New paper in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases @plos.org on #Toxoplasma gondii exposure among children and adolescents in an urban informal settlement in Salvador, Brazil. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Social marginalisation, environmental degradation and Toxoplasma gondii exposure in urban informal settlements in Brazil

Author summary Toxoplasma gondii is a parasite that infects a large proportion of the global population and can cause severe disease when infection occurs during pregnancy. However, little is known ab...

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🌱 Announcing our new symposium, where we'll look at the latest advances in linked environmental & #HealthData research Join us for a day of talks on the latest research, as well as open discussions on challenges and future directions #PublicHealth Register 🔽 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

Excited to share our new research exploring gender and environmental health in four flood-prone communities in Salvador, Brazil. The study examines exposure pathways to leptospirosis through perceptions of disease and high-risk behaviours, using a sex-disaggregated and causally informed approach.

Gender differences in Leptospira exposure risk, perceptions of disease severity, and high-risk behaviours in Salvador, Brazil: A cross-sectional study

Vulnerability to climate hazards and infectious diseases is not gender-neutral, meaning that men, women, and other gender identities experience different risks. Leptospirosis is a zoonotic climate-sen...

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New paper out in @plosglobalpublichealth.org from EHG PhD student @elliedelight.bsky.social exploring how gender, perceptions of disease severity, and behaviours shape zoonotic spillover risk in urban Brazil. See below! 👇

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Excited to share our new research exploring gender and environmental health in four flood-prone communities in Salvador, Brazil. The study examines exposure pathways to leptospirosis through perceptions of disease and high-risk behaviours, using a sex-disaggregated and causally informed approach.

LSHTM's Director writes to UK Government about #Gaza public health catastrophe Professor Liam Smeeth's letter to the Prime Minister & Foreign Secretary urges action to prevent a greater #PublicHealth disaster: 👉 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

A call from LSHTM urging the UK government to act now: stop the genocide in Gaza and prevent the public health catastrophe there from worsening. www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

LSHTM's Director writes to UK Government about Gaza public health catastrophe |

To: Rt Hon Sir Keir Starmer and Rt Hon Mr David Lammy MPDear Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary,As Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) I feel it is my duty to write

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Great morning spent with CONDER officials and collaborators at UFBA’s Institute of Collective Health, reviewing progress on the intervention we're evaluating for our project: ‘Simplified sewerage to interrupt multiple transmission pathways of environmental and zoonotic diseases in urban communities’

Excellent presentation today by @elliedelight.bsky.social to researchers at the Institute of Collective Health (Federal University of Bahia, Brazil) on her PhD studying vulnerability to environmentally persistent zoonoses ('ZAPs' in Portuguese!) during flooding events.

🚨 New EHG publication! 🚽 Manual pit latrine emptying is vital but costly EHG’s Hiroaki Tomoi, @laurabraun.bsky.social & Oliver Cumming worked with collaborators to identify barriers & enablers to applying a group-based service model to manual emptying 🔍 Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...

🎙️ Check out our interview with @pmasselot.bsky.social and @maxeyre.bsky.social who discuss their recent seminar series focusing on causal inference in environmental epidemiology Read more 🔽 www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

👋 Hi Bluesky. We’re the Centre for Data and Statistical Science for Health (DASH) at @lshtm.bsky.social We are the hub for data and statistical science in LSHTM, applying our expertise and data science resources to the biggest problems in global health Find out more about us 👇

LSHTM DASH Centre is on Bluesky. We have done a cool seminar series on Causal Inference for Environmental Epidemiology for the Centre so check it out.

Data & Statistical Science for Health, LSHTM@lshtm-dash.bsky.social · last yr.

👋 Hi Bluesky. We’re the Centre for Data and Statistical Science for Health (DASH) at @lshtm.bsky.social We are the hub for data and statistical science in LSHTM, applying our expertise and data science resources to the biggest problems in global health Find out more about us 👇

Good morning from the DCD retreat @lshtm.bsky.social @lshtm-ehg.bsky.social @jackieknee.bsky.social @lshtm-malaria.bsky.social @maxeyre.bsky.social @laurabraun.bsky.social @rdreibe.bsky.social @mrcunitgambia.bsky.social

Good piece about three bacterial diseases that are constantly drawing the short straw for attention even in the NTD world journals.plos.org/plosntds/art...

Leptospirosis, melioidosis, and rickettsioses in the vicious circle of neglect

The global priorities in the field of infectious diseases are constantly changing. While emerging viral infections have regularly dominated public health attention, which has only intensified after th...

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Reminder! Tomorrow (Wednesday) @ 3PM (UK) - 3rd DASH @lshtm.bsky.social series talk on Causal Inference in Environmental Epidemiology! Prof. Brian Reich from NCSU will discuss approaches for mitigating spatial confounding in observational studies. Link below! #CausalInference #spatial #epi

Reminder! Today @ 3PM (UK) - 2nd DASH series talk on Causal Inference in Environmental Epidemiology! @lshtm.bsky.social Dr. Heejun Shin & Michael Cork from @harvardchanschool.bsky.social will discuss innovative methods for studying the health effects of air pollution #CausalInference #CausalSky

Reminder! Today at 3PM (UK) the DASH series on 'Causal Inference in Environmental Epidemiology' kicks off! @lshtm.bsky.social . Dr Marie-Abèle Bind from @harvardmed.bsky.social will discuss using causal inference to understand how environmental exposures impact health. #CausalInference #CausalSky'

Seminar series on ‘Causal Inference in Environmental Epidemiology’ hosted by the DASH Centre, with experts from Harvard, North Carolina State, and LSHTM. First seminar on 22 January (15:00 - 16:00). Info and links: www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e... #CausalInference #LSHTM #AirPollution #DataScience

Interested in a PhD on predicting vector-borne disease epidemics? Want to work with @adamjkucharski.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social and the Barcelona global health resilience group? Check out this opportunity: mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk/2025-26-proj... @emiliefinch.bsky.social @chloefletcher.bsky.social

Non-native English speakers need 50% more time to write a paper When they do, they face a 2.5 times higher chance of being rejected because of language journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Eco-epi data collection for our RGHI study with @oficialfiocruz.bsky.social in Salvador has begun! We're collecting soil, water, animal & human samples to study how sanitation in low-income urban areas impacts zoonotic pathogen transmission Read more here: tinyurl.com/3kr73neb @lshtm.bsky.social

Starter pack of researchers from EHG - the Environmental Health Group at LSHTM. There are >30 of us in EHG and our numbers are growing on Bluesky! go.bsky.app/TjBK8HU

EHG is on Bluesky! The Environmental Health Group at @lshtm.bsky.social is a team of ~30 multidisciplinary academics whose research focuses how WASH influences health and wellbeing, and how investments in these services can improve people’s lives. Read more about our work: tinyurl.com/3m4zh4sn