Join an interactive discussion on engaging with policymakers with Zafar Mirza & Aziz Sheikh
🗓️Monday 12 February, 11.30 (UK Time)

Register on Zoom: edin.ac/42u4B2q

We hope you can attend our rescheduled event!
Usher Institute NIHR Global Health

Fully funded PhD project based at Edinburgh, developing and validating a machine learning-based tool to predict respiratory infections in adults during wintertime, supervised by Aziz Sheikh , Ahmar and me. findaphd.com/phds/project/e…
Usher Institute Edinburgh Infectious Diseases Edinburgh Medical School

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Julie Jacko as our new Co-Head of the Centre for Medical Informatics here at the Usher Institute.

Read more at ed.ac.uk/usher/news-eve…

Edinburgh Medical School
Prof Ewen Harrison
Aziz Sheikh

Thanks so much all for your kind words! After 20 yrs of working with fantastic colleagues across Usher Institute The University of Edinburgh, I really look forward to working with colleagues across OxPrimaryCareSci Medical Sciences to develop primary care-led health systems

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Given the special context of smokeless tobacco consumption, we need to refocus efforts to make it more visible in existing tobacco control guidelines
🙏the team Kamran Siddiqi Dept Health Sciences Monika Arora Dr Aastha Chugh Aziz Sheikh Dr. Ravi Mehrotra MD Rumana Huque
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Delighted to share the latest ASTRA_NIHR output published in The Lancet Global Health The global impact of tobacco control policies on smokeless tobacco use... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
NIHR Global Health Dr. Ravi Mehrotra MD Centre for IMPACT WHO FCTC Knowledge hub on Smokeless Tobacco The Union FCTCofficial KCL Nicotine Research Group RESPIRE

Researchers from Farooqi Lab in collaboration with
James Thaventhiran MRC Toxicology Unit and Aziz Sheikh from Edinburgh have shown that people with obesity lose the immunity gained from COVID-19 vaccination more quickly. #COVID19 #Vaccination
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The protocol for our Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) project 'Studying the Long term Impact of COVID in Kids' (SLICK) is now out in BMJ_Open

Brilliant team looking at healthcare use in the year after SARS-CoV-2 infection in children across the UK

bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/11/…

You can read about the range of COVID-19 projects initiated by our fantastic RESPIRE partnership from here: ed.ac.uk/usher/respire/… NIHR Global Health It's been a privilege to work with colleagues from across South-east Asia on these important initiatives

Thanks so much to colleagues for the wonderful messages over the last few days! It's been a privilege to work with so many dedicated colleagues from Usher Institute EAVE II BREATHE Public Health Scotland Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) Medical Research Council AUKCAR to help fight the pandemic - my sincere thanks to all!

Huge congratulations to Professors Gillian Mead and John Norrie from the Usher Institute, who are among this cohort of new Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 👏

Taking shape... construction of a new build facility on Edinburgh BioQuarter to deliver world class research. The structural steel frame of Usher Institute progressing, composite concrete upper floors underway and drainage outfall connections will commence shortly.
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Construction of Usher Institute on #BioQuarter continues with erection of the steel frame, to be followed by installation of concrete floors. The building will accommodate a world-leading centre for health and social care, data-driven research and innovation ed.ac.uk/usher

Lockdown boost for kids’ #vaccination rates in Scotland

Good news from latest EAVE II study out this week!
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Read a summary in plain English on the EAVE II website:
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Press Office | University of Edinburgh Public Health Scotland Fiona McQuaid

Our latest findings have just been published in BMC Medicine. Huge thanks to everyone taking part in #CovidenceUK and helping us learn more about Covid19.

bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Two studies, published PLOS Medicine, independently confirm risk of blood clots in veins of brain following COVID-19 vaccination is very small

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Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) BHFDataScience BREATHE Edinburgh Medical School The University of Edinburgh Public Health Scotland Population Data Science at Swansea University NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre (BRC)

Increase in uptake of childhood vaccinations in Scotland but a small decrease in uptake in England over the pandemic. These cross-national analyses offer opportunities for sharing of insights so we can hopefully improve uptake for all our kids BREATHE

Wonderful news Sarah - delighted for you!

This is the first time we’ve been able to run the same analysis across different UK national datasets. Made possible with funding from Medical Research Council Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) BREATHE and a fantastic group of colleagues coming together across the UK

Long-Term Sequelae of COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of One-Year Follow-Up Studies on Post-COVID Symptoms

#longcovid

mdpi.com/1506700 #mdpipathogens via Pathogens MDPI

PHOSP-COVID study Usher Institute Aziz Sheikh