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Ben Cooper

@bugwonk.bsky.social
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Professor of infectious disease epidemiology at Centre for Global Health Research, Oxford. 🤓🧀☕️🚴🏼🦠💉💊

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Ben Cooper @bugwonk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
After all the faffing about with shoeboxes and foil, it turns out all you need for a decent pinhole camera is a tree. Here the tree is behaving like a giant colander and light coming through gaps between the leaves is creating hundreds of images of the eclipse projected onto Abingdon County Hall
Image of light patterns on County Hall, Abingdon showing hundreds of overlapping images of the partial solar eclipse as well as shadows of branches of a tree and shadows of people standing to look at the images. The photo is blurry due to being taken with phone camera with a shattered lens.
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Esther van Kleef @esthervk.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Changing antibiotic dispensing of #AMR is one thing. But does it actually reduce the problem? Our new paper, part II of the CABU EICO study, is now out! #IDSky #ClinMicro #OpenAccess #OA @ndm.ox.ac.uk @itmantwerp.bsky.social @oxprimarycare.bsky.social
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Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk · 07/07/2026
#ResearchHighlight from Cherry Lim @cghr.ox.ac.uk   The burden of antimicrobial-resistant bacterial infections: a causal perspective Read more 👉 ndm.ac/tropmed-res-hi Full publication 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk · 03/06/2026
#ResearchHighlight from Claire Chewapreecha @moru-mip.bsky.social CRISPR-based environmental detection of Burkholderia pseudomallei identifies sanitation gaps and #melioidosis risk in northeast Thailand Read more 👉 ndm.ac/tropmed-res-hi Full publication 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk · 03/06/2026
#MeetOurResearchers video interview with Elizabeth Batty @moru-mip.bsky.social Genomic surveillance in Southeast Asia  Liz research aims to identify causes of febrile illness, monitor AMR and guide appropriate treatments   Watch the interview 👉 ndm.ac/elizabeth-batty-podcast
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Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk · 22/04/2026
#MeetOurResearchers video interview with Wirichada Pan ngum @moru-mip.bsky.social Modeling for maximum impact on health research Wirichada leads a modelling group using statistical and mathematical approaches to address regional health challenges Watch 👉 ndm.ac/wirichada-pan-ngum-podcast
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Sabine Dittrich @sdittrich.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Good start to a conference day when your face pops up during the keynote lecture. @escmid.bsky.social #ESCMIDGlobal2026 #LOMWRU #Rickettsia @innoghe.bsky.social
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Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk · 21/01/2026
#ResearchHighlight from Yewei Xie & Mo Yin @moru-mip.bsky.social One health perspective of antibiotic resistance in enterobacterales from Southeast Asia: a systematic review and meta-analysis Read more 👉 www.ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi Full publication 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
The new cover and feature @nature.com www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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The Global Health Network @tghn-news.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Webinar: AMR tools and resources: An introduction for health professionals and researchers 📅 Date: 29 January 2026 👉 09:30–11:00 GMT Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi... 👉 15:00–16:30 GMT Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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AMR tools and resources:
An introduction for health professionals and researchers
29th January 2026
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a pressing global health challenge, and access to high-quality data and analytical tools is essential for effective decision-making. This webinar introduces key resources designed to support researchers, health professionals, and policy partners working to understand and address AMR.
Two identical sessions available to enable global participation. Please register for the time that best suits you.
Session 1:
09:30 - 11:00 (GMT)
Session 2:
15:00 - 16:30 (GMT)
REGISTER NOW
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THE GLOBAL HEALTH NETWORK
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Esther van Kleef @esthervk.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
New PREPRINT! tinyurl.com/yynzevrh Thanks to a true transdisciplinary collaboration, we developed and evaluated a low-cost community #AMR intervention set in rural Burkina Faso and DRCongo. Combining #WHO #AWaRe–based feedback/training (medicine providers) and AMR awareness campaigns (community).
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Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk · 10/12/2025
#ResearchHighlight from Phaik Yeong Cheah @moru-mip.bsky.social Engagement and justice considerations in mitigation of antimicrobial resistance #AMR Read more 👉 www.ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi Full publication 👉 www.cell.com/trends/micro...
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Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO) @iddonews.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
✨ Exciting news! ✨ Our website just got a fresh new makeover! 🙌 We’ve reorganised things to make everything easier to find, smoother to navigate & more enjoyable to explore. Plus we’ve launched an new blog section! Take a look around & let us know what you think 👉 www.iddo.org
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Ben Cooper @bugwonk.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Super exciting opportunity to work on an ambitious project both developing novel statistical methodology for infectious diseases and applying it to real world AMR problems in the UK: jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Research Associate/Fellow in Statistics (Fixed Term)
We are looking for a highly motivated researcher, whose expertise lies in statistics, to work with Prof Theodore Kypraios on a project at the forefront of infectious disease modelling. The role focuse...
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gram-oxford.bsky.social @gram-oxford.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The AMR data repository, supported by Fleming Fund and Wellcome Trust, now covers nearly 70 countries! Apply today to use this data in your research. #GRAM #WAAW Data: see QR code Story: bit.ly/4o4oNkz @bugwonk.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk @ndm.ox.ac.uk
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brecht ingelbeen @ingelbeen.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Open position for an ID modeler @itmantwerp.bsky.social on community-level + healthcare transmission of resistant #AMR bacteria in LRS, working with Clinical Research Unit Nanoro, @esthervk.bsky.social, @bugwonk.bsky.social, KEMRI-wellcome Kilifi, myself,... #IDSky #EpiSky www.itg.be/en/jobs-and-...
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Epidemiologist
Epidemiologist for modelling AMR transmission in LMICMore than 500 staff members at the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) contribute e...
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Ben Cooper @bugwonk.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Congratulations to Sai Thein Than Tun @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk ‬for passing his PhD viva & overcoming some formidable obstacles in the process. Sai’s work on malaria elimination is a great example of simple models supporting clear thinking about complex processes link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Screenshot from viva for DPhil candidate Sai Thein Than Tun with examiners Ben Cooper and Jennifer Flegg. All are smiling as Sai has just passed his viva with minor corrections and the examiners were hugely impressed at the quality of the work .
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Ben Cooper @bugwonk.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Many hospitals in LMICs lack access to microbiology services. @cherrylim128.bsky.social et al asked if such services are a good use of limited resources. The answer: emphatically yes. Such services are likely to improve patient outcomes & reduce overall costs. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Cost-effectiveness of maintaining an active hospital microbiology laboratory service in Timor-Leste
Maintaining an active hospital microbiology laboratory allows definitive antibiotic treatment for bacterial infections to be given in a timely manner.…
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Ben Cooper @bugwonk.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Kudos to 16yo son, Joe, who has a learning disability due to #ADNP syndrome, for completing his 50th #parkrun last week in Abingdon. Inspired by @johnharris1969.bsky.social ’s new book Maybe I'm Amazed www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie... Joe’s post-run chill-out was spent drumming to Kraftwerk’s Autobahn.
Joe running in a parkrun event in a field next to the Thames in AbingdonJoe lost in music while listening to Kraftwerk's Autobahn and drumming on a small Kenyan drum. In the background is John Harris's book Maybe I'm amazed next to lava lamp
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Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO) @iddonews.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Track news reports of #SubstandardMedicines and #FalsifiedMedicine in your country. View our Medicine Quality Monitoring Globe, which filters by key words, time-periods, locations, and language. #medswecantrust @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk @wellcometrust.bsky.social @moru-mip.bsky.social
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Ben Cooper @bugwonk.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Just back from teaching on a 4 day policy-focused AMR workshop in Nairobi hosted by the brilliant cema-africa.uonbi.ac.ke (with generous funding from @wellcometrust.bsky.social). Great to meet so many inspiring people from throughout Africa working to reduce the number of lives lost to #AMR.
students on short course point at laptop screens which is running an R Shiny web application about cost-effectiveness of maintaining a microbiological diagnostic lab which is based on this paper https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.14.24307355v1
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Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk · 04/03/2025
#ResearchHighlight from Mo Yin @moru-mip.bsky.social Cost-effectiveness of a short-course #antibiotic treatment strategy for the treatment of ventilator-associated #pneumonia: an economic analysis of the #REGARDVAP trial Read more 👉 www.ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi 👉 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Infectious Diseases Data Observatory (IDDO) @iddonews.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Are you researching #InfectiousDiseases #EmergingInfections #malaria or #NTDs? The datasets we host harmonise tens of thousands of individual patient data, enabling researchers to answer new questions from existing data. Learn more www.iddo.org/data-sh... #BeatNTDs
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Jonathan Ryder, MD @jonathanrydermd.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Systematic review of antibiotic durations in @jac-amr.bsky.social n=315 RCTs 85% demonstrated equivalence or non-inferiority of shorter therapy Only 7% in ICU, 14% in LMIC, and 15% low risk of bias academic.oup.com/jacamr/artic...
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Ricardo León-Sampedro @rleonsampedro.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
🚨 New preprint!! How can antibiotic-resistant bacteria increase in abundance in the human gut microbiome, even without antibiotics? 🧐 We show that strain-specific ecological interactions are key to understanding resistance dynamics in microbial communities. 🧵👇 1/5 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Marc Bonten @marcbonten.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Seven is the new fourteen..... for days of antibiotic treatment of bloodstream infections? Read my new post, inspired by the BALANCE study published in NEJM 👇 letstalkscience.eu/2024/11/26/s...
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Seven is the new fourteen - Let's talk science with Marc Bonten
Some think of medicine, or at least antibiotic treatment duration, as a religion. In the Bible “seven” stands for completeness (I got that from Wikipedia), and therefore infections should be treated w...
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Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk · 20/11/2024
#MeetOurResearchers interview with Proochista Ariana @ndmoxford.bsky.social Building capacity for #GlobalHealth impact Our MSc in International Health and Tropical Medicine fosters effective solutions & global health leadership Watch the video 👉 www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/wall-of-face...
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Antibiotic Steward 🅱️C🆔🅿️🌟 @absteward.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
🔥BALANCE RCT🔥 74 hospitals in 7 countries 3,608 patients A 7-day course of antibiotics for hospitalized patients with bloodstream infections was non inferior to 14d within a 4% prespecified margin for mortality at 90 days #idsky www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Antibiotic Treatment for 7 versus 14 Days in Patients with Bloodstream Infections | NEJM
Bloodstream infections are associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. Early, appropriate antibiotic therapy is important, but the duration of treatment is uncertain. In a multicenter, non...
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Ben Cooper @bugwonk.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Read more about this here -> www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The uncertain role of substandard and falsified medicines in the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance - Nature Communications
Substandard and falsified medicines are a problem, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, and effects on antimicrobial resistance development aren’t well understood. Here, the authors discu...
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Ben Cooper @bugwonk.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Today 3pm GMT, 4pm CET: webinar to discuss latest Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance study www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... with panelists Dr. Mohsen Naghavi, Dr. Tomislav Mestrovic,  Dr. Gisela-Robles Aguilar. Register here washington.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance 1990–2021: a systematic analysis with forecasts to 2050
This study presents the first comprehensive assessment of the global burden of AMR from 1990 to 2021, with results forecasted until 2050. Evaluating changing trends in AMR mortality across time and lo...
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Angela Huttner @angelahuttner.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Just finished recording next #Communicable show w/ Ben Cooper (Oxford @bugwonk.bsky.social) & Pernette Bourdillon (WHO) on falsified antimicrobials & how they affect #AMR Turns out they're true-crime detectives (if a little nerdy 😎) @cmicomms.bsky.social will do a better teaser soon! IDSky MicroSky
Still shot of Communicable host A. Huttner & guests Ben Cooper (Oxford) & Pernette Bourdillon Esteve (World Health Organization) discussing substandard & falsified antimicrobials & their effects on antimicrobial resistance.
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Ben Cooper @bugwonk.bsky.social · 30/10/2024
Bet practices in AMR surveillance - lecture/webinar series from Dr Geetanjali Kapoor of the One Health Trust www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/gram/researc... #AMR
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AMR surveillance best practices: a series
The series addressed real-world challenges of AMR surveillance, based on prior experiences in the field
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Ben Cooper @bugwonk.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
👣 💊💊💊 👣💊💊💊💊💊 👣💊 calculate your antibiotic footprint here 👉🏼 www.antibioticfootprint.net/calculator/ #AMR
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Tracing your Antibiotic Footprint
How much do you contribute towards the global antibiotic footprint?
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Ben Cooper @bugwonk.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
Live now: High-Level Meeting on antimicrobial resistance 2024 - General Assembly, 79th session webtv.un.org/en/asset/k11... #AMR
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High-Level Meeting on antimicrobial resistance 2024 - General Assembly, 79th session
High-level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance convened by the President of the General Assembly. Theme: Investing in the present and securing our future together: accelerating multisectoral global, r...
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Ben Cooper @bugwonk.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
Great commentary from Ramanan Laxminarayan ahead of the UNGA AMR meeting later this month www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Stop delaying action on antimicrobial resistance — it is achievable and affordable
Ensuring that clinics in low- and middle-income countries are well-stocked with high-quality antibiotics could help physicians to treat millions of people each year and slow the spread of drug resista...
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