How have UK social contact patterns changed post-pandemic? How assortative are they by age, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status? Pleased to share our new @plosmedicine.org paper, jointly led by @lucygoodfellow.bsky.social and myself, with @kevinvzandvoort.bsky.social and John Edmunds. #IDSky

Symposium & workshop on inequalities in infectious disease dynamics at LSHTM in April 2026. We aim to will bring together leading researchers and practitioners to share ideas, discuss recent advances, and reflect on future directions. Details & application: iddconf.org/lshtm-sympos... Closing 21 Jan

New pre-print looking at social contacts and mixing by age, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status in the UK. We found that contacts have decreased since before COVID, but are up from figures found in 2022. We also show what this means for infectious disease dynamics in a novel pathogen outbreak 👇

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Got a number in mind? A new pre-print by @lshtm.bsky.social colleagues surveyed 13,000 participants, and found it's about 9 per day in the current era. It also looks at how social mixing varies with age, ethnicity and social economic status. Link to paper:

Great to see our work on the value of better influenza vaccines published in Plos Med today. Led by the amazingly talented @lucygoodfellow.bsky.social, together with @rozeggo.bsky.social, @markjit.bsky.social and other colleagues @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social and elsewhere. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

The potential global health impact and cost-effectiveness of next-generation influenza vaccines: A modelling analysis

Using influenza surveillance data, Lucy Goodfellow and colleagues model the potential global health impacts and cost effectiveness of next-generation influenza vaccines designed to increase efficacy a...

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Trump’s shocking plan for Gaza is an all-too-common approach. This is what must happen instead | Lucy Easthope

Far too often, developers treat rebuilding like colonising a planet. Instead, Palestinians must be at the heart of everything, and the sooner the better, says emergency adviser Lucy Easthope

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Happy to have played part in this with most of the hard work done by the amazing @lucygoodfellow.bsky.social and Carl Pearson. @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social

Justin Lessler@justinlessler.bsky.social · 2y ago

Congrats to team member Carl Pearson and his co-authors @lucygoodfellow.bsky.social and @mert0248.bsky.social. An important tool for a pervasive problem in modeling infectious disease data www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congrats to team member Carl Pearson and his co-authors @lucygoodfellow.bsky.social and @mert0248.bsky.social. An important tool for a pervasive problem in modeling infectious disease data www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

paramix : An R package for parameter discretisation in compartmental models, with application to calculating years of life lost

Compartmental infectious disease models are used to calculate disease transmission, estimate underlying rates, forecast future burden, and compare benefits across intervention scenarios. These models ...

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We used a transmission model to understand differences in Covid severity and mortality in different socioeconomic strata in England. The model had different demography and underlying health status by strata. Led by @lucygoodfellow.bsky.social bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

COVID-19 inequalities in England: a mathematical modelling study of transmission risk and clinical vulnerability by socioeconomic status - BMC Medicine

Background The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major inequalities in infection and disease burden between areas of varying socioeconomic deprivation in many countries, including England. Areas of higher...

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