Delighted to have contributed to this article. 👇 COVID19 hasn’t gone away, and continued SARSCoV2 surveillance is critical.

🚨New paper from @cvrinfo.bsky.social Clinical Viral Epi Group PhD student @mhairijan.bsky.social on the evolving neutralising antibody responses to #SARSCoV2 in an urban & rural cohort in #Malawi, showing ⬆️ complexity of immune landscape across 3 waves. 🦠🩸🇲🇼📈 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Flu has arrived early this year! We are seeing a lot of flu A(H3) circulating. Very glad I got my flu vaccine this week. If you are eligible, go for it! 🦠😷💉 #vaccineworks

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WHO replaces H1N1 and H3N2 strains for Southern Hemisphere flu vaccines www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-va...

@cvrinfo.bsky.social clinical #PhD students & fellows out in force the @nhsresearchscotland.org.uk Infection Research Day! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👩‍🔬🔬🩺

Dr Claire Cameron, Consultant in Public Health at PHS, writes in our latest blog about the importance of making sure students are up to date with their vaccinations before heading to college or university. Read the full blog below ⬇️ publichealthscotland.scot/our-blog/202... #Vaccines4Students

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📣Come work with us! Looking for a Research Assistant/Associate in Data Analysis, for a Pfizer-funded research project focused on effectiveness of maternal #RSV vaccination in infants in Scotland. More: bit.ly/3Va7yCd Enq to: @louisapollock.bsky.social Closing: 17 Sept 25 @cvrinfo.bsky.social

Excited to be starting this project with @louisapollock.bsky.social to evaluate the real-world effectiveness of #RSV vaccine in pregnant women in Scotland to protect young infants.🤰💉👶🦠🏥🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

🚨New paper 🚨 In 2 cohorts: 1) Malawi community cohort 2) UK adults with acute HCV We found overestimation of neutralising abs using retrovirus-based pseudotyped assays in persons receiving integrase inhibitors, e.g. dolutegravir. 🧵by @mhairijan.bsky.social👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Massive congratulations Elen!! 🎉👏

Proud supervisor post! 👏🙌😬 Congratulations to @elenvink.bsky.social, @cvrinfo.bsky.social Clinical Viral Epi Group & @emcat1.bsky.social #PhD student, for passing her viva! 🎉🍾 Thanks to @thushan-desilva.bsky.social & Ana Filipe for being fantastic examiners.

Spoke to BBC on the myriad of reasons why uptake of vaccines in adults and children are lower in ethnic minority groups. Understanding this is critical for public health agencies to develop targeted strategies to enhance uptake. 💉🦠 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@cvrinfo.bsky.social Clinical Viral Epidemiology Group #PhD student, kirstykwok.bsky.social presenting her analysis of non-SARSCoV2 respiratory viral sequence data from Africa at #PandemicSciences25 conference 🫁🧬🌍

Dad and I completed the East Highland Way on Sunday! 150km over 7 days in typical 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 weather - a mixture of ☀️🌧️🌬️🌦️ We’ve raised nearly £8000 for @AlzResearchUK! 🥺 Really touched by everyone’s support & generosity THANK YOU!! 🙏 www.justgiving.com/page/ho-ward...

A few highlights from the first 4 days of the East Highland Way. Scotland at its best! 🗻🐑☀️😍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 78.4km down, 63km to go. Many thanks to everyone who donated so far 🙏 www.justgiving.com/page/ho-ward...

My dad & I are setting off on the East Highland Way today - a 132km trail from Fort William to Aviemore to fundraise for @AlzResearchUK, a charity close to our hearts. 💜🗻🚶‍♀️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Any donations would be greatly appreciated! 🙏 www.justgiving.com/page/ho-ward...

Great to stretch the legs on Zomba plateau after a week of meetings! 🗻🇲🇼

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If you like epidemiology, public health, data science, causal inference, or the occasional anti-antivaxxer snark, you'll love E is for Epi. Sign up at epiellie.substack.com

Delighted to present our latest work using serology & next-gen sequencing to understand respiratory viral epidemiology in #Malawi to colleagues at @MEIRU_MALAWI & the Public Health Institute of Malawi 🫁🦠🩸🧪🧬📈 @mhairijan.bsky.social @abenaphd.bsky.social @cvrinfo.bsky.social

Met 2 former medical students that I taught 13 years ago at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre - Mike Chisema (left) is now Head of Expanded Programme on Immunisation for Malawi! 🩺🏥🇲🇼 I feel old 👵😂

Excited to be at the 2nd Summit on Integrated Multiplex Serosurveillance. Looking forward to hearing & sharing updates on seroepidemiology studies in African countries. 🩸👩‍🔬🦠🌍 @MalawiHealth @MLW_Programme @KUHeS_mw @cvrinfo.bsky.social @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social @gatesfoundation.bsky.social

Not a bad commute to work! 🚴‍♀️😍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #RiverClyde #lastdayofScottishsummer

After a mad work week, glad to be outdoors in the glorious Scottish sunshine! ☀️🏖️🐶🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 📷 Loch Drunkie

Come to our annual meeting in Glasgow to hear & chat about exciting virology! 🦠🧬🧫🔬👩‍🔬👨‍💻

Lovely to see our article in @scotsman.com on risk of #measles becoming endemic after worrying ⬇️ in childhood #vaccination rates 🦠💉👶👩‍🔬💙 @drtoniho.bsky.social & Chrissie Jones @uofgsii.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

Thanks to @beritlange.bsky.social @carolinajudith.bsky.social & team @helmholtzhzi.bsky.social for hosting us for the past 2 days! 🇩🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦠 Looking forward to doing more collaborative research. @louisapollock.bsky.social @chrisillingworth.bsky.social @animal-viruses.bsky.social @cvrinfo.bsky.social

@doctoranastasia.bsky.social, Chrissie Jones & I wrote an @uk.theconversation.com article on this @jama.com modelling paper which demonstrated that a further small ⬇️ in childhood vaccination rates could lead to #measles becoming endemic again. 👶🦠💉📈 @cvrinfo.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social

Interested in pandemic science & preparedness strategies? Still time to register for 2 meetings in Glasgow with great speakers inc. @marionkoopmans.bsky.social @uofgregiusanna.bsky.social @kennethbaillie.bsky.social @sdwfrost.bsky.social @pathogenomenick.bsky.social Register by 5pm today👇

🎉 We are very excited to have our recent @naturecomms.bsky.social publication chosen to be featured on a Editors’ Highlights webpage specific to public health. www.nature.com/collections/... @emcat1.bsky.social & Shirin Ashraf

We are looking for a research fellow for our clinical infection research group. Apply now. @emcat1.bsky.social @drtoniho.bsky.social @nhsresearchscotland.org.uk @edinburghaccord.bsky.social @nhslothian.bsky.social @ukri.org apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Today is the 5-year anniversary of the first #COVID19 lockdown in UK. Really important to reflect on lessons we have (or haven't) learnt, as the threat of another pandemic is higher than ever. Glad that @emcat1.bsky.social & I could contribute to this.👇 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Finally made it to KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme, 5 years after a planned visit was scuppered by the pandemic. Thanks to Charles Nyaigoti & James Abuje for being great hosts and showing us the fantastic science they are doing. @cvrinfo.bsky.social @davidlrobertson.bsky.social 🇰🇪🦠🔬🧬

It’s been a fantastic meeting between @KEMRI_Kenya & @cvrinfo.bsky.social Centres for Virus Research - lots of stimulating discussions & exciting projects planned! 🦠🔬🧬🇰🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @cvrbioinfo.bsky.social

Really nice overview of the HPAI situation in US dairy cattle, with a focus on transmission modalities between cows within herds, the spread of the virus between dairy farms, and exposure risks for humans. Highlights key gaps. 👉 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Early data from @publichealthscot.bsky.social show that RSV vaccination (Pfizer ABRYSVO) in older adults aged 75-79 years was associated with 62% ⬇️ (95%CI 35-80%) in #RSV hospitalisation. 🦠🏥💉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👏 Vaccination commenced mid August 2024 & uptake was 68.6% by end of Nov 2024.

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The global impact of the aid cutoff is “tectonic” pretty much sums up the devastation that the freezing of USAID funds & activities are and will cause 😢 www.science.org/content/arti...

Well that was fun 🤩 #RTI2025 Such a great conference with fab speakers, and was so delighted that my #CharismaStudy poster won a prize 🎉 Massive thanks to all involved especially my super supervisor @drtoniho.bsky.social

Really enjoyed #RTI2025 & chatting all things 🫁 infection. Many thanks to the organisers for asking me to speak. Also super proud of Elen Vink for winning the poster prize for her work on the CHARISMA Study. 🏆🥳🙌 @lenagroup4resp.bsky.social @profjdchalmers.bsky.social @dbogaert.bsky.social

Great turnout from the @cvrinfo.bsky.social Clinical Viral Epidemiology Group at #RTI2025. 🦠🫁 @mhairijan.bsky.social & Elen Vink presenting their #PhD work tomorrow.

7 years at @cvrinfo.bsky.social!! 🎂 Time flies when you’re having fun researching viruses. 🦠🧬🔬🧫🫁😊

Love this stadium! Come on Scotland!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏉💪 @scottishrugby.bsky.social #AsOne

Happy New Year!! 新年快樂!! May the Year of the Snake bring you good health, happiness and prosperity. 🐍🧧🎆🏮

Very sad to hear of US intent to withdraw from @who.int. My lecture to @uofglasgow students today highlighted WHO’s critical role in facing global infection challenges, from supporting countries to build strong health & surveillance systems, to detecting & responding to health emergencies.

A few more days to apply for our @uofglasgow.bsky.social #CollegeFutures #PhD project on 'Developing rapid & sensitive assays for neutralising antibodies to emerging/re-emerging/escalating viruses of global importance'! 🦠🩸🌍 Details 👉 www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl... Deadline: 12 Jan 2025

Happy New Year all! 🎉 My aim is to approach 2025 with the same enthusiasm as my Border Terrier. 🐶