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The burden and dynamics of hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2 in England. Relieved to see this finally out: nature.com/articles/s4158… with Stephanie Evans Mui Pham Julie Robotham Gwen Knight Mo Yin Cherry Lim @markgpritchard David Eyre Jon Read Peter Horby @peterhorby.bsky.social Sebastian Funk (@[email protected]) et al

Great opportunity to work with us on our Thanzi La Onse health system modelling project. Looking for a talented quantitative post-doctoral researcher who enjoys interdisciplinary work and tackling ambitious “big picture” projects. Apply by 6th Dec:

We're hiring! Assistant Professor in infectious disease epidemiology/modelling employed by LSHTM and based in Nagasaki, to join the vaccine research team--John Edmunds, Kaja Abbass and myself Job Opportunity at LSHTM: Assistant Professor (Nagasaki, Japan) jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/EPH-EPED-2023-…

Join us in a few hours for our virtual launch of RespiCast, ECDC’s respiratory disease forecasting hub! (respicast.ecdc.europa.eu/forecasts/) 14:00-15:00 CET, 20 Nov, link: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/… ECDC @ECDC_Flu ISI Foundation CMMID London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine inte tomt

Introducing the European Respiratory Diseases Forecasting Hub at #EPIDEMICS9 : respicast.ecdc.europa.eu

Great initiative moving forward forecasting capabilities…open to modeling teams from all countries.

Improving modelling for epidemic responses: reflections from members of the UK infectious disease modelling community on their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic Workshop report 👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Thoroughly enjoyed visiting Viola Priesemann, team and collaborators at MPI-DS Göttingen this week and learning about all the exciting work they're doing. Slides from my talk are at epiforecasts.io/slides/mpi_goe…

It was great to have Prof. Lulla Opatowski Lulla visit our group and give a fantastic talk on modeling antimicrobial resistance!

Postdoc (London, United Kingdom) Real-time outbreak modelling and forecasting with Sebastian Funk (@[email protected]) at Epiforecasts CMMID More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/research-…

5 more days to apply for a postdoc in my group. Short duration but potentially with opportunities for follow-up funding. Details at jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?i…

And if R programming is your thing you should also consider this Research Software Engineer post jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?i… RStatsJobsBot @RStatsJobs

It was great to deliver a new course on Nowcasting and Forecasting of Infectious Disease Dynamics (team effort with Kath Sherratt and Sam Abbott (@[email protected])) at ESPIDAM in Stockholm this week su.se/department-of-…. Hopefully again next year! All materials available at nfidd.github.io/nfidd/

Looking for modeller with experience with Bayesian models & modelling respiratory viruses & an interest in working with massive electronic health record data set Work w Dr Roz Eggo & myself & Dr Roz Eggo using OpenSAFELY Apply by 12 July jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?i…

There are ongoing outbreaks of #Mpox globally that would require a coordinated response from the global health community. Why should we care? (1/4)

🧵1/ New preprint out on medrxiv: “Collaborative forecasting of influenza-like illness in Italy: the Influcast experience” In this work, we analyze the first year of Influcast, Italy’s first collaborative hub for epidemic forecasting. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

We are thrilled to share that our paper on mpox importation risk in 2022 is now published in Journal of Infectious Diseases: academic.oup.com/jid/article/do… A big thanks to our team: Fumi Miura Hiroaki Murayama Jacco Wallinga Sebastian Funk (@[email protected]) Justin Lessler akiraendo 1/7

Publication day for my first perspective piece 🎉 Lucky to have worked with such great collaborators on this project 🤩 Read it here: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a… Institut Pasteur, since 1887

Happy to share that we FINALLY published version 2.0.0 of scoringutils on CRAN. scoringutils is an R package designed to facilitate the evaluation of forecasts. It operates on data.table, is very slick and has a lot of visualisations and extra features. epiforecasts.io/scoringutils/