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Zika: Q&A with the medical anthropologist
Sharon Abramowitz, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Center for African Studies, University of Florida What do you do? As a medical anthropologist in West Africa, I teach, research...
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Zika: Q&A with the climate expert
Madeleine Thomson directs the WHO Collaborating Centre on Malaria Early Warning Systems and Other Climate Sensitive Diseases at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), Earth...
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What we need to find out about Zika and pregnancy
Researchers across the world are urgently studying the virus to understand more about its effects on unborn babies Until a few months ago, Zika virus had done little to attract attention since it first...
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Zika: Q&A with the infectious disease expert
Laura Rodrigues, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, is studying mothers and babies affected by Zika virus in Brazil. Where are you at...
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Taking action on Zika
The outbreak of Zika virus in the Americas and possible link to microcephaly has caused international concern, with the WHO declaring a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Our Zika virus...
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Zika virus outbreak in the Americas
The World Health Organisation (WHO) today declared the Zika virus outbreak in South and Central American a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). It is the first time since the Ebola...
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Drug-resistant infections: how worried should we be?
The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland is taking place this week, from 20-23 January. Known simply as ‘Davos’, the meeting is an opportunity for business and political leaders...
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60 cents a year for every person on the planet would make us safer against...
As the world continues to learn difficult lessons from the Ebola crisis and the failures that occurred during the response, a landmark report published today spells out what must be done to increase...
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Antibiotic Awareness Week: Seven infections that are getting harder to treat
This week is the first ever global Antibiotic Awareness Week, which aims to increase understanding of how bacteria are evolving to beat our best drugs and what we can do about it. The Wellcome Trust...
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Researcher Spotlight: Professor Thumbi Ndung’u
Professor Thumbi Ndung’u is the Victor Daitz Chair in HIV/TB Research at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. He works in the KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV and...
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How to conduct a clinical trial during a disease outbreak
A year after the WHO declared the Ebola outbreak to be a health emergency, new cases continue to emerge in Guinea and Sierra Leone. Oxford Professor of Global Health Research Trudie Lang is part of a...
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Breakthrough in the search for an Ebola Vaccine
The publication of positive results from the Ebola VSV-ZEBOV vaccine trial is being met with understandable excitement, but there is still important work that needs to be done. Charlie Weller oversees...
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Image of the Week: MMV’s Malaria Box
Earlier this month, Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) won the Open Data Innovation Award, one of five open data awards presented by Tim Berners-Lee’s Open Data Institute. Their ‘Malaria Box’ contains...
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Researcher Spotlight: Prof Abdisalan Noor
Professor Abdisalan Noor is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme (KEMRI-WTRP) in Nairobi, Kenya. He is also a Visiting Professor at...
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Image of the Week: Pneumococcal vaccines in Kenya
This week, our image of the week comes from work experience student Tallulah Tacchi and features a video from the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Centre and Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance, on the impact of the...
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MERS-CoV: Dispatches from Korea
The spread of Middle Eastern Respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) highlights the urgent need to improve how we prepare for and tackle emerging infectious diseases. The current outbreak in Korea...
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Experts support a varied approach to Ebola trials
In a letter to the Wall Street Journal today, 19 experts from Africa, Asia, Europe and the US set out their support for the use of a range of clinical trial designs during the Ebola epidemic. The...
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Image of the Week: Sequencing Ebola genomes
Our image – or in this case video – of the week is a time-lapse video of Professor Ian Goodfellow installing viral genome sequencer machines in Sierra Leone. Professor Goodfellow and his colleagues...
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ProMED: An Early Warning System for Emerging Diseases
The fast and effective communication of reliable information is vital during outbreaks such as the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. Combating infectious disease is one of the Trust’s five focus areas,...
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Rolling back malaria: A journey through space and time
On Friday the winners of the Access to Understanding competition were announced at an event celebrating communication of scientific research. Aimed at PhD students and early-career postdoctoral...
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