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How Epidemics End
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Christl Donnelly and the Statistical End of Epidemics

Professor Christl Donnelly (Oxford and Imperial) and Dr Erica Charters discuss how statistical and mathematical epidemiology measure the end of epidemics, including BSE, Ebola, influenza, and Covid-19.
Futuremakers
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Coronavirus and ‘Disease X’

Professor Peter Millican interviews the Oxford scientists working at the forefront of research into Disease X
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Ebola

Professor Peter Millican begins the final episode of this series in 2014, at the onset of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
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HIV/AIDS

In the ninth episode of our History of Pandemics season, Professor Peter Millican leaves the perils of influenza behind, only to discover an entirely new virus: HIV.
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The 'Spanish' Flu

Professor Peter Millican arrives in the twentieth century, during the last years of the Great War, to a pandemic which you may have read a lot about during the early coverage of our current COVID outbreak.
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'Russian' Flu: the pandemic that wasn't?

In this episode, Professor Peter Millican discusses a controversial outbreak...
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Cholera

Professor Peter Millican makes it to the nineteenth century to discuss the achievements of John Snow
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Smallpox, and Jenner

Welcome to the eighteenth century, at a point when Europe is going through another major smallpox outbreak, a disease that by this point has been plaguing populations around the globe for centuries.
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The Great Plague

in the final plague episode of the series, Professor Peter Millican talks to his guests about the last major outbreak of this horrific disease in seventeenth-century England.
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The Black Death

Professor Peter Millican arrives in the fourteenth century and meets history's most notorious plague outbreak.
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The Plague of Justinian

Welcome to the Eastern Roman Empire in the sixth century. This time, Professor Peter Millican discusses a plague that historians and medical experts agree was likely the first plague pandemic humanity experienced.
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Athens: the first plague?

Join Professor Peter Millican in 5th century Athens, a crowded city in the midst of a siege, where a devastating disease had just erupted.
Anthropology

Ebola: A biosocial journey

The inaugural Geoffrey Harrison Prize Lecture delivered in Oxford on 3 November 2017 by Melissa Parker, Professor of Medical Anthropology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Anthropology

Ebola Emergence is Predictable

This talk was given by Dr Peter Walsh (University of Cambridge) at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine on 3 November 2016/
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Repositioning Women's Health Care: A Case Study on Women Who Survived Ebola in Sierra Leone

Part of the Humanities & Identities Lunchtime Series
NDM Public Engagement

Science in a crisis, fast-forwarding clinical research for Ebola

Professor Peter Horby's research focuses on epidemic diseases such as Ebola and bird flu, and crosses the disciplines of basic science, medical science and public health.
Alumni Voices

Writer, doctor and champion of evidence-based medicine, Dr Ben Goldacre (Magdalen, 1992)

Dr Ben Goldacre – author of the bestsellers Bad Science and Bad Pharma – dissects what is wrong with modern medicine and argues for better evidence-based medicine in this podcast.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Vaccines for Malaria and Ebola

Weatherall lecture 2015, delivered by Professor Adrian Hill.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Professor Peter Horby is Senior Clinical Research Fellow. His research focusses on epidemic diseases such as Ebola and bird flu, and crosses the disciplines of basic science, medical science and public health.
Epidemics and Vaccines

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Professor Peter Horby is Senior Clinical Research Fellow. His research focusses on epidemic diseases such as Ebola and bird flu, and crosses the disciplines of basic science, medical science and public health.

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