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Zulma M. Cucunubá
@zulmacucunuba.bsky.social
Director, Public Health Institute & Prof. Epidemiology @Javeriana University (Bogotá, Colombia 🇨🇴) | Co-Lead Epiverse TRACE-LAC | Member Lancet Commission on Epidemic and Pandemic Modelling
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🔍 Data and policy to advance global health in Latin America.
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#Updated Latin American Scientists from multiple areas.

Includes colleagues from Argentina 🇦🇷, Brazil 🇧🇷, Chile 🇨🇱, Colombia 🇨🇴, Ecuador 🇪🇨, Guatemala 🇬🇹, Mexico 🇲🇽, Paraguay 🇵🇾, Peru 🇵🇪, and Uruguay 🇺🇾

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🚨 New FREE self-paced course!

We are excited to launch the #EpiTrainingKit #Africa: Introduction to Infectious Disease Modelling for Public Health.

🎯 Tailored for the African context
🌍 With a gender perspective
🆓 Open-access and online

#EpiTKit #Epiverse #PublicHealth
August 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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🧵1/N New study published in @jama.com on re-emergence of vaccine-eliminated infectious diseases under declining vaccination in the US. We model long-term risk and conditions for return to endemicity for measles, rubella, polio, & diphtheria. Collab w/ @Mathewkiang.com jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
April 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
🚨 Colombia está en alerta por #FiebreAmarilla.

En este video explicamos la situación epidemiológica actual y comparte recomendaciones clave para protegernos, especialmente antes de esta Semana Santa.

🎯 Infórmate, vacúnate y cuida de los tuyos.

#SaludPública #Vacunación #SemanaSanta #Prevención
April 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Hoy asistí con @zulmacucunuba.bsky.social a un evento inspirador. La Alianza #Abrázame es una campaña de salud, y una apuesta por transformar la experiencia del #cáncer en #Colombia. Su llamado: abrazar la vida, la prevención y la equidad en salud. Aquí un resumen: consultorsalud.com/colombia-cob...
Colombia eleva cobertura de vacunación contra el VPH del 37% al 50% en un año gracias a la alianza ‘Abrázame’
Colombia eleva cobertura de vacunación contra el VPH del 37% al 50% en un año gracias a la alianza ‘Abrázame’
consultorsalud.com
March 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
📢 Acompáñanos en este evento donde expertos analizarán los desafíos y perspectivas del cálculo de la #UPC en Colombia; y el papel de la academia en la #MesaTemáticaUPC

🗓 27-mar-2025 | 6:00 p. m.
🔗 Inscríbete aquí: forms.office.com/r/w9Unb3H4nJ
March 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Emergence of #Oropouche Virus Infection in Matanzas, Cuba, 2024

#TravelMedicine Medsky ⚕️🦟

www.journalofinfection.com/article/S016...
Emergence of Oropouche Virus Infection in Matanzas, Cuba, 2024
Dear Editor,
www.journalofinfection.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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#Updated Latin American Scientists from multiple areas.

Includes colleagues from Argentina 🇦🇷, Brazil 🇧🇷, Chile 🇨🇱, Colombia 🇨🇴, Ecuador 🇪🇨, Guatemala 🇬🇹, Mexico 🇲🇽, Paraguay 🇵🇾, Peru 🇵🇪, and Uruguay 🇺🇾

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January 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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#EpiverseTRACE is now on Bluesky & LinkedIn! 🎉

We’re expanding to be more inclusive & diverse, reaching a wider audience in public health & data science.

Want to know more about what we do?⁉️🤔

🧵a thread!
March 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
📢 ¡Nuevo episodio de #SaludPúblicaEn2Minutos! 🎙️

La #SaludDigital genera gran interés, pero también trae consigo importantes desafíos éticos.

✅ Usos de la tecnología móvil en salud pública
✅ El “reparto de beneficios digitales” a diferentes niveles

📄 doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2025.2452437
Instituto Salud Pública Javeriana on LinkedIn: #saluddigital #saludpúblicaen2minutos
📢 La #SaludDigital nos genera gran interés, pero también trae consigo importantes desafíos éticos. En el 2º episodio de #SaludPúblicaEn2Minutos, presentamos…
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March 5, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Today we had a visit from @salvax99.bsky.social and Mariana De Camargo, who inspired us to consider inequalities and overdiagnosis as topics within #cancersurveillance. Thank you so much to both and to @zulmacucunuba.bsky.social for the co-organisation!
February 26, 2025 at 12:57 AM
¡No te pierdas el primer episodio de #SaludPúblicaEn2Minutos 🎙️

Hoy te contamos:
✅ ¿Qué es la UPC?
✅ ¿Por qué es un tema de debate?
✅ ¿Qué posibles soluciones se plantean?

Cuéntanos tu opinión y qué otros temas de salud pública te gustaría que abordáramos. 📢✨

Instituto de Salud Pública |Javeriana
Instituto Salud Pública Javeriana on LinkedIn: #saludpúblicaen2minutos
¡No te pierdas el primer episodio de #SaludPúblicaEn2Minutos 🎙️💡 Hoy te contamos: ✅ ¿Qué es la UPC? ✅ ¿Por qué es un tema de debate? ✅ ¿Qué posibles…
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February 8, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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2 PhD positions in wildlife infectious diseases!
We are advertising 2projects, as part of the Wessex One Health Doctoral landscape at Sussex.
1) Gamebirds and avian influenza.
2) European Bat rabies in UK.

For the full list of projects and instructions on how to apply see findAPhD website here:
FindAPhD : BBSRC Wessex One Health (WOH) Doctoral Landscape Award - PhD Studentships in Infection Biosciences at University of Sussex
Apply for a PhD: BBSRC Wessex One Health (WOH) Doctoral Landscape Award - PhD Studentships in Infection Biosciences at University of Sussex
www.findaphd.com
February 3, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Excited to officially announce my new book Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty, out in March (UK) and May (US) and available now to pre-order: proof.kucharski.io

It digs into the ideas we can use to weigh evidence and converge on truth under pressure - and what happens when they fail... 1/
January 20, 2025 at 10:38 AM
¡Un duro golpe a la salud pública global!
El presidente Trump firma un decreto para retirar a EE. UU. de la OMS

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Withdrawing The United States From The World Health Organization – The White House
WITHDRAWING THE UNITED STATES FROM THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the
www.whitehouse.gov
January 21, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Honored to step into the role of Director of the Public Health Institute at Javeriana University in Bogotá.

Grateful for the journey so far and eager to drive meaningful change in public health while strengthening collaboration across Latin America and beyond.
January 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
“Los acontecimientos en X muestran que la plataforma ya no está a la altura de su responsabilidad de promover un discurso justo y democrático. Como instituciones científicas no podemos aceptar esto”

www.eldiario.es/internaciona...
Más de 60 universidades alemanas abandonan X de Elon Musk por la radicalización del discurso
Las instituciones educativas del país cargan contra el algoritmo de la red social y afirman que ya no promueve un discurso justo y democrático
www.eldiario.es
January 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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What should the early lines of code written during a new outbreak look like? We've got a new viewpoint piece in Lancet Digital Health on how to improve early outbreak analytics, with a great group of contributors: linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii...
January 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
#Updated Latin American Scientists from multiple areas.

Includes colleagues from Argentina 🇦🇷, Brazil 🇧🇷, Chile 🇨🇱, Colombia 🇨🇴, Ecuador 🇪🇨, Guatemala 🇬🇹, Mexico 🇲🇽, Paraguay 🇵🇾, Peru 🇵🇪, and Uruguay 🇺🇾

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January 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Ayer falleció Jimmy Carter a los 100 años, dejando un legado inmenso en salud global #GlobalHealth

Mediante el Centro Carter avanzó en la eliminación de la enfermedad gusano de Guinea (de 3.5M en 1986 a 7 casos en 2024) y en eliminación de oncocercosis, tracoma, esquistosomiasis, filariasis, etc.
December 30, 2024 at 2:23 PM
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The illnesses & deaths in Panzi region, DRC, were caused by a combo of regular respiratory bugs + malaria, in people weakened by severe malnutrition. Not a new disease but definitely a local tragedy. www.who.int/emergencies/...
Acute respiratory infections complicated by malaria (previously undiagnosed disease) - Democratic Republic of the Congo
This is an update to the Disease Outbreak News on Undiagnosed disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo published on 8 December 2024 (now named acute respiratory infections complicated by malari...
www.who.int
December 27, 2024 at 6:05 PM
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Are you interested in analysing serological data for infectious disease epidemiology? Check out our new review article on serodynamics! With Saki Takahashi at JHU and Isobel Routledge at UCSF. (See next comment if you're into serology modeling) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Serodynamics: A primer and synthetic review of methods for epidemiological inference using serological data
We present a review and primer of methods to understand epidemiological dynamics and identify past exposures from serological data, referred to as ser…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 7, 2024 at 9:59 PM
Genial simulación de un caso de #sarampión llegando a varias comunidades con diferentes coberturas de vacunación.

Ilustra la inmunidad vacunal directa e indirecta (inmunidad de rebaño).

www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
Watch how the measles outbreak spreads when kids get vaccinated – and when they don't
If you take 10 communities and run a simulation, it’s easy to see why we need as many members of the ‘herd’ as possible to get vaccines – before it’s too late
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2024 at 1:09 PM
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A list of Latin America scientists from several knowledge areas. I hope you enjoy it :)
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Bueno, lo prometido es deuda. Va una primera versión de #CientificosLatam en múltiples áreas.

Si alguien quisiera que su contacto fuera agregado, por favor dejarlo en comentarios🥂

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December 21, 2024 at 11:05 PM
Diez figuras, diez historias, en tela. ✨

Una creación de mi querida amiga Liliana Flórez. @lilyfu.bsky.social

¿Adivinas quiénes son?
December 21, 2024 at 9:22 PM
No pague por licencias innecesarias cuando ya hay software libre de alta calidad para muchas tareas. 👩🏻‍💻

Muy buenas recomendaciones 👍🏼
Working with collaborators in the Global South it upsets me how many pay expensive software license fees, or use insecure pirated versions, when free open-source alternatives are available. Below is a list of easy swaps. Please add to it and share! 👇
December 21, 2024 at 2:33 PM