feb 28

Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.”

There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.

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