Rachel Merrick

UK Field Epidemiology Training Programme Fellow @publichealthw and @ukhsa. Graduated from @LSHTM and @durham_uni. Views are my own.

[Rachel Merrick @rfmerrick]

📢Recruitment for UK-FETP 2023 is open!📢

Key requirements:
1⃣MPH or MSc / PhD / 4+ yrs in public health role
2⃣18+ months work experience in public health

Applications for the Field Epidemiology Training Programme (FETP) close on 19/02/23: https://t.co/Gstzl0KSjl

[Epidemiology & Infection @Epidemio_Infect]

A genetically related cluster of #Salmonella Typhimurium cases in humans associated with ruminant livestock and related food chains, United Kingdom, Aug 2021-Dec 2022 -https://t.co/fLog9mJ5Uj
#UKFETP #OneHealth
@PublicHealthW
@UKHSA
@foodgov
@APHAgovuk
@P_H_S_Official @rfmerrick

[Rachel Merrick @rfmerrick]

Health promotion at its finest!

Thank you @ThisisDavina and @Channel4 for making this eye-opening documentary to demystify the common misconceptions around contraception and for creating a call for further research. 💪

[Davina McCall @ThisisDavina]

It really will blow your mind 🤯 Answers we NEED about contraception .. incoming !! Thursday 9pm @Channel4 #C4DavinaPill

[Susan Hopkins @SMHopkins]

Are U an Infection HST - ID, Micro, VIRO, STI/ HIV, GU [adult or paeds]?
Would U like to spend 2 years developing your epidemiological skills with training, supervision and mentorship with some brilliant people @UKHSA
Apply
- https://t.co/XVykJjo3kv or https://t.co/HIhQkMUe9M

[Rachel Merrick @rfmerrick]

Job vacancy for Senior Epi Scientist @PublicHealthW

+ NHS Band 8a (£49k+ per annum)

+ Fixed term until 31 March 2024

+ Flexible working, full-time hours

++ Join a wonderful team!

Applications open until 19 April 2023

[Rachel Merrick @rfmerrick]

@clarggh you guys 🥹

[Victoria_jhall @victoria_jhall]

The past three years have showcased the importance of field epidemiology and a network of trained field epidemiologists.

Join the UK #FETP and benefit from 2 years protected time for on the job training, and join the wider @EANBoard @tephinet family.

Deadline 19/02

[Rachel Merrick @rfmerrick]

If you're interested in applying, make sure you check out the new guidance under the job ad:

✨"How to Complete Application Form"✨

Best of luck!

@UKHSA @PublicHealthW @publichealthni @EANBoard @tephinet @pubhealthjobsuk

[Rachel Merrick @rfmerrick]

📢Recruitment for UK-FETP 2023 is open!📢

Key requirements:
1⃣MPH or MSc / PhD / 4+ yrs in public health role
2⃣18+ months work experience in public health

Applications for the Field Epidemiology Training Programme (FETP) close on 19/02/23: https://t.co/Gstzl0KSjl

[Rachel Merrick @rfmerrick]

Plus, you will get to meet SO many wonderful colleagues. This includes those at your training site (Belfast, Cardiff, Chilton, London, Liverpool, Newcastle, Birmingham etc), in your UK-FETP cohort and across the global epi network...

...like @ESCAIDE in Stockholm, Nov 2022! 🇸🇪

[Rachel Merrick @rfmerrick]

Thank you to the lovely member of staff at @NetworkRailBHM who called to hold a train and ran me to the platform so that I could make my connection to Cardiff after an earlier delay at Durham! 🙏🚆

[Rachel Merrick @rfmerrick]

@cmckerr78 @agmshankar @ESCAIDE @DanisKostas @IgloiZsofia Yeeees Caoimhe 👏 that is definitely a shared opinion as it was the 3rd most popular topic for discussion at BarCamp this eve!

[Rachel Merrick @rfmerrick]

Day 1 at #ESCAIDE2022 in 🇸🇪

Brilliant advice from @agmshankar and colleagues in the "Career Compass" session to seek opportunities outside of our comfort zone to better our professional development.

++ Listen for early/mid career epis.

@ESCAIDE

[Rachel Merrick @rfmerrick]

@cmckerr78 @NPacchiarini @ESCAIDE @PublicHealthW We are ePoster sessions! Will send you links 😊

[Rachel Merrick @rfmerrick]

*Specifically, MSM in which the incidence of MPX is higher than expected. In the Belgian modelling study re: point 2️⃣, injecting drug use was used as a determinant of high risk.

@ESCAIDE

[Rachel Merrick @rfmerrick]

Fave facts from day 2 of #ESCAIDE2022 🇸🇪

1️⃣ it took 326 days from development ➡️ emergency use license for the first covid vaccine

2️⃣ 40% vaccination coverage among MSM* may be sufficient to halt MPX transmission

3️⃣ sci-com is needed "where the people are" ...so...TikTok!?

[Rachel Merrick @rfmerrick]

Did you know 1 in 4 SARS-CoV-2 samples in Wales were sequenced from 2020-21? That is world leading...

... and largely testament to the incredible team @PublicHealthW Pathogen Genomics Unit 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👏

@NPacchiarini @clarggh @tomrconnor @gaskoid @kitwilliams27

@ESCAIDE #ESCAIDE2022

[Anna Merrick @AnnaMerrickSNT]

It’s #WorldPrematurityDay and I want to recognise our fantastic prematurity team at Imperial College/Imperial NHS, the many families we see in our clinics & those who participate in & support our research🔬@WHRCImp @ImperialMDR @ImperialNHS