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Clinic on Meaningful Modelling of Epidemiological Data (MMED).

2 ‐week modelling clinic emphasizes use of data in understanding infectious disease dynamics

🗓️ 17th - 29th June, 2024, Muizenberg, South Africa.

Apply:
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Are you an Epidemiologist or Statistician with interest in HIV?

Join Kamuzu University of Health Sciences as a Research Fellow! Potential for a FULLY FUNDED PhD!

Apply by 31 March: [email protected] #HIVResearch #PublicHealth
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Are you a statistics BSc holder and interested in HIV?
Kamuzu University of Health Sciences needs you as a Research Associate! Potential for fully funded MSc

Join a highly successful and dynamic team driving evidence generation for #PublicHealth #HIVSurveillance

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Interested in engaging discussions surrounding experiences of modellers and decision-makers? Join our first cohort of Policy Modelling Fellows for a monthly Forum!
🗓️3rd Wednesday of every month starting 21 June
⏰15:00 SAST
📧[email protected] for link

Very happy to share our article on trends in HIV seroconversion among female sex workers in Zimbabwe - an analysis of routinely collected HIV test data from Zimbabwe's Sisters with a Voice programme CeSHHAR Zimbabwe Article comment here bit.ly/3p481JM

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Join us.

Topic: The impact and cost-effectiveness of new cervical cancer prevention technologies in South Africa.

Guest Speaker: Dr. Cari van Schalkwyk, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

Date: Wednesday, June 7, 2023 (12:00pm EAT)

Register: bit.ly/3OD3fxi

I've lost track of how many people have asked me when @cmmid will be running its model fitting and inference shortcourse again....

If you were one of them – well, you're in luck! It's now open for applications for July 2023: lshtm.ac.uk/study/courses/…

UAPS wishes to announce that the next African Population Conference (9th APC) will be held in May 2024 and will be hosted in Lilongwe by the Government of Malawi.

Read more at African Population Conferences | Union for African Population Studies (UAPS) (uaps-uepa.org)

Come work with us!

Congrats Adam Howes! + a very thoughtful blog post about the research MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis

Check out our latest work on #HSV -2 incidence (it's super high) in Uganda. Fun collaboration with Dr Lilith Whittles Jeff Eaton Rakai Health Sciences Program (RHSP).

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A SUPER exciting job! Nothing to do with me, I saw the advert and thought work looked fascinating. Anyone fancy a postdoc Africa Health Research Institute working on spatial determinants HIV transmission / prevention / 21st century HIV epi? I can't wait to see the research. shorturl.at/klqH3

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Are you looking to gain or polish up your mathematical modelling skills?

Here is a 2-week course on meaningful modelling of epidemiological data.

Apply: ici3d.org/mmed/apply

Deadline: 10th April, 2023.

Congratulations to Rachael Burke on submitting her dhafer ben khalifa funded London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine PhD thesis London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine !!!

Fantastic research on improving care for people living with #HIV in Malawi.

Now on MedArXiv:
A large study of risk factors for virologic failure of #Dolutegravir . Preexisting NRTI resistance substantially increased the risk for DTG resistance.
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IeDEA #ARTCohortCollaboration

Isaac Taramusi from UNAIDS Zimbabwe presented the Zimbabwe national HIV estimates and progress towards the 95-95-95 targets

📢Have a strong quantitative background? Want to learn how to integrate data and models to answer questions in infectious diseases? Join our modelling clinic! Apply today!🏁
❓️bit.ly/mmed2023_info
📌Closing date: 10 April 2023
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After a hiatus while we re-engineered the mortality monitoring system, the SAMRC and UCT collaboration has released reports on monthly mortality in South Africa, covering January and February 2023. The reports are available here: samrc.ac.za/reports/report…

A prevalence is not a rate

Did you miss our Grand Rounds yesterday on how UNAIDS and countries are using #BigData and mathematical modeling to monitor the #HIV epidemic?

Watch the recording and download the slides here: bit.ly/3ZbnmnL

We heard from the UNAIDS team & colleagues on how they use…