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SUMMARY:The SIREN study at five years: Tracking SARS-CoV-2 and respiratory
  infections in UK healthcare workers since 2020 - Victoria Hall\, UK Healt
 h Security Agency
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CONTACT:Paul Browne
DESCRIPTION:All are invited to the Bradford Hill Seminar:\n\nThe SIREN stu
 dy at five years: Tracking SARS-CoV-2 and respiratory infections in UK hea
 lthcare workers since 2020\n\nSpeaker: Victoria Hall\, Consultant Epidemio
 logist\, Antimicrobial Resistance & Healthcare Associated Infections Divis
 ion of the UK Health Security Agency (UK HSA)\n\nRegister to attend\nPleas
 e note this will be a free hybrid seminar\, with the option to attend in-p
 erson (Large Seminar Room\, East Forvie Building\, Forvie Site\, Robinson 
 Way\, Cambridge CB2 0SR) or virtually (via Zoom).\n\nNo registration is re
 quired to attend in person.\n\nRegister in advance to attend this seminar 
 online at:\n\nhttps://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/CoavXVmNQtWN8j8TO
 Fv-rg#/registration\n\nAbstract\nThe SARS-CoV-2 Immunity and Reinfection E
 valuation (SIREN) study is a prospective cohort study of hospital-based he
 althcare workers across the UK. It was established in 2020 as a pandemic r
 esponse study\, with over 44\,000 healthcare workers recruited from 135 NH
 S trusts/health boards. The study initially investigated SARS-CoV-2 reinfe
 ctions and the durability of immunity following infection\, and subsequent
 ly COVID-19 vaccination. It has expanded its scope to evaluate Winter Pres
 sures on the healthcare workforce\, and questions related to immunity more
  broadly.\n\nSIREN+ has been running since 2024. This has involved collect
 ing data on symptoms and absence from time off work trends in around 5000 
 participants recruited from the original SIREN cohort. In addition to inve
 stigating Winter Pressures\, SIREN+ provides an opportunity to address new
  research questions of public health importance that impact healthcare wor
 kers\, including the emergence of multidrug resistant organisms and risk f
 actors for healthcare associated infections.\n\nMore details on the study 
 and publications from the study can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/guid
 ance/siren-study\n\nAbout Victoria Hall\nVictoria Hall is a Consultant Epi
 demiologist in the Antimicrobial Resistance & Healthcare Associated Infect
 ions Division of the UK Health Security Agency and has been leading the SI
 REN study team since 2020.  She completed public health speciality trainin
 g in the East of England and the UK Field Epidemiology Training Programme 
 based in South East and London Regional Field Epidemiology Service.  She h
 olds a part-time position at the Institute for Health Informatics\, UCL wo
 rking on research on infections and AMR in care homes with the VIVALDI stu
 dy.\n\nAbout the Bradford Hill seminars\nThe Bradford Hill seminar series 
 is the principal series of The Cambridge Population Health Sciences Partne
 rship\, in collaboration with the PHG Foundation. This comprises the Depar
 tments of Public Health & Primary Care\, MRC Biostatistics Unit and MRC Ep
 idemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge\, bringing together a multi
 -disciplinary partnership of academics and public health professionals. Th
 e Bradford Hill seminar programme of internationally recognised speakers c
 overs topics of broad interest to our public health research community. It
  aims to transcend as well as connect the activities of our individual par
 tners.\n\nAll are welcome at our Bradford Hill seminars.
LOCATION:Large Seminar Room\, East Forvie Building\, Forvie Site Robinson 
 Way Cambridge CB2 0SR.
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