How have UK social contact patterns changed post-pandemic? How assortative are they by age, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status? Pleased to share our new @plosmedicine.org paper, jointly led by @lucygoodfellow.bsky.social and myself, with @kevinvzandvoort.bsky.social and John Edmunds. #IDSky

Symposium & workshop on inequalities in infectious disease dynamics at LSHTM in April 2026. We aim to will bring together leading researchers and practitioners to share ideas, discuss recent advances, and reflect on future directions. Details & application: iddconf.org/lshtm-sympos... Closing 21 Jan

New pre-print looking at social contacts and mixing by age, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status in the UK. We found that contacts have decreased since before COVID, but are up from figures found in 2022. We also show what this means for infectious disease dynamics in a novel pathogen outbreak 👇

Great to see our work on the value of better influenza vaccines published in Plos Med today. Led by the amazingly talented @lucygoodfellow.bsky.social, together with @rozeggo.bsky.social, @markjit.bsky.social and other colleagues @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social and elsewhere. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Happy to have played part in this with most of the hard work done by the amazing @lucygoodfellow.bsky.social and Carl Pearson. @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social

Congrats to team member Carl Pearson and his co-authors @lucygoodfellow.bsky.social and @mert0248.bsky.social. An important tool for a pervasive problem in modeling infectious disease data www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

We used a transmission model to understand differences in Covid severity and mortality in different socioeconomic strata in England. The model had different demography and underlying health status by strata. Led by @lucygoodfellow.bsky.social bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....