RECOVERY update:

49,000 pts enrolled.

And on Sunday 31st March, we closed the final COVID comparisons.

We continue to study treatments for flu & community-acquired pneumonia.

And are ready to respond to future outbreaks if needs be.

Thank you to so many for so much support.

International collaboration is vitally important to protect the world from future pandemic threats.

We were delighted to welcome a delegation from Belgium yesterday to explore UK-Belgian collaboration on vaccine research 🇧🇪🇬🇧

Read the full story 👇
psi.ox.ac.uk/news-and-opini…

Thank you to everyone who joined yesterday's Pandemic PACT launch, hosted with GloPID-R & UKCDR.

The new tool will:
✅ support funders to channel resources where they are needed most
✅ strengthen global #pandemic preparedness.

Read the full story 👇
psi.ox.ac.uk/news-and-opini…

Together with GloPID-R, today we’ve launched Pandemic PACT, a new tool to track global funding for pandemic research.

🔗 Explore the tool:
pandemicpact.org

➡️ Find out how Pandemic PACT is supporting pandemic preparedness via The Lancet:
thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Join GloPID-R tomorrow for the online launch of Pandemic PACT, a new tool that tracks data about research funding & evidence for diseases with #pandemic potential.

➡️ 20 March | 13.30-15.30 GMT
➡️ Register | bit.ly/3OxJKW0

Catch up with 17 episodes of 'The Oxford Colloquy' podcast, featuring Sir Andrew Pollard.

Explore captivating stories and insights into infectious diseases, vaccines, and pandemics.

🎙️Tune in now! tinyurl.com/2rj434k3

Pandemic Sciences Institute Medical Sciences University of Oxford
Department of Paediatrics

This week Ox IHTM Masters students presented policy briefings on urgent global health issues to APPG on Malaria and NTDs at the Houses of Parliament.

They were joined by assignment leader PSI's Alice Norton, alongside Adebisi B Adenipekun & Nicolas Pulik.

More 👇
tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/news/ihtm-pres…

The new Pandemic PACT programme tracks data about research funding and evidence for diseases with #pandemic potential.

Join our partners GloPID-R for the launch event to learn more about the new tool:

🗓️ 20 March | 13.30-15.30 GMT
📍 Online

Register 👇
bit.ly/3OxJKW0

Happy 100th birthday to Oxford's History of Science Museum 🎉

Thank you History of Science Museum for sharing behind-the-scenes stories from University of Oxford's life-saving #COVID19 vaccine with so many visitors.

Visit the virtual exhibition to find out more ➡️
hsm.ox.ac.uk/what-if-you-we…

There are just a few hours left to submit an abstract for the International #Pandemic Sciences Conference this summer in historic Oxford.

⌛️ Abstract & bursary deadline: Mon 26 Feb 23.59 GMT
🗓️ Conference: 1–2 July

Apply now ⬇️
psi.ox.ac.uk/conference24

We're in Uganda this week for a World Health Organization (WHO) & Ministry of Health- Uganda meeting on future #filovirus outbreaks 🇺🇬

PSI colleagues are pleased to have joined regional efforts from 18 countries to harmonise and accelerate vaccine and treatment trials for #Ebola and #Marburg .

📢 NEWS: Study reveals high number of persistent COVID-19 infections

New nature paper by Mahan Ghafari | ماهان غفاری & Katrina Lythgoe finds persistent #COVID19 infections are:
➡️Much more common than previously thought
➡️Linked to higher risk of #LongCovid .

More👇
psi.ox.ac.uk/news/study-rev…

'There are several distinctive characteristics of Nipah virus that raise important ethical questions, many of which are not present for other priority pathogens.'
Pandemic Sciences Institute Ethox Centre MORU

📢 NEWS: We've extended the deadline for abstract submission & bursary applications for the International Pandemic Sciences Conference 2024.

➡️ Abstract & bursary deadline: 26 February
➡️ Conference: 1-2 July

Apply now for a chance to share your work 👇
psi.ox.ac.uk/conference24

Last week students on University of Oxford's MSc International Health & Tropical Medicine programme explored the #WickedProblem of pandemics, in a focused day led by PSI's Alice Norton.

Find out what they discussed ⬇️
psi.ox.ac.uk/news/pandemics…

Tropical Medicine Oxford Nuffield Department of Medicine

From early work on #HIV & SARS-CoV-1, through to leading the RECOVERY trial of COVID-19 treatments, our Director Peter Horby gives Andrew Pollard an insight into his life-saving work in this latest Oxford Vaccine Group podcast.

🎧 Listen now:
podcasts.ox.ac.uk/pandemic-peopl…

In collaboration with Brazilian universities, professors from Pandemic Sciences Institute and Oxford Vaccine Group will teach #TranslationalScience to 🇧🇷 students. The course will help future researchers to translate their discoveries #FromBenchToBedside .

Find out more 👉 ndm.ox.ac.uk/news/new-colla…

📢 Call for abstracts!

Abstract submissions are open for the International Pandemic Sciences Conference 2024 on 1-2 July in Oxford & online.

📅 Submission deadline: 19 Feb

Find all the info you need on our conference website ➡️
web.cvent.com/event/2e7cb90c…

#PandemicSciences24

🗨️ 'I'd love to work somewhere like this'

☝️Great to hear feedback from a Y12 student at our recent #ScienceCareers workshop.

Students solved a theoretical Pandemic Scenario, taking on roles of vaccinologists, healthcare leaders & policymakers.

More ⬇️
sites.google.com/thecooperschoo…