Judith Green talks to the Evening Standard about an analysis from the School showing that free bus travel for young people benefits the environment and may help curb road traffic injuries: “The introduction of free bus travel for young Londoners has been beneficial in a number of ways. Although the proportion of short journeys young people took by bus increased, it did not reduce the amount of walking they did overall because they were making extra trips and getting out and about more often. Free bus travel has also led to a reduction in the use of cars.”

Ken Eames is interviewed on BBC Radio 5 Live (from 1hour 22mins) about the School’s flusurvey project, following a session on the research at the Cheltenham Science Festival: “The biggest risk factor for getting flu is working with kids.”

Phil Edwards speaks to BBC Radio Sussex (from 1hour 38mins) about 20mph speed limits linked to a national campaign by road safety charity, Brake, calling for motorists to slow down  around schools and homes: “There’s clear evidence that the slower cars are moving then should a person get hit then the risk of injury is reduced… A child’s height is such that if hit by a car it’s going to cause severe damage and potentially give a child a head injury.”

Peter Piot is quoted in International Business Times talking about the new World Bank, WHO and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine report – HIV in the European Region: vulnerability and response: “Now is an important time for Europe. The momentum of HIV prevention must be maintained in a climate of economic and funding uncertainty… The evidence gathered through our collaborations with the World Bank Group and the World Health Organization show how institutions can work together to generate the evidence and the policy to do this.”  Also covered by other specialist and international sites.

AFP and other news sites also reference the report in an article reporting that former Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski has called for drug decriminalisation to curb the spread of HIV.

Ruth McNerney speaks to BBC World Service’s Focus on Africa about the growing problem of drug resistance.

Ben Goldacre co-authors an editorial in BMJ about bicycle helmets and the law: “The arguments are often heated and personal; but they also illustrate some of the most fascinating challenges for epidemiology, risk communication, and evidence based policy.”

Peter Piot takes part in a Q & A for the New England Journal of Medicine blog about his recent article about AIDS and the global response: “AIDS also put global health at the highest political agendas, where it had never been – a necessary condition for major policy and financial commitments. “

BBC News includes research from the School on bacteria on public transport and which groups in the workforce have the cleanest hands in a ‘7 questions on germs’ quiz.

James Logan speaks to Associated Press about research on how malaria parasites manipulate mosquitoes to detect and human odour: “Every time we identify a new part of how the malaria mosquito interacts with us, we’re one step closer to controlling it better.” Led to coverage in more than 490 publications around the world including Washington Post, Time, Scotsman, Huffington Post, Times of India and Trinidad Guardian.

James Logan is also interviewed for CBC Radio’s Quirks & Quacks about his mosquito odour research: “The malaria parasite is interested in surviving and it spends half of its life inside the mosquito and half of its life inside us, and so it’s in its own interests to make sure the mosquito finds us, because that’s the only way it can get into us and reproduce and continue its life.”

Vikram Patel speaks to BBC World Service programme The Truth about Mental Health and BBC’s All in the Mind: “In the developing world more than half of people with psychosis receive no treatment at all; many individuals are chained or locked up. So though we must be cautious about going the whole way the Western world has gone, we should go at least some of the way to ensure there is access to medical interventions for people with mental disorders.”

Japan Times reports that Peter Piot was awarded the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize by the Prime Minister of Japan in Tokyo on 1 June: “I was deeply honoured to receive this prize, and also I’d like to appreciate the generosity of the Japanese people (for their) support (of) global health issues, particularly in Africa.” Also covered by numerous titles worldwide, including TV Asahi.

Sarah Smith is interviewed on ITV London Tonight about the launch of a new project led by the School that aims to improve the treatment and care of dementia patients.

Reuters reports on an editorial by Charlotte Watts, Cathy Zimmerman and Mazeda Hossain about  group therapy for women who have been victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo: “Given the high rates of sexual violence globally, and especially in conflict-affected countries such as the DRC, this finding is very important. Rape during war is not unique to the DRC; indeed, it affects many, if not most, countries that are at war, including several African states and, more recently, countries in the Middle East.” Covered by several other publications including Fox News.

Peter Piot speaks to The Scientist for a feature about his career and his work in developing countries: “Part of capacity building is giving a voice to people who don’t normally have a voice.”

BBC Focus Magazine covers a study on disgust led by Val Curtis.

Frank Dudbridge co-signs a letter to the Telegraph calling for Government commitment to protect the funding of medical research.

The School tests samples of malaria drugs obtained by the Wall Street Journal in Angola for an article about the problem of fake drugs. Three samples turned out to be fake and lacking active ingredients.

Vikram Patel speaks to BBC News about the treatment of people with mental health issues in India: “In the developed world we have a situation where there is genuine concern of overuse of drugs and overmedicalisation of everyday life. In the developing world it’s the opposite. Half of those with psychosis get no treatment at all and many individuals are chained or locked up.”

James Logan is interviewed by News Medical about his recent mosquito studies, including how malaria parasites make mosquitoes more attracted to human odour: “In our study we will be attaching microelectrodes to the antenna (nose) of the mosquito to work out which receptors are affected by the infection with malaria parasites. This will tell us how the parasite is manipulating mosquito behaviour.”

Unicef reports on the new Countdown to 2015 report produced in collaboration with the School: Accountability for Maternal, Newborn and Child Survival. Justine Hsu is lead author of a companion paper: “Although the volume of aid for reproductive health is quite substantial, such funding is not balanced across activities – if international targets are going to be met for universal access to reproductive health, more balanced aid needs to go to essential reproductive health services such as family planning.”

The Huffington Post blog discusses a debate on breaking down health data by ethnicity which took place at the Women Deliver conference. Joy Lawn commented on the huge cost of undertaking just one Demographic Health Survey.

Joy Lawn speaks to the Malaysian Sun Daily at the Women Deliver conference about improving outcomes for babies after birth: “Malaysia should look at what happens after birth in terms of the child’s general health. For instance, hearing and motor functions, as it has met all relevant MDGs. Also, think of other outcomes for the mother as well. Maternal care is very important in ensuring the child has a healthy life.”

Martin McKee comments in Metro International about the effects of austerity on healthcare.

The Nyasa Times covers the new UNAIDS and Lancet commission to explore the post-2015 agenda of AIDS and global health. Peter Piot is co-chair: “As a new agenda for development is being shaped, it is time for serious thought on how the extraordinary lessons from the AIDS response can be brought to bear to transform global health.” Also covered by other international publications

The Herald Scotland references the School’s study into the misrepresentation of evidence by the alcohol industry in an article on minimum unit pricing.

Karl Blanchet writes a piece on Le Monde Diplomatique arguing that a global health strategy is necessary to end chronic diseases such as AIDS.

BBC World News’ monthly Health Check TV programme is hosted from the School, and includes an interview with James Logan about his new research into how malaria parasites manipulate mosquitoes – clip available at BBC News online. James Logan and Will Stevens  also talk to Health Check on BBC World Service Radio about the next stage of the research: “By understanding more about the mosquito’s olfactory system and how they find us, and particularly ones that are infected with malaria, the better we can develop attractants for traps and repellents to protect people from malaria mosquitoes.” Interview at 12mins.

Martin Gorsky is interviewed on The Editors for a piece about future spending on the NHS: “In recent years we have seen a lot of political controversy especially where the ideas of rational planners who want to distribute the NHS resources more fairly and effectively clash with the wishes of the local population, it’s come into focus many times recently over A&E departments.” Interview broadcast on BBC One and BBC World – feature also available on BBC News online.

Colin Sutherland talks to the Daily Mail about a new, highly sensitive LAMP blood test for malaria which has been tested at the School: “An important advantage of Lamp is that non-specialist staff in any hospital in the UK will be able to accurately and rapidly detect the presence of malaria parasites, and immediately begin treatment without waiting for confirmation from local experts or specialist laboratories.” Also covered in BBC London news bulletins and numerous other publications.

Phil Edwards speaks to BBC Radio Sussex about the introduction of a 20mph speed limit in Brighton: “Research shows that children are less likely to be injured when the average speed is reduced. Other research shows children are unable to detect vehicles approaching at speeds greater than 20mph.” Interview at 1hour 36mins.

Alan Dangour is interviewed by ABC Radio’s Health Report about his research into the omega-3 fatty acid supplements and cognitive decline: “For cognitive function, from our trial there’s no evidence that there’s a benefit.”

Alison Grant is interviewed on Arise News about recent developments in the study of HIV to mark 30 years since the discovery of the virus: “The explosion in interest in research around a cure is very exciting, but I think the work on cure is still at a very early stage and in terms of people living with HIV at the moment, they’re not about to be able to access something that can cure them.” Interview at 25mins 45secs.

Medical Xpress reports on a new study led by the School which shows that failure to link electronic health records may lead to biased disease estimates. Also covered by other specialist publications.

Ahead of the 2013 Women Deliver conference, Health Canal covers two new studies on women’s health from the School, published in the Lancet.

The Guardian reports on a recent forum on mosquito nets at which Jo Lines was a speaker.

Ben Goldacre talks to the Independent about students taking part in clinical trials.

Ruth McNerney speaks to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague about a study by researchers in the US suggesting that high doses of vitamin C can wipe out drug-resistant strains of the bacteria that cause TB.

STI Journal reviews Sexual Health: A Public Health Perspective – a text book by Kay Wellings, Kristin Mitchell and Martine Collumbien.

The Grocer covers a study by researchers at the School examining the effectiveness of the government’s Responsibility Deal with the food and drink industry.

Val Curtis is interviewed on BBC World Service’s The Why Factor about disgust: “However rational we are we can’t actually help that feeling when we see something nasty, it’s deeply ingrained in us, almost innate. It’s very clear that it has one major function, to keep us away from things that might give us an infectious disease.”

Heidi Larson speaks to IRIN news about a new global surveillance tool, being developed by researchers at the School, that detects and monitors real time public concerns about vaccines:  “The world has changed a lot in the last decade. What we are seeing is that you don’t have to have a computer in every household. People hear something on the radio, they tell their neighbour, they tweet it, and there are waves of information. We hadn’t anticipated how ubiquitous cellphones and smartphones were going to be, and that makes this work even more relevant.” Also covered by over 190 other publications around the world including Nature and Sydney Morning Herald.

News Medical include Camille Maringe in their Thought Leaders section, discussing her study into bowel cancer survival in the UK.  “Low bowel cancer survival in the UK was already known. The specific aim of the study was to understand the role of stage at diagnosis in explaining low cancer survival. UK patients will benefit from the findings of this research if they are encouraged to seek help earlier in order to be diagnosed at the earliest possible stage; if investigation of stage at diagnosis is more systematic, and if patients then obtain the best possible treatment for the stage of disease that they are diagnosed at.”

The Lancet includes an article about the first meeting of a new Commission on the Future of Health in Africa, led by Peter Piot.

Research from Lucy Reynolds is mentioned in a Guardian Comment is Free piece.

The Thompson Reuters Foundation speaks to Damian Brown, Master’s student at the School, about his book – Band Aid for a Broken Leg – that describes his experiences working overseas for MSF.

Colin Sutherland is quoted on the front page of the Metro in an article about a voluntary worker who was diagnosed with neurocysticercosis, a rare condition caused by pork tapeworm infestation: “We see these worm infections a few times a year but brain infections are rare and extremely dangerous.”

Joy Lawn speaks to WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show about the 14^th annual State of the World’s Mothers report, which includes findings based on analysis from researchers at the School: “Childbirth is a wonderful moment, but around the world for women and for babies it’s also the riskiest moment, that day is the highest chance of a baby dying in almost every country.” The School’s involvement in the report is also covered in 177 other publications including Time magazine, Reuters and Inter Press Service.

David Conway speaks to BBC News about a new study by researchers at Michigan State University who have found a strain of bacteria that can infect mosquitoes and make them resistant to the malaria parasite: “It is interesting and is the first report of Wolbachia clearly replicating, but a number of things took away the punch.” He comments that infected females produced fewer eggs than uninfected females, which means the infection would struggle to spread in the real world.

Alma Adler speaks to the Daily Mail about Flusurvey findings for an article about man flu: “In the myth of man flu, people may think that men complain more but these findings suggest otherwise. There is no evidence we know of to show that the flu virus affects women in a different way to men to give them worse symptoms and make them suffer more.”

A Guardian article about minimum pricing for alcohol highlights the recent study from the School showing the alcohol industry misrepresented evidence to try and influence policy in Scotland.

Times of India covers a study led by researchers at the School showing that the link between intimate partner violence and depression is in both directions. Also covered by 34 other international and specialist news sites.

An article in the Guardian about female genital mutilation mentions research carried out by the School in 2007.

David Heymann speaks to Metro (Canada) about 10 reported cases of coronavirus cases in Saudi Arabia: “That number of cases and the fact that they’re clustered somehow means that there’s either a point source or person-to-person transmission. And that needs to be sorted out.”

The University of Ghana reports on Peter Piot’s visit to deliver a lecture marking the 65^th anniversary of the university.

The Engineer reports on an Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration involving the School which will develop mobile health technologies to help doctors to diagnose and track diseases. Also covered by specialist medical sites.

The Georgian Times covers a study by the School that includes policy recommendations on controlling tobacco use in Georgia, based in part on research by Georgian Opinion Research Business International.

Francesco Checchi talks to BBC World Service Focus on Africa about a new study estimating that 258,000 Somalis died due to severe food insecurity and famine between October 2010 and April 2012: “Very little of this would have taken place if Somalia were at peace and that is the ultimate solution to look forward to… There was a lot of early warning that this was about to happen.”  Interview at 5m 20s. Also covered by Associated Press, BBC World Service Newshour (at 1m 50s), Guardian, Washington Post, ABC News, Scotsman, Huffington Post, Time magazine and more than 190 other publications worldwide.

James Logan brings mosquitoes and bedbugs into Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch studio, and talks about the fascinating world of insects linked to Wellcome Collection’s Who’s the Pest events: “They’re quite incredible; their bodies allow them to do things that we could only dream of… They have the most sophisticated sense of smell for example, much better than any sniffer dog. We can train bees to sniff out explosives at airports and even diseases.” He also appears on BBC World Service Newshour and BBC World TV.

Peter Piot speaks to the Lancet about the appointment of Professor Jeremy Farrar as the new Director of the Wellcome Trust: “For those of us who have committed our lives to improving health worldwide, particularly in those regions that face greater financial, political, and health challenges, to have at the head of this august institution a colleague, who has contributed so much already to the field of global health is a cause for celebration”.

Anthony Solomon talks to IRIN about a trachoma mapping project that uses a smartphone app to record GPS readings for every household surveyed: “It’s very robust because the data is stored on the phone’s micro SD card. If you drop the phone out of a window, run over it in a car or drop it in the river, we can recover the card, and the data will still be readable.”

Heidi Larson co-authors an article in JAMA Internal Medicine about the challenges facing the Global Polio Eradication Initiative: “There is a critical need to gain support at the local level in Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan, and to maintain support for the thousands of polio workers in the field.  A coherent and flexible strategy for polio eradication will require collective ingenuity in addressing public health and the immunization needs of the populations at risk. And the exploitation of polio vaccination and other health initiatives for political or military goals must end.”

James Logan appears on Channel 4’s 1001 Things You Should Know, asking a question in the science category.

The Toronto Star references a BMJ piece co-authored by Richard Smith on antibiotic resistance: “Resistance is not just an infectious disease issue; it is a surgical issue, a cancer issue, a health system issue.”

John Edmunds is interviewed for BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Sky News, and BBC Radio Wales, about the current measles outbreak. Clips also used in news bulletins across BBC stations:  “We underestimate the level of coverage, the main reason for that is that kids move, or their parents move and take them with them. And secondly because of boundary changes… it becomes very difficult to work out which piece of data applies to which patch of ground… You can’t go on vaccinating at the level of coverage we have been and not have measles circulating; it’s an extremely infectious disease.”

Ken Eames talks to BBC Radio Five Live, and 11 BBC local radio stations including BBC Bristol, BBC Newcastle and BBC West Midlands about the measles outbreak: “We’re now at the point where people who weren’t vaccinated as infants in the late nineties, early 2000s are now all in a group at secondary school and suddenly you’ve got all these people, close proximity, not enough vaccination coverage, and if an epidemic starts it can take off and spread through a school.”

David Conway speaks to the Financial Times for their Combating Malaria Report about new genetic complexity in mosquitoes:  “…it’s a warning that we need to understand these populations that we are trying to control because it could make insecticide use less effective.”

Brian Greenwood is interviewed for a Guardian World Malaria Day feature about efforts to encourage investment in malaria: “There used to be one million malaria deaths a year; we’re now down to 600,000. That’s definitely progress, but it’s hardly good news that 600,000 people, many of them young children, still die every year from a preventable disease.”

James Logan appears on BBC Radio London discussing our relationship with insects linked to Wellcome Collection’s Who’s the Pest? season: “I think we are just visitors to the planet, insects were here long before us and they’ll be here after we’re gone – they outnumber us 200 million to one.”

Colin Sutherland speaks to SciDevNet about a nanowire device being developed by the Nanomal Consortium, that could help tackle malaria drug resistance: “If we had it 20 years ago, we could have saved a lot of lives that were lost because of the resistance to the drug chloroquine.”

Kim Muholland on Sky News Sunrise discussing the current measles outbreak in the UK.

Richard Coker speaks to the Wall Street Journal about H7N9 avian flu and the conditions that make the spread difficult to predict and control: “The problem is you have mixed operations—from large-scale factories to backyard—and we really don’t know what that means yet in terms of the spread of viruses.”

The Guardian summarises a panel discussion which included the School’s Jo Borghi, looking at some important lessons in developing affordable and sustainable universal health coverage: “Typically carried out every couple of years, national income and expenditure surveys can be used to compare different sources of financing in low income settings…They can also be used to assess the progress of specific health financing sources in response to policy changes.”

To mark the first newborn health conference in Johannesburg, Joy Lawn is interviewed on SABC News Morning Live about what should be done to tackle the high number of newborn deaths globally each year: “Of these 3 million babies that die in the first month of life each year, the most risky time is the first day of life, and the most common cause is babies that are born too soon. By doing very simple things they don’t need to die.” The conference is also covered by other specialist and international sites including Medical Xpress and All Africa.

Camille Maringe is quoted in News Medical on new research showing that survival for bowel cancer patients is lower in the UK than in other comparable countries: “Improvements are urgently needed in the quality and thoroughness of the medical tests that are used to assess the stage at diagnosis for each patient… This will enable more accurate international comparisons of survival at each stage of disease. In turn, it will enable patients, doctors and healthcare planners to see which countries are setting the best standards, and what improvements are required to reach the highest levels of survival.” Also covered by BMJ and online news sites.

Times Higher Education reports on the latest Leiden Ranking of the world’s top universities, which sees the School come third in the UK behind Cambridge and Oxford.

Science Codex reports on a paper co-authored by Martin McKee on Europe’s Horizon 2020 science funding programme. Also covered by several science news sites.

Mary Cameron appears on BBC World News Global programme discussing the problem of bedbug control, linked to research by US scientists into a new material that could help trap the insects: “It’s always interesting to try and develop new tools, especially those that don’t involve insecticides as bedbugs are notoriously resistant to different types of insecticides, but this is an interceptive device… so the actual efficacy would depend on where you actually place it.” James Logan also comments on the story on BBC News.

To mark the opening of the World Health Summit regional meeting in Singapore, Peter Piot appears on the BBC World News Newsday programme and Channel News Asia’s AM Live discussing 10 years since SARS:  “Asia, particularly East Asia and South East Asia, is the place where new viruses emerge from, we had SARS 10 years ago and then different types of flu, so it’s only natural that this is high on the agenda of this summit… Asia’s much better prepared to deal with new epidemics than 10 years ago.” Peter Piot also in Asian Scientist and David Heymann in Today Online.

Martin McKee is interviewed on BBC World Service’s Health Check about mortality in Russia: “About 45% of deaths of working age men to can be attributed directly to particular forms of hazardous alcohol consumption, and of course if we factor in all sorts of alcohol consumption the figures will be even higher.”

Clarence Tam comments in the Guardian on new research from Oxford University claiming there may be nearly four times as many people infected with dengue globally than was previously believed: “Whether these cases are an important source of dengue infection for others is not well known… But there is clearly more dengue in the world than we thought.” Also covered by 331 other publications including ABC News  and CBS.

Peter Piot writes a piece for the Guardian about the launch of the Scientific Declaration on Polio Eradication: “We have a chance to deliver a global health victory with the eradication of polio. We have the scientific tools to achieve a polio-free world, and now we need global commitment to make it happen.” The launch is also covered on other news sites including the Independent and the Hindu.

The Lancet reviews Cartographies of Life & Death and the Time Out blog also features the exhibition.

Val Curtis speaks to ABC Radio’s Life Matters  about hygiene and the spread of disease: “There’s an innate squeamishness response…It’s healthy to avoid the substances that might contain the nasty little microbes and parasites that might hurt you, almost instinctively.”

A review in the Lancet provides abstracts from the Epidemiology Today & Tomorrow meeting held at the School this week, and Paul Fine also co-authors an article in the Lancet on ‘The Singular Science of John Snow’.

Joy Lawn argues in a column for the Inter Press Service that most of the three million deaths of newborn babies that occur every year can be prevented using simple and cost-effective solutions.

Medical News Today and other sites report new research led by Sinéad Langan showing that a shingles vaccine may cut cases by half in older patients.

Medical Xpress and other specialist sites cover new research carried out by the School and the University of Southampton into patients’ experiences of health services and how these relate to their expectations and satisfaction.

Asian Tribune reports Richard Coker discussing the problem of TB among migrants at the 4th Union Asia Pacific Region Conference on Lung Health.

Aidsmap highlights a study by the School which shows that one-in-four pregnancy-related deaths is due to HIV in countries with a high HIV prevalence.