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A safe, effective COVID-19 vaccine is expected to be developed in record time and may be approved for production, distribution and acceptance some time in 2021.
Having the right equipment is not enough – getting health workers to use it is also a challenge.
New Zealand has managed it, but densely populated, highly infected countries face a bigger challenge.
A full ban on eating wildlife in China probably isn’t possible, and could encourage unregulated underground markets.
While identical twins are seen more as an accidental splitting of a single egg, there could be a good reason mothers produce non-identical twins from two separate eggs.
Coronavirus is a stark reminder of what a world without vaccines would look like.
Are criticisms that governments should have done more fair?
From China and South Korea to Italy and the US, different countries are taking very different approaches to COVID-19 – with varying degrees of success.
The risks to individuals vary hugely with age.
The key to ending the HIV epidemic is a vaccine that will provide long-lasting protection and alleviate the need for prevention methods.
A new tool has been developed to track the history of the novel coronavirus and other recent outbreaks.
Africa is known to be where humans originated. This makes it the most genetically diverse region in the world. Diversity in other populations represents a subset of the diversity within Africa.
There are a number of effective interventions to prevent gender-based violence among adult women and men at risk of HIV infection. But little is known about the effectiveness of these in young people.
A proper understanding of community dynamics and local beliefs can inform medical interventions that are capable of establishing positive and productive relations with local communities.
Matt Hancock wants a new levy to tackle gambling harms, but it's a lost opportunity unless you spend it the right way.
In England, one in fifty children cycle to school. But if English children cycled at the same rates as Dutch children, this could rise to two in five.
A Lancet commission has come up with a new sustainable diet that's supposed to be the way forward.
Blaming the rapid increases in syphilis cases on PrEP is an oversimplification of a complex problem.
The Canadian government is currently drafting regulations on plain packaging for cigarettes. Tobacco companies are trying to weaken the regulations via lobbying and misleading PR campaigns.
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Research Fellow in Medical Anthropology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Regional Director for Africa, IAVI, and Honorary Professor in the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Professor of Vaccine Epidemiology, Director HPRU in Immunisation, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Director of The Vaccine Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Research Fellow in Systems Biology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology & Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Research Fellow, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Professor of International Public Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Research Fellow in Infectious Disease Modelling, NIHR Mucosal Pathogens Research Unit, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Director of the MRC/Uganda Virus Research Institute, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Head of the Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Assistant Professor of Genetic epidemiology & Bioinformatics, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Associate Professor in Health Economics, Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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