
R Epidemics Consortium (RECON)
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RECON assembles international experts creating tools and training for disease outbreak analysis using #opensource #Rstats.
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http://www.repidemicsconsortium.org/ 24-01-2018 20:06:11
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Is the new variant of SARS-CoV-2 more transmissible than others and if yes by how much? We CMMID are currently looking at this by comparing reproduction numbers between local areas in England (w/ Sam Abbott (@[email protected])). WORK IN PROGRESS, NOT PEER REVIEWED. 1/10 raw.githubusercontent.com/epiforecasts/cā¦

2 RA or Postdoc (London, United Kingdom) Modelling Vaccine Impact in the Vaccine Impact Modelling Consortium with Dr. Katy Gaythorpe at VIMC MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis @Imperial_JIDEA Imperial IDE More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/2-x-reseaā¦

Take-home message: development of outbreak analytics tools needs to be supported by our funders and institutions #epitwitter R Epidemics Consortium (RECON) GOARN Wellcome Gates Foundation Epiet Alumni Network RECAP London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine CMMID Rich FitzJohn



@cap1024 GOARN R Epidemics Consortium (RECON) @_TimTaylor_ How basic tools lead to more advanced things: see #rstats trending and trendeval for automated model selection: github.com/reconhub/trend⦠itself used for fitting epidemic trends in i2extras: repidemicsconsortium.org/i2extras/articā¦



How do we adapt #COVID19 transmission models to local settings & why is that important? š¤ Dr Roz Eggo & colleagues explain in @nresearchnews, outlining the challenges of incorporating setting-specific intricacies. ā¬ļø go.nature.com/39R2udY Adam Kucharski Jeanette Dawa Zulma CucunubĆ”

Many thanks to R Consortium for their support and to Matthieu Rolland and Ben Ortiz Ulloa for getting this off the ground! #rstats skills can help inform #epidemic response - all help is welcome!

5/5 Grateful to reviewers and supporting organisations including TEPHINET, EPIET Alumni Network, and MSF OCA. #rstats #epitwitter #epi #epidemiology #FETP #EPIET TEPHINET AFENETAfrica, @GHDEMPHNET Epiet Alumni Network MSF Science R Epidemics Consortium (RECON) GOARN CDC Global Health ProEpi London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine


Amazing work by amazing people! Anyone interested in #outbreak analytics in #rstats, this new, free, comprehensive resource is soon going to be your new best friend. Epiet Alumni Network GOARN @dr_anne_cori Dirk Schumacher š² @stephaneghozzi Rich FitzJohn R Epidemics Consortium (RECON)


2/2 Learn how to make many kinds of epidemic curves using ggplot2, incidence2, cowplot and other R packages at epiRhandbook.com/epidemic-curves MSF Science AFENETAfrica @GHDEMPHNET #FETP


Some RECON tools featured in the #Covid_19 surveillance app released by World Health Organization (WHO) !




Looking forward to csupervising this PhD project in partnership with the University of Nagasaki: lshtm.ac.uk/study/research⦠epibot The Epidemiologist R Handbook London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine CMMID Epiet Alumni Network GOARN R Epidemics Consortium (RECON)