Men and women living in the most deprived areas of England and Wales are far more likely to die from causes that are preventable or treatable than those in the least deprived communities.
Would highly recommend applying for PhD scholarships at UNSW Sydney. A great team and beautiful place to live!
Nature research paper: Projected impacts of climate change on malaria in Africa
go.nature.com/4a0Ae7X
New PhD Opportunity. We are advertising for a modeller to model the impacts of mosquito-borne disease in the Americas. The project is funded by The Leverhulme Trust via University of Glasgow, and supervised by Christina Cobbold, Dom Brass and myself. Deadline 6th March 2026.
t.ly/Z-tqt
New workshop alert 🚨 We are organising a Symposium and Workshop on Socioeconomic and Ethnic Inequalities in Infectious Disease Transmission at the LSHTM on 22–24 April 2026. Sounds like something you're working on? Find out more and apply before 21st Jan 2026 iddconf.org/lshtm-sympos...
📢 Join us for Professor @jackiecook.bsky.social’s inaugural lecture 🌍🦟
In this lecture, she will share insights from her career in malaria epidemiology and discuss the urgent need for new strategies in malaria control.
📅 22 Jan
⏰ 17:15
📍LSHTM | Online
🔗 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
The Drain of Scientific Publishing
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.04820
“This is a very important development,” says Dyann Wirth, a malaria researcher at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health who was not involved in the work. “We’ve been looking for this for a long time.”
🧪 #IDsky
www.science.org/content/arti...
Exciting HPRU PhD opportunities (home fees only) at LSHTM with co-supervision at Imperial and UKHSA: www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...
Photo of Wistman's Wood, a tiny remaining fragment of rainforest on Dartmoor, by Neil Burnell.
The vast fire on #Dartmoor should alert us to the ecological disaster there. This should not be a fire-prone landscape. Were it not for the elimination of trees by grazing, the vegetation type on the high moor would be temperate rainforest, which is extremely hard to burn. But only specks remain.
BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency.
Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
“People will die,” said @ckyobutungi.bsky.social, executive director of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”
nyti.ms/41yWNgN
A very sad and counterproductive decision. Aid when you don’t know where diseases are is immensely inefficient. DHS is a vital long-term resource, both in counties with diseases like malaria, but also those finding new global threats. Everyone will be flying blind. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/h...
What we need is a housing strategy tailored to local needs, and in South Devon, that means more social housing available to buy or rent so our hospitals, schools, and other vital services can get the staff they so desperately need.
“We’re cutting off our hand to spite our face"
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...
In case you missed it: Good character guidance amended to block refugees from naturalisation | Sonia Lenegan
End female genital mutilation! Every woman and girl has the right to live free from violence and harmful practices.
Today is the International Day to #EndFGM
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is an extreme form of discrimination, violates #HumanRights, and leads to serious health harms for millions of women and girls.
It must be prevented! bit.ly/3WNPkYm
Several postdoc and senior scientist jobs are available at @swisstph.ch working on infectious disease modelling, in great team led by Nakul Chitnis
Themes of
#malaria
dog movement, #rabies
#IDsky
#infectiousdiseasemodelling
jobs.swisstph.ch/Vacancies/10...
NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext This week @eonore.bsky.social speaks with prof @thomaschurcher.bsky.social about the recent World Malaria report, #malaria control interventions, modelling and bed nets 👇
youtu.be/B0spuTWEF2c
APPLICATIONS OPEN NOW! Always wanted to learn about applied infectious diseases modelling?
💡Annual short course 15-26th September '25
🗓️ Application deadline for limited number of full scholarships 16th March
✏️Find out more & apply www.infectiousdiseasemodels.org/index.php
Accurately measuring mortality helps quantify the impact of conflict but remains challenging.
⬇️ In a peer-reviewed study, authors from @lshtm.bsky.social draw on multiple data sources to estimate traumatic injury mortality in the Gaza Strip. 1/3
Looking for a PhD in #AI for #biodiversity #conservation? The AI-INTERVENE programme is for you! www.ai-intervene.net Partnerhip between @zslscience.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social @uniofreading.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social @kewgardens.bsky.social & CEH.
What about inequality in accumulated wealth though?
Looking for a PhD which focusses on improving #GlobalHealth?
These training studentships funded by MRC combines expertise from LSHTM & St George's, University of London to offer specialist research projects, skills & training. #PublicHealth
Learn more and apply👉 mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk/projects/?ut...
A Lancet editorial highlights the reality: nature & biodiversity underpin our survival. We must act decisively-75% of emerging diseases stem from disrupted ecosystems. There are ethical/moral arguments for protecting biodiversity. + Nature's health is our health. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Insecticidal nets prevent more malaria than anything else. Trials in Benin and Tanzania show newer nets that kill more mosquitoes are better than those currently used, but they are unable to assess their overall impact as you cannot leave people without a net and unprotected.
