Surveillance getting GNASTy! Improving our ability to detect variants that haven’t been seen. This week I got to visit Samuel Horsfield in the lab and learn about their new diagnostic and surveillance methods for Streptococcus pneumonaie. One to watch! 👇

Exciting new episode of #ScienceInContext with Dr Tamyo Mbisa @ukhsa.bsky.social & Vinicius Franceschi @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social on the genetic evolution of HIV disease progression, viral load & CD4 count trends across different HIV variants & evidence of more virulent HIV clusters in the UK 👇

Discover the award-winning work at the heart of the pandemic response of @eonore.bsky.social as part of @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social Celebrating Engagement series 👇 www.imperial.ac.uk/stories/sabi...

NEW EPISODE! @eonore.bsky.social is joined by @thomrawson.bsky.social & Christian Morgenstern to talk about #SARS, differences between SARS-CoV-1 & SARS-CoV-2 (virus causing COVID19), their systematic review of models, outbreaks & parameters to inform future responses👇 youtu.be/dloAOywYrDE 🧵1/3

NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! This week @eonore.bsky.social speaks with @profhelenward.bsky.social about the REACT study & the most important findings from the past five years & the next big questions👇 @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @imperialsph.bsky.social @ukhsa.bsky.social youtu.be/RoIUiTVqHMI

NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! This week @eonore.bsky.social speaks with Camila Llanes-Kidder & @thomrawson.bsky.social about #COVID19 transmission across England. What stood out from the wealth of data available & vaccination coverage, what does this mean for policy planning? youtu.be/G-Y_0YNuE5s

Now under review. With @chpoletto.bsky.social @vcolizza.bsky.social @mugkraemer.bsky.social @eonore.bsky.social @sdellicour.bsky.social @mariusgilbert.bsky.social @francescodilauro.bsky.social and others #Episky #IDsky 5/5

NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! This week @eonore.bsky.social speaks with Dr Katy Gaythorpe about the Vaccine Impact Modelling Consortium, an international community of mathematical modellers providing high quality estimates of public health impact of vaccination 🧵1/3 youtu.be/S6sxqLIUQlk

NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! This week @eonore.bsky.social speaks with @liza-semenova.bsky.social & Samir Bhatt about #AI & modelling infectious disease outbreaks 👉 How can AI contribute to pandemic preparedness? 👉 Examples of AI in modelling & the Nobel Peace Prize youtu.be/8D_v7ldBW9k 🧵1/4

5 years since COVID-19 was declared a global emergency—what have we learned? 🤔 Tune in to #ScienceInContext as Ryan O'Hare explores the policy impact of @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social's COVID-19 Response Team with @eonore.bsky.social 🎙️📊 #COVID19 #PublicHealth

NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! This week @eonore.bsky.social takes you behind the scenes of Bridging the Gap Hackathon bringing together policymakers, technical experts & researchers to create free, open-source resources to inform policy decisions in Kenya @ojwatson.bsky.social youtu.be/ocHGHCLk-L0

NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! This week @eonore.bsky.social speaks with Dr Cyril Geismar about methods to estimate group transmission assortativity, what exactly is assortativity and how reliable are these newly developed methods in small outbreak settings? youtu.be/Ib5dBunDPN0

What is the role of artificial intelligence #AI in infectious disease modelling & preparing for the next pandemic? New study published today in @natureportfolio.nature.com explores how AI saves lives 👇 @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @imperialsph.bsky.social www.imperial.ac.uk/news/261314/...

Especially stoked with this week's episode of #ScienceInContext where the roles were reversed and Ryan O'Hare interviewed me about our work on the policy impact of the @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social #COVID19 Response Team

Applications to our annual short course are open again! Limited number of full scholarships are available (application deadline 16th of March). Find out more 👇

Brand new episode with @thomaschurcher.bsky.social about effectiveness of bed nets in malaria control 👇

Day one of five exciting days in Nairobi working together with an incredible group of experts

New episode of #ScienceInContext! Dr Susan Hillis and Dr Oliver Ratmann join me to speak about Orphanhood in the USA and explain trends. Drug overdose was the leading cause of orphanhood. Watch this episode and find out more 👇

Exciting new episode where I get to speak with Prof Joseph Mfutso-Bengo and Prof Timothy Hallett about health systems and their impact on population health 👇

Inspiring conversations about scientific evidence for policy decisionmaking during public health emergencies and the importance of science communication #ICID2024 @eonore.bsky.social @anne-cori.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @imperialsph.bsky.social

Great chat with Dr @drpdoohan.bsky.social about the importance of this recent Lassa fever review to inform future real-time outbreak analysis, & the wider immense effort by the PERG team on outbreaks, methods and parameters of 9 blueprints priority pathogens www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-i...

Coming home to Cape Town for #ICID2024 I feel inspired by cutting edge global infectious disease research, from clinical & AMR to outbreak prevention & one health to engaging policy discussions

NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext This week @eonore.bsky.social speaks with Sara Almeida about the economics of medicine sampling & quality testing: the public health concern posed by substandard & falsified medicines & the STARmeds data visualisation tool 👇 youtu.be/9xkV8Yk8uX0

Engaging presentation on the optimization of wastewater surveillance sample processing for multiple pathogen detection by Shannon Fitz today at #ICID2024

A place of joy: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky👇 @natureportfolio.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Brand new episode of our weekly video podcast providing insight in the most amazing work from across @mrc-outbreak.bsky.social this week I speak with Sara V Almeida about falsified medicine in Indonesia 👇

Stoked my first @bsky.app post is this paper on the policy impact of the Imperial College London COVID19 Response Team highlighting the importance of science communication during public health emergencies @anne-cori.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...