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Collecting COVID: Oral HistoriesDr Elizabeth GreenhallGeorgina Ferry interviews Elizabeth Greenhall, retired GP, 11 March 2022. Topics discussed include (00:00:35) EG's early interest in medicine, training in Oxford and London, public health training and running of Oxfordshire's Family Planning Service and later retirement; (00:02:37) first awareness of COVID-19 and early conversations with David Mant relating to setting up the University's COVID-19 Early Alert Service for testing and contact tracing; (00:05:10) Results Liaison Team of volunteers; (00:07:30) protocols and guidance developed for contacting students with test results; (00:11:40) care provided for students who had tested positive and anxieties relating to isolation and loneliness; (00:13:40) comparison of contact tracing through E.A.S. with the National...2022-11-0254 min
Translational MedicineTropical ImmunologyMelioidosis is a neglected tropical disease, and a major infectious killer in South East Asia. Melioidosis particularly affects people with diabetes. Dr Susanna Dunachie works on tropical diseases such as melioidosis, scrub typhus and vivax malaria. Melioidosis is a bacterial disease that results in pneumonia, liver and splenic abscesses and septic shock. The disease can reactivate after a latent period and is inherently resistant to many standard antibiotics. People continue to die around the world from this infection for which there is no vaccine. Understanding the disease is therefore crucial.2015-12-0205 minTranslational MedicineTropical ImmunologyMelioidosis is a neglected tropical disease, and a major infectious killer in South East Asia. Melioidosis particularly affects people with diabetes. Dr Susanna Dunachie works on tropical diseases such as melioidosis, scrub typhus and vivax malaria. Melioidosis is a bacterial disease that results in pneumonia, liver and splenic abscesses and septic shock. The disease can reactivate after a latent period and is inherently resistant to many standard antibiotics. People continue to die around the world from this infection for which there is no vaccine. Understanding the disease is therefore crucial.2015-12-0205 min