Cesc Bertran-Cobo

Purple graphic with white text reading: "This is a worrying time for parents and the immediate priority is to ensure that all children catch-up on any missed vaccinations." Ben Kasstan-Dabush, Assistant Professor of Global Health & Development, LSHTM

Could a #measles outbreak in #London affect me?

LSHTM expert @benk-d.bsky.social gives advice to parents including to check children are up to date on #vaccines

Also: Confused? 😵‍💫 We answer common questions about measles & vaccines

Find out more 👉 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

I'm happy to announce that my book, "The Foreign Gaze: Essays on Global Health", is now out!

You can order the print copy and download the e-copy (open access) here: www.editions.ird.fr/produit/728/...

The book comes with a playlist for your listening pleasure: open.spotify.com/playlist/5K5...

Measles doesn’t always end when the rash fades.

For one woman, it returned 25 years later — as a fatal brain disease.

SSPE affects 1 in 50,000 measles cases.
There’s no cure.
There is prevention.

This story will stay with you. ⬇️

www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

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A precise atlas of the human subcortex | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Day 1 ✔️ #ENABLE project kicks-off today to prepare our clinical trial using #bNAbs to treat infants living with #HIV 👶🏽💙 Such a good start—strong ideas, great people, big goals 🚀 @globalhealthedctp3.bsky.social #EDCTP3

Retraction Watch has covered the problem of the “national IQ” database. Should be noted I’m far from alone in working to remove these publications. The spreadsheet of pubs which use NIQ - linked to in the article - was started by @kohngregory.bsky.social; a project also worked on by Cathryn Townsend

Meet the researcher aiming to halt use of ‘fundamentally flawed’ database linking IQ and nationality Rebecca Sear Rebecca Sear is on a mission to convince publishers to retract articles that use a database that purports to rank countries based on intelligence. To maintain the integrity of scientif…

. @rebeccasear.bsky.social is on a mission to get all studies using a database linking #IQ and race retracted. I spoke to her for @retractionwatch.com to find out more: retractionwatch.com/2025/11/25/m...

Salut mental i ciència: Com investiguem els transtorns del cervell?

Cicle de xerrades divulgatives 'A la recerca de la salut'

👤Albert Martínez Pinteño i Natalia Rodríguez Ferret
📆02/12
⏰ 19:00
📍 Casa Golferichs
👉https://f.mtr.cool/hooocdwdre

#InauguralLecture by Prof Alfred Ngwa: Parasites on Wings - Malaria & River Blindness.

From pioneering #Cameroon River Blindness vaccine research to leading #Malaria parasites at #MRCG, a journey of science & impact for #GlobalHealth.

📆 26 Nov 2025
🕦17:15 GMT

Read more 👉 tinyurl.com/4rc9vwj2

Find us in consultation room 25, 5th floor, building on Carrer Rosselló 161, Barcelona. If you’re interested, please email us at cesc.bertran@isglobal.org or david.garcia@isglobal.org with the day and time that suit you, and we’ll be delighted to see you (3/3)

We’re just 30 participants away from completing recruitment... would you like to take part and help us reach our goal?

🙋 You only need to be over 18 years of age
💉 We’ll take two small blood samples with a single needle prick
⌚ You can come Monday to Friday 08:00–08:30 or 16:00–17:00 (2/3)

🫵 Science needs you! 🫵

Hi there, we’re contacting you from the International Travel Clinic at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. We’re developing an antibody sensor to measure how well our patients respond to vaccines against hepatitis A, measles and dengue (1/3)

Ens trobaràs a la consulta 25, planta 5 de l'edifici del Carrer Rosselló 161, a Barcelona. Si t'interessa, escriu-nos a cesc.bertran@isglobal.org o david.garcia@isglobal.org amb el dia i hora que et vagin bé, i t'atendrem amb tota la il·lusió del món (3/3)

Ens falten 30 participants per a completar el reclutament, vols participar i ajudar-nos a assolir el nostre objectiu?

🙋 N'hi ha prou amb que siguis major d'edat
💉 Amb una petita punxada, et traurem dos tubs de sang
⌚ Pots venir de dilluns a divendres, de 8:00 a 8:30 i de 16:00 a 17:00 (2/3)

🫵 La ciència et necessita! 🫵

Bon dia, us escrivim des del Servei d'Atenció al Viatger Internacional de l'Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. Estem desenvolupant un sensor d'anticossos en consulta per a detectar la immunogenicitat dels nostres pacients envers hepatitis A, xarampió i dengue (1/3)

SA becomes first African country to register twice-a-year anti-HIV jab... at record speed | News24 South Africa has become the first African country – and our medicines regulator the third worldwide – to register the revolutionary twice-a-year anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir (LEN), that could bring an en...

"South Africa has become the first African country... to register the revolutionary twice-a-year anti-HIV jab, #lenacapavir" via @news24southafrica.bsky.social

Who should be first in line for the upcoming anti-HIV jab? | News24 One in 10 clinics in SA — across 22 health districts in six provinces — could start to hand out a twice-a-year anti-HIV jab as early as February. Medicines regulator Sahpra says it’s on track to announce its registration decision by the end of October. So who should get LEN first?

@news24southafrica.bsky.social explores "Who should be first in line for the upcoming anti-#HIV jab?" in #SouthAfrica

Hidden Malaria: The hunt for an invisible enemy YouTube video by LSHTM

🆕Film by LSHTM explores 'Hidden Malaria' in #India

It goes inside a research project looking at why #malaria persists in regions like Odisha despite declining rates across the country, & hidden reservoirs of #infection that show no symptoms.🦟

🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP88...

Researchers at EMBL Barcelona highlight malaria-induced disruption of pericytes, bringing us a step closer to understanding how cerebral malaria damages the brain, and how these damages could be prevented or reversed.

www.embl.org/news/science...

More Europeans are dying from HIV now than 15 years ago Europe, taken as a whole, is losing some of the gains it has made in tackling the burden of HIV, the 20th European AIDS Conference (EACS 2025) heard in Paris. Teymur Noori of the European C...

Europe is the only region of the globe that saw more deaths due to HIV in 2022 than it did in 2010.
An @aidsmap.bsky.social report from #EACS2025.
www.aidsmap.com/news/oct-202...

Cescualito - Overview Expert health data scientist | Infectious diseases | Child brain development - Cescualito

Outside Bluesky, you can find me on GitHub (github.com/Cescualito), and LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/cesc-bert...).

Feel free to reach out anytime. You can speak to me in Català, Castellano, English, Português, and isiXhosa.

Ndiyavuya ukunazi!

Lastly, I am also the deputy coordinator for the HIV course at @lshtm.bsky.social, a distance-learning module bringing multidisciplinary perspectives on health & well-being across the HIV pandemic. I coordinate teaching and assessment, and support students throughout.

At the UCT Neuroscience Institute, I study how early-life factors shape brain development in children with perinatal HIV exposure, using methods such as magnetic resonance imaging and longitudinal modelling to inform child care in resource-limited settings.

#ChildHealth #HIV #neuroimaging

As part of @isglobal.org and the International Health Service @hospitalclinic.bsky.social, I lead and manage research projects on infectious diseases, migrant & traveller health, and vaccine safety —turning data into actionable insights.

#recerca #CLÍNIC #InfectiousDiseases #epi

Trained in Biomedical Sciences, I have over 5 years of experience working on HIV, malaria, and dengue across South Africa, Sierra Leone, and Europe. I split my time between ISGlobal (Barcelona) and UCT (Cape Town), in addition to some teaching at the LSHTM (London).

Hello, Bluesky 👋 I’m Cesc (they/them), an enthusiastic scientist who finds it essential to conceive research as indivisible from its social context.
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