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Proud to share news of our new partnership with the Pandemic Sciences Institute Pandemic Sciences Institute The work that we do at the #WHOPandemicHub requires collaboration with a diverse range of disciplines especially academia, & we’re pleased to have PSI join this collaboration

Developing protocols for clinical trials in advance means researchers can collaborate quickly during a new disease outbreak.   Great to see ISARIC’s work highlighted in The Royal Society report on non-pharma interventions in #COVID19.   More here👇🏼 royalsociety.org/news/2023/08/n…

Can we agree on what a healed #mpox lesion looks like? ijidonline.com/article/S1201-… Variability in assessment a big challenge - for patient care, infection prevention advice, and clinical trials

It's 25 years since Nipah virus disease (a recognised pandemic threat) was identified but fatality rate remains >50%. Zakiul Hassan icddr,b and Moh Family Foundation Fellow Pandemic Sciences Institute asks what can we do to improve patient care? sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Mpox: the alarm went off; have we gone back to sleep? journals.plos.org/plosntds/artic… Our experience and observations of international efforts, especially in light of the unprecedented 2022 clade II outbreaks in multiple regions, & the ongoing clade I outbreaks in some African countries.

Using portable ultrasound to study #plague buboes! We're collaborating with Institut Pasteur Madagascar🇲🇬 and Worldwide Radiology to initiate the first ever study to prospectively collect data about the clinical evolution of bubonic plague buboes among patients in #Madagascar: 🧵(1/3)

I have found perspective and solace in the JAMA poetry corner since med school days. My little poem called Tenderness is now included in that corner - which feels rather surreal. It is a small offering but one I’m proud of. Welcoming 🖋️ jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

A clear demonstration of the need for impactful, robust clinical research - as opposed to more clinical research. Quality over quantity.

In this study of critically ill adults in ED, the physicians gut impression within 15 minutes performed better than any other existing tool in identifying sepsis So why do we feel forced to use screening tools which we know cause their own problems? annemergmed.com/article/S0196-…

Meet 92-year-old Colin Apelt - every Thursday he takes a drinks trolley around a palliative care ward. abc.net.au/news/2024-04-0…

📢18+ residents of UK🇬🇧: Help us better understand public sentiment towards those affected by mpox, formerly known as #monkeypox. Participate in the anonymous survey about #mpox stigma➡️ bit.ly/mpoxstigma #StigmaSurvey

Honoured to have UniversityWorldNews share my reflections on the strengths of African-based medical education from a recent LSE Higher Education Blog universityworldnews.com/post.php?story…

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PSI researchers working with partners on a historic bubonic #plague clinical trial in #Madagascar have successfully enrolled a record number of cases, raising hope for improvements in research quality and treatment development. Read more👇🏽psi.ox.ac.uk/news-and-opini…

PSI colleagues Peter Horby @peterhorby.bsky.social, Moh Family Foundation Fellow Md. Zakiul Hassan & Amanda Rojek met Prof Abu Faisal Pervez in Bangladesh this week, to review progress on a promising #Nipah virus study to improve patient care 🇧🇩 Study partners include icddr,b and IEDCR & CDC Global Health.

..although we doctors present ourselves as healers of “the wounds of humanity”, we often instead serve as “an integral part of colonisation, of domination, of exploitation" Same goes for public health professionals Great piece in The Lancet thelancet.com/journals/lance…

#MSFsci #TB #PRACTECAL trial cost breakdown. Main divers were staff costs, external diagnostic services, medicines costs. This sharing of costs reported recently in #TheGuardian theguardian.com/global-develop…

The International Pandemic Sciences Conference 2024 starts today 🙌 Leading experts from academia, policy & industry are joining us for sessions on: ✅ vaccines   ✅ therapeutics ✅ diagnostics ✅ policy ✅ epidemiology ✅ ethics ✅ pathogen biology #PandemicSciences24

We have launched a stakeholder consultation to identify the most important clinical problems for epidemic-prone #infectiousdiseases. This will help guide some of our core research work. Learn how to be a part of this consultation ⬇️ isaric.org/research/resea…

ISARIC delighted to have written a chapter with Amanda Rojek with contributions from Lina Moses, Lennie Derde, Kenny Bailie & Alice Norton