Weekly round-up #37

We're looking forward to seeing many of our members at the Acid Fast Club Summer 2018 meeting tomorrow in Oxford!

In the meantime, news in the field:

Funding:

• India Alliance: Early Career Fellowships in Biomedical Research - The Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance invite applications for its Early Career Fellowships in Basic Biomedical Research - 31 July 2018
• Sir Henry Dale Fellowships - post-doctoral fellowships to build own UK-based, independent research career in biomedical science - 7 Aug 2018
• HIC-VAC: pump-priming grants - for human infection challenge projects - 28 Aug 2018

Training opportunities:

• Gnatwork International Workshop - to bring together researchers who have an interest in blackflies, sandflies, and biting midges - 2-6 Sep 2018

Job opportunities:

• Associate Professor in Medical Statistics - AHRI, South Africa - 27 July 2018

Events:

• 72nd Association for Veterinary Teaching and Research Work (AVTRW) Annual Conference - Nottingham, UK, 17-18 Sept 2018
• 32nd International Conference on Vaccines & Immunization - Rome, Italy, 21-22 Mar 2019

Papers of interest:

• Tackling human and animal health threats through innovative vaccinology in Africa
• The first report of visceral leishmaniasis in gorillas

On Twitter we've spotted: Dr Pauline Paterson from LSHTM's Vaccine Confidence Project speaking about sustaining truth in a post-truth world; EDCTP's monthly newsletter; a press release "a socio-biological approach to TB prevention" about the VALIDATE pump-priming project by Delia Boccia, Jen Dowd and Helen Fletcher; a 'did you know' by the LEPRA Society - every four minutes one person is diagnosed with leprosy; don't forget to join our UNGA campaign by writing to your Country's Leader using our templates; a commentary on improving access to immunisation services to improve vaccination rates; a National Geographic piece "Humans gave leprosy to armadillos. Now, they're giving it back"; changes to journal impact scoring; the history of volunteer infection studies - a blog by HIC-Vac; and we flagged the Infolep portal that gives access to over 27,900 publications on leprosy.

Finally, don't forget that if you want to join our team as the new VALIDATE Network Assistant - an exciting and varied role, working as a crucial member of our team, helping with network management, communications and events - the closing date is 13 July.

Published: 4 July 2018