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Helen Ward

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Prof Public Health Imperial College. she/her. Social, genetic & environmental factors in health. Research & advocacy in long COVID, STI/HIV, inequalities. Patient Experience Research Centre

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Helen Ward @profhelenward.bsky.social · Nov 18

Graphic stories of the impact of Long COVID on people's lives, produced from words of many people and illustrated by Monique Jackson as part of the REACT study.

www.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/res...

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Helen Ward @profhelenward.bsky.social · 12d

Looks fantastic - congratulations (again!). When is the paperback out?!!!

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 12d

And here we are. Another damn’d thick, square book. A real wrist-sprainer. UK edition (pictured) has endpapers showing Crick and Brenner’s blackboard and colour plates. Both U.K. and US editions have sections heralded by a double page photo as here. Loads of illustrations. Out in November!

Cover and spine of CRICK, my biography of Francis Crick

Double page photo of Crick at blackboard with section title The Central Problem

Colour plate showing Crick at Cold Spring Harbor in 1954.

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Helen Ward @profhelenward.bsky.social · 14d

whoever wrote the Guardian review does not get it.... I thought it was great

Helen Ward @profhelenward.bsky.social · 15d

keith was just asking me if it was out yet...!

Helen Ward @profhelenward.bsky.social · 26d

Good luck Lauren!

Helen Ward @profhelenward.bsky.social · Sep 7

What a shame - it’s dramatic. We’ve been watching it every day this week - this was yesterday

Helen Ward @profhelenward.bsky.social · Sep 7

And another - with an iPhone, in Marseille where I have a perfect view from the balcony

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Helen Ward @profhelenward.bsky.social · Sep 7

First pic of the moon tonight

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Helen Ward @profhelenward.bsky.social · Sep 7

But there is a double helix-ish staircase in Arles

Photo of the double helix stairs in Frank Gehry’s Luma Arles building

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Demetre Daskalakis @drdemetre.bsky.social · Aug 28

Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

Breaking News: Read three top CDC officials' resignation emails.

The end of an era.

insidemedicine.substack.com

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · Aug 27

Yes, this is what Starmer should say, but he won't. Because Labour does not dare acknowledge what is obvious to everyone - Brexit was a disaster. Instead, it obediently follows the tramlines set out by May and Johnson, eyed from the sidelines by the Red Wall oldies, the Mail and the Telegraph.

Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · Aug 27

The ever-eloquent @rafaelbehr.bsky.social pointedly refusing to mince his words on what Farage has done for us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Helen Ward @profhelenward.bsky.social · Aug 26

Interesting critique of growing group-think that COVID policies did no good, only harm. Pandemic armchair epidemiologists seem to think public health is about certainty. In reality it's about managing uncertainty. All interventions do harm, some also do some good
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

COVID Revisionism Has Gone Too Far

If the center and left succumb to the view that “nothing worked,” no one will remain to defend sensible public-health measures the next time a pandemic comes around.

www.theatlantic.com

Helen Ward @profhelenward.bsky.social · Aug 21

Haven’t heard that one for a long time!

Helen Ward @profhelenward.bsky.social · Aug 21

I've never been to that pub...

Helen Ward @profhelenward.bsky.social · Aug 12

We set up the Imperial Patient Experience Research Centre (ERC) 14 years ago (!) to promote participatory approaches to improving healthcare and biomedical research. And we've finally got our own Linkedin page - give us a follow www.linkedin.com/company/impe...

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Helen Ward @profhelenward.bsky.social · Jul 29

Sorry I couldn't be there this year - have a great time!

Helen Ward @profhelenward.bsky.social · Jul 25

Congratulations Jeremy!

Imperial Medicine @imperialmed.bsky.social · Jul 25

Big congratulations to Prof Jeremy Levy, appointed Associate Dean of the @nihr.bsky.social Research Academy (Integrated Pathways) 🥳

He’ll be championing #academic careers for #doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and more.

Read more 👉 www.nihr.ac.uk/news/nihr-ap... @imperialnhs.bsky.social

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Imperial Medicine @imperialmed.bsky.social · Jul 22

Prof Lord Ara Darzi, writing in @observeruk.bsky.social, warns that axing the Fleming Fund, Britain’s landmark antimicrobial resistance initiative ( #AMR ), would be a deadly retreat.

With 5 million annual global deaths, the stakes couldn’t be higher.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

‘Bacteria knows no borders. The UK and Fleming Fund must ...

The planned dismantling of the world’s largest fund to fight antimicrobial resistance could contribute to millions of deaths worldwide

observer.co.uk

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · Jul 21

1.5 million Gazans is 75% of the population, half of whom are children.

This is *deliberate* starvation. Just one agency - UNRWA - has stated today it has enough food stockpiled outside the border to feed the population for months.

The Israeli govt must let food and water in & stop the killing.

Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · Jul 21

“I'm only asking for a piece of bread... that's all," a 17-year-old boy at al-Shifa hospital tells the BBC, as food security body the IPC warns more than 1.5 million Gazans are at risk of severe malnutrition/ starvation.

Nearly 500,000 are considered to be facing “catastrophe.”

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · Jul 21

“this £85 billion represents a direct transfer of value from the public to private owners — a sum extracted while storm overflows proliferated, leakage targets were missed, and river health declined”

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Insta Science @instascience.bsky.social · Jul 19

This is how it looks when a Sea Anemone runs away from a Starfish.

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Helen Ward @profhelenward.bsky.social · Jul 19

“Each child was holding a water bucket, lying dead in place, covered in their own blood”
There is no justification for the continued Israeli genocide in Gaza. How can our government continue to arm these Zionist thugs?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Killing of young siblings at Gaza water point shows seeking life’s essentials now a deadly peril

Karam al-Ghussain, 9, and Lulu, 10, were fetching water from a nearby distribution station when an Israeli strike hit it, and them

www.theguardian.com

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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · Jul 15

Throwback to cool (published 2024) control human infection model study that shows very durable immunity when inoculated using the (likely) same SARS-CoV-2 variant as that caused earlier infection.
Turns out they couldn't get an infection going because of immunity!
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Safety, tolerability, viral kinetics, and immune correlates of protection in healthy, seropositive UK adults inoculated with SARS-CoV-2: a single-centre, open-label, phase 1 controlled human infection...

Our study demonstrates potent protective immunity induced by homologous vaccination and homologous or heterologous previous SARS-CoV-2 infection. The community breakthrough infections seen with the om...

www.thelancet.com

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Helen Ward @profhelenward.bsky.social · Jul 14

Lucky you!

Helen Ward @profhelenward.bsky.social · Jul 14

I can only assume you have no young people on the policy

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