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📌 Key recommendations: • Update WHO’s 2014 Quantitative Risk Assessment • Expand modelling to more health outcomes • Develop early warning systems • Boost capacity in low-resource settings

🔑 Priorities for stronger models: ✅ Build research capacity ✅ Create multinational centres of excellence ✅ Improve data sharing & scenario development ✅ Commit to intermodel comparisons & interdisciplinary work

📢PAPER ALERT: Underinvestment in climate & health modelling limits our ability to predict and prevent risks. 65 Global experts agree we need urgent action. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

📢 NEW PAPER ! In response to the 2024 dengue epidemic, we built Dengue-tracker to nowcast dengue more accurately by combining surveillance data with Google Trends in Brazil 🔗 diseasesurveillance.github.io/dengue-tracker 📄 doi.org/10.1371/journa… @guipsoares @rizbicki @leosbastos @cemseKAUST

Svalbard is heating seven times faster than the world average. Impact on glaciers & glacial microbes theguardian.com/world/2025/aug…

We want to transform early intervention for youth mental health. Our new funding award will help achieve this. Across two phases, it aims to accelerate the evaluation and roll out of effective social and psychological interventions. 🧵[1/4]

⏰ It's 20 days before the highly anticipated Data for Health in Africa Meeting and 5th DS-I Africa Consortium Meeting at the Cedi Conference Centre, University of Ghana from the 23rd – 29th August 2025. 🤝 This landmark event is jointly funded by the Wellcome Trust (@wellcometrust) and The National Institutes of Health (@NIH). ‼️ The meeting is open to Wellcome Trust and DSI-Africa grantees. ℹ️ This year’s theme is “Data Science in Africa: Strengthening Partnerships and Collaboration across Networks, Sectors and Impact Areas”. 💬 Meet one of our keynote speakers: Prof Peter Amoako-Yirenkyi is a Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics. He has over two decades of experience in Computer vision, Scientific Computing and industrial modelling. He has worked with several organizations on many projects, including the @UN, @WHO, @CERN, @UNESCO, and the Citizen Cyberscience Center in Geneva-Switzerland. He is the lead scientist for the National High-Performance Computing Laboratory hosted by Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi(@KNUSTGH) and the director of Scientific and Technical Computing at the National Institute for Mathematical Sciences(NIMS-Ghana), Ghana. He has served as a Principal and Co-principal investigator for many grants from several funding sources, including The World Bank, The National Institutes of Health and the Fogarty International Centre, the Norwegian academy of science and letters and Petroleum Geo services. Prof. Amoako-Yirenkyi has also consulted and developed several computer application suites and set up network infrastructure in many countries. He is currently the lead Scientist and developer for Medical Analytics and Technology Engine(MATE) for Health Innovation - A smart and transformative Medical Analytics and Technology Resource for Integrated eXperience (MATRIX) designed to revolutionize healthcare through advanced medical analytics, cutting-edge technology, centralized resources, and seamless integration. He teaches Structured thinking, Mathematics for Data science, scientific and high-performance computing, Numerical Analysis, discrete structures, graph theory, machine learning and data visualization. He has publications and research interests in High-Performance Computing, Fractional and Stochastic Differential Equations, Reservoir Simulation, Human identification and Recognition, Wavelets, Traffic and fleet modelling, Complex Energy Constrained modelling, Water resource modelling and complex financial modelling. He is skilled in sparse representations in Redundant Dictionaries, distributed ranking algorithms and educational resource management. He has training grants for student and faculty training in scientific computing and industrial modelling, data analytics and computational genomics, biomedical data science applications in imaging science, computational biology and public health. 🌐 More Info: lnkd.in/eWEzjUEG #DSIAfrica #DSIAfrica2025 #DataScience #ECR

Applications to our Accelerator Awards are now closed. Thank you to everyone who applied! Learn more about this scheme that will support researchers of Black, Bangladeshi or Pakistani heritage in the UK to advance their careers ⤵️ wellcome.org/research-fundi…

Climate breakdown tripled death toll in Europe’s June heatwave In @guardian Malcolm Mistry explains why #heatwaves are 'silent killers' following rapid analysis with @imperialcollege which estimates 2,300 deaths caused by extreme heat across 12 cities. theguardian.com/environment/20…

2 PhD positions (London, UK) In real-time infectious disease modelling with Sebastian Funk, Anne Cori at LSHTM More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/2-phd-pos…

We’re looking forward to an inspiring week of shared learning, fresh ideas, and meaningful collaboration. Updated agenda and a list of some confirmed speakers includes leading voices in data science, AI, genomics &public health from across the continent and beyond @wellcometrust

Wellcome boss: openness can ‘sustain political will’ for science - Completely agree ⁦@jarottingen⁩ ⁦@wellcometrust⁩ researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-world-…

🚨 We're Hiring! CivicDataLab is looking for a Project Manager(4+ years of experience) to lead data & AI-powered civic-tech initiatives. To Learn more, click👉 zrec.in/JojJU?source=C… #CivicTech #ProjectManager #GovTech #OpenSource #DigitalPublicGoods #CivicDataLab #AIForGood

📢JOB ALERT Senior Statistician UK Health Security Agency based in Birmingham within the Real-time Syndromic Surveillance Team. You'll contribute to priorities as part of Field Services incident response Salary £54-£64K Deadline 13 July More info: civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cgi?…

Liam Smeeth credits the public health contributions made by the entire LSHTM community as he’s made CBE in the King’s Birthday Honours. 👉lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/new…

☁️Join us for a London Climate Action Week session hosted by @LSHTM & @CCACoalition to explore the latest science and strategies for tackling super pollutants and delivering climate and health benefits 🗓️27 June 📍LSHTM & Online 🎟️Register now👉lshtm.ac.uk/LCAW2025 #LCAW2025

📢Join @DigitalSQR at PATH & @WHO-@WMO Climate & Health Joint Programme at @dhis_2 2025 in Oslo and discover the new Global Goods Guidebook for Climate & Health Don’t miss their lightning talk & workshop today and tomorrow! Don't miss it! Learn more: globalgoodsguidebook.org

🛰️ La #basuraespacial es un problema crítico. Miles de fragmentos orbitan la Tierra amenazando #satélites esenciales para #telecomunicaciones #clima #ciencia #documental “¿Es la basura espacial una crisis?” 🎥 Disponible en Indagando TV youtu.be/NbvGqSxjIGM?si…

🌳Increasing greenness by 30% could prevent up to 1.16 million heat-related deaths globally Study in @TheLancetPlanet co-authored by Antonio Gasparrini & Malcolm Mistry @LSHTM finds expanding urban green spaces would cool cities and reduce heat impacts 👉bit.ly/3R3LiZY

🌍 Join us in this critical effort to explore how climate variability and climate change impact fungal pathogens. Your insights could shape the future of global health! 📢 Submit your proposals now and contribute to groundbreaking research!

🌡️ Rising temperatures are driving the global spread of deadly fungi, infecting millions of people annually. Fungi pose a particular danger due to their hard-to-detect spores, limited treatment options, and growing resistance to existing drugs. 💊 See: bit.ly/4dggsqe

🍄We are nearing a tipping point in the proliferation of fungal pathogens! @wellcometrust is inviting consultancy teams, think tanks, and do tanks to submit proposals to help us understand the relationships between fungi and climate. 🌡️ Deadline: 30 May bit.ly/44uJHDk