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As of 8 June 2026: 736 #measles cases in England this year with 2 deaths
Ben Kasstan-Dabush: “The immediate priority now is to ensure timely catch-up of under vaccinated children, and that school-age children are brought up to schedule as efficiently as possible."
www.thesun.co.uk/health/39372...
Cuts to #anaemia prevention efforts put women's lives at risk
Judith Lieber tells @the-independent.com: “Women with anaemia are particularly vulnerable to negative birth outcomes, such as stillbirths, postpartum haemorrhage and death." #PublicHealth
www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
📚 For UK #Pride month we talked to Layla McCay about how her studies at LSHTM inspired her to write about #LGBTQ+ perspectives.
She said: “LSHTM was where I learned to turn my research into publishable writing..."
Read more in her @lshtmalumni.bsky.social blog post: www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/alum...
📚 For UK #Pride month we talked to Layla McCay about how her studies at LSHTM inspired her to write about #LGBTQ+ perspectives.
She said: “LSHTM was where I learned to turn my research into publishable writing..."
Read more in her @lshtmalumni.bsky.social blog post: www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/alum...
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16 June 2026: Global Health Policy
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Peter Piot awarded Virchow Prize 2026 🏅
LSHTM’s former Director honoured with Jean-Jacques Muyembe for exceptional leadership in global epidemic preparedness over 50 years
It recognises the pair’s leadership since their co-discovery of #Ebola in 1976
More 👉 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
Peter Piot awarded Virchow Prize 2026 🏅
LSHTM’s former Director honoured with Jean-Jacques Muyembe for exceptional leadership in global epidemic preparedness over 50 years
It recognises the pair’s leadership since their co-discovery of #Ebola in 1976
More 👉 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
Screwworm in the US:
Cheryl Whitehorn tells @aljazeera.com right now identifying & isolating of cases, eliminating larvae & controlling movement of animals is key:
"A programme of sterile male release is the best long-term method of controlling this fly.”
👉 www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/...
Screwworm in the US:
Cheryl Whitehorn tells @aljazeera.com right now identifying & isolating of cases, eliminating larvae & controlling movement of animals is key:
"A programme of sterile male release is the best long-term method of controlling this fly.”
👉 www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/...
Exclusive: Data from the UN shows that the money spent on supplies of folic acid, which can help reduce the risk of anaemia and then possible haemorrhage or stillbirth, is falling – at least in part t...
