Seminars relevant to NDM Tropical Medicine members
Description: Tropical Medicine Seminars
Tropical Medicine Global Health Seminars
AfOx insaka
Health Systems Collaborative
Global Health DPhil Discourse
Medical Grand Rounds
Talks:

Thursday 2 October 2025

Medical Grand Rounds - Chemical Pathology - 'Steroid Abuse: Clinical Implications and Strategies for Detection'
Date: 2 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Nishan Guha
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street, JR Hospital
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 7 October 2025

Health Economics and Policy Evaluation  ONLINE Course 2025
Date: 7 October 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Organiser: Catia Nicodemo (Centre for Health Service Economics and Organisation)
Host: Catia Nicodemo (Centre for Health Service Economics and Organisation)

Thursday 9 October 2025

Medical Grand Rounds - AGM and Ambulatory Care
Date: 9 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street, JR Hospital
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Friday 10 October 2025

Vaccines targeting rabies and EBV's class III fusion proteins
Date: 10 October 2025, 9:15 - 10:15
Speaker : Dr Sandy Douglas (Jenner Institute, University of Oxford)
Venue: MRC Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Headington OX3 9DS
Venue Details: WIMM Seminar room
Organisers: Alina Bovtenko (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford), Renata Sojka (MRC Translational Immune Discovery Unit, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 13 October 2025

Ivermectin to control malaria—a cluster-randomised trial
Date: 13 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Marta Maia (University of Oxford)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: Seminar rooms
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Hosts: TBA

Integrating Interdisciplinary Strategies to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance in Mycobacterial Diseases
Date: 13 October 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Prof Sanjib Bhakta (Birkbeck, University of London & UCL)
Venue Details: South Parks Road, OX1 3EL, seminar rooms 7 & 8
Organiser: Andrea Kastner (Department of Biology)
Host: Prof Rachel Tanner (University of Oxford)

Thursday 16 October 2025

Medical Grand Rounds - Neurology
Date: 16 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Simon Rinaldi
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street, JR Hospital
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 23 October 2025

Medical Grand Rounds - Clinical Immunology - 'Managing immunoglobulin demand and ensuring evidence-based use – the role of peer review'
Date: 23 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Siraj Misbah
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street, JR Hospital
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 30 October 2025

Medical Grand Rounds - Ethics and Law
Date: 30 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Dominic Wilkinson
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street, JR Hospital
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 5 November 2025

How to do a Career Development Review, for reviewers (in-person)
Date: 5 November 2025, 9:30 - 11:00
Speaker : Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Thursday 6 November 2025

Medical Grand Rounds - Clinical Pharmacology
Date: 6 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr James Fullerton
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street, JR Hospital
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Monday 10 November 2025

Host-pathogen interactions in the diseased lung
Date: 10 November 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Dr Josie Bryant (Wellcome Sanger Institute)
Venue Details: South Parks Road, OX1 3EL, seminar rooms 7 & 8
Organiser: Andrea Kastner (Department of Biology)
Host: Dr Craig Maclean (Department of Biology University of Oxford)

Thursday 13 November 2025

Medical Grand Rounds - Haematology
Date: 13 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street, JR Hospital
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 19 November 2025

Get that job
Date: 19 November 2025, 9:30 - 13:00
Speaker : Suzi Black (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: tbc
Organiser: Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Thursday 20 November 2025

How to prepare for a Career Development Review, for reviewees (in-person)
Date: 20 November 2025, 9:30 - 11:00
Speaker : Jarlath Brine (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Medical Grand Rounds - Medical Ophthalmology
Date: 20 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street, JR Hospital
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Monday 24 November 2025

The evolution of rabbits and the myxoma virus: invasions, pandemics and resistance
Date: 24 November 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Prof Frank Jiggins (University of Cambridge)
Venue Details: South Parks Road, OX1 3EL, seminar rooms 7 & 8
Organiser: Andrea Kastner (Department of Biology)
Hosts: Prof Sunetra Gupta (Department of Biology University of Oxford), Dr Bridget Penman (Department of Biology University of Oxford)

Thursday 27 November 2025

Medical Grand Rounds - Combined Surgical/Medical Grand Round
Date: 27 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street, JR Hospital
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Monday 1 December 2025

Development and use of enabling technologies to accelerate schistosome drug discovery​
Date: 1 December 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Prof Karl Hoffmann (Dept of Life Sciences Aberystwyth University)
Venue Details: South Parks Road, OX1 3EL, seminar rooms 7 & 8
Organiser: Andrea Kastner (Department of Biology)
Host: Prof Gabriel Rinaldi (Department of Biology, University of Oxford)

Thursday 4 December 2025

Medical Grand Rounds - Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Date: 4 December 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Garry Tan
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street, JR Hospital
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 11 December 2025

Medical Grand Rounds - Gastroenterology
Date: 11 December 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Street, JR Hospital
Organiser: Prof Brian Angus
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 27 January 2025

Advanced presentation skills (in-person)
Date: 27 January 2026, 9:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Dr David Jones (Dr David Jones)
Venue Details: TBC
Organiser: Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Host: MPLS Researcher Training & Development (University of Oxford)

Monday 2 February 2025

Is the bacterial accessory genome adaptive?
Date: 2 February 2026, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Dr John Lees (Welcome Genome Campus Hinxton)
Venue Details: South Parks Road, OX1 3EL, seminar rooms 7 & 8
Organiser: Andrea Kastner (Department of Biology)
Host: Professor Sam Sheppard (INEOS Oxford Institute and Department of Biology, University of Oxford)

This list contains talks from the following series:
AfOx insaka - a gathering for sharing ideas and knowledge about Africa-focused research
AfOx insaka - a gathering for sharing ideas and knowledge about Africa-focused research
AMR surveillance best practices
Global Health DPhil Discourse
Health Systems Collaborative Skills Seminars
HIGH-Q Exchange Webinar Series
MSD Medical Grand Rounds
NDM Seminar Series
Tropical Medicine Global Health Seminars
Tropical Medicine Seminars