Will Welfare

Public Health Consultant. Interests: Communicable Disease Control; Non Infectious Environmental Hazards to Health. Tweets are my own.

[5 Nations Health Protection Conference 2026 @5Nations2026]

🚨 Deadline Extended! 🚨

Great news! You now have more time to submit—our deadline has been extended to 10 March at 5pm.

Submit your abstract today: https://t.co/Tfs4pU8JWu
For event details & submission guidelines, head to https://t.co/XuQVlsq8Wk

[5 Nations Health Protection Conference 2026 @5Nations2026]

🎉 Exciting News! 🎉
Registrations & abstract submissions are NOW OPEN for the #5NationsConference! 🌍✨
📅 Date: 7-8 May 2025
📍 Location: The Studio Birmingham

🔗 Register & submit abstracts here: https://t.co/q2GM4zXLbF
#Conference #CallForAbstracts

[Andrew Lee is heading to @andrewleedr.bsky.social @andrewleedr]

📢#VACANCY: CONSULTANTS IN HEALTH PROTECTION
The @UKHSA_YandH team are recruiting for consultants in health protection.
It's a really interesting job with a fab team in a lovely part of the country.
More details here: 👇
https://t.co/5Z4A6N7LFi
Please do share!
@pubhealthjobsuk

[UK Health Security Agency @UKHSA]

Measles is highly infectious and can be passed on even before a rash appears.

Make sure your child is protected from becoming seriously unwell from measles by making sure they are up to date with their MMR vaccinations.

More info ➡️ https://t.co/vjAYx8103p

[UK Health Security Agency @UKHSA]

#Measles spreads quickly and can be serious – but how infectious is it? Dr Colin Campbell, Consultant Epidemiologist, explains how measles ranks compared to other diseases and why #vaccination is so important.

Find out more: https://t.co/JSk9MpaNYZ

[Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) @ADPHUK]

Following the rise in measles cases across the UK, @AmandaH12829364, @ADPHUK Policy Lead for Health Protection and Director of Public Health @DurhamCouncil has talked about the underlying issues behind the headlines.

👀Read in full ➡️https://t.co/edz97bPa5T

[Will Welfare @WillWelfare]

https://t.co/fQpylcEAQw

[TiPH Podcast @TiPH_Podcast]

🚀Today we are excited to launch a special new series in partnership with @FPH to explore 'What is Public Health' -where we invite key figures to delve into what PH means to them and the challenges ahead.

➡️For our first episode we sat down with Dame Jennifer Dixon @JenniferTHF

[World Health Organization (WHO) @WHO]

Since mid-October 2023, WHO has been monitoring data from Chinese surveillance systems that have been showing an increase in respiratory illness in children in northern China.

Today, WHO held a teleconference with Chinese health authorities in which they provided requested data on respiratory illnesses among children in Northern China.

The data indicates an increase in outpatient consultations and hospital admissions of children due to Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia since May, and RSV, adenovirus and influenza virus since October.

Some of these increases are earlier in the season than historically experienced, but not unexpected given the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, as similarly experienced in other countries.

WHO is closely monitoring the situation and is in close contact with national authorities in China.

WHO will continue to provide updates as warranted https://t.co/ZN3dr3XAy2

[Catherine Falconer @falconercat83]

Invigorating few days in Leeds at the @UKHSA conference. It was a privilege to host a panel with @BolaOwolabi8 @felly500 @WillWelfare and @DrDianeAshiru putting #healthequity at the heart of health security #UKHSA23

[charlotte bigland @csbigland]

At the UKHSA conference and thinking about how important strong, impactful systems leadership is to ensuring a great health protection future. https://t.co/UCK4AmWOP3

[Susan Hopkins @SMHopkins]

ESPAUR report out today. 10th annual report. Post pandemic return of antimicrobial resistant infections and antibiotic prescribing. Wealth of insights that will inform our interventions.

Huge thanks to all @DrDianeAshiru, collaborators and contributors

https://t.co/R2D6cDu1vT

[UK Health Security Agency @UKHSA]

If you ate at Tchin Tchin Wine Bar in Bordeaux, France, between 4 and 10 September, please contact your local emergency department urgently

[UK Health Security Agency @UKHSA]

2/ and let them know that you have recently visited a restaurant with a botulism outbreak. This does not spread from person to person and there is no risk to the general population. More about Botulism here: https://t.co/bswDQ50jrP

[UK Health Security Agency @UKHSA]

1/ The French public health authorities have detected an outbreak of botulism linked to a restaurant in Bordeaux. If you ate at the Tchin Tchin Wine Bar in Bordeaux, France between 4 and 10 September please contact your local Emergency department urgently

[e-Bug @eBug_UK]

THREAD:
In Manchester for day 3 of e-Bug training in the North West - getting creative by making our own microbes!
@GillianDamant @rosiejdixon @BillMorts @JoanneReynard @UKHSA_NorthWest @Brieze26 @LiamC1807

[Donna Lecky @donnalecky]

In Oct 22 @UKHSA & @NHSEngland #AMR & #IPC regional leads, & @HPRUamr came together to plan the roll out & evaluation of @TARGETabx & @eBug_UK training. Lots of issues identified & discussed but action plans were drawn up & this week e-Bug pilot training started in the North West

[Sally Roberts @saroberts1]

Excellent presentation on Monkeypox outbreak in UK ⁦@WillWelfare⁩ #ISIDCongress2022 ⁦@ISID_org⁩

[World Health Organization (WHO) @WHO]

🚨 BREAKING:
"For all of these reasons, I have decided that the global #monkeypox outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern."-@DrTedros