Michael Marks

I dont think this is true for all in the NHS. As a consultant my London Weighting (Central London job) is ~2K and this is true for Resident Doctors too. Different perhaps for those on Agenda for Change.

2025 World AIDS Day RED RUN - PrEPster Help Michael Marks raise money to support Positive East

I'm going to be doing a 10K run for charity later this year on World AIDS day raising money for @thelovetankcic.bsky.social a fabulous UK sexual health community organisation.

Any and all donations to a very worthwhile cause gratefully received!

And most other trials have not found a positive effect. Of course there may be true reasons for differences in effect sizes but I think the role of ivermectin remains a bit unclear for this indication given the mixed findings.

Nothing better than talking syphilis! Thanks @ukhsa.bsky.social @thelovetankcic.bsky.social @typemat12.bsky.social @nicolelieberman.bsky.social @manikkohli.bsky.social & others who came to kick off my NIHR Professorship. Looking forward to working with you & communities to improve UK Sexual Health

I once wrote a piece of code called "analyse_that" (or jokingly as 'Make Table 2') You gave it a string of variables and it did stepwise regression for you (hidden in background) and outputted a formatted table.
Methodologically garbage & never used but learning to write the function was valuable.

But not for your students! (& also owned by Clarivate) Same rationale (even if less extreme) as to why R > Stata. I want to teach my PhD students to use software they can use wherever they are.

Also Zotero can do this. And is free!

Excited to announce our new grant focused on using proteomic arrays to look at differences in humoral responses between T.pallidum pallidum (syphilis) & T.pallidum pertenue (yaws) to see if we can develop better tests for both diseases.

Another collaboration with the great @oriolmitja.bsky.social!

Evaluating clinical decision rules and rapid diagnostic tests for the diagnosis of Streptococcus pyogenes pharyngitis in Gambian children: a diagnostic accuracy study Accurate diagnosis of Streptococcus pyogenes (S. pyogenes) pharyngitis is imperative in high rheumatic heart disease-burden countries. We aimed to assess the diagnostic accuracy of two rapid diagnosti...

Latest from @mrcunitgambia.bsky.social #StrepA group. Show clinical decision rules developed elsewhere (mostly HIC) have poor performance in Gambia & molecular tests detect far more #StrepA than culture. Given burden of RhD in Africa we urgently need better & affordable tests for #StrepA diagnosis

As always this is incredibly valuable. Do you have any references for the concept of an adaptive sample size 'leaking information'?

Suggestions for good papers on approach to adaptive sample size calculations in trials? Two arm trial where some key parameters have reasonable uncertainty & plausible that might want at interim analysis to adjust sample size and/or declare futility.

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Job Opportunity at LSHTM: Research Assistant The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working i...

Come & work with me @benvyle.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social & @thelovetankcic.bsky.social Research Assistant with funded PhD within multidisciplinary project on Syphilis & STI control in the UK. Working with us to understand stakeholder & community perspectives on novel STI control strategies

Richly deserved @kkranzer.bsky.social! Incredible clarity of thought & precision of action & a mind that can jump from TB transmission to mercury poisoning to AMR to HIV implementation science & all in 5 minutes! Truly committed to training next generation of scientists.
Many many congratulations

📣 ID/HIV Job opportunity: ST3+ Infectious Diseases Clinical Fellow at University College London Hospital/Hospital for Tropical Diseases from September 2025. Deadline 1/7/25 www.nhsjobs.com/job/UK/Londo...

Possibly but also weirdly some people have got the forms showing on the App in French and some in English.....

The team read French. The issue is that the forms aren't showing up in French on the mobile app (as per my post above).

Does anyone have suggestions/a fix for why
1) On REDCAP the default language is set to French
2) On the web-interface the forms display in French
3) On the mobile-app the forms Display in English...
????

God Only Knows - Remastered 1996 The Beach Boys · Pet Sounds (Original Mono & Stereo Mix) · Song · 1966

RIP Brian.
❤️

Thanks to all my co-editors for embracing this change, to the authors who stepped up and helped us deliver a great textbook to train future clinicians. Thanks to @CambridgeUP for supporting the process & providing a low cost edition to support access where it is needed. 8/8.

Some reflections. Change is hard. I had to accept we won't close entire gap in one go but doesn't mean we shouldn't have that ambition. Expect criticism from those who don't like your change (Im happy these people are wrong) & those who think you havent achieved enough (Im sure they are right) 7/N

As the new edition comes out, what is the result? 5th Edition has many many more African authors than non-African authors. We are down to <5% chapters without an African author & similarly very few without a female author. 50% to 5% is great progress but clearly the journey is not complete 6/N

We knew we couldn't expect change to come passively. So when we approached authors for the 5th Edition we were deliberate in thinking about who we approached & in providing guidance to senior authors about how we wanted the authorship list of their chapters to change in the new edition 5/N

The first step was to look at our editors as change has to flow from the top. I'm delighted that the 5th Edition has our first 2 female editors and 3 African editors. Collectively everyone embraced the option for change the new edition gave 4/N

I started by reviewing the authorship of every chapter in the previous edition. Overall ~50% of chapters had no African authors and a similar proportion had no female authors. None of the editors were African and all were male. 3/N

Previous editions had been led by some fantastic academics and clinicians with deep experience living and working in Africa but all the editors were from the Global North. I agreed to help but only on condition that we would attempt to truly rebalance the writing of the new edition 2/N

Principles of Medicine in Africa Cambridge Core - Internal Medicine - Principles of Medicine in Africa

Out today 5th ed. Principles of Medicine in Africa!

A few years ago I was asked to help edit new edition. Its a great book & used by several African medical schools. Still, I wasn't sure how I felt: These days I'm mostly in UK & not sure we need more books by people like me on medicine in Africa 🧵

What exactly is it that you do anyway, Michael? with Professor Michael Marks | Professor Michael Marks’ inaugural lecture will explore his portfolio of research in global health, starting from his time as a clinical fellow at LSHTM living and working in the Pacific to his

Inaugural recording @lshtm.bsky.social now online.

Thanks to collaborators across years & around world who made it possible.

Thanks to participants who have taken part in all our studies.

Most importantly love & thanks to @sarahvmarks.bsky.social who has supported me through good times & bad.

Kicking off #Medicine2025 Chris Whitty highlights that social deprivation is associated not only with a much shorter life span but also with far fewer years of life lived in good health.

Prevent Syphilis Global Network | Join the Fight Now

Excited to see launch of Prevent Syphilis - a global network of clinicians, academics & advocates dedicated to elimination of mother to child transmission of syphilis.

We have exciting trials in works & are looking for opportunities for partnerships & collaborations to drive forward this agenda.

What exactly is it that you do anyway, Michael? with Professor Michael Marks | Professor Michael Marks’ inaugural lecture will explore his portfolio of research in global health, starting from his time as a clinical fellow at LSHTM living and working in the Pacific to his

Tomorrow (29th May) I will be giving my inaugural lecture @lshtm.bsky.social Open to people who are in London & online for those who are not.

Hugely grateful to a wonderful array of collaborators & colleagues around the world whose work really underpins the research I will be talking about.