Ewan Colman

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📢New funded PhD available!📢 led by @universitypress.cambridge.org supervised by us & UKHSA.
Determining the level of combination prevention needed to reduce HIV transmission in African heritage heterosexuals in England.
More (penultimate on list)➡️ tinyurl.com/ctpy3bp3
@bristoluni.bsky.social

Two postdoc positions open at SUMOC (Sorbonne Université | INSERM), Paris, within the EPIcx lab.

🦠 Network epidemiology of healthcare-associated infections (ARCANE)
🧠 Coupled behavior–disease modeling (PREVIX)

2-y positions | Start June 2026
#epidemiology #networks #matrices

1/ 👥 Two online sessions to officially launch process to establish the Global Society for Infectious Disease Dynamics had 230 attendees! @gs-idd.bsky.social #IDsky 🧪

🔗 'We have launched' post by @bansallab.bsky.social: www.gsidd.org/post/we-have...

CLOSING SOON: Early career faculty (Lyon, France)
Tenure-track position in epidemiological modelling of animal and zoonotic diseases
with @gfournie.bsky.social
at INRAE (National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the...
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2469

Voices from the frontline: how global funding cuts are reshaping the viral hepatitis response Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) are among the world's leading infectious threats, together responsible for over a million deaths each year, but these infections remain neglected by...

Lots of focus on the impact of #funding cuts on #HIV but there are wider repercussions.
Here we report 'Voices from the frontline: how global funding cuts are reshaping the viral #hepatitis response' 🧪
@lancetgastrohep.bsky.social @worldhepalliance.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Using exclusive swine trade data, Gavrila found the most likely place a disease like ASF would enter the country and simulated how it would spread to other regions. Rare long-range pig movements turn out to be highly significant - useful insights if you’re trying to contain the disease

Risk of exotic disease introduction and propagation in the Austrian swine trade network Animal health management; animal science; food animal veterinary medicine; porcine epidemiology

Check out this new paper by Gavrila Puspitarani (with small contribution from me). It’s about networks and the spread of diseases, and Austrian pigs www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Exciting new Research Fellow position in modelling infectious diseases to reduce inequities in health outcomes in Africa! Join a multidisciplinary 4 year project with me at UCL and partners in Zimbabwe, Zambia, The Gambia, South Africa, Kenya and the UK. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Postdoc (Lancaster, UK)
School-based social contact study for transmission-dynamic modelling
with Trystan Leng
at Lancaster University
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2461

newborn in mothers arms in hospital

New funded PhD available! Health Service evaluation of maternal RSV vaccine uptake. This is a 3 year HPRU funded PhD project led by Dr Clare French, Prof Ellen Brooks-Pollock, & Dr Hannah Christensen. CLOSES 26/01/26.
More info➡️ tinyurl.com/48f2j337
@bristoluni.bsky.social @findaphd.bsky.social

child receiving vaccination

New funded PhD available! Optimising access to routine childhood immunisation in general practice.
This is a 3 year HPRU funded PhD project led by Dr Hannah Christensen & Dr Clare French. CLOSES 26/01/26.
More info ➡️ tinyurl.com/bdebe9ae
@bristoluni.bsky.social @findaphd.bsky.social

woman receiving vaccination

New funded PhD available! Identifying & evaluating opportunities to improve influenza vaccine uptake in adults with chronic respiratory disease. This 3 year project is led by Dr R Lazarus & Dr H Christensen.
CLOSES 26/01/26. ➡️ tinyurl.com/zvvwew74 @bristoluni.bsky.social @findaphd.bsky.social

emergency exit

New funded PhD available! Personalised risk assessment to improve protective behaviours in emergency contexts. This 3 year project is led by Dr Holly Carter, Dr Dale Weston, Dr Freya Mills & Dr Sarah Denford.
CLOSES 26/01/26. ➡️ tinyurl.com/2j6tkk5a @bristoluni.bsky.social @findaphd.bsky.social

The other aspect of this story is, academics and NHS staff could and would have done this better and essentially for free if they were given the same data access as Faculty, but they are not allowed it. Government policy is deliberately to frustrate pro bono / non-profit health data research.

Myanmar’s Civil War Pushes Infectious Disease Over Its Borders

“Communicable diseases know no borders."

A sad reminder: no one is safe until everyone is safe.

#PublicHealth is a global issue
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/w...

This video will probably get fewer likes than my posts on taxing billionaires. That difference says it all. Factory farming only survives if we don’t look. It’s time to hold these companies accountable. Every donation is matched, so $1 becomes $2 through Dec 31, 2025. Donate: MoralAmbition.org/food

Glad to share our latest study, led by Han Yong Wunrow
@hwunrow.bsky.social, on estimating time-varying reproduction numbers (Rt) using data assimilation methods, now published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface!

Link: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...

Symposium & workshop on inequalities in infectious disease dynamics at LSHTM in April 2026. We aim to will bring together leading researchers and practitioners to share ideas, discuss recent advances, and reflect on future directions. Details & application: iddconf.org/lshtm-sympos... Closing 21 Jan

Lots of PhD positions on @iddjobs.org with Jan deadlines:

New evidence review identifies the most effective ways to increase vaccine uptake A comprehensive new review led by researchers from the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) in Evaluation and Behavioural Science at the University of Bristol, in collaboration with the HPRU [&...

📰News! A new evidence review identifies the most effective ways to increase vaccine uptake. 💉
The comprehensive review combined data from more than 200 trials comprising over 6 million participants.
More➡️ tinyurl.com/yuy7xse3 @ukhsa.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

Global Society for Infectious Disease Dynamics (GSIDD) | infectious disease dynamics GSIDD serves the global community of researchers, practitioners, and educators in infectious disease dynamics.

1/ 📰 Fantastic to see the official website for the Global Society for Infectious Disease Dynamics (GSIDD) is now live! #GSIDD #IDsky #EpiSky 🧪

🗺️ GSIDD serves the global community of researchers, practitioners and educators in infectious disease dynamics.

🔗: www.gsidd.org

Cabo Verde, Mauritius and Seychelles eliminate measles and rubella In a significant public health achievement, Cabo Verde, Mauritius and Seychelles have eliminated measles and rubella, becoming the first sub-Saharan countries to attain this milestone.

Excellent to see success and leadership in the AFRO region. For too long the refrain has been for AFRO to recapitulate the "PAHO Strategy" for elimination. PAHO's success was tremendous, but is now decades old and the world and tactics have changed. These counties can lead the charge for AFRO.

Jumping spiders can recognise one another. This ability to learn, remember and represent images is quite surprising for such a tiny-brained animal!
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Can you beat the snot monsters? Using an interactive game to engage with children and young people Discovery Day is the flagship event of the Futures Festival of Discovery. It is a free event aimed at showing children and young people what researchers at GW4 universities, including […]

Proud to be part of #FUTURES2025 Discovery Day! We used bubbles & our game “Can you beat the snot monsters?” to show children & young people how far germs travel & how public health research helps stop the spread. More➡️ tinyurl.com/3vjpz9hn @engagebristol.bsky.social @wethecurious.bsky.social

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Want to do a PhD on syphilis diagnostics? In collaboration with @uclglobalhealth.bsky.social & @ukhsa.bsky.social we have a funded studentship available via the Health Protection Research Unit on Blood Borne & Sexually Transmitted Infections.

Deadline for applications: Friday 5th December 2025.

Want to come and do a PhD on mathematical modelling & sexually transmitted infections?

Apply for an MRC funded PhD to come to @lshtm.bsky.social and work on understanding STI transmission dynamics in low resource settings & how we can optimise partner notification as a public health intervention.

Fig 3. (A) Adjusted time trends in SARS-CoV-2 wastewater viral load in seven regions of Switzerland (uncertainty is not shown for clarity). (B) Correlation between adjusted time trends in viral load and laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 hospitalisations in the same region. (C) Adjusted bias in viral load by wastewater treatment plant.

New Paper🚀! Our work analysing the Swiss national SARS-CoV-2 wastewater 🚱 monitoring data is now published in PLOS Water 💧 @plos.org journals.plos.org/water/articl... (Julien Riou, @tanjastadler.bsky.social @trj2.bsky.social Christoph Ort et al)

📰News!📰Great to see our collaborative research shared by
GOV.UK!
Thousands with undiagnosed hepatitis and HIV found in A&E testing.
Read more ➡️ tinyurl.com/y7h3d926 @jhorwood.bsky.social @nhsengland.bsky.social @ukhsa.bsky.social

A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control

New awareness campaign