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@WHO.int Collaborating Centre for infectious disease modelling. Follow us for research on pandemic preparedness, global health analytics, vaccines, therapeutics and pathogen genomic epidemiology @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
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NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! This week, Dr @eonore.bsky.social speaks with Dr @krisparag.bsky.social about methods to estimate the instantaneous reproduction number and approaches to estimate uncertainty 👇
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NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! This week, Dr @eonore.bsky.social speaks with Dr @krisparag.bsky.social about methods to estimate the instantaneous reproduction number and approaches to estimate uncertainty 👇
@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @rebecca-and.bsky.social
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November 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext this week @eonore.bsky.social speaks with Dr Romain Silhol, Dr Serge Niangoran and Kelly McCain to speak about a modelling workshop on HIV, HPV & cervical cancer in Côte d'Ivoire👇
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November 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Today we're kickstarting the Dengue & Zika Immunology & Genomics Multi-Country (DeZi) Network funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social with contributions from @temasek.bsky.social @neasg.bsky.social #UNITEDengue
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International collaborative effort to understand dengue and Zika | Imperial News | Imperial College London
An international team launched the DeZi network to understand how the viruses spread, interact, and cause disease across Africa and Asia.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! This week @eonore.bsky.social speaks with @chownbioinf.bsky.social about fungal disease, Aspergillus fumigatus and interactions with the soil it lives in. Harry shares his passions and insights from his work - one to watch 👇
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Ep 134 Science in Context Fungal disease with Dr Harry Chown
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October 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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NEW EPISODE #ScienceinContext! This week, @eonore.bsky.social is joined by @mkwalters3.bsky.social to speak about HIV, vertical transmission, the impact of starting ART before & during pregnancy, and the importance of testing & treatment throughout pregnancy and breastfeeding 👇
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October 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! @eonore.bsky.social is joined by @ojwatson.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social to speak about the spread of hrp2/3 deletions, collaboration with the @who.int & what this research means for malaria control within the current funding climate👇
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October 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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NEW PUBLICATION! Check out this work in Nature Portfolio Communications quantifying the impact of a broadly protective sarbecovirus vaccine in a future SARS-X pandemic 👇
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Quantifying the impact of a broadly protective sarbecovirus vaccine in a future SARS-X pandemic - Nature Communications
Broad-spectrum vaccines have been proposed as a tool for rapid response to emerging infectious disease threats and are in pre-clinical development. Here, the authors use mathematical modelling to assess the potential impacts of broadly protective sarbecovirus vaccines for a hypothetical “SARS-X” outbreak.
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October 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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NEW PUBLICATION! Check out this work in Nature Portfolio Communications quantifying the impact of a broadly protective sarbecovirus vaccine in a future SARS-X pandemic 👇
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Quantifying the impact of a broadly protective sarbecovirus vaccine in a future SARS-X pandemic - Nature Communications
Broad-spectrum vaccines have been proposed as a tool for rapid response to emerging infectious disease threats and are in pre-clinical development. Here, the authors use mathematical modelling to assess the potential impacts of broadly protective sarbecovirus vaccines for a hypothetical “SARS-X” outbreak.
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October 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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CONGRATULATIONS! We celebrate the successful viva of Janetta Skarp who focussed on the gaps in knowledge regarding the quality of countries' outbreak response & the costs of outbreak response measures, & how these gaps could be addressed
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October 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! This week @eonore.bsky.social speaks with @amydighe.bsky.social about MERS-CoV in camels, vaccination strategies & how this can help prevent MERS-CoV in humans 👇
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September 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! This week, @eonore.bsky.social speaks with Dr Monika Moir, Lucious Chabuka @suhealthsci.bsky.social & Christian Morgenstern @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social about cholera in Malawi, climate change & climate amplified diseases & epidemics consortium👇
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September 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Are you interested in doing a PhD at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social in infectious diseases or big data to improve health? The MRC funded doctoral training partnership might be for you! Find out more during this virtual event on the 8th of October:
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September 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! Dr @eonore.bsky.social joins Dr Tamyo Mbisa @ukhsa.bsky.social & Vinicius Franceschi @imperialsph.bsky.social to speak about genetic evolution of #HIV disease progression 👇
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September 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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🚨 We're hiring! Join our team working on real-time #malaria surveillance using #AI & modelling
🧠 Quant skills essential
🌍 Policy relevance + travel
📍London-based
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#epitwitter #globalhealth #modellingjobs
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August 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! This week @eonore.bsky.social speaks with Dr Rosie Maddren & Dr Toby Landeryou, @srucnews.bsky.social about genomic surveillance of neglected tropical diseases 👇
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August 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Discover the award-winning work at the heart of the pandemic response of @eonore.bsky.social as part of @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social Celebrating Engagement series 👇
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Making sense of it all at the heart of Imperial's pandemic response
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July 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Always wanted to learn more about infectious disease modelling? This short course is all for you!
Find out more & sign up today 👇
www.infectiousdiseasemodels.org

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July 29, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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NEW EPISODE! @eonore.bsky.social is joined by @thomrawson.bsky.social & Christian Morgenstern to talk about #SARS, differences between SARS-CoV-1 & SARS-CoV-2 (virus causing COVID19), their systematic review of models, outbreaks & parameters to inform future responses👇
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Ep 127. Science in Context - SARS with Dr Thomas Rawson & Christian Morgenstern (24-07-2025)
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July 24, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! This week @eonore.bsky.social speaks with @profhelenward.bsky.social about the REACT study & the most important findings from the past five years & the next big questions👇
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July 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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OPPORTUNITY! Always wanted to learn about infectious disease modelling and analytics for pandemic preparedness focussed on Latin America? This training programme is for you!

Find out more & apply!
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July 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! This week Dr @eonore.bsky.social speaks with Prof Tim Hallett & Dr Pete Winskill about the Global Fund replenishment, their global modelling study to support the case for optimal investment in the context of the current funding climate #SciComm
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July 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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At the 2025 Staff Recognition Awards ceremony, we celebrated Professor @khauck.bsky.social who was awarded the 🎖️ President’s Medal for Excellence in Culture and Community - CONGRATULATIONS!
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July 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! This week @eonore.bsky.social speaks with speaks with @cm401.bsky.social about SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes #COVID19, health disparities across England and the impact of vaccines 👇
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June 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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🏆 Announcing the #FAccT2025 best paper awards! 🏆

Congratulations to all the authors of the three best papers and three honorable mention papers.

Be sure to check out their presentations at the conference next week!

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Announcing Best Paper Awards
The Best Paper Award Committee was chaired this year by Alex Chouldechova and included six Area Chairs. The committee selected three papers for the Best Paper Award and recognized three additional pap...
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June 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! This week @eonore.bsky.social speaks with Dr Gina Cuomo-Dannenburg about her newly elected Schmidt Science Fellowship & the exciting work she will do during her placement KU Leuven pivoting from epidemiology to pathogen genomics 👇

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June 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM