Dr Roz Eggo
Rosalind Eggo - Assist Prof @LSHTM - Dynamic modelling, resp viruses, severe outcomes, EHRs, & optimising vaccines - Funding @HDR_UK - Made @IDDconf & @IDDjobs
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IDDjobs — Research Software Engineer on Ebola vaccine modelling — LSHTM
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How we learnt to stop worrying and love web scraping
For Nicholas DeVito, Georgia Richards and Peter Inglesby, custom webscrapers have driven their research — and their collaborations.
The impact of local and national restrictions in response to COVID-19 on social contacts in the UK: a longitudinal natural experiment.
We present the analyses of the impact of national and local restrictions on the number of setting-specific contacts that people have prior to and during the restrictions from an ongoing survey (CoMix) which tracks social contact behaviour during the...
Herd immunity confusion
Hopefully, at some point, we will have a vaccine against severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2, and we will use this to seek ways of generating herd immunity,
ie, promoting widespread immunity in the population and reducing transmission so...
Reconstructing the early global dynamics of under-ascertained COVID-19 cases and infections
Asymptomatic or subclinical SARS-CoV-2 infections are often unreported, which means that confirmed case counts may not accurately reflect underlying epidemic dynamics. Understanding the level of ascertainment (the ratio of confirmed symptomatic...
The COVID-19 response illustrates that traditional academic reward structures and metrics do not reflect crucial contributions to modern science
The COVID-19 pandemic has motivated many open and collaborative analytical research projects with real-world impact. However, despite their value, such activities are generally overlooked by traditional academic metrics. Science is ultimately...
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Dr Roz Eggo
Are things that academia values, the most important things in modern science? @AdamJKucharski @sbfnk & I argue probably not.
I hope this can change: many people are doing valuable technical work & they are - & should be able to stay - a part of science.
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Infectious disease control expert awarded OBE | LSHTM
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Professor Graham Medley, Director of the Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases (CMMID) at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), has been closely involved in...
IDDjobs — Modelling COVID-19 transmission in a community in London — LSHTM
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Do You Want to Be Known For Your Writing, or For Your Swift Email Responses?
Melissa Febos shares practical writing advice for women who want to prioritize their art, not their email
Trust and Transparency in times of Crisis: Results from an Online Survey During the First Wave (April 2020) of the COVID-19 Epidemic in the UK
Background: The success of government COVID-19 control strategies relies on public trust and broad acceptance of response measures. We investigated public perceptions of the UK government COVID-19 response, focusing on the relationship between trust...
Paris’s Elite School Gets a Lesson on Possible Gender Bias
Paris’s prestigious postgraduate school Ecole Normale Superieure was in for a surprise this summer when results of its admission exam for literature came out.
'I'm up for the fight': Chris Jackson to be first black scientist to give Christmas lecture
Professor urges organisations to help tackle racism, misogyny and transphobia
The effect of travel restrictions on the geographical spread of COVID-19 between large cities in China: a modelling study
To contain the spread of COVID-19, a cordon sanitaire was put in place in Wuhan prior to the Lunar New Year, on 23 January 2020. We assess the efficacy of the cordon sanitaire to delay the introduction and onset of local transmission of COVID-19 in...
Seasonal influenza vaccination in Kenya: an economic evaluation using dynamic transmission modelling
There is substantial burden of seasonal influenza in Kenya, which led the government to consider introducing a national influenza vaccination programme. Given the cost implications of a nationwide programme, local economic evaluation data are needed...
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New paper out on seasonal influenza vaccination in Kenya led by the outstanding @JayDawa at @UoNbi.
We modelled influenza epidemics in Kenya from 2010-2018 using available surveillance data to determine if vaccination is likely to be cost effective.
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Two Ebola virus variants circulating during the 2020 Equateur Province outbreak
On June 5th, 2020, we posted the first viral genome from the 2020 Equateur Province outbreak. Phylogenetic analysis indicated the cluster of cases was caused by a new spillover event and represented the 11th Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in the...
Exponential growth bias: The numerical error behind Covid-19
A simple mathematical mistake may explain why many people underestimate the dangers of coronavirus, shunning social distancing, masks and hand-washing.
Behavioural change towards reduced intensity physical activity is disproportionately prevalent among adults with serious health issues or self-perception of high risk during the UK COVID-19 lockdown.
Objectives: We assessed whether lockdown had a disproportionate impact on physical activity behaviour in groups who were, or who perceived themselves to be, at heightened risk from COVID-19.Methods Physical activity intensity (none, mild, moderate...