Exclusive by @nature.com: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation

Graph of the Day📉: Relationship between coffee intake and incident dementia, in new @jama.com paper by team at @hsph.harvard.edu jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Today, on International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🔍 We'd like to draw your attention to the most recent research articles in the ongoing series of women in #epidemiology research - and still accepting articles!👇 www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

@bmj.com 📣 Call for papers on the geopolitics of global health 👇 www.bmj.com/content/392/...

"Some people considered me unsuccessful. I was demoted from my position, then 10 years ago I was terminated". #Nobel Laureate Katalin Kariko on the challenges of academia and the power of self-belief. #WomenInScience #Academia www.youtube.com/watch?feature=shared&v=u0CixIx1SUo @nobelprize.org

Cholera is surging in Africa. A new generation of vaccines could slow it @telegraph.co.uk www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

New @thelancet.com commission outlines the three major threats to global health in the post #covid era: 1. Non-communicable diseases, 2. Outbreaks of infectious diseases, and 3. Environmental degradation. spkl.io/6018AoZ5s

Wishing you a very 🎄Merry Christmas from the John Snow Society

#Aboutlastweek: Some pictures from a fantastic lecture and celebration for Professor Paul Fine, co-founder of the John Snow Society. 🎙️Paul's talk "Serendipity and Transmissibility" 📸An original polaroid (?!) of the 5 Society founders 🥳The celebration

Incredible retirement talk by Prof. Paul Fine @lshtm.bsky.social Career dedicated to global health, critical enquiry & passion for training next generation in UK & esp Malawi where he left huge legacy. Privilege spend 10+yrs at same institution & humbling to know its not even 1/3 time hes been here.

A final reminder for today's event @LSHTM , celebrating Professor Paul Fine🎊, co-founder of the John Snow Society. 📅 9 December 2025 ⏲️ 17.30 📍LSHTM | John Snow Lecture Theatre 👇 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

#OnThisDay is the 175th anniversary of the first full meeting of the London Epidemiological Society, one of the oldest known societies of its kind. Its creation was prompted by an urgent desire to understand and prevent disease epidemics. (and John Snow was a founding member)

Meta-analysis of students concludes handwritten note taking is superior to typing for studying and memory commitment - contributing to higher grades. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

When humans and AI work together to solve problems, sometimes outcomes are worse than AI or humans alone. Paper in @nathumbehav.nature.com "When combinations of humans and AI are useful: A systematic review and meta-analysis"👇🏽

Dr Klauss Garcia 🇧🇷 took part in a prestigious overseas PhD placement in the UK - and wanted a marker of his positive London experience. An erudite choice Klauss 👏🏽 #publichealth #epidemiology #sohomap

📡Major Announcement: We will be celebrating Paul Fine, co-Founder of the John Snow Society and Professor of Communicable Disease Epidemiology at the @lshtm.bsky.social at his retirement lecture on the 9th December. Open to all. See below link for details 👇 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

📢New #PhD project! For 2026 to offer under the MRC @ukri.org Doctoral Training Studentship Scheme. The project will investigate the links between heat and crime rates in youth in the UK. Fully funded+living costs - open to anyone in the world 🌍 mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk/2026-27-proj...

Lunchtime read: The mystery of the handwritten note in an old copy of On the Mode of Transmission of Cholera - was it John Snow himself? by the Historier

New @thelancet.com series on ultra-processed foods documents their outsize threat to #publichealth www.thelancet.com/series-do/ul...

One of our top recommendations for #thingstodo in #London next week is to see the John Snow MD musical (yes - you heard right) showing for *two nights only* at @OldOpTheatre 18-19th Nov 2025: oldoperatingtheatre.com/event-posts/...

After a full year of intensive effort by emeritus Prof Ralph Frerichs, a shiny new @uclacollege.bsky.social Fielding School of Public Health John Snow MD site is up! A fantastic resource, also cross-posted on the Society pages:

Techniques to reflect an additional small portion of sunlight back into space could help cool the planet if deployed globally, but they cannot address the full range of climate impacts or replace emission cuts, says our new briefing released this week: bit.ly/4oX7yCA

The impacts of disrupted #circadianrhythms on #health

Did US #covid19 mask mandates work 🧐? Using data from over 34,000 people in the weeks before and after mandates, authors use #interruptedtimeseries approaches and show that as a behaviour change mechanism, mandates might need some work... #PublicHealth academic.oup.com/aje/advance-...

Are deadly mosquitoes, pathogen laden ticks, and waterborne infections being brought to the UK by #climatechange? www.bmj.com/content/391/...

We end this #BlackHistoryMonth2025 series with Dr Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock, multi-award winning British space scientist and physicist who'll be giving the 2025 @rigb.org #Christmas Lecture! www.rigb.org/explore-scie... Tickets: www.rigb.org/whats-on/dis...

Professor Isabella Oyier leads critical and high profile work on malaria parasite #genomics at @ox.ac.uk and KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme #BlackHistoryMonth2025 www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/team/isabell...

Did you see this? The editors-in-chief of @IntJEpidemiol discussed the #Trump administration's approach to science, and how it's affecting the fields of #epidemiology and #publichealth 👇 academic.oup.com/ije/article/...

AJE Advances: Research in Epidemiology is the newest #OpenAccess journal from @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social and the Society for Epidemiologic Research. A good home for papers on emerging methods incl. #socialepi #spatialepi academic.oup.com/ajeadvances/...

Prof Patricia Bath's (1942-2019) groundbreaking work in #opthalmology pushed for better research and treatment options for black people with sight conditions - in whom she and others demonstrated were already at higher risk of #blindness 👇 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... #BlackHistoryMonth2025

Prof Khalid Beshir leads vital work building capacity and global resilience against #biological #threats. His #genomic tools power local labs across Africa and Asia — helping detect and respond to emerging pathogens faster. www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen... #BlackHistoryMonth2025

The global outbreak of mpox began in May 2022 and continues to this day. Mpox clades in Africa - map #globalhealth www.gov.uk/guidance/cla...

We're in the @thelancet.com ! Richard Horton's editorial provides urgent context to Prof Victora's #PumphandleLecture - a call for critical research to continue even under difficult circumstances.

Prof Cesar Victora, the keynote speaker for our latest Society #PumphandleLecture made his own pilgrimage to a historic John Snow MD site - the Broad Street pump and Pub in Soho, London. 🍻 The recording of his excellent talk will be available soon. 📡 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

Professor Toyin Togun of the @lshtm.bsky.social is leading critical work on the development of a unique biosignature to distinguish childhood #TB from other diseases. www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi... Leading to a major @ukri.org award 👇🏼 www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/uni... #BlackHistoryMonth2025

#Perspective in @Nature - how #AI will change the landscape for #infectiousdisease #modelling

A transformative programme treats #knifecrime as a #PublicHealth problem with drivers and risk groups who can benefit from respectful interventions. Led by @martinpgriff @LDN_VRU londonviolencereduction.nhs.uk/fighting-kni... #BlackHistoryMonth2025

Because you asked... another #BehindTheScenes photo from the John Snow Society 2025 #PumphandleLecture, this with Society steering committee members Paul and William contemplating the empty plinth before the return of the pump.

Caribbean Women and the NHS @england.nhs.uk #BlackHistoryMonth #PublicHealth www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/article/sect...

Another #BehindTheScenes picture from this year's #PumphandleLecture. Prof Victora and his wife having tea and biscuits with @lshtm.bsky.social 's Liam (Director) and Caroline (pro-Director, Reseach), John Snow Society co-Chair Charlie, and founders Paul and Jimmy 🫖🍰

"Racism as one of the most consequential transnational phenomena to impact the health and lives of afflicted communities globally." The @thelancet.com commission on Racism, Structural Discrimination, and Global Health. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #blackhistorymonth2025 #PublicHealth

Professor Cesar Victora's #PumphandLecture on Tuesday was a triumph - he showed us it's possible to contribute major advances to public health even from our own backyards. Here's his ceremonial removal of the pumphandle (iconic already?) We'll add more developments from the night!

Today is #WorldMentalHealthDay2025 Watch the webinar "Access to mental health in emergencies"

@seyeabimbola 's The Foreign Gaze: Essays on #GlobalHealth is one of our recommended reads this month. And it comes with its own playlist (we approve). #BlackHistoryMonth2025 #publichealth www.amazon.co.uk/Foreign-Gaze...

The John Snow Society @johnsnowsociety.bsky.social · now Recommended listen🔊: Public Health Disrupted podcast with Professor Rochelle Burgess and Dr Carrie Ryan - Ageing Playfully. #Blackhistorymonth2025 #ageing #epidemiology

In a new preprint (NOT PEER REVIEWED) we continue to explore the challenge of overtreatment in community screening. It seems the benefits of TB treatment far outweigh the harms, especially once we accept that sputum culture is not perfect. Important food for thought. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

TODAY is the #PumphandleLecture at 5.30pm in the John Snow Theatre and online at the @LSHTM Keynote by Professor Cesar Victora: "From local insights to global impact: Four decades of child health and nutrition epidemiology in Pelotas, Brazil" johnsnowsociety.org/2025/10/03/2...

Tomorrow is the Society #PumphandleLecture in the John Snow Lecture Theatre @lshtm.bsky.social. Dr Cesar Victora will give the keynote: "From local insights to global impact: Four decades of child health and nutrition epidemiology in Pelotas, Brazil" Details here 👇🏼:

Potential association between spread of LED lighting and reduced lunar alignment with menstrual cycles. @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #publichealth #epidemiology

Happy #Blackhistorymonth2025 (GB)! We'll be signposting to outputs of many many excellent #publichealth researchers, exhibitions and cool health history pieces during October.