I'm doing a 10K run for charity in November on World AIDS day raising money for @thelovetankcic.bsky.social a fabulous UK sexual health community organisation. Final call for any and all donations to a very worthwhile cause which are gratefully received!

Want to do a PhD on syphilis diagnostics? In collaboration with @uclglobalhealth.bsky.social & @ukhsa.bsky.social we have a funded studentship available via the Health Protection Research Unit on Blood Borne & Sexually Transmitted Infections. Deadline for applications: Friday 5th December 2025.

Want to come and do a PhD on mathematical modelling & sexually transmitted infections? Apply for an MRC funded PhD to come to @lshtm.bsky.social and work on understanding STI transmission dynamics in low resource settings & how we can optimise partner notification as a public health intervention.

I'm doing a 10K run for charity in November on World AIDS day raising money for @thelovetankcic.bsky.social a fabulous UK sexual health community organisation. Final call for any and all donations to a very worthwhile cause which are gratefully received!

Kicking off day 3 Shanghai Syphilis Symposium. There is still a huge amount we can learn from the historic studies to inform our understanding of syphilis immunology and vaccine development.

The Streptococcus Great Britain & Ireland 2026 meeting will bring together ECRs and experts to highlight cutting-edge research focused on crucial aspects of Streptococcal biology, in Durham on March 30th/31st 2026. More information strepgbi.wixsite.com/strep-gbi. Registration opening soon.

Day 2 of the Shanghai International Syphilis Symposium. Bridget Freyne highlighting the inadequacies of current surveillance definitions and mechanisms for congenital syphilis. Algorithms are either to complex for LMIC implementation OR likely result in over investigation in HICs.

Kicking off 3 solid days talking Syphilis at the Shanghai International Syphilis Symposium. Covering epidemiology, diagnostics, treatment, vaccines and more with experts from around the world to drive forward the public health agenda. Sessions online for those not able to be here in person.

Kicking off our MAMS4CL @globalhealthedctp3.bsky.social consortium in Ethiopia. We hope our multi arm multi stage trial will deliver better treatment options for Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, advance our understanding of pathogenesis and build a trial platform that can deliver for years to come.

Things for journals to improve. Needing all author detail (emails, affiliations, contribution role etc) at submission stage. Time consuming ++ & then paper desk rejected = hour wasted. Some journals have made lots of improvements like unformatted submissions & this is one I would love to see!

Apply by 30th October for Academic Infectious Diseases Training in London. If you are thinking of applying to the @lshtm.bsky.social posts then get in touch with the scheme lead - me!

Applications open for Infectious Diseases Academic Clinical Fellowships. Posts at Imperial (cc @grampospath.bsky.social) St Georges, KCL and LSHTM. If interested in LSHTM posts get in touch. KCL, Imperial, LSHTM jobs open to IMT2/3s to start at IMT3/ST4. SGUL open to FY2s to start in IMT1

Interested in a global health PhD? The LSHTM-Wellcome Trust Create PhD scheme will open shortly: www.create-phd.org Open to UK registered health-care professionals inc. doctors, nurses & allied-health professionals. If you want advice or support with an application I'd be happy to discuss.

Ever since I learned about this study enrolling I have been eagerly awaiting the results. Researchers in Uganda took a centuries-old cultural practice mothers carrying babies on their backs in cloth wraps and turned it into a public health tool. You got to love it! www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

The @ukhsa.bsky.social STI Reference Lab has identified a strain of Neisseria gonorrhoeae which evades detection on the Cepheid Xpert CT/GC Assay. Read more in our eurosurveillance article www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2...

In early October we will be hosting an open evening on Academic Clinical Fellowships & Lectureships in Infectious Diseases across all the London programmes. These are integrated clinical academic training programmes for doctors training in the UK. You can sign up here: forms.gle/T867P8qQ2SMvvHhZ9

In early October we will be hosting an open evening on Academic Clinical Fellowships & Lectureships in Infectious Diseases across all the London programmes. These are integrated clinical academic training programmes for doctors training in the UK. You can sign up here: forms.gle/T867P8qQ2SMvvHhZ9

Whenever I see stories like the below. I am reminded of the excellent paper @felly500.bsky.social shared from @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Showed that mostly expensive new drugs generate less impact than investing the same amount into other areas of health.

Exited to announce 2 EDCTP consortiums led @lshtm.bsky.social w partners in Europe & West, East & Southern Africa MAMS4CL will deliver seamless Phase 2-3 trial of treatments for Cutaneous Leishmaniasis. IVMKIDS will provide data on paediatric dosing ivermectin down to 5kg/weight for STH & Scabies.

PhD position for January start with me and Neil Ferguson, doing some neat model development for ethnicity-stratified transmission models. Please get in touch with any questions. Home fees (UK) only unfortunately.

Excited @lshtm.bsky.social Clinical Academic Training Programme renewed & expanding. 2026 Jobs: ACFs (pre-PhD) in Infection, Paeds, Renal, Public Health, Primary Care, Ophthalmology ACLs (post-PhD) in Infection, Paeds, Public Health, Primary Care. If interested drop a message.

Phenomenal piece of work by a great team across @mrcunitgambia.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social - Delighted to have played a small part in combining epidemiology & immunology to shed light on what protection for #StrepA might look like & help advance vaccine development.

🧵 Our paper out today in @naturemedicine.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... On development of #StrepA #Immunity over life course in #TheGambia raising hope for #vaccines on the horizon 1/ #Immunosky #IDsky #MicroSky #globalhealth.

I'm going to be doing a 10K run for charity later this year on World AIDS day raising money for @thelovetankcic.bsky.social a fabulous UK sexual health community organisation. Any and all donations to a very worthwhile cause gratefully received!

Nothing better than talking syphilis! Thanks @ukhsa.bsky.social @thelovetankcic.bsky.social @typemat12.bsky.social @nicolelieberman.bsky.social @manikkohli.bsky.social & others who came to kick off my NIHR Professorship. Looking forward to working with you & communities to improve UK Sexual Health

Excited to announce our new grant focused on using proteomic arrays to look at differences in humoral responses between T.pallidum pallidum (syphilis) & T.pallidum pertenue (yaws) to see if we can develop better tests for both diseases. Another collaboration with the great @oriolmitja.bsky.social!

Latest from @mrcunitgambia.bsky.social #StrepA group. Show clinical decision rules developed elsewhere (mostly HIC) have poor performance in Gambia & molecular tests detect far more #StrepA than culture. Given burden of RhD in Africa we urgently need better & affordable tests for #StrepA diagnosis

Suggestions for good papers on approach to adaptive sample size calculations in trials? Two arm trial where some key parameters have reasonable uncertainty & plausible that might want at interim analysis to adjust sample size and/or declare futility. @timpmorris.bsky.social @statsepi.bsky.social

Come & work with me @benvyle.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social & @thelovetankcic.bsky.social Research Assistant with funded PhD within multidisciplinary project on Syphilis & STI control in the UK. Working with us to understand stakeholder & community perspectives on novel STI control strategies

Richly deserved @kkranzer.bsky.social! Incredible clarity of thought & precision of action & a mind that can jump from TB transmission to mercury poisoning to AMR to HIV implementation science & all in 5 minutes! Truly committed to training next generation of scientists. Many many congratulations

📣 ID/HIV Job opportunity: ST3+ Infectious Diseases Clinical Fellow at University College London Hospital/Hospital for Tropical Diseases from September 2025. Deadline 1/7/25 www.nhsjobs.com/job/UK/Londo...

Does anyone have suggestions/a fix for why 1) On REDCAP the default language is set to French 2) On the web-interface the forms display in French 3) On the mobile-app the forms Display in English... ????

RIP Brian. ❤️

Out today 5th ed. Principles of Medicine in Africa! A few years ago I was asked to help edit new edition. Its a great book & used by several African medical schools. Still, I wasn't sure how I felt: These days I'm mostly in UK & not sure we need more books by people like me on medicine in Africa 🧵

Inaugural recording @lshtm.bsky.social now online. Thanks to collaborators across years & around world who made it possible. Thanks to participants who have taken part in all our studies. Most importantly love & thanks to @sarahvmarks.bsky.social who has supported me through good times & bad.

Kicking off #Medicine2025 Chris Whitty highlights that social deprivation is associated not only with a much shorter life span but also with far fewer years of life lived in good health.

Excited to see launch of Prevent Syphilis - a global network of clinicians, academics & advocates dedicated to elimination of mother to child transmission of syphilis. We have exciting trials in works & are looking for opportunities for partnerships & collaborations to drive forward this agenda.

Tomorrow (29th May) I will be giving my inaugural lecture @lshtm.bsky.social Open to people who are in London & online for those who are not. Hugely grateful to a wonderful array of collaborators & colleagues around the world whose work really underpins the research I will be talking about.

Sexually transmissible shigellosis has gone from an obscure cause of sporadic outbreaks to a sustained endemic AMR priority in only two decades! 🧫💊 Check out our latest preprint to understand how this happened 1/11 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Great post-doc opportunity at Sanger on one of our collaborative projects focused on Syphilis & vaccine development. Opportunity to do some really unique science in a world leading group. Closing date 22nd June

Two weeks today (29th May) I will be giving my inaugural lecture @lshtm.bsky.social Open to people who are in London & online for those who are not. Hugely grateful to a wonderful array of collaborators & colleagues around the world whose work really underpins the research I will be talking about.

My PhD student at Centre Pasteur du Cameroun work now out - demonstrating that flies and fomites likely play a role as reservoirs and/or vectors for cutaneous chancroid. Fabulous team in Cameroon - nested within our EDCTP funded project on Yaws diagnostics.

As Chair of the Department of Global and Public Health @healthsciences.mcgill.ca, I am pleased to share two open junior faculty positions! mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/mcgill... mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/mcgill...

Don't miss @rdreibe.bsky.social's inaugural lecture today! Congrats, Prof!

The @lshtm.bsky.social starter pack is now >120 people: go.bsky.app/R9P96qR

Ok I give in. Hello bluesky!

Why did invasive #strepA infections increase in young children after the pandemic? In this new @imperialinfect.bsky.social PREPRINT *not peer-reviewed* we look at antibody responses to #strepA and resp viruses in European children before and after the pandemic: www.medrxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Final reminder 2 Academic Clinical Lecturer Posts in Infection @lshtm.bsky.social shorturl.at/EIUIz For people training in ID in UK who hold/imminently completing PhD. Can accommodate a broad range of infection research interests. Interested? Get in touch. Applications close this week April 24

A timely example of why we should do trials of interventions rather than just use them in an observational fashion even for most emerging infections. I hope this will alter approach to to use in UK.

Negative pressure wound therapy versus usual care in patients with surgical wound healing by secondary intention in the UK (SWHSI-2): an open-label, multicentre, parallel-group, randomised controlled trial No difference in infection rates too. #IDSky #ClinMicro www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...