Journal Articles
(* Corresponding/ + Joint-first)
For article links and citation scores see my Google Scholar profile.
2026
Kirchhelle, Claas* & Vagneron, Frédéric: “Assetizing Diversity: microbial culture collections in an age of biotechnology, biodiversity, and speculative value generation (1972-2022)”, Journal of the History of Biology (2026), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-026-09853-y
Vagneron, Frédéric and Kirchhelle, Claas*: “Culture, Codes, Communities: culture collections’ transformation from microbial palaces to networked services (1890-1972)”, Journal of the History of Biology (2026), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-026-09852-z
Boucrot, Wendy; Varadan, Sheila; Kirchhelle, Claas, ‘The Right to Healthy Environment – crown jewel or damp squib for AMR justice? ‘, Public Humanities 2 (2026): e24, https://doi.org/10.1017/pub.2026.10114
Kirchhelle, Claas*, “This little microbe went to market: l’économie politique de la surveillance sentinelle et gestion microbienne – Livre en débat”, Revue Sciences Sociales et Santé (2026), https://www.jle.com/10.1684/sss.2025.0298
Thornber, Kelly; Bentham, Matthew; Pfleger, Sharon; Kirchhelle, Claas; Adshead, Fona; Owen, Stewart; Holmes, Hayden; Brown, Ross; Farmer, Caroline; Eii, Min Na; Niemi, Lydia; Wöhler, Lara; Wilson, Edward C.F.; Wade, Matthew J.; Tyler-Batt, Wendy; Taylor, Matthew; Sowman, Georgina; Southall, Paul; Smith, Richard; Routledge, Carol; Redshaw, John; Pitchforth, Emma; Pegg, Melissa; Moore, Ketih; Kirkham, George; Kaspyrzyk-Hordern, Barbara; Helwig, Karin; Gibb Stuart; Fleming, Lora; Comber, Sean; Collins, Rob; Brown, Heather; Brophy, Sinead; Brazier, Richard; Blitzer, Hannah; Barnett, Julie; Arendt, Roaslie; Alejandre, Julius Cesar; Tyler, Charles, “Pharmaceutical pollution from healthcare: a systems-based strategy for mitigating risk”, Lancet Planetary Health (2026), 101404, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanplh.2025.101404
Kirchhelle, Claas*, Mirza Alas Portillo, Mark David McGregor Davis, Assa Doron, Anahi Dreser, Nicolas Fortané Fortané, Christian Haddad, Stephen Hinchliffe, Samuel Kariuki, Sonia Lewycka, Sassy Molyneux, Cristina Moreno Lozano, Edna Mutua, Iruka N. Okeke, Mingyuan Zhang Betancourt, Clare I.R. Chandler . "(Un) intended Consequences: A Social Sciences Stocktake of a Decade of Global Action Plan-inspired Antimicrobial Governance." Lancet Microbe (2026), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanmic.2025.101315
2025
Varadan, Sheila; de Wit, Sara; Waltz, Miriam; Kirchhelle, Claas, ‘Antimicrobial Resistance: Just Transitions for Shared Futures’, Public Humanities 1 (2025): e175, https://doi.org/10.1017/pub.2025.10093
Moon, Kelly; Van Bavel, Bianca; Berrang Ford, Lea; Badger, Kerry; Carter, Laura; Evans, Barbara, Gaze, William; Howard, Philip; Moodley, Arshnee; Allel, Kasim; Min Na, Eii; Essack, Sabiha; Fisman, David; Harring, Niklas; Kirchhelle, Claas; Leonard, Anne; Lewycka, Sonia; MacFadden, Derek; Madoroba, Evelyn; Morgan, Eric; Muziasarai, Windi; Reverter, Miriam; Rogers Van Katwyk, Susan; Barth, Smets; Thornley, Tracey; Toh, Li Shean; Tomley, Fiona; Walpole, Sarah; King, Rebecca; Fisman, David: “Addressing Climate Change and Antimicrobial Resistance as Interconnected Issues — A Call to Action”, Nature Climate Change (2025) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02507-7
Wells, Nadya; Alas Portillo, Mirza; Paterson, Erin L.; Vagneron, Frédéric; Kirchhelle, Claas*, “Historicising the ‘Empty Pipeline’: how antibiotic innovation became a market failure (1980-2024)”, Public Humanities 1 (2025):e163, https://doi.org/10.1017/pub.2025.10067
Kirchhelle, Claas*. "Overwhelming Complexity? Entering a New Era of Microbial Governance." Public Humanities 1 (2025):e146, https://doi.org/10.1017/pub.2025.10065
Thornber, Kelly; Pfleger, Sharon; Moermond, Caroline; Snape, Jason; Hehenkamp, Wouter; Raga, Ad; Kirchhelle, Claas; Vinkers, Christiaan H.; Luykx, Jurjen; Boxall, Allstair; Tyler, Charles R., “Environmental Sustainability Assessment of Pharmaceuticals: Time to Acknowledge Pollution”, Environmental Science & Technology Letters (2025), https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.estlett.5c00914
Kirchhelle, Claas+* and Adam P. Roberts +*. "Beyond breakpoint–reconceptualising AMR as a symptom of planetary stress." NPJ Antimicrobials and Resistance 3, no. 1 (2025): 1-2, https://doi.org/10.1038/s44259-025-00128-w
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), https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/cescr/cfis/generalcomments/submissions/subm-cescr-written-cso-38-just-joint-submission-sion-en.docx
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
2019
Van Katwyk, Susan; Balasegaram, Manica; Boriello, Pete; Farrar, Jeremy; Giubilini, Alberto; Harrison, Mark; Kieny, Marie-Paul; Kirchhelle, Claas; Liu, Joanne; Outterson, Kevin; Pate, Muhammad Ali; Poirier, Mathieu; Røttingen, John-Arne; Savulescu, Julian; Sugden, Rebecca; Thamlikitkul, Visanu; Weldon, Isaac; Davies, Sally; Hoffman, Steven J. 'A roadmap for sustainably governing the global antimicrobial commons', The Lancet (2019), https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(19)32767-9
Kirchhelle, Claas, 'The Forgotten Typers. The Rise and Fall of Weimar Bacteriophage-Typing (1921-1935)', Notes & Records. The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (2019), https://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2019.0020
Vanderslott, Samantha; Phillips, Maile Thayer; Pitzer, Virginia, Kirchhelle, Claas*; ‘Water And Filth: Re-evaluating The First Era Of Sanitary Typhoid Intervention’, Clinical Infectious Diseases 69 [Supplement 5: Making a Difference? The past, present, and future of typhoid control’] (2019), S377-384; https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz610
Kirchhelle, Claas*; Dyson, Zoe Anne, Dougan, Gordon, ‘The bio-social history of AMR’, Clinical Infectious Diseases 69 [Supplement 5: Making a Difference? The past, present, and future of typhoid control’] (2019), S388-394; https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz556
Kirchhelle, Claas*; Vanderslott, Samantha; Pollard, Andrew: ‘Typhoid: Past and Future’, Clinical Infectious Diseases 69 [Supplement 5: Making a Difference? The past, present, and future of typhoid control’] (2019), S375-376; https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz551
Singer, Andrew; Kirchhelle, Claas; Roberts, Adam P, ‘Reinventing the antimicrobial pipeline in response to the global crisis of antimicrobial-resistant infections’, F1000Research (2019), 8:238; https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.18302.1
2018
Kirchhelle, Claas, ‘Correspondence - Patchwork regulation won’t stop antimicrobial resistance’, Nature 563 (2018), p. 473; https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-07454-2
Kirchhelle, Claas, ‘Pharming Animals – a global history of antibiotics in food production’, Palgrave Communications [Special issue: ‘Antibiosis’], Palgrave Communications 96/4 (2018), https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-018-0152-2
Kirchhelle, Claas, ‘Swann Song. British antibiotic regulation in food production (1953-2006)’, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 92 No. 2 (2018), pp. 317-351; https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.2018.0029
2016
Kirchhelle, Claas, ‘Toxic Confusion: the dilemma of antibiotic regulation in West German food production (1951-1990)’, Endeavour no. 2 (2016), pp. 114-127; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.endeavour.2016.03.005
2015
Podolsky, Scott H.; Bud, Robert; Gradmann, Christoph; Hobaek, Bård; Kirchhelle, Claas; Mitvedt, Tore; Santesmases, María Jesús; Thoms, Ulrike; Berild, Dag; Lie, Anne Kveim, ‘History Teaches Us That Confronting Antibiotic Resistance Requires Stronger Global Collective Action’, Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, 43/S3 (2015), pp. 27-32; https://doi.org/10.1111/jlme.12271
Frank Uekötter in Zusammenarbeit mit Claas Kirchhelle und Eva Preuß, 100 Jahre Landesbund für Vogelschutz in Bayern, Umwelt und Erinnerung Band 3 (München, 2015), http://www.umweltunderinnerung.de/images/umweltunderinnerung/publikationen/100_Jahre_LBV.pdf
2012
Kirchhelle, Claas and Frank Uekötter, ‘Wie Seveso nach Deutschland kam. Umweltskandale und ökologische Debatten 1976 bis 1986‘, Archiv für Sozialgeschichte, 52 (2012), pp. 315-332.
[The essay was later re-published in: Woyke, Meik (ed.), Wandel Des Politischen. Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland während der 1980er Jahre (Bonn: Dietz Verlag, 2013)]; http://library.fes.de/afs-online/afs/ausgaben-online
Journalism & Broadcasting
2026
Kirchhelle featured: Lancet Microbe: In Conversation (Elena Dalla Vecchia) on AMR Governance and History (06.03.2026) https://podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/claas-kirchhelle-and-lloyd-czaplewski-on-amr/id1570423238?i=1000753475846
2025
Kirchhelle interviewed: Kenny Torrella: “Why Big Pharma wants you to eat more meat: The pharmaceutical industry helped build factory farming. Now it’s muddying the
debate over meat’s carbon footprint.” Vox. Future Perfect (01.03.2025),
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/401172/antibiotics-meat-pharmaceutical-industry-agriculture
Kirchhelle interviewed: Kenny Torrella: “One state’s flawed, desperate new plan to fix its egg shortage”. Vox. Future Perfect (20.02.2025),
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/400361/bird-flu-egg-shortage-nevada-cage-free
2024
Kirchhelle featured: Lifeline Musical Podcast: The Drugs Are In The Water [AMR and One Health] (22.08.2024), https://thelifelineproject.podbean.com/e/the-drugs-are-in-the-water/
Kirchhelle featured on the SETI Institute's Big Picture Science: "Not just a phage: avoiding a post-antibiotic world" (12.08.2024), https://radio.seti.org/
Kirchhelle featured in: "Covid Inquiry report exposes 'fatal strategic flaws' that meant pandemic cost more UK lives", The Standard (London) (18.07.2024), https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/covid-inquiry-report-first-pandemic-ppe-lockdown-b1171460.html
Kirchhelle featured in: "First Covid inquiry report to set out ‘appalling failures’ during pandemic", Guardian (14.07.2024), https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/14/first-covid-inquiry-report-to-set-out-appalling-failures-during-pandemic
Kirchhelle on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time: Bacteriophages (04.07.2024), https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0020pf0
2023
Kirchhelle Interviewed : “The Antibiotic Crisis Has a Troubling Twist”, Wired (07.02.2023) https://www.wired.com/story/the-antibiotic-resistance-crisis-has-a-troubling-twist/
2022
Kirchhelle Interviewed: ‘Ces virus qui remplacent les antibiotiques’
Les Echos Week-End (17.11.2022), https://www.lesechos.fr/weekend/business-story/ces-virus-qui-remplacent-les-antibiotiques-1879949
Kirchhelle interviewed alongside Dr Rebecca Glover: "UK's 'baffling' sale of Covid vaccine facility"
Sunday National (29.03.2022), https://www.thenational.scot/news/20023855.uks-sale-world-class-oxford-covid-vaccine-facility-baffling-short-sighted/
Article: “Threats of Bioterrorism in Ukraine Are Part of a Long History”
Authors: Elaine Joy and Claas Kirchhelle
Wired (11.03.2022), https://www.wired.com/story/bioterrorism-ukraine-long-history/
Kirchhelle Interviewed: ‘Patient safety and the right of the sick to reject care from unvaccinated staff’, Independent (31.01.2022), https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/covid-vaccine-nhs-staff-latest-b2002861.html#comments-area
2021
Article: 'Coordinated clinical trials were key to the COVID vaccine triumph – the same must happen with antibiotics'
The Conversation (28.06.2021)
Authors: Claas Kirchhelle, Rebecca Glover, Adam Roberts, Andrew Singer
https://theconversation.com/covid-vaccine-trials-were-a-triumph-now-we-need-a-similar-system-for-antibiotics-162130 [also published in The Scotsman, Yahoo News, New Indian Express, The Week]
Letter to the Editor: COVID Compensation
Independent (07.05.2021)
Authors: Duncan Fairgrieves, Geraint Howard, Claas Kirchhelle, Samantha Vanderslott, Søren Holm
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/letters/hartlepool-keir-starmer-brexit-b1843805.html
Interviewed: ‘People who suffer rare reactions after vaccines ‘left in the dark’
without any support, warn families’
Independent (07.05.2021)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/covid-vaccine-side-effects-blood-clots-b1843067.html
Kirchhelle Interviewed: ‘In defence of the AstraZeneca vaccine – and what comes next’
Independent (15.04.2021)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/astrazeneca-vaccine-blood-clots-latest-uk-b1829326.html
Kirchhelle Interviewed: ‘Misconceptions over AstraZeneca jab safety could drive global vaccine divisions, expert warn’
Independent (11.04.2021)
Kirchhelle Interviewed: ‘We have to remember, learn and prepare’: Is the UK ready for the next pandemic’
Independent (23.03.2021)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/covid-uk-next-pandemic-vaccine-b1820647.html
Interviewed on “Body Politics” podcast (25.03.2021)
2020
Letter to the Editor: Vaccine approval and safety measures
Authors: Duncan Fairgrieves, Søren Holm, Geraint Howells, Claas Kirchhelle, Samantha Vanderslott
The Times (07.12.2020)
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/times-letters-vaccine-approval-and-safety-measures-khzp5msqn
Kirchhelle Interviewed: 'Cholera'
Futuremakers Podcast: The History of Pandemics (Univ. Oxford)
https://www.research.ox.ac.uk/Article/2020-11-20-futuremakers-podcast-the-history-of-pandemics
Kirchhelle Interviewed: ‘Laying the Foundations – Disease and the Emergence of Public Health’,
Green European Journal (30.11.2020)
Kirchhelle Adviser: ‘The risky way to speed up a coronavirus vaccine’;
Vox.com documentary on Human Challenge Trials;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2fxJI_cP58
Kirchhelle Interviewed on BBC Radio Oxford Breakfast Club
History and pandemics (15.10.2020)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p08srn1x
Blog: Page 99 Test – Pyrrhic Progress (Campaign for the American Reader)
http://page99test.blogspot.com/2020/06/claas-kirchhelles-pyrrhic-progress.html
Article: ‘Challenging Circumstances: we need international guidelines for human infection studies’
Authors: Claas Kirchhelle & Samantha Vanderslott
Medium (11.06.2020)
Kirchhelle featured as expert on ‘Coronavirus: Explained – Race for a Vaccine’,
Netflix/Vox three-part series on COVID-19
https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81273378
Kirchhelle Interviewed: ‘COVID-19’, the aftermath: insights from history
Oxford Science Blog (22.05.2020)
https://www.research.ox.ac.uk/Article/2020-05-22-covid-19-the-aftermath-insights-from-history
Article: Antibiotic Resistance Could Lead to More COVID-19 Deaths
Authors: Claas Kirchhelle, Adam Roberts, Andrew Singer
Scientific American (01.04.2020)
Kirchhelle Interviewed: "COVID-19: Insights from history"
Oxford Science Blog (24.03.2020)
http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/science-blog/covid-19-insights-history-0
Kirchhelle Featured on Oxford University Medium:
'How Oxford's most famous character is helping to drag typhoid
out of the rabbit-hole (20.01.2020)
Kirchhelle advisor/ featured on: Featured on “Surprisingly Brilliant” (Gregg Foot)
Seeker Podcast on Mary Mallon/ Typhoid Mary
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/death-by-peach-melba/id1502149340?i=1000476045017
Kirchhelle interviewed on BBC Radio 4 'Inside Science'
Typhoidland and Typhoid Mary (30.01.2020)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000dqz3
Kirchhelle interviewed on BBC World Service 'Health Check'
The Past & Present of Typhoid Control (29.01.2020)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csy9l2
Expert Reports & Databases
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), https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/cescr/cfis/generalcomments/submissions/subm-cescr-written-cso-38-just-joint-submission-sion-en.docx
2023
Kirchhelle, Claas* with assistance from James Lancaster: Emergencies & Omissions – the evolution of UK communicable disease administration and pandemic preparedness (1939-2019). Expert Report for the UK COVID-19 Inquiry (London, 2023).
[Expert Report: https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk/documents/inq000205178-expert-report-of-dr-claas-kirchhelle-dated-june-2023/
Transcript of Inquiry Hearing: https://covid19.public-inquiry.uk/documents/transcript-of-module-1-public-hearing-on-10-july-2023/
Video of Inquiry Hearing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bAf5f22x7Q&t=3s]
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: Uni OAK, 2024), https://hal.science/hal-04715255v1
Typhoid, Cockles, Terrorism – Typhoid Control in Revolutionary Dublin [enteric mortality data Dublin and hydrological modelling Dublin Bay between 1882 and 1937 coded by Dr Emily Webster as part of the Typhoidland project and hosted by University of Oxford Sustainable Digital Scholarship initiative, https://portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/typhoid-in-dublin (May 2023)].
ReACT Europe [expert contributor]: Identifying key bottlenecks in the early stages of antibiotic R&D and exploring public and not-for-profit solutions. ReACT Initiative Revisiting Effective Models for Advancing the Antibiotic Pipeline (REMAAP) (Uppsala 2023).
Full Report: https://www.reactgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/ReAct-Summary-Report-REMAAP-ReAct-Europe-July-2023_TH.pdf ]
Fairgrieve, Duncan Søren Holm, Geraint Howells, Claas Kirchhelle, Samantha Vanderslott, COVID-19 vaccines: in favour of a bespoke compensation scheme for adverse effects, submission via British Institute of International and Comparative Law to UK Vaccine Task Force (28.10.2020), https://www.biicl.org/publications/covid-19-vaccines-in-favour-of-a-bespoke-compensation-scheme-for-adverse-effects-a-briefing-paper
Fairgrieve, Duncan, Peter Feldschreiber, Richard Goldberg, Søren Holm, Geraint Howells, Claas Kirchhelle, Marcus Pilgerstorfer, Samantha Vanderslott, Response to DHSC Open Consultation: Changes to Human Medicine Regulations to support the rollout of COVID-19 Vaccines, submission via British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) to UK Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) (18.09.2020), https://www.biicl.org/publications/response-to-dhsc-open-consultation-changes-to-human-medicine-regulations-to-support-the-rollout-of-covid-19-vaccines