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Brian McCloskey
Researcher at Public Health England
Publications - 56
Citations - 2339
Brian McCloskey is an academic researcher from Public Health England. The author has contributed to research in topics: Public health & Mass gathering. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 52 publications receiving 1940 citations. Previous affiliations of Brian McCloskey include Wellington Management Company & Chatham House.
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Rapid Spread of Zika Virus in The Americas - Implications for Public Health Preparedness for Mass Gatherings at the 2016 Brazil Olympic Games
Eskild Petersen,Mary E. Wilson,Sok Touch,Brian McCloskey,Peter Mwaba,Matthew Bates,Osman Dar,Frank Mattes,Mike Kidd,Giuseppe Ippolito,Esam I. Azhar,Alimuddin Zumla +11 more
TL;DR: The epidemiology and clinical features of the current ZIKV outbreak in Brazil are reviewed, knowledge gaps are highlighted, and the public health implications are reviewed to highlight the urgent need for a coordinated collaborative response to spread of infectious diseases with epidemic potential at mass gatherings events.
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Mass gathering events and reducing further global spread of COVID-19: a political and public health dilemma.
Brian McCloskey,Alimuddin Zumla,Giuseppe Ippolito,Lucille Blumberg,Paul Arbon,Anita Cicero,Tina Endericks,Poh Lian Lim,Maya Borodina +8 more
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Hajj: infectious disease surveillance and control
Ziad A. Memish,Alimuddin Zumla,Alimuddin Zumla,Rafat F. Alhakeem,Abdullah M. Assiri,Abdulhafeez Turkestani,Khalid D Al Harby,Mohamed Alyemni,Khalid Dhafar,Philippe Gautret,Maurizio Barbeschi,Brian McCloskey,David L Heymann,David L Heymann,Abdullah A. Al Rabeeah,Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq,Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq +16 more
TL;DR: The extensive public health planning, surveillance systems used to monitor public health risks, and health services provided and accessed during Hajj 2012 and Hajj 2013 that together attracted more than 5 million pilgrims from 184 countries are described.
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SARS to novel coronavirus - old lessons and new lessons.
Brian McCloskey,David L Heymann +1 more
TL;DR: The response to the novel coronavirus outbreak in China suggests that many of the lessons from the 2003 SARS epidemic have been implemented and the response improved as a consequence, but some questions remain and not all lessons have been successful.
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Evidence of person-to-person transmission within a family cluster of novel coronavirus infections, United Kingdom, February 2013.
Mamoona Tahir,Roger Gajraj,Madhu Bardhan,Huda Mohammed,Louise Dyke,Petra Charlemagne,Rea Alves,David Kirrage,Dan Killalea,Kate James,Melinda Kemp,Harsh Duggal,Robert Carr,Musarrat Afza,Nicholas Aigbogun,Bharat Sibal,Ruth Harrell,Obaghe Edeghere,Keith R. Neal,S. Ibbotson,Nimal Wickramasinghe,Nick Sherwood,Beryl Oppenheim,Louise Hopton,Husam Osman,Erasmus Smit,Sowsan Atabani,Judith Workman,Steve Wilson,Clair Overton-Lewis,Margaret Logan,Rosemary McCann,Marko Petrovic,Vinay Bothra,William Welfare,B. Isalska,Julian Barker,Alan Ashworth,Igor Fedor,Claude Seng,Deepti Kumar,Suzanna Matthews,Brian McCloskey,Jonathan S. Nguyen-Van-Tam,Paul Cosford,Alison Bermingham,Joanna Ellis,Monica Galiano,Angie Lackenby,Richard M. Myers,Robin Gopal,Maria Zambon,Richard Pebody,Lucy Thomas,Nicki Boddington,Helen K. Green,Hongxin Zhao,Iain T R Kennedy,Ibrahim Abubakar,Jane Jones,Nick Phin,Mike Catchpole,John M Watson +62 more
TL;DR: In February 2013, novel coronavirus infection was diagnosed in an adult male in the United Kingdom with severe respiratory illness, who had travelled to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia 10 days before symptom onset.