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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So many echoes here of my @healthfoundation.bsky.social lecture: to get the gains of AI in health we need to invest in robust evidence & evaluation; strengthen the underlying data; and think about workflow and how to optimise the whole system rather than any one bit of it www.ft.com/content/3431...

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Medical AI has a proof problem

The technology’s advances have not yet translated into big improvements in real-life care

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Clare Griffiths @statsgeekclare.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Do you use Health trends in England fingertips.phe.org.uk/static-repor...? We are looking to replace it with a new integrated service for public health data and we're running a survey with users at the moment to understand what they currently use it for. forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

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Health trends in England

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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

How do you persuade people they need to take #Ebola seriously when more in their midst are dying from other diseases & armed conflict? That is the challenge #WHO DG Tedros confronted when he visited the outbreak zone in DRC this week. “Ebola is a lesser evil." www.statnews.com/2026/06/13/w...

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WHO director-general is profoundly concerned after visit to Ebola outbreak area

The director-general of the World Health Organization is profoundly worried about the Ebola outbreak in the DRC, he told STAT in an interview.

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

My PhD Sajedeh Rasti has published a World View piece in Nature today: "Don’t compete, collaborate: why collective funding applications are the future" www.nature.com/articles/d41... She discusses how she successfully brought together a team of meta-scientists to collaboratively apply for funding.

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Don’t compete, collaborate: why collective funding applications are the future

Scientists with disparate expertise writing grants together can identify knowledge gaps and drive progress — but systems must change to incentivize them.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Good data is essential for policy. Today it’s been a year since we had a permanent National Statistician. No news on what is happening with the current recruitment which began Oct 2025. This is an under the bonnet issue that points to state failure 🧵 uksa.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/news/stateme...

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Statement: Sir Ian Diamond steps down as National Statistician

Today the UK Statistics Authority has announced the resignation of Sir Ian Diamond as the UK’s National Statistician. Since joining the organisation more than five and a half years ago, Sir Ian has l...

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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

tests, protective suits, goggles, masks, even drinking water." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/w...

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Inside the Ebola Epicenter, the Virus Rages With Little to Stop It

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Sebastian Funk @sbfnk.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Really enjoyed this thought-provoking workshop this week at @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social on evaluation & responsibility in infectious disease modelling. Brilliantly organised and led by @kathsherratt.bsky.social, with Erica Thompson. Great discussions on both practice and training.

Word cloud from the workshop introduction. Positive qualities like transparent, open, reproducible, honest in blue and green at the top; negative ones like biased, overconfident, closed, opaque in orange and red at the bottom.

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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control @ecdc.europa.eu · 25/03/2026

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝗱 𝘄𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝘁? #ECDC’s new guidance on in-action and after-action reviews (IARs & AARs) helps public health authorities turn experience into action. Read full: bit.ly/4rVckBF #Preparedness #Prevention #PHE #IDSky #EpiSky

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Kath Sherratt @kathsherratt.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

<< How do we evaluate infectious disease modelling work, and what does that imply for modelling responsibly? >> If that sounds interesting, you're very welcome to join us! * Workshop: Evaluation & Responsible Modelling * 24 March 2026 | LSHTM, London More @ epiforecasts.io/responsible-...

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How do we evaluate modelling work, and what does that imply about modelling responsibly? – Evaluation & responsibility in infectious disease modelling

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Sam Abbott @seabbs.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

(who are maybe closer to the data etc.) to do those analyses. So the work we should provide incentives for most academics is support for using their "thing" and plugging specialist gaps.

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Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre, LSHTM @lshtm-crises.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

In a personal blog, Professor Francesco Checchi discusses the pressing situation in #Gaza amidst increased levels of starvation, and what this may mean for the future 👇 www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

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Famine and genocide in Gaza: A personal view | LSHTM

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PREPARED project @prepared-eu.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

"The newly launched PREPARED Code presents a much-needed framework to ensure that research during pandemics is trustworthy and accessible to all." - Nature Medicine Read more in the full editorial here www.nature.com/articles/s41... #researchethics #pandemics

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Ethics and integrity in uncertain times - Nature Medicine

The newly launched PREPARED Code presents a much-needed framework to ensure that research during pandemics is trustworthy and accessible to all.

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Sam Abbott @seabbs.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

A few years ago we ran a workshop for members of the modelling community to reflect on how modelling support for outbreaks could be improved from a staffing perspective. Now @kathsherratt.bsky.social has led a follow up looking at what, if anything has changed.... sciety.org/articles/act...

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Improving modelling for epidemic response: a progress update from a community of UK infectious disease modellers

We reflect on the sustainability of modelling infectious disease outbreaks from the perspective of modelling as a field of practice. We formed a community of practice among UK infectious disease model...

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