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"Immunisation health workforce capacity building in Southeast Asia: reflections from training programme implementation in Cambodia and Lao PDR" Our new reflective analysis using @gavi.org Learning & Performance Management Framework - please read. gh.bmj.com/content/10/2...

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First death of a person with Japanese encephalitis in NSW since 2022. If you live, work or holiday in regions west of Great Dividing Range, prevent mosquito bites. Check NSW Health website https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/news/Pages/20250225_01.aspx

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Eventually any outbreak burns itself out if absolutely nothing is done. The difference is how many people get maimed in the process. If you vaccinate, fewer infections and fewer complications if you don't more infections more complications. It's really that simple. abcnews.go.com/Health/texas...

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"Immunisation health workforce capacity building in Southeast Asia: reflections from training programme implementation in Cambodia and Lao PDR" Our new reflective analysis using @gavi.org Learning & Performance Management Framework - please read. gh.bmj.com/content/10/2...

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WHO announces another mass polio vaccination campaign in Gaza The WHO has orchestrated two mass vaccination campaigns during pauses of fighting in the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. www.cidrap.umn.edu/p...

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Is it time to retire the label “CALD” in #publichealth research and practice? In the @mja.com.au, @merusheel.bsky.social @julieleask.bsky.social & co argue that the broad use of this term simplifies and masks disparities within diverse communities. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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A helpful perspective from @croakeynews.bsky.social on health agencies in Austraia and potential implications from the upcoming Aus federal elections.

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"Impact of measles vaccination strategies on vaccination rates in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis." Pls read our new paper in @bmj.com Global Health gh.bmj.com/content/10/2...

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That equity—treating according to need— is fundamental to what medicine is. And that to care is an act not of weakness, but of strength. @thelancet.bsky.social Editorial. ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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@USAID is enduring an unlawful shutdown, purge, and dismantling. It’s thrown its vital work into turmoil—based on spurious, absurd, and willfully slanted attacks. Here's what’s real: the massive and growing harm now being caused. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

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Unsettling news from Uganda, where it's been reported the family of the man who died from #Ebola may have dug up his body, because it wasn't given the funeral the family felt was important. If this is true, it was a very dangerous thing to do; could cost lives. sebeitoday.com/health-lifes...

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“Many of those interviewed broke down in tears as they described the rapid destruction of decades of work. The programs that have frozen or folded over the past six days supported frontline care for infectious disease, providing treatments and preventive measures that help avert millions of deaths”

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How Should Health Care and Public Health Respond to the New US Administration? @jama.com jamanetwork.com/journals/jam....

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Health in the age of disinformation --- "Misinformation and disinformation can no longer be viewed simply as an academic nuisance, but rather they are a societal threat." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... via @thelancet.bsky.social

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New report identifies key threats to health globally, and priorities for action

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When we’re unprepared for the next nasty disease emergence it won’t be because humans didn’t know what needed to be done Great article on pathogens, pandemic risk and ecological change in the Anthropocene www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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WHO prequalifies diagnostic test to support safer administration of P. vivax malaria treatments - such an important development for treatment and control of malaria. www.who.int/news/item/08...

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A lot of people have been quite upset about me not mentioning vaccination for my 18mo daughter in this piece. A useful fact to consider is that the Australian federal government, on advice from their independent expert panel, now considers all children under 18 INELIGIBLE for COVID-19 vaccination.

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Not good news: @WHO just announced a new Marburg outbreak in Tanzania. “As of 11 January 2025, nine suspected cases were reported including eight deaths across two districts – Biharamulo and Muleba. …Results are pending official confirmation.” www.who.int/emergencies/... 🧪 #IDsky

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"Fear of the unknown": Health, disability, and stakeholder perspectives on the behavioral and social drivers of vaccination in children with disability in Fiji - new📖 in @plosglobalpublichealth.org ✨ led by Rosalie Power, Unise Vakaloloma and Israt Jahan. journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

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What should the early lines of code written during a new outbreak look like? We've got a new viewpoint piece in Lancet Digital Health on how to improve early outbreak analytics, with a great group of contributors: linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii...

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Ooh, story time! Watch the latest video in our partnership with @glaucomflecken.bsky.social, which explains a trial investigating the safety and efficacy of immunization with a late-liver-stage attenuated malaria parasite: www.tiktok.com/@nejm.org/vi... #Medsky #IDsky

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What Kennedy Has Said About the Polio Vaccine in Recent Years Trump’s choice for health secretary has suggested that the polio vaccine cost more lives than it saved and that the vaccine did not wipe out the disease in the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/h...

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Several dead, trapped, hundreds injured after violent earthquake at 7.3 scale. #Vanuatu is one of the Pacific islands extremely prone to natural disasters. www.smh.com.au/world/oceani...

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Interesting perspective from Michael Mina on academia vs industry for a researcher who worked on COVID response: www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/01/harv...

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New research article in The Lancet Microbe Evaluation of a point-of-care immunochromatographic assay for #EntericFever in Dhaka, Bangladesh: a prospective diagnostic accuracy study www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #IDSky #ClinMicro #Salmonella #typhoid #OpenAccess #OA

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Thrilled 2b awarded an eAsia JRP grant from #NHMRC and #PCHRD. CoSMO project - Collaborative Surveillance to Prevent Measles Outbreaks in Southeast Asia: A Model for Future Pandemics will address #measles #surveillance and its re-emergence in the region. #IDSky www.linkedin.com/posts/merush...

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Exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months is critical for infant health, but economic pressures often force mothers to stop early. A study by Swiss TPH & the Lao Tropical and Public Health institute in Lao PDR found that financial support increases breastfeeding rates by 5 times. shorturl.at/F6STm

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🚨 Cases of #mpox #cladeIb detected in #Germany - Index patient visited an area in Africa with clade Ib infection - On return to Germany the family was infected, two are children - The school attended by the children is closed until at least Friday www.dw.com/en/german-sc...

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Life expectancy has grown since 1970, but so has #inequality. In 2023, the bottom half of the world’s population got less than 10% of global income, while the richest 10% captured more than half, by Trevor Hancock www.timescolonist.com/opinion/trev... via @timescolonist.bsky.social #sdoh

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My colleague Shingai Machingaidze in South Africa & I wrote about this in @bmj.com Gilead’s global access plan leaves BIG gaps It’s especially shocking that they banned Argentina, Brazil, Mexico & Peru from buying generic versions—nations where Gilead tested its drug www.bmj.com/content/bmj/...

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One of my all time favourite infographics. #IDsky #VaccinesWork

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« Systematic reviews’ that aim to extract broad conclusions from many studies are in peril: Fake papers are “poisoning the well” for these gold-standard syntheses, researchers say » @science.org

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Despite substantial progress, only a few countries are on track to meet multiple global nutrition targets by 2030. A new study evaluates global, regional, & national progress towards the 2030 targets and forecasts to 2050: tinyurl.com/388ejc7w

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Why are we more focused on speculating about a potential outbreak in #DRC with no evidence this is a novel pathogen than we are with the evolving one in the US due to #H5N1. Both are important and underscore the need for strong health systems and diagnostic capacity everywhere. #globalhealth

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Child w suspected case of bird flu in Marin County, CA “presented to a local emergency department with fever and vomiting after drinking raw milk.” Tested positive for flu A, more testing needed to confirm whether seasonal or bird flu (h/t @helenbranswell.bsky.social) www.marinhhs.org/h5n1-bird-flu

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The NIH STOMP shows that tecovirimat is safe, but doesn't expedite lesion healing or alleviate pain in persons with clade II mpox - study enrollment has been halted. PALM 007 in DRC showed the same for clade I in DRC and emphasized the importance of supportive care www.nih.gov/news-events/...

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🚨Impactful #OneHealth #AMR research projects in Vietnam, funded by DFAT 🚨 Are you a Vietnam-based post-doc with experience in lab, field-work, or qualitative aspects work? ✅Come work with me and the team Sydney Vietnam Institute. We'd love to hear from you😀 t.co/xhiFPOstLR

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What a year - honoured to present an update on the #IA2030 @who.int Strategic Priority 7 on Research and Innovation in behald of our working group. We've been looking at priority pathogens for vaccine development & how implementation research can strengthen their introduction and uptake. #IDsky

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"Sex, a Hex and a Sick Child Offer Clues to an Epidemic’s Birth" - beautiful photo essay on #mpox in Congo. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/h...

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Wonderful study from India on how community health workers and primary care providers can be trained with a digital program to manage depression journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

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More than 62,000 cases of mpox have been reported in Africa this year, three-quarters of them in Congo How did DRC become the epicenter of the epidemic? @stephanienolen.bsky.social reports from DRC www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/h...

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Latest shocking discovery 😱 “So either talent is hugely unequally distributed, concentrated among richer families, or opportunity is. It’s the latter.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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New review article in The Lancet Microbe Socioeconomic status and the risk for colonisation or infection with priority bacterial pathogens: a global evidence map www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR #OpenAccess #OA

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75 global health organizations! Will keep updating go.bsky.app/Df5hsLV

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"...the absence of transmission observed for earlier A(H5N1) viruses was due to a lack of infectious virus shedding in the air, rather than the absence of necessary mammalian adaptation mutations." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Tesla’s Robyn Denholm to lead review of R&D settings - first review of Australia’s research and development landscape in almost 20 years www.afr.com/politics/fed...

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