Verena
@viralemergence.org
🦠 Yale-based, NSF-funded Institute for pandemic prediction.
💻 How we do it: data, biology, AI, and team science.
⚖️ Why we do it: scientific discoveries and global health security.
➡️ See more at viralemergence.org.
💻 How we do it: data, biology, AI, and team science.
⚖️ Why we do it: scientific discoveries and global health security.
➡️ See more at viralemergence.org.
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Like I said: a small part of a much bigger project, which I'll let @faustobustos.bsky.social tell you about - including a much longer-term effort to figure out how to improve WHO and PAHO case definitions / syndromic surveillance / clinical treatment for very hard to distinguish endemic arboviruses.
August 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Like I said: a small part of a much bigger project, which I'll let @faustobustos.bsky.social tell you about - including a much longer-term effort to figure out how to improve WHO and PAHO case definitions / syndromic surveillance / clinical treatment for very hard to distinguish endemic arboviruses.
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One thing that makes this project special to me - Fausto and I adapted these algorithms from the @viralemergence.org codebase, where we've been using them to predict wildlife reservoirs of viruses like coronaviruses, hantaviruses, and paramyxoviruses. 🦇🦠🔓 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Optimising predictive models to prioritise viral discovery in zoonotic reservoirs
Despite the global investment in One Health disease surveillance, it remains difficult
and costly to identify and monitor the wildlife reservoirs of novel zoonotic viruses.
Statistical models can guid...
www.thelancet.com
August 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
One thing that makes this project special to me - Fausto and I adapted these algorithms from the @viralemergence.org codebase, where we've been using them to predict wildlife reservoirs of viruses like coronaviruses, hantaviruses, and paramyxoviruses. 🦇🦠🔓 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Just another example among many of how NSF's investment in our Center - and specifically, in a program that uses open science and the good, ethical, runs-on-your-laptop, pre-chatbot kind of AI/ML to understand fundamental biology - has had broader benefits for public health and clinical medicine.
August 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Just another example among many of how NSF's investment in our Center - and specifically, in a program that uses open science and the good, ethical, runs-on-your-laptop, pre-chatbot kind of AI/ML to understand fundamental biology - has had broader benefits for public health and clinical medicine.
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The next release will be a major one that makes the package more Julian, as per some helpful comments by @ctrlalttim.com. I may have learned the basics of coding in Julia, but I'm still teaching myself to think beyond my R approach to scientific programs and organize my code differently.
July 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The next release will be a major one that makes the package more Julian, as per some helpful comments by @ctrlalttim.com. I may have learned the basics of coding in Julia, but I'm still teaching myself to think beyond my R approach to scientific programs and organize my code differently.
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5️⃣ Since 2023, discussions about creating an "IPCC for Pandemics" have been taken up by the UN Foundation, the National Academy of Medicine, and academic orgs like Fiocruz and Verena. Now the fight heads to Geneva. If the ball doesn't start rolling at World Health Assembly 2026, expect it in 2027.
July 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
5️⃣ Since 2023, discussions about creating an "IPCC for Pandemics" have been taken up by the UN Foundation, the National Academy of Medicine, and academic orgs like Fiocruz and Verena. Now the fight heads to Geneva. If the ball doesn't start rolling at World Health Assembly 2026, expect it in 2027.