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.

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

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.

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/

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/

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

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

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.

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.

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 🤔😷🏥

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.

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.

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

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-...

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.

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

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.