R Epidemics Consortium (RECON)

Very happy to announce that @RConsortium has awarded us a grant to develop the RECON COVID19 challenge to centralise #rstats analytics needs to respond to the pandemic. repidemicsconsortium.org/2020-06-09-cov…

Looking forward to csupervising this PhD project in partnership with the University of Nagasaki: lshtm.ac.uk/study/research… @epi_twit @epiRhandbook @LSHTM @cmmid_lshtm @EANBoard @WHOGOARN @RECONEPI

5/5 Grateful to reviewers and supporting organisations including TEPHINET, EPIET Alumni Network, and MSF OCA. #rstats #epitwitter #epi #epidemiology #FETP #EPIET @tephinet @AFENETAfrica, @GHDEMPHNET @EANBoard @MSFsci @reconepi @WHOGOARN @CDCGlobal @ProEpi_ @LSHTM

pins 1.0.0 is out now: blog.rstudio.com/2021/10/04/pin… — pins publishes data, models, and other R objects, making it easier to share them across projects and with your colleagues. pins 1.0.0 includes a major update to the interface. #rstats

Hey folks! The deadline to apply as a community to host a (fully paid for) open science + open source intern is September 17 - I want to see more communities applying! Pls dm me if you have qs, or email y.yehudi at wellcome dot org 👇👇👇

It’s appalling that rich countries, having bought and hoarded their way to the front of the COVID vaccine queue, are now talking about autumn boosters rather than going all out to get doses to the places that really need them. reuters.com/business/healt…

2/2 Learn how to make many kinds of epidemic curves using ggplot2, incidence2, cowplot and other R packages at epiRhandbook.com/epidemic-curves @MSFsci @AFENETAfrica @GHDEMPHNET #FETP

1/2 The Epi R Handbook is updated to R v4.1! Written by and for applied epidemiologists - check out epiRhandbook.com! Also, our page on epidemic curves now reflects v1.1 updates to the incidence2 package (developed by @RECONEPI) #rstats #epitwitter @tephinet @WHOGOARN

Are you interested in learning how to use R? Written by and for epidemiologists, the Epidemiologist R Handbook is a free, open-access resource serving as a reference manual for R and is available in an offline version. Check out the latest updates: epirhandbook.com

Some RECON tools featured in the #Covid_19 surveillance app released by @WHO !

@RECONEPI @GcrfRecap @WHOGOARN @EANBoard @cmmid_lshtm @LSHTM @m_hoehle @epiRhandbook @epi_twit

Amazing work by amazing people! Anyone interested in #outbreak analytics in #rstats, this new, free, comprehensive resource is soon going to be your new best friend. @EANBoard @WHOGOARN @dr_anne_cori @dirk_sch @stephaneghozzi @rgfitzjohn @RECONEPI

Many thanks to @RConsortium for their support and to Matthieu Rolland and Ben Ortiz Ulloa for getting this off the ground! #rstats skills can help inform #epidemic response - all help is welcome!

RStudio 1.4: IT'S FINALLY HERE! blog.rstudio.com/2021/01/19/ann… #rstats

How do we adapt #COVID19 transmission models to local settings & why is that important? 🤔 @rozeggo & colleagues explain in @nresearchnews, outlining the challenges of incorporating setting-specific intricacies. ⬇️ go.nature.com/39R2udY @AdamJKucharski @JayDawa @ZulmaCucunuba

@cap1024 @WHOGOARN My experience has been basics done well will address many issues, but will also pave the way for more advanced analyses. Part of the reasons why @RECONEPI has devoted time to both - examples follow.

@cap1024 @WHOGOARN @RECONEPI Example of basics done well can be found in @_TimTaylor_ 's incidence2 for handling epidemic curves repidemicsconsortium.org/incidence2/

@cap1024 @WHOGOARN @RECONEPI @_TimTaylor_ How basic tools lead to more advanced things: see #rstats trending and trendeval for automated model selection: github.com/reconhub/trend… itself used for fitting epidemic trends in i2extras: repidemicsconsortium.org/i2extras/artic…

Is the new variant of SARS-CoV-2 more transmissible than others and if yes by how much? We @cmmid_lshtm are currently looking at this by comparing reproduction numbers between local areas in England (w/ @seabbs). WORK IN PROGRESS, NOT PEER REVIEWED. 1/10 raw.githubusercontent.com/epiforecasts/c…

2 RA or Postdoc (London, United Kingdom) Modelling Vaccine Impact in the Vaccine Impact Modelling Consortium with @mathModInf at @vaccineimpact @MRC_Outbreak @Imperial_JIDEA @Imperial_IDE More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/2-x-resea…

Take-home message: development of outbreak analytics tools needs to be supported by our funders and institutions #epitwitter @RECONEPI @WHOGOARN @wellcometrust @gatesfoundation @EANBoard @GcrfRecap @LSHTM @cmmid_lshtm @rgfitzjohn