Inaugural Lecture Rein Houben Free & open to all
🏛️ LSHTM or 💻 online
📅 Thursday 25 April 2024
⏰ 17:30 - 18:30 BST
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This Thursday, we're excited to welcome Dr Erica Thompson from UCL who will discuss mathematical and social challenges for the use of models in decision-making.

🗓️ 21 March 2024
🕗 12:45 - 13.45 GMT
🔗 bit.ly/3x80Sf4

🎉 Exciting news! 🚀

Join us on March 26 for the official launch of the Centre for Data and Statistical Science for Health. 📊💡

Dive into discussions on tackling global health issues through five themes and four interrelated challenges.

Learn more👇
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🌟UPCOMING EVENT🌟

🗣️Dongxuan Chen will discuss two studies using data from mainland China and Hong Kong exploring changes in key epidemiological parameters from different perspectives​.

📆25 Mar 2024
⏰13:00 - 14:00 UK time
📍LSHTM/Online

More info 👉bit.ly/CEPREvents

Our new Consortium-wide paper – published today – found that catch-up immunisation activities against 14 diseases could avert 78.9% of excess deaths between 2023-2030 (95% credible interval: 40.4% - 151.4%). Abstracts also in other languages sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
#vaccineswork

This global study of 84 countries, funded by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and Gates Foundation, reveals persisting inequity in global🌍HPV💉vaccine coverage.

We spoke to paper authors Kaja Abbas and Kiesha Prem to learn more about their findings.

Read on London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine's website.

🔗bit.ly/3wPa8oz

In 🇳🇬 Nigeria, basic vaccination coverage is below target levels for all groups, but some groups experience greater inequity in coverage.

Research from CMMID highlights social factors that affect vaccination equity in young Nigerian children.

🔗bit.ly/438kxYx

Dr. Kone ismael, a Data Science Fellow at our Unit, is revolutionising infectious disease research with data science and AI tools.

His work aims to forecast future case numbers and understand disease spread drivers.

Find out more: tinyurl.com/bdaw8f3p

#DataScience

👋Meet our Data Science Fellow Dr Ismaël Koné!

🌐Based at MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM, he is working to develop #datascience and AI tools that could prevent the spread of infectious diseases.

Find out more about his research 👉 bit.ly/DataFellow

🗣️Our new Data Science Fellow Kone ismael reflects on how the Fellowship will help him research how #datascience and AI could prevent the spread of infectious diseases.

Find out more about his work 👉bit.ly/DataFellow

New analysis from London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and International Vaccine Institute (IVI) in The Lancet Infectious Diseases provides a clearer understanding of global #Chikungunya transmission intensity in endemic and epidemic settings across 38 countries.

👉 bit.ly/4bruu6W

New #Vaccine publication: Modelling new TB #vaccines in South Africa 🇿🇦

Vaccines were found to be impactful and cost-effective or cost-saving across a range of characteristics and delivery strategies

CMMID LSHTM TB Centre Vaccine Centre @LSHTM

doi.org/10.1016/j.vacc…

CMMID's Sebastian Funk (@[email protected]) and Adam Kucharski on BBC More or Less yesterday discussing everything from the nature of #measles outbreaks to how statistics can be applied to game shows like #TheTraitors . Listen on the link below!

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What drove the spread of #SARSCoV2 variants during the 2020-22 #COVID #pandemic ? Tim Russell Herms Townsley Adam Kucharski &co use a Bayesian model to reveal how a set of key covariates affect viral kinetics at both individual & population levels #PLOSBiology plos.io/3Sml7Nb

🗣️Han Fu is a research fellow in infectious disease modelling London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and GHECO member.

We spoke to Han about her career in infectious disease #epidemiology and #modelling , move into health economics and her time here at LSHTM.

Full interview 👉 bit.ly/3Uce38q

Outbreaks require gathering and analysing key data on cases and contacts as quickly as possible. But manually processing this messy, complex data is difficult and slow, leading to costly delays in response.

LLMLinelist aims to automate this critical step: billyquilty.substack.com/p/llmlinelist-…

Not long to go until Robert Verity from Imperial College London
will be joining us to share his work on #malaria #genomics .

13:00 GMT today in the Manson Lecture Theatre or online.

🎉Happy 2024! 🎉

We are back and looking forward to our first seminar of 2024.
We are delighted to welcome Robert Verity from Imperial College London who will speak about his work on #malaria genomics.

🗓️ 10 January 2024
⏲️ 13.00 - 14.00 GMT
🔗 bit.ly/48kCu7S

John Edmunds London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, a key scientific adviser during the Covid pandemic, has received a knighthood in the #NewYearHonours List
timeshighereducation.com/news/new-year-…