Brian McCloskey

Biographic Data

ID7158363
NAMEBrian McCloskey
GIVEN NAMESBrian
FAMILY NAMEMcCloskey
SIGNATUREMCCLOSKEY B
AFFILIATIONSChatham House
ORCID0000-0001-7788-894X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1996
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Effectiveness of public health measures and strategies to reduce risk of spread of respiratory pathogens at sporting mass gatherings

    Open AccessLucia Mullen, Amanda Kobokovich Mui et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2026

    Objectives: To determine the type and effectiveness of public health interventions implemented at sporting mass gatherings to mitigate respiratory infectious disease spread and understand how feasible and acceptable the interventions were to implement. Design: Systematic review. Data sources: Medline, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, Scopus, Web of Science, Global Health, Epistemonikos, Global Index Medicus, WHO Library, WHO IRIS, IOC and FIFA were sear…

  • Mass gathering events and reducing further global spread of Covid-19

    Open AccessBrian McCloskey, Alimuddin Zumla et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2020

  • Public health professionals' perceptions toward provision of health protection in England

    Open AccessPaul Cosford, Paul A Cosford et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2006

    Whilst we studied professionals' perceptions, rather than actual responses to incidents, our study suggests that there are important areas of health protection where consistent understanding of responsibility for delivery is lacking. There are opportunities to clarify the responsibility for health protection in England, perhaps learning from the approaches used for those health protection functions where we found consistent perceptions of account…

  • The Worcester water incident, UK

    D Fone, D L Fone et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…1998References: 3

    12 (0.5) 9.7 4.0 *Fisher's exact test. A variety of other symptoms including fever (two respondents), palpitations, back pain and blue tongue, feeling generally ill and loss of taste and smell with a feeling of soap in the nose (one respondent each) were also reported

  • An epidemiological study after a water contamination incident near Worcester, England in April 1994

    S E Fowle, C E Constantine et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…1996Cited by: 1References: 3

    STUDY OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether exposure to tap water contaminated in a major river pollution incident with 2 ethyl 5,5 dimethyl 1,3 dioxane (EDD) and 2 ethyl 4 methyl 1,3 dioxolane (EMD) was associated with an increase of self reported symptoms. To assess the extent of association between noticing the water had an unusual taste or odour and self reported symptoms. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SETTING: A city and two nearby towns …