Aakash Pandey
@apandey.bsky.social
Disease Ecologist, Infectious Disease Modeler, public health, Research Assistant Professor, Clemson University | Former CDC fellow
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Conversation with my uber driver…
UD: So do you live here or are you visiting?
Me: Oh we had a meeting about infectious disease modeling in the city.
UD: Do you guys still talk about covid?
Me: All the time…. But there’re new threats emerging. Measles is spreading…
UD: So do you live here or are you visiting?
Me: Oh we had a meeting about infectious disease modeling in the city.
UD: Do you guys still talk about covid?
Me: All the time…. But there’re new threats emerging. Measles is spreading…
May 9, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Conversation with my uber driver…
UD: So do you live here or are you visiting?
Me: Oh we had a meeting about infectious disease modeling in the city.
UD: Do you guys still talk about covid?
Me: All the time…. But there’re new threats emerging. Measles is spreading…
UD: So do you live here or are you visiting?
Me: Oh we had a meeting about infectious disease modeling in the city.
UD: Do you guys still talk about covid?
Me: All the time…. But there’re new threats emerging. Measles is spreading…
On some personal news, I have just moved on from my CDC position to a new role in academia as a research assistant professor. It was a great experience working at CDC, including being part of an emergency response. I look forward continue working on outbreak analytics and disease ecology.
January 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
On some personal news, I have just moved on from my CDC position to a new role in academia as a research assistant professor. It was a great experience working at CDC, including being part of an emergency response. I look forward continue working on outbreak analytics and disease ecology.
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Throughout #PandemicAgreement #INB negotiations, some have questioned WHO's mandate on tech transfer and IP.
In the 1950s, WHO dreamed big, embarking on a bold initiative establishing a network of non-profit public drug manufacturers committed to open science.💊🌐 1/
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
In the 1950s, WHO dreamed big, embarking on a bold initiative establishing a network of non-profit public drug manufacturers committed to open science.💊🌐 1/
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Technology transfer, intellectual property, and the fight for the soul of WHO
Debates over the scope, terms, and governance of technology transfer–the sharing of essential technical information, know-how, and materials needed to manufacture a health product–are prominent and co...
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December 5, 2024 at 7:54 PM
Throughout #PandemicAgreement #INB negotiations, some have questioned WHO's mandate on tech transfer and IP.
In the 1950s, WHO dreamed big, embarking on a bold initiative establishing a network of non-profit public drug manufacturers committed to open science.💊🌐 1/
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
In the 1950s, WHO dreamed big, embarking on a bold initiative establishing a network of non-profit public drug manufacturers committed to open science.💊🌐 1/
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
The two phrases that really irritate me:
1. Data/code available upon reasonable request
2. Salary: Competitive and dependent on qualifications.
1. Data/code available upon reasonable request
2. Salary: Competitive and dependent on qualifications.
October 20, 2024 at 1:32 AM
The two phrases that really irritate me:
1. Data/code available upon reasonable request
2. Salary: Competitive and dependent on qualifications.
1. Data/code available upon reasonable request
2. Salary: Competitive and dependent on qualifications.
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Take 2: Thrilled to see this preprint posted from a large collaborative team looking at mpox epi trends in DRC
Mpox in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Analysis of National Epidemiological and Laboratory Surveillance Data, 2010 - 2013
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Mpox in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Analysis of National Epidemiological and Laboratory Surveillance Data, 2010 - 2013
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Mpox in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Analysis of National Epidemiological and Laboratory Surveillance Data, 2010 - 2023
Background: The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has the highest global burden of mpox. The incidence has risen, but recent analyses of epidemiological tr
papers.ssrn.com
September 19, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Take 2: Thrilled to see this preprint posted from a large collaborative team looking at mpox epi trends in DRC
Mpox in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Analysis of National Epidemiological and Laboratory Surveillance Data, 2010 - 2013
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Mpox in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Analysis of National Epidemiological and Laboratory Surveillance Data, 2010 - 2013
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
It seems the short memories of funding agencies is not a new phenomenon. Below is a story from 1964. Source: The Coming Plague by Laurie Garret
September 10, 2024 at 2:36 AM
It seems the short memories of funding agencies is not a new phenomenon. Below is a story from 1964. Source: The Coming Plague by Laurie Garret
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The ecoevo job list for 2024-2025 is out. This is for those who are looking for a faculty position or postdoc in ecology, evolutionary biology, etc
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
ecoevojobs.net 2024-25
docs.google.com
August 6, 2024 at 4:24 PM
The ecoevo job list for 2024-2025 is out. This is for those who are looking for a faculty position or postdoc in ecology, evolutionary biology, etc
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
From being late to exams or missing exams in my dreams to being late to a job talk in a dream, I think I have grown a little.
July 11, 2024 at 2:42 PM
From being late to exams or missing exams in my dreams to being late to a job talk in a dream, I think I have grown a little.
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Awesome Quanta article from @carlzimmer.bsky.social on 'Sociovirology' that quotes and profiles some of my favorite and inspiring colleagues.
www.quantamagazine.org/viruses-fina...
www.quantamagazine.org/viruses-fina...
Viruses Finally Reveal Their Complex Social Life | Quanta Magazine
New research has uncovered a social world of viruses full of cheating, cooperation and other intrigues, suggesting that viruses make sense only as members of a community.
www.quantamagazine.org
April 12, 2024 at 6:45 PM
Awesome Quanta article from @carlzimmer.bsky.social on 'Sociovirology' that quotes and profiles some of my favorite and inspiring colleagues.
www.quantamagazine.org/viruses-fina...
www.quantamagazine.org/viruses-fina...
Even Taylor published The Manuscript. So much pressure!
April 20, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Even Taylor published The Manuscript. So much pressure!
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"Citizenship privilege is an asset experienced by citizens of the global north, simply because of the country they were born in [...] This inequity affects many researchers. It’s time that academics take action to rebalance the scales."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Citizenship privilege harms science
Researchers from the global south face often-distressing immigration bureaucracy that most from the global north do not. Six steps can begin to counteract this inequity. Researchers from the global so...
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April 15, 2024 at 1:24 PM
"Citizenship privilege is an asset experienced by citizens of the global north, simply because of the country they were born in [...] This inequity affects many researchers. It’s time that academics take action to rebalance the scales."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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37/250 is Wildlife vaccination strategies for eliminating bovine tuberculosis in white-tailed deer populations
Perfect use of modeling. Assuming, of course, that BCG is blocking infection and not just symptoms - if the latter, very different results.
Perfect use of modeling. Assuming, of course, that BCG is blocking infection and not just symptoms - if the latter, very different results.
Wildlife vaccination strategies for eliminating bovine tuberculosis in white-tailed deer populations
Author summary Many wildlife species act as reservoirs of bovine tuberculosis from which they can transmit to cattle and humans. In Michigan, bovine tuberculosis is endemic in white-tailed deer causin...
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February 9, 2024 at 5:06 PM
37/250 is Wildlife vaccination strategies for eliminating bovine tuberculosis in white-tailed deer populations
Perfect use of modeling. Assuming, of course, that BCG is blocking infection and not just symptoms - if the latter, very different results.
Perfect use of modeling. Assuming, of course, that BCG is blocking infection and not just symptoms - if the latter, very different results.
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Great blogging news - Dynamic Ecology is (coming) back! dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2024/01/08/d...
Dynamic Ecology is back!
Hi everyone! Remember how Brian, Meghan, and I pretty much stopped blogging back in 2021? How we joked that we'd mastered the hard part of spelling "banana"? ("knowing when to stop") Well, it was true...
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January 8, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Great blogging news - Dynamic Ecology is (coming) back! dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2024/01/08/d...
Happy to share a couple of recently published papers from my previous position.
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Wildlife vaccination strategies for eliminating bovine tuberculosis in white-tailed deer populations
Author summary Many wildlife species act as reservoirs of bovine tuberculosis from which they can transmit to cattle and humans. In Michigan, bovine tuberculosis is endemic in white-tailed deer causin...
journals.plos.org
January 6, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Happy to share a couple of recently published papers from my previous position.
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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A very important investigation from an amazing international team of experts. Here is our report on clade I monkeypox virus transmission associated with sexual contact, with support from CIHR and IDRC
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
Clade I–Associated Mpox Cases Associated with Sexual Contact, the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Clade I Mpox, Democratic Republic of the Congo
wwwnc.cdc.gov
November 29, 2023 at 3:40 PM
A very important investigation from an amazing international team of experts. Here is our report on clade I monkeypox virus transmission associated with sexual contact, with support from CIHR and IDRC
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
Does anyone here know the proposed date for EEID 2024 at Stanford? I can’t find that info anywhere.
November 14, 2023 at 2:49 PM
Does anyone here know the proposed date for EEID 2024 at Stanford? I can’t find that info anywhere.