New paper: we argue that a promising approach for studying mpox vaccine effectiveness in Central Africa to incorporate mpox vaccination + testing data into existing cohort studies, especially those for HIV/STIs. www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...

New paper: our method HIV-phyloTSI estimates time-since-infection for HIV using deep viral sequence data. Estimating continuous TSI, not just recent / not-recent, gives incidence over time, allowing evaluation of the impact of interventions. 1/3 bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

New postdoc positions with a number of exciting epidemic modelling projects opening in our Unit at @pasteur.fr in beautiful Paris. Deadline for applications: 26th June. research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...

If less than 76.6% of your exploratory ideas fail, you’re not exploring enough…

How about a bit of good news? 8 patients were dismissed from the hospital in Uganda after recovering from Ebola. Many still in the quarantine period so outbreak still officially ongoing, but it's impressive that out of the 9 identified infections, there has only been one death (the index patient).

Please spread the word - a funded (home fees) DPhil (PhD) studentship available in @oxfordstatistics.bsky.social Social optimisation of public-facing digital tools for health protection and trial frameworks for non-pharmaceutical interventions www.stats.ox.ac.uk/research-stu...

🐔 On 21 Jan 2025, highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 was confirmed in commercial poultry at premises near Easingwold, Hambleton, North Yorkshire. #IDSky #IDEpi 🗺️ APHA Interactive Avian Influenza Disease Map: www.arcgis.com/apps/webappv... 🔗 Avian influenza: latest situation in England 👇

👋 Hello World! Some of our papers this year ICYMI Ferretti & Wymant et al, Nature: using 7 million digitally recorded COVID exposures, we found app-based contact tracing successfully measured the actual risk of transmission and we decomposed contributors to risk 045.medsci.ox.ac.uk/risk_measure...

Trying something new: A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?" It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social 🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...

We have a new opportunity to work with the Department! Come & apply for the role of #postdoc research assistant. You will join the Digital Pandemic Preparedness project at the @oxmartinschool.bsky.social, and led by Prof. Christl Donnelly and Moritz Kraemer. App Deadline: 12pm, 07.01.25

Humanity’s history is a battle against infectious diseases. And for most of our history we were losing very decisively. From my article about vaccines: ourworldindata.org/microbes-bat...