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Katharina Hauck @khauck.bsky.social · Aug 5

Such a pleasure to meet the fantastic team of econ-epi modellers at Ateneo de Manila University: Elvira de Lara-Tuprio, Joey Sescon, Mark Tolentino, Timothy Teng. And thanks to the Dean of the School of Science and Engineering Raphael A Guerrero for supporting our collaboration.

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Katharina Hauck @khauck.bsky.social · Jul 22

Evidence of increased suicides during the pandemic, robustly evaluated with interrupted time series methods by David Roesler from @ihs.ac.at and presented at #IHEA2025

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Katharina Hauck @khauck.bsky.social · Jul 5

I am humbled and delighted to win this medal. Thanks to Imperial, all who nominated me ❤️, and my wonderful colleagues who I have such fun working with every day.

Jameel Institute @imperial-jameel.bsky.social · Jul 4

🎉 Huge congrats to our Deputy Director, Prof @khauck.bsky.social on winning the 🎖️ President’s Medal for Excellence in Culture & Community at last night’s
@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social 2025 Staff Recognition Awards! 🥳👏 #ProudMoment #TeamSpirit #Excellence

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Katharina Hauck @khauck.bsky.social · Jun 2

Gemma Nedjati-Gilani presenting her work under what conditions vaccinating healthcare workers preventatively against Ebola is cost-effective. Depends on frequency of outbreaks and staff turnover www.umu.se/en/wepp/

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Katharina Hauck @khauck.bsky.social · Jun 2

Nicole Goh from NCID Singapore presenting surprising result that younger adults suffered more severe and persistent mental health problems than older adults www.umu.se/en/wepp/

Katharina Hauck @khauck.bsky.social · Jun 2

Christian Morgenstern from Imperial College presenting on his exciting work on socioeconomic differences in COVID deaths at umu.se/en/wepp/

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Katharina Hauck @khauck.bsky.social · May 23

Important affirmation of Health Economics journals to the principles of rigorous, open, and inclusive scientific inquiry.

Health Economics @hec-wiley.bsky.social · May 21

The Editorial Boards of leading health economics journals are issuing a Joint Statement of Principles on Editorial Independence. In these troubled times some scholars worry their work might suffer ideological attack. We reaffirm our commitment to unfettered scholarship. Please repost.

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Katharina Hauck @khauck.bsky.social · Apr 11

It was a pleasure to talk about the economics of combating epidemic and endemic infectious diseases for Global Public Health Week 2025 at the WFPHA.

Jameel Institute @imperial-jameel.bsky.social · Apr 9

For Global Public Health Week 2025 🌍, our Deputy Director, Professor @khauck.bsky.social delivered a compelling keynote exploreing how strategic investments can create stronger, more equitable health systems. 💡 Watch the full presenation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Y2...

WFPHA | Health Equity & Emergency Preparedness: A Webinar Series | Global Public Health Week 2025

YouTube video by World Federation of Public Health Associations

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Katharina Hauck @khauck.bsky.social · Mar 25

Main lesson learned: Exponential growth changes the relation between benefits and costs of pandemic mitigation from one week to the next, or in other words, the earlier we act, the more cost effective the intervention.

Jameel Institute @imperial-jameel.bsky.social · Mar 24

Read as our Deputy Director, Professor @khauck.bsky.social
discusses the lessons learned, and if we are in fact, ready, for the next pandemic in this @bbcnewsofficial.bsky.social article tinyurl.com/2bfx5f9w 🤔😷🏥

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Jameel Institute @imperial-jameel.bsky.social · Mar 24

Read as our Deputy Director, Professor @khauck.bsky.social
discusses the lessons learned, and if we are in fact, ready, for the next pandemic in this @bbcnewsofficial.bsky.social article tinyurl.com/2bfx5f9w 🤔😷🏥

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Katharina Hauck @khauck.bsky.social · Mar 6

It was such an honour to present to the historic Medical Research Club. Thanks to the distinguished members for their interest in the economics of infectious diseases.

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Katharina Hauck @khauck.bsky.social · Feb 19

Jameel Institute’s @anne-cori.bsky.social co-organizing with #WHOPandemicHub a roundtable at this historic conference. Hoping that the international community unites at least around the threat of infectious diseases, even when unity on war and peace is elusive.

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Katharina Hauck @khauck.bsky.social · Feb 18

Great summary by Neil Ferguson on where we stand with #mpox

Jameel Institute @imperial-jameel.bsky.social · Feb 17

We take a deep dive into #mpox with Professor Neil Ferguson, Director @imperialsph.bsky.social & #JameelInstitute @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social as he explains the disease & crucial research being carried out by #JameelInstitute and @mrc-outbreak.bsky.social 🏥

📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4VB...

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Katharina Hauck @khauck.bsky.social · Feb 8

No doubt the fine team of US CDC experts supporting Ebola response will be missed in Kampala.

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Katharina Hauck @khauck.bsky.social · Feb 8

The real damage to emergency response is probably much larger. On top of the cut to WHO, the US deployed much of their funds for emergency response via the CDC and other US organizations. healthpolicy-watch.news/crucial-who-...

Crucial WHO Health Emergency Response Faces Budget Cut Of 25% - Health Policy Watch

“The immediate response here in WHO was to use our Emergency Response Framework, to realign the functions at the country office to deploy an incident manager

healthpolicy-watch.news

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Katharina Hauck @khauck.bsky.social · Feb 8

Such sad news for the world

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · Feb 6

Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.

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Katharina Hauck @khauck.bsky.social · Feb 7

Exciting PhD studentship on the interface of economics, and epidemiology and UK health policy.

Jameel Institute @imperial-jameel.bsky.social · Feb 7

📢Applications now open for a PhD studentship in the 'health, economic and educational impacts of respiratory pandemics in the UK', 😷supervised by a stellar team 🤩 incl. @khauck.bsky.social (JI), John Edmunds @lshtm.bsky.social and Michael Borowitz (UKHSA). More info here: lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

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Katharina Hauck @khauck.bsky.social · Dec 16

Interesting perspective from industry back to the upside of working in academia: the privilege of being surrounded by colleagues who are super bright and super thoughtful and creative and thinking about how to change the world in their own unique way.

Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · Dec 16

Interesting perspective from Michael Mina on academia vs industry for a researcher who worked on COVID response: www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/01/harv...

Harvard Professors Leaving for Private Sector Research | Harvard Magazine

Three distinguished scientists on leaving academia to advance biomedical research

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