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Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health
@tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk
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CTMGH, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford. Network of research groups based in Oxford and across Africa and Asia. Tackling infectious diseases, from clinical studies to behavioural sciences.
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Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk · 20h
FD-TACT malaria treatment trial recruits patient in Rwanda

Led by @moru-mip.bsky.social, this phase 3 trial aims to evaluate a novel triple artemisinin-based combination treatment for uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum #malaria

Read more 👉 www.tropmedres.ac/news/fd-tact...
📷 Mehul Dhorda, MORU
Patients at the Out-Patient Clinic of Ruhuha Health Centre, Rwanda where recruitment for the FD-TACT Trial was launched on 11 Sep 2025
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NDM Centre for Global Health Research @cghr.ox.ac.uk · 1d
🌍 Highlights from CGHR Annual Day 2025:
🧠 Research insights
🤝 EDIA discussions
🎓 Flash talks & training updates
🎤 Inspiring speakers on global health careers & equity

Advancing equitable research and global learning
#GlobalHealth #Oxford
@tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk
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KEMRI-Wellcome @kemriwellcome.bsky.social · 1d
🦟 Where are Kenya’s Aedes aegypti hotspots?
📚New research by @smuchiri.bsky.social et al. uses advanced modeling to predict ecological suitability, with population density emerging as the top factor, urging for the strengthening of surveillance to prevent outbreaks.
🔗: shorturl.at/TOCDB
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Nuffield Department of Medicine @ndm.ox.ac.uk · 1d
Scientists at NDM's @oxcio.bsky.social and the @dunnschool.bsky.social are joining together to develop an #mRNAVaccine for children with a rare type of #cancer. Using funding from Alice's Arc, their aim is to improve #rhabdomyosarcoma treatment 💉

Learn more 👉 www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/news/ndm-sci...
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Oxford University Clinical Research Unit @oucru.bsky.social · 1d
www.oucru.org/oucru-workshop-on-early-warning-systems-for-climate-sensitive-infectious-diseases/
OUCRU workshop drives dialogue on early warning systems for climate-sensitive infectious diseases   - OUCRU
Researchers, policymakers, and health professionals gathered at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU) for a workshop on “Enablers and Barriers to Development and Implementation of Early...
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Oxford University Clinical Research Unit @oucru.bsky.social · 1d
💡 #AWARE is a three-year global initiative (2023–2025) led by Brown University Pandemic Center and funded by the Gates Foundation Gates Ventures and Wellcome Trust. Together with Brazil, Kenya & South Africa, Vietnam’s experience highlights the country as a model for outbreak preparedness.
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Oxford University Clinical Research Unit @oucru.bsky.social · 1d
Vietnam is among the countries most affected by #climatechange, driving the spread of infectious diseases.

Our 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗘 study explored how advanced tools can be integrated into national surveillance systems to strengthen outbreak prediction and preparedness.
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WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN) @wwarnnews.bsky.social · 23h
Are you researching #malaria? The datasets we host harmonise tens of thousands of individual patient data, enabling researchers to answer new questions from existing data. Learn more www.iddo.org/wwarn/workin...
#DataReuse #DataForGood
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Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO) @iddonews.bsky.social · 23h
View our #VisceralLeishmaniasis surveyor, an online interactive map that summarises #VL and #PKDL clinical trials across the world. Currently displaying 196 trials from 1980-2022, representing 35,000+ patients.
#ZeroLeish
www.iddo.org/tool/vl-surv...
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Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk · 1d
Congratulations Professor Edwine Barasa, appointed Executive Director of the KEMRI-Wellcome Research Programme @kemriwellcome.bsky.social

Read more 👉 www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/news/profess...
Edwine Barasa
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Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk · 1d
#ResearchHighlight from Michuki Maina @kemriwellcome.bsky.social @cghr.ox.ac.uk

Applying a multi-layered, mixed methods approach to evaluate technology and workforce interventions in Kenyan neonatal units

Read more 👉 www.ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi
Full publication 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Michuki Maina
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Oxford University Clinical Research Unit @oucru.bsky.social · Aug 21
To our knowledge, this is the first time scRNA-seq has been applied to examine CSF in adult TBM patients in the world.
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Global Health Solidarity Project @gh-solidarity.bsky.social · 7d
Power, inequity, and the work of solidarity.

During the 2025 Global Health Solidarity Open Forum, Seye Abimbola named the hard truths: power imbalances, inequities, and injustices often block real solidarity and keep communities at the margins.

Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ril...
Solidarity in Global Health: Responding to Funding Cuts in Research | 2025 GH-Solidarity Open Forum
YouTube video by Solidarity in Global Health Project
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Oxford University Clinical Research Unit @oucru.bsky.social · 7d
𝗢𝗨𝗖𝗥𝗨 𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗻𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻’𝘀 𝗛𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝟭, 𝗛𝗼 𝗖𝗵𝗶 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗵 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗩𝗶𝗲𝘁𝗻𝗮𝗺

Dr Ngô Ngọc Quang Minh, an OUCRU PhD graduate, has been appointed as the new Director of Children’s Hospital 1, the leading paediatric referral hospital for Ho Chi Minh City and southern Vietnam.
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WorldWide Antimalarial Resistance Network (WWARN) @wwarnnews.bsky.social · 6d
Researching #malaria in pregnancy? Check out the malaria in pregnancy library, an online resource to search published and unpublished literature www.iddo.org/wwarn/malari...
Malaria in Pregnancy Library | Infectious Diseases Data Observatory
The WWARN Malaria in Pregnancy (MiP) Library is a regularly updated, comprehensive bibliographic database of published and unpublished literature relating to malaria in pregnancy, including a trial…
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KEMRI-Wellcome @kemriwellcome.bsky.social · 6d
🚨Vaccinology Webinar alert!🚨
🌍 How can Africa build flexible, modular & nimble vaccine facilities for a sustainable future?
🗓️ October, 14th 2025
🕙 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM GMT+3
🔗 shorturl.at/jhaAA
@gatesfoundation.bsky.social
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Global Health Solidarity Project @gh-solidarity.bsky.social · 6d
Could this be the Future of Global Health Solidarity?

✨Read the Q3 Newsletter here: www.globalhealthsolidarity.org/sites/defaul...

@wellcometrust.bsky.social @ndm.ox.ac.uk @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk @ethoxcentre.bsky.social

#Global #Health #Solidarity #GlobalHealth #Bioethics #SouthAsia
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Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO) @iddonews.bsky.social · 6d
Learn more about our work to strengthen research through equitable data use and accelerate better treatment and control of #NTDs
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#BeatNTDs #COVID19 #malaria #ScrubTyphus #ChagasDisease
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The Global Health Network @tghn-news.bsky.social · 6d
Watch a live podcast on Global Health at the World Health Summit on 12 October 2025 at 12:45 CEST

Leading voices in global health will explore how taking responsibility can contribute to building stronger and fairer health systems worldwide.

Watch here: tdr.who.int/global-healt...

#WHS2025
Global Health Matters podcast
Hosted by Dr Garry Aslanyan with a variety of guests, the podcast discusses key questions, such as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on research, promoting gender equality and women in global health...
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NDM Centre for Global Health Research @cghr.ox.ac.uk · 6d
📢 Join our MSc HSIE Course Directors for a Live Q&A!
🗓️ 30 Oct – pick your time:

🌞 9:30–10:30 UK 👉 tinyurl.com/y8jfh5fr
🌆 15:30–16:30 UK 👉 tinyurl.com/9hhax3fu

We’ll cover course info, applications & myth-busting✅

Stay updated 👉 tinyurl.com/zxtda473
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Nuffield Department of Medicine @ndm.ox.ac.uk · 6d
Researchers at CAMS Oxford Institute have found that certain T cell responses are linked to mild #COVID19 disease. These T cells increase with cytotoxicity in the four years after infection, suggesting that they also play a protective role 🦠🔬

Read more 👉 buff.ly/4EANlxR
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KEMRI-Wellcome @kemriwellcome.bsky.social · 5d
The #AfHESG training is underway!
The session has kicked off with the Introduction to Health Technology Assessment (HTA).
Key session highlights :
🔧 Tools for explicit priority setting
📊 The role and institutionalization of HTA
🧠 Key HTA steps,skills & capacity needs
👥 Stakeholder roles in HTA
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KEMRI-Wellcome @kemriwellcome.bsky.social · 5d
Another insightful #AfHESG session covering
🔹 Real-world examples of institutionalized Health Technology Assessment processes
🔹 HTA vs. Health Benefit Package (HBP) design – similarities & differences
🔹 Integrating HTA into broader quality improvement initiatives
#HTA #HealthPolicy
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Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO) @iddonews.bsky.social · 5d
🚨 New research on #ChagasDisease 🚨
A paper in the Lancet Microbe finds the treatment for Chagas Disease is excessive & could be given over a substantially shorter time period & still be as effective
🔗 Read more: www.iddo.org/news/new-stu...
#GlobalHealth #NTDs
@lancetmicrobe.bsky.social @dndi.org
New study find treatment for Chagas disease is excessive | Infectious Diseases Data Observatory
A new study has found the current recommended treatment for Chagas disease could be given over a substantially shorter time period and still be as effective.
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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 5d
🌍 | Oxford’s Planetary Health Informatics group is applying AI to real-world data to fill the gaps in global health.

Learn more about how this work is tackling climate-related health crises such as malaria. ⬇️

#OxfordClimate
Planetary Health Informatics explained
YouTube video by University of Oxford
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