
Associate Professor Pharm Prac & Policy @ucl🦠@ABSW Media Fellow @guardian🗞️TV Health Pundit 📺 | Founder @UCLFightsFakes💊| GH Adviser/Board Trustee CPA🌍
London, UK
Joined August 2009
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At Parliament w/ @Keir_Starmer today! Thank you Sir Keir for supporting the @MedToUkraine Campaign💊🇺🇦 Led by @the_pda & driven by pharmacists to deliver essential life-saving medicines to #Ukraine & where they are needed most. Info👉🏻 bit.ly/3fs1Ni2 #MedicinesToUkraine – at London, England
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Science gives us hope. Today, in Bunia #DRC, the first participants were vaccinated in a new #Ebola vaccine trial called TUMAINI, which means “hope” in Swahili.
There is currently no approved vaccine against the Bundibugyo virus causing the outbreak. This trial will help us understand whether any of the vaccine candidates designed for Bundibugyo virus work.
In the meantime, the existing Everbo vaccine (licensed for use in preventing other Ebola virus disease) will be tested.
@WHO is supporting this DRC-led effort to find answers and save lives.
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If there was a photo of you in Alaska warmly welcoming the man responsible for this dead toddler would you (a) regret ever putting yourself in the position that such a photo existed, or (b) frame the picture and hang it on the wall of your house?
📻 Tonight at 10:35pm I’m live on @lbc with Ben Kentish @BenKentish discussing the suspected plague case in Siberia. Russia says the lab worker died of pneumonia of unknown origin and there are no confirmed plague cases, but key questions remain unanswered.
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"The Pennsylvania outbreak and others this year in Utah and South Carolina are another sign of how far the U.S. has backslid since eliminating measles in 2000. Falling vaccination rates have allowed the highly contagious virus to spread widely." Via @bylenasun
Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak has hit a sobering milestone, surpassing 1,000 cases — the first U.S. outbreak to do so in 35 years.
The virus moved through communities where many children and adults have gone years without the two doses of measles vaccine. wapo.st/4dSrjIg
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Catch my conversation with a young Ukranian science journalist. Despite power outages and other serious challenges at home-- which forced us to reschedule several times-- he led a great and informative conversation.
youtube.com/watch?v=QYeiq649…
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The presidents of the U.S. National Academies condemn the strike on the home of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and reaffirm our commitment to supporting our Ukrainian colleagues and research community.
Read the full statement: ow.ly/7ux750ZSqlV
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🚨 Happening now at Revolution on the Docks!
💉 💊 How can Britain tackle counterfeit pharmaceuticals and protect the NHS?
More than 20 million illegal medicines were seized in the UK in 2025 alone. Join LabourList and @gs1uk to explore the rise of pharmaceutical counterfeits, the illicit economy and how NHS codes could help prevent fakes.
We’ve got a brilliant panel tackling this important issue. Come on down now and join the discussion, with @zubirahmed, @JoshFG, @OksanaPyzikUCL and @_karin_c
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Do you want to learn about how we can stop fake pharmaceuticals entering our markets?
Join LabourList and @gs1uk Tuesday 29th September to talk about the rise of counterfeit pharmaceuticals (and what we can do to stop them). We have an expert panel, including Fight the Fakes founder @OksanaPyzikUCL, @JoshFG MP, former Health Innovation Minister Dr @zubirahmed MP, and GS1 UK's own Georgina Lawton!
Find the rest of our conference programme here!
labourlist.org/2026/09/labou…
A data leak shut a top research biobank: lessons from the recovery nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Vasee was so kind, wise and inspiring. The type of colleague you looked forward to seeing and interacting with. My deepest condolences to his family and everyone who's grieving this immense loss.
Sad days for the @WHO family, with the sudden passing of Dr Vasee Moorthy.
Vasee joined WHO in 2009 and made a major contribution to advancing the Organization’s work on clinical trials, especially in low- and middle-income countries.
Most recently, he was leading the R&D Blueprint for Epidemics, which included advancing trials of vaccines and therapeutics for the current #Ebola epidemic.
Vasee was undertaking this work with passion and commitment, bringing partners together to advance trials as fast as possible.
The fact that we have three vaccines and three therapeutics now in trials is due in no small part to Vasee’s determination and energy.
Beyond his professional accomplishments, Vasee will be remembered for his kindness, humility and collegial spirit.
My deepest sympathies are with his family and with all WHO colleagues who knew him and worked with him.
Back on @bbcnews last night to discuss 100 days of the Ebola outbreak in the DRC and why the transmission chains we cannot see remain the greatest concern in this fast growing outbreak.
@ucllifesciences @uclschoolofpharmacy
#Ebola #DRC #GlobalHealth #BBCNews
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#Hantavirus update: the number of cases reported to @WHO remains 13, including three deaths. No new deaths have been reported for more than a month.
We are in close contact with the governments where isolated patients are receiving treatment or where passengers and crew members are being quarantined.
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6 healthcare facilities in Kyiv were damaged during last night’s attack in Ukraine, affecting the delivery of essential health services. Following a rapid needs assessment, WHO began distributing trauma, emergency, surgical kits to support health workers providing lifesaving care
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#Ebola: To bring the situation under even partial control, there must be immediate expansion of testing capacity.
As the Director General of WHO visits #DRC, we call for urgent action to respond to the needs.
Read our statement: doctorswithoutborders.ca/dem…
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Even without vaccines or specific therapeutics, people can survive #Ebola disease caused by the Bundibugyo virus if they receive timely healthcare and seek treatment as soon as symptoms appear.
@WHO and many partners are supporting the establishment of Ebola treatment centres in #DRC. Yesterday, I witnessed the opening of one such centre in Bunia, which will ensure that patients in the community can access lifesaving care.
Together, we will stop this outbreak.
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Putin is behaving with the desperate barbarism of a man who is going to lose. He will never conquer Ukraine. He needs to admit that to himself - and save many thousands of lives on both sides.
More than 500 personnel of the State Emergency Service have been involved in dealing with the aftermath of Russia’s overnight attack on our cities and communities. The main strike was on Kyiv, where dozens of residential buildings and other purely civilian infrastructure were damaged again. Tragically, four people have been reported killed. My condolences to all their families and loved ones. At this moment, 38 people are in hospitals in the capital, and all of them are receiving the necessary care.
In Dnipro, a search and rescue operation is ongoing at the site of a four-story apartment building. Part of the building was essentially demolished. Nine people were killed in this attack, including a child. Thirty-five people were injured in the city. The fate of six more people remains unknown. The search for them will continue for as long as necessary.
The Russians also struck energy facilities in the Kharkiv region and critical infrastructure in Kharkiv. Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, Poltava, Sumy, Chernihiv, and Khmelnytskyi regions also came under attack.
In total, overnight Russia launched 656 attack drones and 73 missiles of various types at our people – ballistic, cruise, and anti-ship missiles. A large-scale attack and an absolutely clear statement from Russia: if Ukraine is not protected from ballistic and other missile strikes, these attacks will continue. Europe needs its own anti-ballistic defense so that this war can finally be brought to an end. And assistance from the United States in supplying missiles for Patriot systems is absolutely necessary. We are counting on the support of our partners and on effective responses to today’s attack.
And I thank all Ukrainian men and women for not ignoring air raid alerts.
Glory to Ukraine!
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Residents in a town at the centre of an Ebola outbreak in eastern DR Congo have set fire to a treatment facility over burial disputes, underscoring deep mistrust and anger around the response to the virus.
— in pictures aje.news/zw5nkr
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Heads up:
It's my first week on the Science desk @nytimes, and we have lots of new jobs posted:
South Korea raises its travel alert for Uganda over #Ebola #Bundibugyo outbreak - Speaking to @TRTworld trtworld.com/article/020a57f…
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Today's publication of the @covidinquiryuk report into Covid's impact on the NHS comes as bittersweet relief for those of us who worked in those often hellish times.
Finally - thankfully - someone in authority has called out the incessant lies from @MattHancock & @BorisJohnson that the NHS “coped” during 2020/21 & “was not overwhelmed”.
No, says Lady Hallet. Covid’s impact was “devastating”. Furthermore: “On a number of occasions, [the NHS] teetered on the brink of collapse and only coped thanks to the almost superhuman efforts of healthcare workers and all the staff who support them.”
How those lies incensed us at the time.
Disgusting, dangerous lies that encouraged the public to believe that ventilators were never rationed, that patients never died at home because there weren’t enough ambulances to reach them, that staff never collapsed and left the NHS for good, broken by the brutality of those Covid wards.
“There was clearly overwhelm,” says Lady Hallet. “Whatever word one chooses, healthcare systems were placed under intolerable strain. Patients could not be admitted to hospital and, in particular, into intensive care units. This continued for wave after wave of the virus.”
Shame on you, Johnson & Hancock, for spouting endless self-serving populist lies while decent NHS doctors and nurses did their level best for patients - as did so many other magnificent key workers. We owe them all a debt of gratitude.






























