Although human DNA is 98 per cent similar to that of the chimpanzee, the infections we catch are 80 per cent different. Most are new acquisitions that we have picked up as humans spread across the world. In fact, pandemic infections like smallpox and influenza only date from the last 12,000 years or so after we formed settled farming communities and later developed large colonies known as cities. Does the history of infectious diseases help to predict future epidemics?

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4/21/2021

We are the Vision and Eyes Group based at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. In this video, we introduce ourselves and our work. Did you know that we actually learn to see?!

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3/3/2021

Although human DNA is 98 per cent similar to that of the chimpanzee, the infections we catch are 80 per cent different. Most are new acquisitions that we have picked up as humans spread across the world. In fact, pandemic infections like smallpox and influenza only date from the last 12,000 years or so after we formed settled farming communities and later developed large colonies known as cities. Does the history of infectious diseases help to predict future epidemics?

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2/26/2021

Lunch Hour Lectures on Tour 2011 - Episode 3 30 years and still counting: slowing the spread of HIV in a complex world During 4 Thursdays in June 2011, UCL’s free, public, Lunch Hour Lectures will be uprooted from their usual residence at UCL to go on tour to The British Museum. This summer series of bite-sized Lunch Hour Lectures, featuring introductions by British Museum curators, will discuss 4 topics in bite sized chunks: what archaeology can tell us about climate change; where we are with slowing the spread of HIV; how Greek sculpture has shaped the modern male body; and how we detect forgeries in the art world.

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2/22/2021

Lunch Hour Lectures on Tour 2011 - Episode 3 30 years and still counting: slowing the spread of HIV in a complex world During 4 Thursdays in June 2011, UCL’s free, public, Lunch Hour Lectures will be uprooted from their usual residence at UCL to go on tour to The British Museum. This summer series of bite-sized Lunch Hour Lectures, featuring introductions by British Museum curators, will discuss 4 topics in bite sized chunks: what archaeology can tell us about climate change; where we are with slowing the spread of HIV; how Greek sculpture has shaped the modern male body; and how we detect forgeries in the art world.

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2/22/2021

Date: Tuesday 19 May 2020 Speaker: Anthony David, Director at Institute of Mental Health, UCL About the lecture: We are in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and cannot know quite what effects it will have on physical and mental health. Mankind has suffered pandemics before, for example the ‘Spanish Flu’ pandemic of 1918 - perhaps the worst in modern times. More recently coronaviruses have caused Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome epidemics in Asia and the Middle East. Concern regarding mental health is prominent in the current pandemic and there is already considerable effort being made to measure and mitigate mental disorders. In this lecture I will try and draw some lessons from previous pandemics. I will look specifically at suicide and summarise work from a recent systematic review which highlights anxiety, depression and stress disorders following coronavirus infections. Also how modern epidemiological research and social media are helping monitor mental health in the population.

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5/22/2020

How is lockdown due to Covid-19 affecting our mental health and what can we do to look after ourselves? Dr Daisy Fancourt, Associate Professor in Psychobiology and Epidemiology in the UCL Institute of Epidemiology & Health, explains. Help UCL understand the mental health impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK by signing up to Dr Fancourt's study at covidsocialstudy.org

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5/13/2020

As a clinically-trained academic in public health and infectious disease epidemiology, Prof Sonnenberg’s research career has focused on areas of public health priority: TB/HIV, sexual health and STIs. In her Inaugural Lecture, Pam sheds light on her journey from a South African medical student to a leader of multi-disciplinary research teams, with the consistent aim of making a difference.

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11/4/2019