Dr Gayatri Amirthalingam, UKHSA Consultant Epidemiologist, urges parents to get their babies vaccinated against #WhoopingCough following a sharp rise in cases across the UK.

Powerful discussions with the global public health community, leading to a call to action on the critical role of public health and social measures in health emergencies. Good to see equity, risk comms and community engagement at the heart. More to come linkedin.com/posts/tim-nguy…

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Culture Collections is now advertising for the position of Biosecurity manager, closing on the 26th of January 2023, based at the Porton Down site.
Get in contact if you are interested and find out more about the role here👉tinyurl.com/4yyxu4pd #Recruiting #SciComm #UKHSA

The best course of action if you are unwell with flu/COVID symptoms is to stay at home. If you do have to go out, avoid crowded places, avoid those at high risk, wear a mask, and be scrupulous with hand and respiratory hygiene gov.uk/guidance/peopl…

Very sad news. I had the great pleasure of working with Gul while heading the guidance team last year. Go well 🙏🏽
Tribute: Gulanar (Gul) Root - The Pharmaceutical Journal pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/news/t…

Are you interested in helping build a team that puts evidence at the heart of incident and outbreak management, public health advice, guidance and health security policy? We are recruiting! Take a look 👇🏼
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New interim clinical guidance on Group A streptococcus in children published today. Information on presentation, antibiotic use and management of iGAS. See england.nhs.uk/wp-content/upl…

Great reflections Beth Smout . Room for many leadership styles and we are all the richer for it as a specialty.

Delighted to have been involved with NPI chapter Emer O'Connell
Main takeaways:
1. people are amazing in willingness to follow advice & guidance
2. balance btwn harms of not undertaking measures and potential harms caused by measures is.. tricky
3. Public health = art + science

Lead Bioinformatician role @ukhsa with a focus on AMR and HCAI- come join us! Colin S Brown Katie Hopkins Russell Hope Dr. Alicia AliceLedda, PhD 💙 beta.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/joba…

We’ve been working with UK Health Security Agency to assess the risk of reverse transmission of #Monkeypox from humans to pets.

This will improve understanding of potential cross-species transmission and help us reduce the spread from humans to other animals. #APHAscience eurosurveillance.org/content/10.280…

Delighted to be supporting this important, cross-cutting work to address unfair and avoidable differences. No exception for health protection/health security/emergency response 👇🏼👇🏼

At the UKHSA 2022 conference in Leeds. Glad to be among public health specialists and scientists. Thanks to UK Health Security Agency #IHR_Strengthening project in Nigeria.Good to partner with NCDC and NRL Reference Lab team.

Assume there is a German word for feeling simultaneously invigorated and exhausted? #UKHSA22

Delighted to hear re: subject close to my heart - the work of UKHSA guidance team

Whilst gov.uk is a comprehensive platform there are ++ challenges re accessibility & understanding.

Let’s not repeat mistakes of the past

#UKHSA22 Dr Fatima Wurie, PhD PFPH 🇬🇧🇸🇱 Catherine Crawford

From needs assessment to a 5 year plan. These guys are flying the flag on health inequalities. Well done Diane Ashiru, PhD and team, I think we might steal your pledge idea Catherine Falconer

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