Dr Charlotte Hammer

It is incredibly exciting to have our first cohort of MPhil students starting this month. After what feels like an age of planning and admissions, we got to finally meet them on Wednesday, and what a fantastic group they are 🎉

🦠 New #Ebola outbreak declared in Kasai (DRC): 35 cases, 16 deaths so far.
Rapid response by @WHO, @UNICEF & partners underway.
A stark reminder of the need for strong #biosafety, #research infrastructures & preparedness.
#GlobalHealth #ERINHA

Read more:
https://thelancet.pulse.ly/gnmixfglz9

We’re looking forward to welcoming the very first cohort of our MPhil in Global Risk and Resilience next week!
Ahead of the start of term, we’d like to reintroduce our education team.

Find out more about the MPhil here: www.cser.ac.uk/education/mp...

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Happy to share that I am starting a new position as Assistant Teaching Professor and Course Director of the MPhil in Translational Medical Research in @MedCambridge 🎉. Applications open on friday so do share in your networks www.med.cam.ac.uk/study/mphil-translational-medical-research

More details on #Ebola outbreak in DRC:
Index case was a pregnant woman (in third trimester), who came to Bulape General Reference Hospital on 20 August with fever, bleeding, bloody diarrhea. She died on August 25.
Then two health care workers, who first had contact with her, developed symptoms...

#Fieldepi training has set me up for a wonderful and varied career at the forefront of global health security.

At the same time I get to lead exciting research collaborations and projects focused on developing our abilities to detect and respond to infectious diseases in a time of conflict, climate change, and overall change.

I get to teach both our students in Cambridge as well as field epidemiologists across Europe and further afield.

My research focuses on epidemic and pandemic risks in a destabilised world. In my current job, I do research, build partnerships and bridges between researchers and practitioners, work on exciting research translation and capacity building projects and so much more.
hammercc.github.io

Even better, shoe leather epidemiology and academic excellence are not mutually exclusive!
Interactions between #Fieldepi and academia can be mutually extremely enriching. I am a field epidemiologist and an Assistant Professor @cser.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk and fellow @downingcollege.bsky.social.

Happy #WorldFieldEpidemiologyDay #WFED2025! Field epi remains one of the most rewarding and challenging (in a good way) careers I can think of.
Field epidemiologists provide the evidence necessary for action, field epidemiology is the backbone of responding to a public health emergency.

Registration and the call for abstract submissions for #GHS2026 are officially open!

Do you have research, insights, or innovative work to share in advancing global health security? Submit your abstract and join us in Malaysia to be part of this vital global conversation.

👉 ghsconf.com

Book launch!

Please join the CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Health Security on Wednesday, September 10, from 4 to 6 pm EDT for the book launch of "The Big One: How We Must Prepare for Future Deadly Pandemics," the latest from @mtosterholm & Mark Olshaker

www.csis.org/events/...

The 16th Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in Bulape Health Zone, Kasai, Democratic Republic of the Congo: A new spillover event from an unknown reservoir host Background The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is currently facing concurrent outbreaks including mpox, cholera and malaria (1-4). The Ministry of Public Health, DRC has declared the 16th Ebola...

In under 24h following the newly identified outbreak of #Ebola in the DRC, the virus has been isolated, sequenced and the virus sequence data made publicly available.
virological.org/t/the-16th-e...

Democratic Republic of Congo declares Ebola outbreak in Kasai province with 28 suspected cases and 15 deaths; information on index case provided by DRC's National Institute of Public Health
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New global collaboration uses experts and AI to spot the next pandemic | CEPI Combining AI programmes and disease knowledge can help more accurately rank the viruses that have the potential to cause the next pandemic.

📣We're working with experts at VISTA (UC Davis) and BEACON (@buceid.bsky.social) to combine their AI and infectious disease knowledge to more accurately rank the viruses that have the potential to cause the next deadly pandemic.

We’re excited to be preparing for the arrival of our new MPhil students this October!🌟

Interested in joining the 2026/27 cohort? Applications will open on 3rd September 2025, learn more about the course here: www.cser.ac.uk/education/mp...

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Excited to say we’re hiring 😊. We’re looking for a post-doc in ancient pathogen genomics to join our friendly supportive team in London at @ugiatucl.bsky.social. Start date January 2026.

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Poster abstract submission for our Scientific Meeting is open until the 29th August. Posters must cover an aspect of emerging threats or pandemic science, and we particularly encourage posters that show cross-collaborative working. Find out more here:
www.thepandemicinstitute.org/news/poster-...

An image showing the ARTIC and Pathoplexus logos connected by blue lines, with the text "Hiring: post-doc/software engineer" and "Global open-source pathogen tools" and "Join Swiss TPH, Work on ARTIC2 and Pathoplexus, Basel, Switzerland"

📢New job posting!📢
Are you excited by the idea of building global infrastructure to make pathogen sequencing more accessible, interpretable, and equitable? 🧑🏻‍💻🧬

My group at @swisstph.ch has an opening working with ARTIC2, @pathoplexus.org, & Loculus - read on!

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Two PhD studentships available in real-time infectious disease modelling, jointly with LSHTM, Imperial and UKHSA. January 2026 start + 3.5 years of funding: www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

Registrations for ESCAIDE 2025 are now open! You can register to join us both in person in Warsaw and online on 19-21 November.

We invite the #EpiSky and #MedSky community to join Europe's leading #publichealth conference.

Learn more: www.escaide.eu/en/attendees...

Considering the significant impact of conflict and instability on infectious disease risk (and vice versa) decisions like this to shift funding from development aid in this area to defense is not only very sad but also rather short sighted.

This is really cool but also a cautionary tale about zooanthroponotic transmission at the interface between human and animals. Without surveillance, viruses can hop back and forth and evolve in unpredictable ways

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Postdoctoral Fellowship in Pandemic Prevention & Global Health Security

Terrific chance to work with @drejoanneliu.bsky.social & @tivabaral.bsky.social at @mcgill.ca!!

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Getting Ahead of the Curve at the International Pandemic Sciences Conference 2025!

Takeaways:
🔹 Relevance of preparedness with One Health focus
🔹 Pandemic Agreement as an Advocacy tool
🔹 Need for Implementation Science
🔹 Solidarity ≠ Charity

See you in Singapore'26!

#PandemicSciences25 #SORMAS

From coop to cave: Inside the high-tech hunt for H5N1 and Disease X The Telegraph joined scientists in Cambodia’s vibrant wet markets and vast bat caves to test revolutionary new disease surveillance tools

The Virology Unit at IPC is constantly working to make surveillance/Early Warning faster, better, cheaper — from air sampling to portable labs. Happy to have our work featured in this @telegraphnews.bsky.social article by @sneweyy.bsky.social 🦠🧪🐓💉🥼😷

Read more: www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

I'm thrilled that today I returned to UCLA as an Assistant Professor-in-Residence in the Division of Infectious Diseases.

I’m building an interdisciplinary team focused on globally emerging zoonotic and vector-borne diseases. More info soon!
#IDsky
#EpiSky
#SciSky
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And now also with the correct hashtag #PandemicSciences25