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Knowledge of infection levels, community engagement, public health capacity, health system capacity, and border control measures. Five factors experts are urging governments to consider in lockdown exit strategies, in a new study published in The...

Antimicrobial resistance threatens one of the most important infrastructures created in the past century: antibiotics. At first glance, it may seem odd to think of antibiotics as infrastructure. Think again. These drugs are everywhere. So engrained...

Professor Joy Lawn, Director of the March Centre and an African born paediatrician and epidemiologist will provide an overview of births around the world. This talk will provide the latest data, evidence and debates, highlighting some of the...

Long before COVID brought mathematical models to the forefront of news sites worldwide, modelling was used extensively to inform policy for animal and human health. In this talk, Joaquin will briefly cover his latest work on informing the WHO...

We need to understand human behaviour better. The COVID-19 crisis has starkly revealed the lack of agreement about what human behaviour is, what causes it, or, most importantly, how to change it. In this inaugural lecture, Professor Val...

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The British Army in India had a serious and enduring problem with venereal disease. At any given point across the nineteenth century, roughly 25% of its European troops were in hospital, with some form of what were known as ‘vice’-related illnesses,...

Every two seconds someone in the world is forcibly displaced as a result of conflict, violence or persecution. These populations affected by conflict are particularly vulnerable to psychosocial distress and much higher levels of mental disorders,...

Antiretroviral therapy (ART) failure and drug resistance are extremely common in patients living with HIV who are admitted to hospital in Malawi, according to new research published in The Lancet HIV. The observational study involving more than...

They are two of only eight new research projects awarded funding from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), totalling £5.3 million collectively. All the projects aim to help inform policy decisions...

The new research mapping global trends in vaccine confidence across 149 countries between 2015 and 2019, published in The Lancet, is based on data from over 284,000 adults (aged 18 years and older) surveyed about their views on whether vaccines are...