Letter to Diana Osbaldiston regarding SEAALL directory, June 21, 1991

A letter from Rebecca Forman to Diana Osbaldiston asking Osbaldiston to send Forman a copy of the SEAALL membership directory

Why do so few Britons comply with a self-isolation order?

With only 11% of Britons thought to be self-isolating when told to, the new contact-tracing app may be less effective than hoped. Rebecca Forman and Lucy Thompson (LSE) says poor public messaging, the fear of losing jobs and wages, and problems with getting essentials are major reasons for failing to comply

What a successful Covid-19 vaccination campaign would look like

A COVID-19 vaccine appears to be the only way out of repeated lockdowns – yet in the UK and US, where trust in governments’ handling of the pandemic is already low, many people are minded to refuse it. Rebecca Forman and Lucy Thompson (LSE) set out what a proactive vaccination campaign would look like

How has the NHS been able to vaccinate Britons so quickly?

The UK’s vaccination programme has been a rare success during the pandemic. Lucy Thompson, Rebecca Forman and Elias Mossialos (LSE) explain why the NHS has been able to deliver jabs faster than any other European country

Me-first vaccine nationalism makes the spread of dangerous new COVID variants more likely

Richer countries are vaccinating their own citizens first. But leaving the rest without access to jabs makes it more likely that new, possibly more dangerous, COVID-19 variants will spread, warn Rebecca Forman, Michael Anderson and Elias Mossialos (LSE). We urgently need a strategy to scale up vaccine supply

Scientists can advise, but only the government is responsible for policy

Scientists can provide expert advice, but only the government can decide what policies to implement. George A Wharton, Lucy Thompson and Rebecca Forman (LSE) warn that holding ‘the science’ responsible for these difficult decisions, without seeking a variety of opinions and sharing the evidence of how they were made, will make scientists reluctant to share their expertise for fear of being scapegoated

Social and physical environment disparities contribute to mortality outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

Demographic patterns suggest that fatalities from Covid-19 are disproportionately high in Black and Hispanic communities in the United States. This short commentary postulates that disparities in social & economic status and physical environment, with their resultant inequities, may also be contributing to high fatality rates. The top ten counties in the United States with the highest COVID-19 fatalities (as of May 16, 2020) from the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus resource center were compared to county-level population density, racial demographics, socioeconomic status and physical environment factors. We conclude by recommending a multi-pronged response approach with coordination between health systems and local governments using county-level data to identify social disparity ‘hotspots’ where extra resources can be allocated and targeted interventions can be implemented