Ben Cooper
@bugwonk.bsky.social
Professor of infectious disease epidemiology at Centre for Global Health Research, Oxford. 🤓🧀☕️🚴🏼🦠💉💊
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Ben Cooper
@bugwonk.bsky.social
· May 1
Cost-effectiveness of maintaining an active hospital microbiology laboratory service in Timor-Leste
Maintaining an active hospital microbiology laboratory allows definitive antibiotic treatment for bacterial infections to be given in a timely manner.…
www.sciencedirect.com
Many hospitals in LMICs lack access to microbiology services. @cherrylim128.bsky.social et al asked if such services are a good use of limited resources. The answer: emphatically yes. Such services are likely to improve patient outcomes & reduce overall costs. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The AMR data repository, supported by Fleming Fund and Wellcome Trust, now covers nearly 70 countries! Apply today to use this data in your research. #GRAM #WAAW
Data: see QR code
Story: bit.ly/4o4oNkz
@bugwonk.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk @ndm.ox.ac.uk
Data: see QR code
Story: bit.ly/4o4oNkz
@bugwonk.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk @ndm.ox.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The AMR data repository, supported by Fleming Fund and Wellcome Trust, now covers nearly 70 countries! Apply today to use this data in your research. #GRAM #WAAW
Data: see QR code
Story: bit.ly/4o4oNkz
@bugwonk.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk @ndm.ox.ac.uk
Data: see QR code
Story: bit.ly/4o4oNkz
@bugwonk.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk @ndm.ox.ac.uk
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Open position for an ID modeler @itmantwerp.bsky.social on community-level + healthcare transmission of resistant #AMR bacteria in LRS, working with Clinical Research Unit Nanoro, @esthervk.bsky.social, @bugwonk.bsky.social, KEMRI-wellcome Kilifi, myself,... #IDSky #EpiSky
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Epidemiologist
Epidemiologist for modelling AMR transmission in LMICMore than 500 staff members at the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) contribute e...
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June 23, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Open position for an ID modeler @itmantwerp.bsky.social on community-level + healthcare transmission of resistant #AMR bacteria in LRS, working with Clinical Research Unit Nanoro, @esthervk.bsky.social, @bugwonk.bsky.social, KEMRI-wellcome Kilifi, myself,... #IDSky #EpiSky
www.itg.be/en/jobs-and-...
www.itg.be/en/jobs-and-...
Congratulations to Sai Thein Than Tun @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk for passing his PhD viva & overcoming some formidable obstacles in the process. Sai’s work on malaria elimination is a great example of simple models supporting clear thinking about complex processes
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
June 14, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Congratulations to Sai Thein Than Tun @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk for passing his PhD viva & overcoming some formidable obstacles in the process. Sai’s work on malaria elimination is a great example of simple models supporting clear thinking about complex processes
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Many hospitals in LMICs lack access to microbiology services. @cherrylim128.bsky.social et al asked if such services are a good use of limited resources. The answer: emphatically yes. Such services are likely to improve patient outcomes & reduce overall costs. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Cost-effectiveness of maintaining an active hospital microbiology laboratory service in Timor-Leste
Maintaining an active hospital microbiology laboratory allows definitive antibiotic treatment for bacterial infections to be given in a timely manner.…
www.sciencedirect.com
May 1, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Many hospitals in LMICs lack access to microbiology services. @cherrylim128.bsky.social et al asked if such services are a good use of limited resources. The answer: emphatically yes. Such services are likely to improve patient outcomes & reduce overall costs. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Kudos to 16yo son, Joe, who has a learning disability due to #ADNP syndrome, for completing his 50th #parkrun last week in Abingdon. Inspired by @johnharris1969.bsky.social ’s new book Maybe I'm Amazed www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie... Joe’s post-run chill-out was spent drumming to Kraftwerk’s Autobahn.
April 6, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Kudos to 16yo son, Joe, who has a learning disability due to #ADNP syndrome, for completing his 50th #parkrun last week in Abingdon. Inspired by @johnharris1969.bsky.social ’s new book Maybe I'm Amazed www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie... Joe’s post-run chill-out was spent drumming to Kraftwerk’s Autobahn.
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Track news reports of #SubstandardMedicines and #FalsifiedMedicine in your country. View our Medicine Quality Monitoring Globe, which filters by key words, time-periods, locations, and language. #medswecantrust
@tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk @wellcometrust.bsky.social @moru-mip.bsky.social
@tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk @wellcometrust.bsky.social @moru-mip.bsky.social
March 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Track news reports of #SubstandardMedicines and #FalsifiedMedicine in your country. View our Medicine Quality Monitoring Globe, which filters by key words, time-periods, locations, and language. #medswecantrust
@tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk @wellcometrust.bsky.social @moru-mip.bsky.social
@tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk @wellcometrust.bsky.social @moru-mip.bsky.social
Just back from teaching on a 4 day policy-focused AMR workshop in Nairobi hosted by the brilliant cema-africa.uonbi.ac.ke (with generous funding from @wellcometrust.bsky.social). Great to meet so many inspiring people from throughout Africa working to reduce the number of lives lost to #AMR.
March 16, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Just back from teaching on a 4 day policy-focused AMR workshop in Nairobi hosted by the brilliant cema-africa.uonbi.ac.ke (with generous funding from @wellcometrust.bsky.social). Great to meet so many inspiring people from throughout Africa working to reduce the number of lives lost to #AMR.
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#ResearchHighlight from Mo Yin @moru-mip.bsky.social
Cost-effectiveness of a short-course #antibiotic treatment strategy for the treatment of ventilator-associated #pneumonia: an economic analysis of the #REGARDVAP trial
Read more 👉 www.ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi
👉 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Cost-effectiveness of a short-course #antibiotic treatment strategy for the treatment of ventilator-associated #pneumonia: an economic analysis of the #REGARDVAP trial
Read more 👉 www.ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi
👉 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
March 4, 2025 at 10:46 AM
#ResearchHighlight from Mo Yin @moru-mip.bsky.social
Cost-effectiveness of a short-course #antibiotic treatment strategy for the treatment of ventilator-associated #pneumonia: an economic analysis of the #REGARDVAP trial
Read more 👉 www.ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi
👉 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Cost-effectiveness of a short-course #antibiotic treatment strategy for the treatment of ventilator-associated #pneumonia: an economic analysis of the #REGARDVAP trial
Read more 👉 www.ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi
👉 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Are you researching #InfectiousDiseases #EmergingInfections #malaria or #NTDs? The datasets we host harmonise tens of thousands of individual patient data, enabling researchers to answer new questions from existing data. Learn more www.iddo.org/data-sh... #BeatNTDs
February 21, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Are you researching #InfectiousDiseases #EmergingInfections #malaria or #NTDs? The datasets we host harmonise tens of thousands of individual patient data, enabling researchers to answer new questions from existing data. Learn more www.iddo.org/data-sh... #BeatNTDs
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Systematic review of antibiotic durations in @jac-amr.bsky.social
n=315 RCTs
85% demonstrated equivalence or non-inferiority of shorter therapy
Only 7% in ICU, 14% in LMIC, and 15% low risk of bias
academic.oup.com/jacamr/artic...
n=315 RCTs
85% demonstrated equivalence or non-inferiority of shorter therapy
Only 7% in ICU, 14% in LMIC, and 15% low risk of bias
academic.oup.com/jacamr/artic...
January 30, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Systematic review of antibiotic durations in @jac-amr.bsky.social
n=315 RCTs
85% demonstrated equivalence or non-inferiority of shorter therapy
Only 7% in ICU, 14% in LMIC, and 15% low risk of bias
academic.oup.com/jacamr/artic...
n=315 RCTs
85% demonstrated equivalence or non-inferiority of shorter therapy
Only 7% in ICU, 14% in LMIC, and 15% low risk of bias
academic.oup.com/jacamr/artic...
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🚨 New preprint!! How can antibiotic-resistant bacteria increase in abundance in the human gut microbiome, even without antibiotics? 🧐 We show that strain-specific ecological interactions are key to understanding resistance dynamics in microbial communities. 🧵👇 1/5
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org
December 11, 2024 at 12:30 PM
🚨 New preprint!! How can antibiotic-resistant bacteria increase in abundance in the human gut microbiome, even without antibiotics? 🧐 We show that strain-specific ecological interactions are key to understanding resistance dynamics in microbial communities. 🧵👇 1/5
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Seven is the new fourteen..... for days of antibiotic treatment of bloodstream infections?
Read my new post, inspired by the BALANCE study published in NEJM 👇
letstalkscience.eu/2024/11/26/s...
Read my new post, inspired by the BALANCE study published in NEJM 👇
letstalkscience.eu/2024/11/26/s...
Seven is the new fourteen - Let's talk science with Marc Bonten
Some think of medicine, or at least antibiotic treatment duration, as a religion. In the Bible “seven” stands for completeness (I got that from Wikipedia), and therefore infections should be treated w...
letstalkscience.eu
November 26, 2024 at 1:43 PM
Seven is the new fourteen..... for days of antibiotic treatment of bloodstream infections?
Read my new post, inspired by the BALANCE study published in NEJM 👇
letstalkscience.eu/2024/11/26/s...
Read my new post, inspired by the BALANCE study published in NEJM 👇
letstalkscience.eu/2024/11/26/s...
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#MeetOurResearchers interview with Proochista Ariana @ndmoxford.bsky.social
Building capacity for #GlobalHealth impact
Our MSc in International Health and Tropical Medicine fosters effective solutions & global health leadership
Watch the video 👉 www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/wall-of-face...
Building capacity for #GlobalHealth impact
Our MSc in International Health and Tropical Medicine fosters effective solutions & global health leadership
Watch the video 👉 www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/wall-of-face...
November 20, 2024 at 5:38 PM
#MeetOurResearchers interview with Proochista Ariana @ndmoxford.bsky.social
Building capacity for #GlobalHealth impact
Our MSc in International Health and Tropical Medicine fosters effective solutions & global health leadership
Watch the video 👉 www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/wall-of-face...
Building capacity for #GlobalHealth impact
Our MSc in International Health and Tropical Medicine fosters effective solutions & global health leadership
Watch the video 👉 www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/wall-of-face...
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🔥BALANCE RCT🔥
74 hospitals in 7 countries
3,608 patients
A 7-day course of antibiotics for hospitalized patients with bloodstream infections was non inferior to 14d within a 4% prespecified margin for mortality at 90 days #idsky
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
74 hospitals in 7 countries
3,608 patients
A 7-day course of antibiotics for hospitalized patients with bloodstream infections was non inferior to 14d within a 4% prespecified margin for mortality at 90 days #idsky
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Antibiotic Treatment for 7 versus 14 Days in Patients with Bloodstream Infections | NEJM
Bloodstream infections are associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. Early,
appropriate antibiotic therapy is important, but the duration of treatment is uncertain.
In a multicenter, non...
www.nejm.org
November 20, 2024 at 1:07 PM
🔥BALANCE RCT🔥
74 hospitals in 7 countries
3,608 patients
A 7-day course of antibiotics for hospitalized patients with bloodstream infections was non inferior to 14d within a 4% prespecified margin for mortality at 90 days #idsky
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
74 hospitals in 7 countries
3,608 patients
A 7-day course of antibiotics for hospitalized patients with bloodstream infections was non inferior to 14d within a 4% prespecified margin for mortality at 90 days #idsky
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Read more about this here -> www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 18, 2024 at 7:24 PM
Read more about this here -> www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Today 3pm GMT, 4pm CET: webinar to discuss latest Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance study www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... with panelists Dr. Mohsen Naghavi, Dr. Tomislav Mestrovic, Dr. Gisela-Robles Aguilar. Register here washington.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance 1990–2021: a systematic analysis with forecasts to 2050
This study presents the first comprehensive assessment of the global burden of AMR
from 1990 to 2021, with results forecasted until 2050. Evaluating changing trends
in AMR mortality across time and lo...
www.thelancet.com
November 18, 2024 at 11:19 AM
Today 3pm GMT, 4pm CET: webinar to discuss latest Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance study www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... with panelists Dr. Mohsen Naghavi, Dr. Tomislav Mestrovic, Dr. Gisela-Robles Aguilar. Register here washington.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Just finished recording next #Communicable show w/ Ben Cooper (Oxford @bugwonk.bsky.social) & Pernette Bourdillon (WHO) on falsified antimicrobials & how they affect #AMR
Turns out they're true-crime detectives (if a little nerdy 😎) @cmicomms.bsky.social will do a better teaser soon!
IDSky MicroSky
Turns out they're true-crime detectives (if a little nerdy 😎) @cmicomms.bsky.social will do a better teaser soon!
IDSky MicroSky
November 11, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Just finished recording next #Communicable show w/ Ben Cooper (Oxford @bugwonk.bsky.social) & Pernette Bourdillon (WHO) on falsified antimicrobials & how they affect #AMR
Turns out they're true-crime detectives (if a little nerdy 😎) @cmicomms.bsky.social will do a better teaser soon!
IDSky MicroSky
Turns out they're true-crime detectives (if a little nerdy 😎) @cmicomms.bsky.social will do a better teaser soon!
IDSky MicroSky
Bet practices in AMR surveillance - lecture/webinar series from Dr Geetanjali Kapoor of the One Health Trust www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/gram/researc... #AMR
AMR surveillance best practices: a series
The series addressed real-world challenges of AMR surveillance, based on prior experiences in the field
www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk
October 30, 2024 at 7:33 AM
Bet practices in AMR surveillance - lecture/webinar series from Dr Geetanjali Kapoor of the One Health Trust www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/gram/researc... #AMR
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Tracing your Antibiotic Footprint
How much do you contribute towards the global antibiotic footprint?
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October 23, 2024 at 9:42 PM
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Live now: High-Level Meeting on antimicrobial resistance 2024 - General Assembly, 79th session
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High-Level Meeting on antimicrobial resistance 2024 - General Assembly, 79th session
High-level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance convened by the President of the General Assembly. Theme: Investing in the present and securing our future together: accelerating multisectoral global, r...
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September 26, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Live now: High-Level Meeting on antimicrobial resistance 2024 - General Assembly, 79th session
webtv.un.org/en/asset/k11... #AMR
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Great commentary from Ramanan Laxminarayan ahead of the UNGA AMR meeting later this month www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Stop delaying action on antimicrobial resistance — it is achievable and affordable
Ensuring that clinics in low- and middle-income countries are well-stocked with high-quality antibiotics could help physicians to treat millions of people each year and slow the spread of drug resista...
www.nature.com
September 18, 2024 at 11:45 AM
Great commentary from Ramanan Laxminarayan ahead of the UNGA AMR meeting later this month www.nature.com/articles/d41...