Publications & Broadcasting

Academic Publications (since 2020) 

(* Corresponding/ + Joint-first)

For article links and citation scores see my Google Scholar profile. 

Published 

2025

Boucrot, Wendy; Kirchhelle, Claas; Varadan, Sheila, “Microbes, an essential element of a healthy, clean and sustainable environment: connecting microbial health, planetary crises, and economic and social rights”, Submission to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (CESCR) on the environmental dimensions of human rights (January 2025).

2024

Velmet, Aro & Kirchhelle, Claas (eds.), Special Thematic Issue - Standards and their containers. Histories of Microbial Pathogens from the Colonial to the Postcolonial Eras, Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) 10(1-2) (2024), https://estsjournal.org/index.php/ests/issue/view/41 

Velmet, Aro & Kirchhelle, Claas, "Standards and their containers – Introduction to the Thematic Issue on Histories of Microbial Pathogens from the Colonial to the Postcolonial Eras", Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) 10(1–2) (2024): 221–234, https://doi.org/10.17351/ests2023.1419 

Kirchhelle, Claas* & Kirchhelle, Charlotte, "Northern Normal – Laboratory Networks, Microbial Culture Collections, and Taxonomies of Power (1939-2000)", Engaging Science, Technology, and Society (ESTS) 10(1–2) (2024): 292–336, https://doi.org/10.17351/ests2023.1445

Alas Portillo, Mirza; Paterson, Erin; Wells, Nadya; Vagneron, Frédéric; Kirchhelle, Claas*, Emerging Financial Models for Antibiotic Development (2000-2016). DryAP and Geneva Graduate Institute Witness Seminar (Strasbourg: UnivOak, 2024), https://doi.org/10.34931/n7pk-3n88

Alas Portillo, Mirza, Isabel M Gómez Rodríguez, Christoph Gradmann, Claas Kirchhelle, Jørgen J. Leisner, Laura D. Martinenghi, Erin L. Paterson, Maria Jesús Santesmases, Belma Skender, and Frédéric Vagneron, ‘Paradoxes of the antibiotic pipeline’, Nature Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (2024), https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-03211-1

Collier, Carly & Kirchhelle, Claas+. Fear & Fever. 14 Days of typhoid in Edwardian Dublin [Graphic Novel] (Dublin: Dublin City Council, 2024), https://archive.org/details/typhoidland-open-access 

Brives, Charlotte & Kirchhelle, Claas*, ‘Variable Viruses: Introduction to a special issue on the past, present, and future of bacteriophage research and use’, Phage: Therapy, Applications, Research Vol. 5 No. 1 (March 2024), 1-3, https://doi.org/10.1089/phage.2024.0007

Turner, Paul E., Joana Azeredo, Ed T. Buurman, Sabrina Green, Jakob Krause Haaber, Douglas Haagstrom, Koichi Kameda, Claas Kirchhelle, Mercedes Gonzalez Moreno, Jean-Paul Pirnay, Mirza Alas Portillo, ‘Addressing the Research and Development Gaps in Modern Phage Therapy’, Phage: Therapy, Applications, Research Vol. 5 No. 1 (March 2024), 30-39, https://doi.org/10.1089/phage.2023.0045

Resch, Grégory; Charlotte Brives, Laurent Debarbieux, Francesca E Hodges, Claas Kirchhelle, Frédéric Laurent, Sylvain Moineau, Anna Filipa Moreira Martins, Christine Rohde, ‘Between Centralisation and Fragmentation – the past, present, and future of phage collections’, Phage: Therapy, Applications, Research Vol. 5 No. 1 (March 2024), 22-29, https://doi.org/10.1089/phage.2023.0043

Kirchhelle, Claas*, Miriam Lipton, Tristan Nolan, Wim Meijers, Senjuti Saha, Neeraja Sankaran, ‘Reuse, Repurpose, Recycle – Bacteriophages and Microbial Surveillance (1921-2023)’, Phage: Therapy, Applications, Research Vol. 5 No. 1 (March 2024), 14-21, https://doi.org/10.1089/phage.2023.0042

Kirchhelle, Claas & Brives, Charlotte (eds.), “Variable Viruses: The Past, Present and Future of Bacteriophage Research”, Phage: Therapy, Applications, Research Vol. 5 No. 1 (March) 2024, https://www.liebertpub.com/toc/phage/5/1

2023

Webster, Emily; Palanco Lopez, Paula, Kirchhelle, Claas*, 'Shifting targets: typhoid's transformation from an environmental to a vaccine-preventable disease, 1940–2019', Lancet Infectious Diseases (2023), https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(23)00500-5 

Kirchhelle, Claas*. The Antibiocene – towards an eco-social analysis of humanity’s antimicrobial footprint. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 10, 619 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-02127-6  

Glover, Rebecca E.; Singer, Andrew; Roberts, Adam; Kirchhelle, Claas, ‘Dressed for success? Why is the UK Antibiotic subscription model pilot being described as ‘successful’, Lancet Microbe (22.08.2023), https://doi.org/10.1016/S2666-5247(23)00250-1

Fairgrieve, Duncan, Marco Rizzi, Claas Kirchhelle, Sam Halabi, Geraint Howells, and Normann Witzleb. "No-Fault Compensation Schemes for COVID-19 Vaccines: Best Practice Hallmarks." Public Health Reviews (2023): 7, https://doi.org/10.3389/phrs.2023.1605973

Gradmann, Christoph and Kirchhelle, Claas, ‘Pills and Politics – a historical analysis of international antibiotic regulation since 1945’, in Rubin, Oliver, Boekkeskov, Eric and Munkholm, Louise (eds.), Steering Superbugs. The Global Governance of Antimicrobials (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), https://global.oup.com/academic/product/steering-against-superbugs-9780192899477?cc=fr&lang=en&# 

Fairgrieve, Duncan; Borghetti; Jean-Sébastien; Dahan, Samuel; Goldberg, Richard; Halabi, Sa; Holm, Søren; Howells, Geraint; Kirchhelle, Claas; Pillay, Avinashl Rajneri, Eleonora; Rizzi, Marco; Sintes, Martin; Vanderslott, Samantha; Witzleb, Normann, “No-Fault Compensation Systems for Vaccine Injury”, Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law 31/1 (2023), https://journals.tulane.edu/jicl/article/view/3797 

Kirchhelle, C.*, & Podolsky, S. An Awkward Fit: Antimicrobial Resistance and the Evolution of International Health Politics (1945-2022). Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 50 (S2) (2023), 40-46. https://doi:10.1017/jme.2022.78  

2022

Thornber, Kelly*; Adshead, Fiona; Balayannis, Angeliki; Brazier, Richard; Brown, Ross; Comber, Sean; Court, Caroline; Davidson, Iain; Depledge, Michael; Farmer, Caroline; Gibb, Stuart; Hixson, Richard; Kirchhelle, Claas; Moore, Keith; Motta, Marco; Niemi, Lydia; Owen, Steward; Pencheon, David; Pfleger, Sharon; Pitchforth, Emma; Powell, Nei; Schmidt, Wiebke; Smith, Richard; Sowman, Georgina; Tyler-Batt, Wendy; Wilkinson, Helen; Wilson, Edward C.F.; Fleming, Lora; Gaze, William, “First, do no harm: time for a systems approach to address the problem of healthcare-derived pharmaceutical pollution”, Lancet Planetary Health 6/12(2022), https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00309-6

Palanco Lopez, P., Manyau, S., Dixon, J., MacPherson, E., Nayiga, S., Manton, J., Kirchhelle, C., & Chandler, C. (2022). Antibiotic Arrivals in Africa: A Case Study of Yaws and Syphilis in Malawi, Zimbabwe and Uganda. Medicine Anthropology Theory, 9(3), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.17157/mat.9.3.5633

Glover, Rebecca; Singer, Andrew; Roberts, Adam; Kirchhelle, Claas, “The antibiotic subscription model: fostering innovation or repackaging old drugs?”, Lancet Microbe (2022), https://doi.org/10.1016/S2666-5247(22)00235-X

Thornber, Kelly, and Kirchhelle, Claas, "Hardwiring antimicrobial resistance mitigation into global policy." JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance 4, no. 4 (2022): dlac083, https://doi.org/10.1093/jacamr/dlac083

Kirchhelle, Claas and Roberts, Adam, “Embracing the monsters: moving from ‘infection control’ to ‘microbial health’”, Lancet Microbe (2022) https://doi.org/10.1016/S2666-5247(22)00225-7

Saldanha, Saskshi+, Kirchhelle, Claas, Webster, Emily; Vanderslott, Samantha; Vaz, Manjulika, ‘Unseen and Unheard; the historical and contemporary vulnerability of Indian manual scavengers’, BMJ Global Health (2022):e008733. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2022-008733 

Kirchhelle, Claas, Typhoid – The Past, Present, and Future of an Ancient Disease (London: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers, 2022).

https://scalapublishers.com/typhoid/

Kirchhelle, Claas, ‘Giants on Clay Feet – public health laboratory services in Britain, Germany, and the US between 1945 and 2020’, Social History of Medicine (2022), https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkac019 

Ryan, Hannah; Flammer, Patrik G.; Nicholson, Rebecca; Loe, Louise; Reeves, Ben; Allison, Enid; Guy, Christopher; Doriga, Inés Lopez; Waldron, Tony; Walker, Don; Kirchhelle, Claas; Larson, Greger; Smith, Adrian L., ‘Reconstructing the history of helminth prevalence in the UK’, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases April (2022), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010312

Weldon, Isaac; Van Katwyk, Susan Rogers; Burci, Gian Luca; Campos Thana C de; Eccleston-Turner, Mark; Fryer, Helen R.; Giubilini, Alberto; Hale, Thomas; Harrison, Mark; Johnson, Stephanie; Kirchhelle, Claas; Lee, Kelley; Liddell, Kathleen; Mendelsohn, Marc; Ooms, Gorik; Orbinski, James; Piddock, Laura J.V.; Røttingen, John-Arne; Savulescu, Julian; Singer, Andrew C.; Viens, A.M.; Wenham, Clare; Wiktorowicz, Mary E.; Zaidi, Shehla; Hoffman, Steven J., ‘Lessons for Antimicrobial Resistance from the Paris Climate Agreement’, American Journal of Public Health 112 April (2022), 553-557, https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306695

Glover, Rebecca; Singer, Andrew; Roberts, Adam; Kirchhelle, Claas, ‘2020 giveth, 2021 taketh away: the harmful consequences of the UK government’s decision to sell off its cutting-edge vaccine preparedness program only months after completing it’, BMJ 376 (2022), e069999, https://doi:10.1136/bmj-2022-069999

2021

Overton, Kristen; Broom, Alex; Fortané, Nicolas; Raymond, Stephanie; Gradmann, Christoph; Ebiowei, Sameul F. Orubu; Podolsky, Scott H.; Van Katywk, Susan Rogers; Zaman, Muhammad H.; Kirchhelle, Claas*, ‘Waves of Attention: patterns and themes of international AMR reports (1945-2020)’, BMJ Global Health, 6: e006909 (2021), https://doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2021-006909

Glover, Rebecca; Singer, Andrew; Roberts, Adam; Kirchhelle, Claas*, ‘NIMble innovation - a networked institute model for public antibiotic development and trials’, Lancet Microbe 2/11 (2021), https://doi.org/10.1016/S2666-5247(21)00182-8

Todd, Matthew H.; Idiris, Fahima; Klug, Dana M.; Dowson, Christopher G; Delft, Frank von; Roberts, Adam P.; Kirchhelle, Claas; Singer, Andrew C.; Blaskovich, Mark A.T., ‘Open up Antibiotic Development’, Wellcome Open Science (2021), https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16847.1  

Fairgrieve, Duncan, Holm, Søren; Howells, Geraint; Kirchhelle, Claas; Vanderslott, Samantha, ‘In favour of a bespoke COVID-19 vaccines compensation scheme’, Lancet Infectious Diseases (2021), https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(21)00065-7

Kirchhelle, Claas & Vanderslott, Samantha, ‘The need for harmonised international guidelines ahead of COVID-19 human infection studies’, Public Health Reviews 42 (2021), https://doi.org/10.3389/phrs.2021.1603962  

Kirchhelle, Claas, ‘Between Bacteriology and Toxicology: Agricultural Antibiotics and US Risk Regulation (1949-1985)’, in Creager, Angela and Gaudillière, Jean-Paul (eds.), Risk on the Table: Food, Health, and Environmental Exposure (New York: Berghahn, 2021), 214-242, https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/CreagerRisk#toc

Kirchhelle, Claas, Ruth Harrison and the History of British Animal Welfare Science and Activism (1920-2000) (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2021). https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783030627911

2020

Kirchhelle, Claas; Atkinson, Paul; Broom, Alex; Chuengsatiansup, Komatra; Ferreira, Jorge Pinto; Fortané, Nicolas; Frost, Isabel; Gradmann, Christoph; Hoffman, Stephen; van Katwyk, Susan Rogers; Lezaun, Javier; Nayiga, Susan; Outterson, Kevin; Podolsky, Scott H.; Raymond, Stephanie; Roberts, Adam P.; So, Anthony; Taylor, Liz; Singer, Andrew C.; Sringernyuang, Luechai, Chandler, Clare, 'SETting the Standard – multidisciplinary hallmarks for Structural, Equitable, and Tracked antibiotic policy', BMJ Global Health (2020); 5:e003091; http://doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003091

Kirchhelle, Claas* and Gordon Dougan, ‘Make it new: reformism and British public health’, Lancet Microbe (03.09.2020), https://doi.org/10.1016/S2666-5247(20)30143-9

Hoffman, Steven; Savulescu, Julian; Giublini, Alberto; Kirchhelle, Claas; Van Katwyk, Susan Rogers; Weldon, Isaac; Campus, Brooke; Harrison, Mark; Maslen, Hannah; McLean, Angela: 'Achieving a Grand Bargain on the Global Antimicrobial Commons: Introduction to the Policy Dialogue: introduction to a special issue', Health Care Analysis (Mar 2020) http://doi.org/10.1007/s10728-019-00388-4  

Van Katwyk, Susan Rogers; Weldon, Isaac; Giublini, Alberto; Kirchhelle, Claas; Harrison, Mark; Mclean, Angela; Savulescu, Julian; Hoffman, Steven, 'Making Use of Existing International Legal Mechanisms to Manage the Global Antimicrobial Commons: Identifying Legal Hooks and Institutional Mandates', Health Care Analysis (Mar 2020), http://doi.org/10.1007/s10728-020-00393-y

Van Katwyk, Susan Rogers; Giublini, Alberto; Kirchhelle, Claas; Weldon, Isaac; Harrison, Mark; McLean, Angela; Savulescu, Julian; Hoffman, Steven, 'Exploring Models for an International Legal Agreement on the Global Antimicrobial Commons: Lessons from Climate Agreements', Health Care Analysis (Jan 2020), http://doi.org/10.1007/s10728-019-00389-3

Greenhough, Beth; Jervis Read, Cressida; Lezaun, Javier; Lorimer, Jamie; McLeod, Carmen, Benezra, Amber; Bloomfield, Sally; Brown, Tim; Clinch, Megan; D'Acquisto, Fulvio; Dumitriu, Anna; Evans, Joshua; Fawcett, Nicola; Fortané, Nicolas, Hall, Lindsay J. Hall; Herrera, César E.; Hodgetts, Timothy; Johnson, Katerina Vicky Ann; Kirchhelle, Claas; Krzywoszynska, Anna; Lambert, Helen; Monaghan, Tanya; Nading, Alex; Nerlich, Brigitte; Singer, Andrew C.; Szymanski, Erika; Wills, Jane, ‘Setting the Agenda for social science research in the human microbiome’, Palgrave Communications (Feb 2020), https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-0388-5

Singer, Andrew; Kirchhelle, Claas; Roberts, Adam P, '(Inter)nationalising the antibiotic pipeline', Lancet Infectious Diseases (2020), http://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(19)30552-3

Kirchhelle, Claas, Pyrrhic Progress – Antibiotics in Anglo-American Food Production (1949-2013) (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2020) [Winner 2021 BSAH Thirsk Prize; 2020 Turriano ICOHTEC Prize; Long-listed 2020: Michel Déon Prize; highly commended 2020 PHE Antibiotic Guardian Research Award], https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/pyrrhic-progress/9780813591476