Well done Nguyen for This Best Oral Presentation award at the International Pandemic Sciences Conference this week! It rightly crowns these 3 years of hard work and I like to think of it as a good omen for your next journey in Korea.

Rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis in Ho Chi Minh City is driven predominantly by ongoing transmission but a substantial contribution from de novo acquired resistance signals persistent vulnerabilities in current diagnostic and treatment pathways. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Using GPS trackers to understand how human movement patterns influence the epidemiology of pathogens causing acute encephalitis syndrome in Ha Nam province, Vietnam wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/11-...

Compartments models with an explicit modeling of the distributions of the waiting times in compartments, made easy in R: doi.org/10.1111/2041...

Today is the World AIDS day and also the 21st anniversary of my PhD defense (on HIV, among others).

Scalable, open-access and multidisciplinary data integration pipeline for climate-sensitive diseases: doi.org/10.12688/wel...

Producing high quality high resolution grid rainfall data from global climatic models outputs through a combination of dynamical downscaling techniques and machine learning algorithms: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Climate and predation drive variation of diel activity patterns in chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) across Southern Africa: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Can we use hospital residual serum samples to predict the risk of an outbreak? Giving some answers to this question using the 2024 measles outbreak in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in a study conducted in collaboration with the Ho Chi Minh City CDC (HCDC). wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...

Genomic insights unveil the plasmid transfer mechanism and epidemiology of hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae in Vietnam www.nature.com/articles/s41...