Max Eyre

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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...

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.

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! 👇

Palestinians fleeing northern Gaza on 9 November 2023 amid Israel's bombardment and siege of the enclave, and intense fighting between the Israeli military and Hamas fighters in the north. Credit: Mohammed Zaanoun/TNH

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...

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

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.

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The intervention is making good progress, but in other areas inadequate drainage and unpaved roads persist, where standing water and mud create reservoirs for environmentally persistent pathogens. These increase the risk of diseases, like leptospirosis, especially during Salvador’s rainy season.

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

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👋 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.

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

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...

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...

Mitigating spatial confounding in observational studies | LSHTM As part of a seminar series in environmental epidemiology, Professor Brian Reich from the Department of Statistics at North Carolina State University will discuss approaches for mitigating spatial

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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

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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

More info + webinar link -> www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

Open to all!

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

bookdown.org/ansellbr/WEH... Enjoy!

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/...

@elliedelight.bsky.social

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!

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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