Edu Rovira-Vallbona
@edurovira.bsky.social
Malaria research scientist (mol-epi, drug resistance, genomics, capacity building) @isglobal.org @genmoz.bsky.social
Previously ITMAntwerp | Vysnova
Previously ITMAntwerp | Vysnova
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Almenys vuit casos confirmats i un centenar de persones en estudi per un brot actiu de xarampió al Garraf. Segons ha pogut saber l'ARA, el brot s'ha originat en ...
Un brot de xarampió en una família antivacunes posa en alerta un centenar de persones al Garraf
Hi ha vuit contagis detectats i Salut avisa que el risc de disseminació de la malaltia és alt tot i les bones cobertures vacunals
www.ara.cat
October 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Almenys vuit casos confirmats i un centenar de persones en estudi per un brot actiu de xarampió al Garraf. Segons ha pogut saber l'ARA, el brot s'ha originat en ...
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🚨📰 Check out our new publication in @elife.bsky.social:
"Estimating probabilities of malaria importation in southern Mozambique through P. falciparum genomics and mobility patterns" doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
"Estimating probabilities of malaria importation in southern Mozambique through P. falciparum genomics and mobility patterns" doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
Estimating probabilities of malaria importation in southern Mozambique through P. falciparum genomics and mobility patterns
doi.org
July 31, 2025 at 10:46 AM
🚨📰 Check out our new publication in @elife.bsky.social:
"Estimating probabilities of malaria importation in southern Mozambique through P. falciparum genomics and mobility patterns" doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
"Estimating probabilities of malaria importation in southern Mozambique through P. falciparum genomics and mobility patterns" doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
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📰👀 You can now access the final version of this article in Scientific Reports @nature.com rdcu.be/eAcNL
August 11, 2025 at 10:47 AM
📰👀 You can now access the final version of this article in Scientific Reports @nature.com rdcu.be/eAcNL
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Sorry, proper link. www.science.org/content/arti...
September 12, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Sorry, proper link. www.science.org/content/arti...
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🌍 Register now for the @pha4ge.bsky.social Conference 2025!
Data for Action: Overcoming Challenges & Seizing Opportunities in Public Health Genomics 🧬
📅 27–29 Oct 2025
📍 Cape Town, South Africa
⏳ Registration deadline: 28 Sept 2025
🔗 shorturl.at/Wnfpb
Data for Action: Overcoming Challenges & Seizing Opportunities in Public Health Genomics 🧬
📅 27–29 Oct 2025
📍 Cape Town, South Africa
⏳ Registration deadline: 28 Sept 2025
🔗 shorturl.at/Wnfpb
September 15, 2025 at 7:12 AM
🌍 Register now for the @pha4ge.bsky.social Conference 2025!
Data for Action: Overcoming Challenges & Seizing Opportunities in Public Health Genomics 🧬
📅 27–29 Oct 2025
📍 Cape Town, South Africa
⏳ Registration deadline: 28 Sept 2025
🔗 shorturl.at/Wnfpb
Data for Action: Overcoming Challenges & Seizing Opportunities in Public Health Genomics 🧬
📅 27–29 Oct 2025
📍 Cape Town, South Africa
⏳ Registration deadline: 28 Sept 2025
🔗 shorturl.at/Wnfpb
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Paywall bypass. archive.ph/bfdAt
archive.ph
July 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Paywall bypass. archive.ph/bfdAt
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The Washington Post just published the names of more than 18,500 children in Gaza killed by Israel.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.
Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The Washington Post just published the names of more than 18,500 children in Gaza killed by Israel.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
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🔴 Riyad Mansour, representante permanente de Palestina ante la ONU, rompe a llorar durante su discurso en el Consejo de Seguridad: "Es insoportable. ¿Cómo puede alguien tolerar este horror?"
#Canal24Horas dozz.es/8d0og12
#Canal24Horas dozz.es/8d0og12
May 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
🔴 Riyad Mansour, representante permanente de Palestina ante la ONU, rompe a llorar durante su discurso en el Consejo de Seguridad: "Es insoportable. ¿Cómo puede alguien tolerar este horror?"
#Canal24Horas dozz.es/8d0og12
#Canal24Horas dozz.es/8d0og12
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🔬African-led research is reshaping the fight against malaria. Hear from experts like Halidou Tinto in our podcast Transmission.
👉 open.spotify.com/show/1V1sqmb...
👉 open.spotify.com/show/1V1sqmb...
May 15, 2025 at 8:56 AM
🔬African-led research is reshaping the fight against malaria. Hear from experts like Halidou Tinto in our podcast Transmission.
👉 open.spotify.com/show/1V1sqmb...
👉 open.spotify.com/show/1V1sqmb...
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🚨 Postdoc Alert!
1-year position in Plasmodium genomics at Montpellier 🇫🇷
🔬 Focus: P. falciparum Omics from field isolates
🌍 Open only to LMIC applicants
📈 Bioinformatics | Genomics | Transcriptomics
👉 lphi.umontpellier.fr/job-offers/p...
#Malaria #Postdoc #Genomics #ParasiteBiology #LMIC
1-year position in Plasmodium genomics at Montpellier 🇫🇷
🔬 Focus: P. falciparum Omics from field isolates
🌍 Open only to LMIC applicants
📈 Bioinformatics | Genomics | Transcriptomics
👉 lphi.umontpellier.fr/job-offers/p...
#Malaria #Postdoc #Genomics #ParasiteBiology #LMIC
Post-doc offer at LPHI - Laboratory of Pathogens and Host Immunity
Post-doc in malaria genomics open to individuals from Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC) 2025 PostDoc_Montpellier_MalariOmicsDownload
lphi.umontpellier.fr
April 7, 2025 at 10:01 AM
🚨 Postdoc Alert!
1-year position in Plasmodium genomics at Montpellier 🇫🇷
🔬 Focus: P. falciparum Omics from field isolates
🌍 Open only to LMIC applicants
📈 Bioinformatics | Genomics | Transcriptomics
👉 lphi.umontpellier.fr/job-offers/p...
#Malaria #Postdoc #Genomics #ParasiteBiology #LMIC
1-year position in Plasmodium genomics at Montpellier 🇫🇷
🔬 Focus: P. falciparum Omics from field isolates
🌍 Open only to LMIC applicants
📈 Bioinformatics | Genomics | Transcriptomics
👉 lphi.umontpellier.fr/job-offers/p...
#Malaria #Postdoc #Genomics #ParasiteBiology #LMIC
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Health facility surveys for malaria genomic surveillance have started in 5 provinces! (remaining 5 to start in April).
During the first days, CISM staff conducts refreshment training for all participating nurses and HF workers on enrollment and sample collection
(📷Inchope, Manica, Mozambique)
During the first days, CISM staff conducts refreshment training for all participating nurses and HF workers on enrollment and sample collection
(📷Inchope, Manica, Mozambique)
March 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Health facility surveys for malaria genomic surveillance have started in 5 provinces! (remaining 5 to start in April).
During the first days, CISM staff conducts refreshment training for all participating nurses and HF workers on enrollment and sample collection
(📷Inchope, Manica, Mozambique)
During the first days, CISM staff conducts refreshment training for all participating nurses and HF workers on enrollment and sample collection
(📷Inchope, Manica, Mozambique)
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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
February 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
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🔬👩🔬 En el marc del Dia Internacional de la Nena i la Dona en la Ciència, diverses investigadores d'ISGlobal han visitat escoles de Catalunya per compartir la seva experiència i inspirar futures vocacions científiques!
#11F #DiaNenaiDonaCiència
#11F #DiaNenaiDonaCiència
February 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
🔬👩🔬 En el marc del Dia Internacional de la Nena i la Dona en la Ciència, diverses investigadores d'ISGlobal han visitat escoles de Catalunya per compartir la seva experiència i inspirar futures vocacions científiques!
#11F #DiaNenaiDonaCiència
#11F #DiaNenaiDonaCiència
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On the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, and everyday, we acknowledge the fundamental role that women play in science and technology.
At CISM we are lucky to have excellent professionals like Aura Hunguana, GenMoz Data Manager. Know more about Aura below:
At CISM we are lucky to have excellent professionals like Aura Hunguana, GenMoz Data Manager. Know more about Aura below:
February 12, 2025 at 8:32 AM
On the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, and everyday, we acknowledge the fundamental role that women play in science and technology.
At CISM we are lucky to have excellent professionals like Aura Hunguana, GenMoz Data Manager. Know more about Aura below:
At CISM we are lucky to have excellent professionals like Aura Hunguana, GenMoz Data Manager. Know more about Aura below:
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"This is not how it works". [..]
"It is absurd that the scientific record be treated with such disregard. It is egregious that a country’s public health agency, or any government authority, should demand the erasure of any terminology, particularly medically relevant terminology."
"It is absurd that the scientific record be treated with such disregard. It is egregious that a country’s public health agency, or any government authority, should demand the erasure of any terminology, particularly medically relevant terminology."
The US was considered a world leader in public health and research. With one repressive stroke that reputation risks being broken, argue @jocalynclark.bsky.social and @kamranabbasi.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/388/...
February 5, 2025 at 7:02 AM
"This is not how it works". [..]
"It is absurd that the scientific record be treated with such disregard. It is egregious that a country’s public health agency, or any government authority, should demand the erasure of any terminology, particularly medically relevant terminology."
"It is absurd that the scientific record be treated with such disregard. It is egregious that a country’s public health agency, or any government authority, should demand the erasure of any terminology, particularly medically relevant terminology."
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I cannot get over this. I'll never get over this. 2/3 of PMI let go?
“You could open the funding floodgates again tomorrow and you will still have children dying months from now because of this pause,” the scientist said.
“You could open the funding floodgates again tomorrow and you will still have children dying months from now because of this pause,” the scientist said.
Tragically brilliant reporting from @stephanienolen.bsky.social on how lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, HIV and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work because of the cruelty of the new US presidential administration
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid
Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I cannot get over this. I'll never get over this. 2/3 of PMI let go?
“You could open the funding floodgates again tomorrow and you will still have children dying months from now because of this pause,” the scientist said.
“You could open the funding floodgates again tomorrow and you will still have children dying months from now because of this pause,” the scientist said.
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NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
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🚨🍾New year, new paper!
"Molecular surveillance of Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein 2/3 gene deletions in Mozambique, 2023"
malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.....
"Molecular surveillance of Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein 2/3 gene deletions in Mozambique, 2023"
malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.....
Molecular surveillance of Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein 2/3 gene deletions in Mozambique, 2023 - Malaria Journal
Background Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) based on the detection of Plasmodium falciparum histidine rich protein 2 (PfHRP2) are widely used for the diagnostic of P. falciparum in Africa. However, delet...
malariajournal.biomedcentral.com
January 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
🚨🍾New year, new paper!
"Molecular surveillance of Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein 2/3 gene deletions in Mozambique, 2023"
malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.....
"Molecular surveillance of Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein 2/3 gene deletions in Mozambique, 2023"
malariajournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.....
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Researching #malaria in pregnancy? Check out the malaria in pregnancy library, an online resource to search published and unpublished literature @wwarnnews.bsky.social
www.iddo.org/wwarn/malari...
www.iddo.org/wwarn/malari...
Malaria in Pregnancy Library | Infectious Diseases Data Observatory
www.iddo.org
December 30, 2024 at 7:29 PM
Researching #malaria in pregnancy? Check out the malaria in pregnancy library, an online resource to search published and unpublished literature @wwarnnews.bsky.social
www.iddo.org/wwarn/malari...
www.iddo.org/wwarn/malari...
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🚨📰 Earlier this year, we launched phase 2 of GenMoz project with the aim of consolidating genomic surveillance of malaria in Mozambique and integrating it into the NMCP 2030 strategy.
Check out the study protocol now published in BMJOpen! bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/1...
Check out the study protocol now published in BMJOpen! bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/1...
Plasmodium falciparum molecular surveillance to inform the Mozambican National Malaria Control Programme strategy: protocol
Introduction Malaria molecular surveillance has the potential to generate information on biological threats that compromise the effectiveness of antimalarial interventions. This study aims to streamli...
bmjopen.bmj.com
December 2, 2024 at 10:19 AM
🚨📰 Earlier this year, we launched phase 2 of GenMoz project with the aim of consolidating genomic surveillance of malaria in Mozambique and integrating it into the NMCP 2030 strategy.
Check out the study protocol now published in BMJOpen! bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/1...
Check out the study protocol now published in BMJOpen! bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/1...
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RTS/S, R21 and now hopefully RH5 not too far behind. Promising results of Phase 2b trial in Burkina Faso especially in high density infections. But unknown longevity www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Safety and efficacy of the blood-stage malaria vaccine RH5.1/Matrix-M in Burkina Faso: interim results of a double-blind, randomised, controlled, phase 2b trial in children
RH5.1/Matrix-M appears safe and highly immunogenic in African children and shows promising efficacy against clinical malaria when given in a delayed third-dose regimen. This trial is ongoing to further monitor efficacy over time.
www.thelancet.com
December 16, 2024 at 4:30 PM
RTS/S, R21 and now hopefully RH5 not too far behind. Promising results of Phase 2b trial in Burkina Faso especially in high density infections. But unknown longevity www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Here's the malaria starter pack! Lots of room to add more people, so please reply below or DM me if you want to be added go.bsky.app/HDEu2ux
November 19, 2024 at 11:34 PM
Here's the malaria starter pack! Lots of room to add more people, so please reply below or DM me if you want to be added go.bsky.app/HDEu2ux
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👋🏼Hello Bluesky, here we come!
👋🏿Hola, Bluesky, ¡allá vamos!
👋Hola, Bluesky, ¡som-hi!
👋🏿Hola, Bluesky, ¡allá vamos!
👋Hola, Bluesky, ¡som-hi!
November 19, 2024 at 2:13 PM
👋🏼Hello Bluesky, here we come!
👋🏿Hola, Bluesky, ¡allá vamos!
👋Hola, Bluesky, ¡som-hi!
👋🏿Hola, Bluesky, ¡allá vamos!
👋Hola, Bluesky, ¡som-hi!
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Genetic sequencing of the #H5N1 #birdflu virus from the Canadian teenager shows worrying changes. It doesn't mean H5 is taking off — but it's a reminder that it might, says @scottehensley.bsky.social. "This is exactly the scenario that we fear.” www.statnews.com/2024/11/18/b...
H5N1 bird flu virus in Canadian teenager displays mutations demonstrating virus’ risk
The H5N1 virus that infected a Canadian teen appears not to have spread, but it shows signs of mutation that makes flu virologists nervous.
www.statnews.com
November 18, 2024 at 9:30 PM
Genetic sequencing of the #H5N1 #birdflu virus from the Canadian teenager shows worrying changes. It doesn't mean H5 is taking off — but it's a reminder that it might, says @scottehensley.bsky.social. "This is exactly the scenario that we fear.” www.statnews.com/2024/11/18/b...