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Researcher in mathematical epidemiology & infectious disease modelling.
Affiliations: Civic Health Innovation Labs (CHIL) @livunichil.bsky.social, @thepandemicinst.bsky.social, @livuni-phps.bsky.socialโฌ, @livuni-iph.bsky.social, @liverpooluni.bsky.social.
๐ฐ A free chickenpox vaccination will be offered for first time to children across England on the NHS from January 2026.
๐ press release: www.gov.uk/government/n...
๐ Scientists comments to @smclondon.bsky.social: www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-react...
#IDSky #EpiSky #PublicHealth ๐งช
A free chickenpox vaccination will be offered for the first time to children across England on the NHS from January.
๐ฐ DEFRA avian influenza update on 28 Aug 2025 #IDEpi #OneHealth ๐งช
๐ฆ HPAI H5N1 confirmed in other captive birds at premises near Evercreech, Somerset.
๐ 77 confirmed HPAI H5N1 cases in poultry & other captive birds in UK from 04 Nov 2024. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ England: 68 ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Scotland: 3 ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ Wales: 2 ๐ฌ๐ง Northern Ireland: 4
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 was confirmed in other captive birds on 28 August 2025.
4/ Health Data Decoded
๐๏ธ Civic Health Innovation Labs (@livunichil.bsky.social) podcast discussing how we can use civic data to improve public health.
๐ง Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/1kbSyvI...
๐น YouTube: www.youtube.com/@HealthDataD...
๐๏ธ Next episode scheduled to release Fri 26 Sep 2025!
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Welcome to Health Data Decoded! A podcast series from the Civic Health Innovation Labs (CHIL), based at the University of Liverpool. CHIL is an interdisciplinary research centre tackling global hea...
3/ Health Economic and Equity at Liverpool (HEEL)
๐ฃ๏ธ We also discuss with Liz and Will their involvement in the HEEL research group.
๐ HEEL: www.liverpool.ac.uk/population-h...
2/ Research in Health Economics
๐ฃ๏ธ We chat with Liz and Will about the role of health economists within interdisciplinary research.
๐ Lizโs research profile: www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/eliza...
๐ Willโs research profile: www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/willi...
1/ ๐ง New 'Health Data Decoded' episode! ๐ง #SciComm #DataScience
โ How do health economists contribute to interdisciplinary research projects?
๐ฅ Our guests: Liz Camacho & Will Whittaker, Senior Lecturers in Health Economics at UoL.
๐น YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0AN...
๐ episode on Spotify๐
3/ Resources
Report ๐: www.gov.uk/government/s...
National flu & COVID-19 surveillance data: 28 August 2025 (week 35)
๐: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68b032...
National flu & COVID-19 surveillance reports: 2025 to 2026 season repository
๐: www.gov.uk/government/s...
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National influenza (flu) and COVID-19 report, monitoring COVID-19 activity, seasonal flu and other seasonal respiratory illnesses.
2/ Influenza activity level (AL) indicators
๐ฌ Lab surveillance influenza positivity: โฌ๏ธ (AL: Baseline)
๐ฅผ GP swabbing positivity: โ๏ธ (AL: Baseline)
1/ Seasonal influenza summary from latest @ukhsa.bsky.social surveillance report
๐๏ธ Based on data up to week 34 2025 (18- 24 Aug 2025)
๐ Seasonal influenza activity in England at baseline levels, as is typical at this part of the calendar year #IDSky #EpiSky ๐งช
Report ๐: www.gov.uk/government/s...
Postdoc (anywhere in the UK) Modelling traumatic events and mass injury syndromic surveillance with Thomas Finnie at UKHSA More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2352
