Conferences and outreach

2025

REACT – an overview. Invited presentation, Long COVID Pathogenesis Summit, Yale, USA, May 2025.

2024

Examining latest data and research on the experience of long COVID within the community and implications for future research and policy. Westminster Health Forum Keynote Seminar: Next steps for long COVID care and research in England (webinar conference). 21st May 2024.

Why are large cohorts and Biobanks so valuable? German National Cohort (NAKO) 10th Anniversary Symposium, MDC.C Max Delbrück Communications Center, Berlin, Germany (in-person presentation). 4th June 2024.

REal-time Assessment of Community Transmission (REACT) study of SARS-CoV-2 infection in England. Research seminar at The George Institute of Global Health Sydney (in-person presentation). 6th November 2024.

REal-time Assessment of Community Transmission (REACT) study of SARS-CoV-2 infection in England. Research seminar at Murdoch University, Perth Australia (in-person presentation) 19th November 2024.

Observational Studies: Implications for Clinical Trial Design (discussant) at NIH Recover-TLC (Treating Long COVID) conference, Bethesda, USA, September 2024

Epidemiology of Long COVID and research update. Invited talk, Long COVID Support Annual Meeting, November 2024

The Potential Impact of Vaccination on ‘Long’ Respiratory Infectious Diseases, (webinar) invited speaker, BioNTec Infectious Diseases Global Scientific Exchange Program, June 2024 

2023

UK Biobank and other large-scale population cohorts: the UK experience. Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF) Challenge Symposium on Big Data in Biomedicine, DGI-Byen, Copenhagen, Denmark (in-person presentation). 4th September 2023.

Long COVID – the gaps. Plenary presentation, Demystifying Long Covid Conference, Madrid. December 2023.

2022

The REal-time Assessment of Community Transmission (REACT) studies of SARS-CoV-2 infection and antibody response in England. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health Quantitative Tools and Data Opportunities for Pandemic Surveillance and Response Conference, Sheraton Commander Hotel, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. 29-30th June 2022.

2021

Discussion Panel on: Is There a Post-Pandemic AI Panacea? The Alan Turing Institute AI UK 2021 Conference (webinar). 24th March 2021.

Discussion Panel on: Long Covid: An Unfolding Story. The Royal Society Public Discussion Panel Series on COVID-19 Webinar event hosted by Professor Brian Cox. 8th April 2021.

Assessing The Pandemic – The REACT Study. Christ's College Medical Alumni Association Cambridge Webinar Series How Alumni have Been Making Major Scientific and Policy Contributions to the Management of The Covid Pandemic at National and International Levels (webinar). 10th April 2021.

Real-Time Assessment of Community Transmission (REACT programme): Tracking the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in England. The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK COVID-19 Update Webinar Series (webinar). 4th May 2021.

Panel Discussion on Spotlight on Long COVID chaired by Professor Sir Simon Wessley. Royal Society of Medicine, London, UK (webinar). 8th July 2021.

The REal-time Assessment of Community Transmission (REACT) studies of SARS-CoV-2 infection and antibody response in England. Harvard T. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Epidemiology Department Virtual Seminar Series. 1st December 2021.

Academy of Medical Sciences’ FORUM, Department of Health and Social Care and National Institute for Health Care Research joint Workshop on Antimicrobial Resistance Research: Learnings Applied from COVID-19. Facilitator of breakout discussion group on Diagnostics and Surveillance chaired by Prof Alison Holmes. (virtual event). 15th December 2021.

2020

The Real Time Community Assessment Transmission (REACT) 1 Study report. UK Government Cabinet Office Future Industry Engagement Online Innovation Webinar. 10th June 2020.

Community surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 infection: The Real Time Community Assessment Transmission (REACT) studies. British Embassy of Ashgabat, Webinar on Preparedness and Response to COVID-19 in Turkmenistan. 2nd July 2020

The importance of surveillance testing in the National Programme. Department for International Trade and the British Consulate-General São Paulo Brazil. The UK Testing Programme for Covid-19 – a Cross Sector Collaboration webinar. 14th July 2020.

The REACT Programme. Conference session on “COVID and Beyond – testing, monitoring and vaccines”. UK Innovation and Knowledge Centre for Synthetic Biology - SynbiCITE  SynbiTECH 2020 Virtual Conference, Imperial College London, London, UK. 27th October 2020.