Global Health events
Description: All global health related seminars, events, talks and workshops
Talks:

Thursday 21 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

From COVID-19 to MPox: lessons from the humanities?
Date: 21 November 2024, 12:00 - 13:30 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Dr Erica Charters (University of Oxford), Utsa Bose, Dr Alberto Giubilini (The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics), Dr Tolulope Osayomi (University of Ibadan), Mofeyisara Omobowale
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Colin Matthews Room
Organiser: Dr Alberto Giubilini (The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics)
Hosts: Dr Alberto Giubilini (The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics), Dr Erica Charters (University of Oxford)

Friday 22 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Can infection confer protection? Identifying determinants of response and toxicity to checkpoint immunotherapy
Date: 22 November 2024, 9:15 - 10:15 (Friday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Benjamin Fairfax (University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar Room
Organiser: Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 25 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Nipah Virus Research Day
Date: 25 November 2024, 9:30 - 17:00 (Monday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Christopher Broder (Uniformed Services University, USA)
Venue: Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre Richard Doll Building
Organiser: Dr Tara Hurst (PSI Nipah Virus Programme Manager)
Hosts: TBA

'Use of the cytoskeleton to control Shigella infection'
Date: 25 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr. Serge Mostowy (Department of Infection Biology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
Venue: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QU
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2, Room 20-138
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Stephan Uphoff (Dept of Biochemistry, Oxford University)

The potential of vaccination to prevent congenital CMV
Date: 25 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Seilesh Kadambari (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

What’s in a table? Managing astronomical data in early modern Europe
Date: 25 November 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Professor Florence Hsia (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Venue Details: Maison Francaise d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 27 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

“An Imperfect Storm: A Pandemic and the Coming of Age of a Nigerian Institution” presented by Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu
Date: 27 November 2024, 17:00 - 19:00 (Wednesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu (World Health Organization)
Venue: St Cross College, St Giles OX1 3LZ
Venue Details: West Wing Lecture Theatre, St Cross College, 61 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LZ
Organisers: Jana Lipcakova (University of Oxford), James Hay (Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow), Ksenia Ananyeva (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 29 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Precision medicine and the immune response: insights from infection
Date: 29 November 2024, 11:00 - 12:00 (Friday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Prof Julian Knight (Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics)
Venue: NDM Building, Headington OX3 7FZ
Organiser: Marie-Laure Foisneau-Bates (University of Oxford)
Host: Prof Xin Lu (Ludwig Cancer Research, Oxford Branch)

From tribes to tropes: Network polarisation and false consensus around COVID-19 science
Date: 29 November 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Friday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Alexandros Efstratiou (UCL)
Venue Details: This event is online only
Organiser: Ellen Mobbs (Oxford Internet Institute)
Host: Elizaveta Chernenko (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford)

'A History of Herd Immunity: Between Observation and Cultivation' AND 'The Long-term Context of Medical Debates: A History of Herd Immunity'
Date: 29 November 2024, 12:00 - 13:00 (Friday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Dr David Robertson (University of Oxford), Prof Erica Charters (University of Oxford)
Venue: Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Headington OX3 7FY
Venue Details: Kennedy Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Doris Chan (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology)
Host: Prof Mark Coles (Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology )

Monday 2 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Cross-species MAIT cell immune responses
Date: 2 December 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Prof Paul Klenerman (Oxford, NDM)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Singapore pineapples: catch-cropping, Chinese capitalists, and the colonial state, 1900s-1930s
Date: 2 December 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Michael Yeo (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Venue Details: Maison Francaise d’Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 13 January 2025 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

The ecology and evolution of microbial communities
Date: 13 January 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 0th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Dr Katharine Coyte (University of Manchester)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Monday 20 January 2025 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

Health and economic impacts of Lassa vaccination campaigns in West Africa
Date: 20 January 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 1st week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Dr David Smith (Oxford, NDPH)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Monday 27 January 2025 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

Host-parasite interactions
Date: 27 January 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 2nd week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Cinzia Cantacessi (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Monday 3 February 2025 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

Marburg vaccine trial
Date: 3 February 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 3rd week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Teresa Lambe (Oxford, Paediatrics/OVG)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Monday 10 February 2025 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

Tuberculosis vaccine R&D and human challenge models
Date: 10 February 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 4th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Helen McShane (Oxford, NDM)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Monday 24 February 2025 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

Shingles vaccine and dementia, and other links between infectious diseases and brain health
Date: 24 February 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 6th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Dr Maxime Taquet (Oxford, Psychiatry)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Monday 3 March 2025 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

Using the adenoviral vectored vaccine platform for bacterial infections
Date: 3 March 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 7th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Christine Rollier (University of Surrey)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Monday 10 March 2025 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Social interactions among microorganisms
Date: 10 March 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 8th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Kevin Foster (Oxford, Biology/Pathology)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Monday 28 April 2025 (15th Week, Hilary Term)

Gut microbiome
Date: 28 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 15th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Emma Slack (Oxford, Pathology)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Monday 12 May 2025 (17th Week, Hilary Term)

Malaria and febrile coma cohort study
Date: 12 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 17th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Dr Stephen Ray (Oxford, Paediatrics/OVG)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Monday 19 May 2025 (18th Week, Hilary Term)

The meningococcal B vaccine journey and beyond
Date: 19 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 18th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Mariagrazia Pizza (Imperial College London)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Monday 2 June 2025 (20th Week, Hilary Term)

Avian and human influenza
Date: 2 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 20th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Wendy Barclay (Imperial College London)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Monday 9 June 2025 (21st Week, Hilary Term)

Better treatment for tuberculosis
Date: 9 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 21st week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Stewart Cole (Oxford, IOI; Institut Pasteur)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

Monday 16 June 2025 (22nd Week, Hilary Term)

The burden of drug resistant infections, the GRAM project
Date: 16 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00 (Monday, 22nd week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Prof Christiane Dolecek (Oxford, NDM)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Host: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)

This list contains talks from the following series:
AfOx insaka - a gathering for sharing ideas and knowledge about Africa-focused research
Global Centre on Healthcare and Urbanisation
Global Health DPhil Discourse
IDEU Infectious Disease Seminar Series
Infectious Disease Seminar Series
Jenner Seminars
Management in Medicine seminar seies
Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
OxPop Festival of Global Health
The Construction of Ageing
Translating Illness
Tropical Medicine Global Health Seminars
Tropical Medicine Seminars