Exciting 4-yr Postdoc opportunity on our new project (DRIVERS): Identifying drivers of #schistosomiasis treatment failure & recommendations for treatment strategies.

PDRA will analyse individual-level factors behind poor efficacy & reinfection.

www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

Apply by 26 Jan.

1,2,3… and we’re live!

Excited to share that our much anticipated project #WickedSchisto has officially kicked off in Uganda!

This is an interdisciplinary project, aimed at developing a framework to identify cost-effective interventions for #WASH-associated diseases.

New blog post where @praiseadeyemo.bsky.social and I explore the relationship between ecological modelling and field ecology 🌱 Thanks to everyone at @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk who took part in our survey!

Infectious Disease Ecology (IDE) 2025 Away Day: Where Science Meets the Beauty of Nature “You can do it!” Those were the words a group of graduate students I had gone hiking with somewhere near Loch Lomond had said to me. Why, you wonder? Well, I had joined them on a 90-minute hike aro…

New Naturally Speaking Blog!

'Infectious Disease Ecology (IDE) 2025 Away Day: Where Science Meets the Beauty of Nature'

This time, PhD student Praise Adeyemo (@praiseadeyemo.bsky.social) recounts her experience at the IDE theme away day.

Read here! naturallyspeaking.blog/2025/02/20/i...

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This #WorldNTDDay, we are reminded to UNITE with other researchers, governments and professionals as we generate evidence that drives action. By translating research into practice, we empower implementers to ACT, bringing us closer to our goal to ELIMINATE #NTDs.

#BeatNTDs

WHO verifies Niger as the first country in the African Region to eliminate onchocerciasis The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Niger for having met the criteria for onchocerciasis elimination, making it the fifth country globally and the first country in Africa to be acknowled...

📢 @who.int verifies #Niger 🇳🇪 as the first country in the African Region 🌍 to eliminate #onchocerciasis ( #RiverBlindness) 🪰

#WorldNTDDay #UniteActEliminate #BeatNTDs #EndTheNeglect

www.who.int/news/item/30...

🎉It's #WorldNTDDay! 1.5 billion people remain affected by Neglected Tropical Diseases. We are proud to join the collective movement to #UniteActEliminate and #EndNTDs!

💡 @praiseadeyemo.bsky.social is a PhD student at the lab researching facilitators & barriers to implementing #NTD policies. B4 her PhD, she worked on #HealthSystemsStrengthening & #AMR in Nigeria. She previously researched #OneHealth economic implications of #livestockschistosomiasis in N. Senegal

Hi Anouk, thank you.
I think @lamberton-lab.bsky.social should be added. The lab has a lot of ECRs and established researchers working on different NTD topics 😊

The relationship between expelled eggs, morbidity and age: Implications for current Schistosoma mansoni elimination policies Direct morbidity assessments are rarely included in monitoring and evaluation of Schistosoma mansoni control programmes. Instead, the number of eggs-per-gram (EPG) of faeces is used as a proxy for mor...

One of our PhD students @rivkamlim.bsky.social just submitted her second PhD chapter for publication, check out the preprint. Here she has interesting results on the relationship between #Schistosoma mansoni expelled eggs and morbidity eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...