UK home fee students only.
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Based at @lshtm.bsky.social @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social @epiforecasts.io in collaboration with @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @mrc-outbreak.bsky.social and @ukhsa.bsky.social
🎓 One last PhD studentship on offer on health analytics and modelling, jointly between @hpruham.bsky.social and @hprurespinf.bsky.social. Real-time use of data from household studies to inform pandemic and epidemic preparedness, with Anne Cori, @seabbs.bsky.social and Chris Overton. Link ↓
Every week ~2,000 new preprints appear on medRxiv and bioRxiv. Here's a tool that matches them to journals: given a journal, it shows which recent preprints fit its scope. Given a preprint, it predicts where it'll end up. Feedback welcome!
preprints.epiforecasts.io
Really enjoyed this thought-provoking workshop this week at @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social on evaluation & responsibility in infectious disease modelling. Brilliantly organised and led by @kathsherratt.bsky.social, with Erica Thompson. Great discussions on both practice and training.
Really great day and exciting to see the range of research happening across @hpruham.bsky.social. Thanks to @ukhsa.bsky.social for hosting and everyone who presented!
Great talk on composable infectious disease modelling. Making real-time outbreak modelling more principled and flexible has been a long-standing challenge, and Sam has been leading the charge on solving it. With a growing group of people keen on this it feels like we're finally getting somewhere.
PhD position (London, UK)
Real-time modelling of infectious disease outbreaks.
with @sbfnk.bsky.social @anne-cori.bsky.social @seabbs.bsky.social
at @epiforecasts.io @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2440
and Chris Overton (UKHSA).
Joint supervision between @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social (w/ @seabbs.bsky.social), @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social dn.bsky.social (w/ @anne-cori.bsky.social), and @ukhsa.bsky.social (Edwin van Leeuwen).
Looking for people excited about infectious disease epidemiology who enjoy programming and want to develop their statistical modelling skills. DMs open if you have questions.
Two more fully funded PhDs in real-time infectious disease modelling & forecasting — developing methods for operational use by @ukhsa.bsky.social and others in outbreak response. UK home students, starting April or September 2026.
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💉 Our annual lecture will be given by Prof Caroline Trotter, who will explore work estimating the #PublicHealth impact of vaccination of Gavi & discuss its implications for #vaccine policy
🗓️ Thursday 27 November, 17:30 GMT
📍 LSHTM | Online
Details ⬇️
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👋Don't miss LSHTM research funding opportunities!
We have 2 new PhD #studentships for home fee students as part of @nihr.bsky.social Health Protection Research Units for #Vaccines & Immunisation, & #InfectiousDisease modelling.
Find out more & apply 👇
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These should be pretty great I think!
Want some more background on the kind of fun methods these will build off? Open source course here: nfidd.github.io/sismid/
2 PhD positions (London, UK)
In real-time infectious disease modelling
with @@sbfnk.bsky.social @@anne-cori.bsky.social @@seabbs.bsky.social
at @@lshtm.bsky.social @@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @@ukhsa.bsky.social
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2336
Exciting HPRU PhD opportunities (home fees only) at LSHTM with co-supervision at Imperial and UKHSA: www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
So disappointing to still see papers in big publisher journals with data/code links that don't work (e.g. private github repos). If editors and reviewers can't even be bothered to do a minimal check that the linked resource exists, what does that imply for the integrity of the whole review process?
All I said is that they have health benefits. But I completely agree that there other routes to achieving these (education on safe knife use / assembly from reusable components that could be used for other things) which are preferable. doi.org/10.1016/j.aj...
Really enjoyed giving a talk at the @rki.de Colloquium in Berlin today. Slides are at epiforecasts.io/slides/rki_2...
Latest out in Epidemics: "Collaborative forecasting of influenza-like illness in Italy: The Influcast experience"
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The new epidist release just dropped which includes support for the marginal model as well as lots of other goodies
epidist.epinowcast.org/news/index.h...
TLDRP: its 20-lots faster depending on number of stratifications in the data and not approximate.
I was speaking about the epinowcast package, ecosystem, and community with a little bit of a pitch for modelling in Julia at the end.
If any of this work takes your interest this PhD on delay estimation may interest you.
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PhD position (London, UK)
Machine Learning for infectious disease forecasting during epidemics and pandemics
with @sbfnk.bsky.social Daniela de Angelis
at @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social @epiforecasts.io
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2264
PhD position (London, UK)
Improving Estimation of Reproduction Numbers in Dynamic Outbreak Contexts
with @anne-cori.bsky.social @sbfnk.bsky.social Edwin van Leeuwen
at @imperial-jameel.bsky.social
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2263
PhD position (London, UK)
Improving Estimation and Analysis of Epidemiological Delays for Infectious Disease Outbreaks
with @sbfnk.bsky.social @anne-cori.bsky.social @seabbs.bsky.social
at @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social...
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2261
PhD position (London, UK)
Improving Infectious Disease Forecasts and Forecast Evaluation
with @sbfnk.bsky.social @anne-cori.bsky.social Edwin van Leeuwen
at @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social @epiforecasts.io
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2262
New blog post! I show how to marginalise discrete variables from Bayesian ecological models in Stan and how to recover their posterior distributions after estimation. I cover occupancy and N-mixture models using multiple parameterisations and model types. quantecol.com.au/blog/margina...
If generally interested in a PhD in this area have a look at all projects - they're great selection of topics to be taken on by a cohort of students interested in improving pandemic preparedness. The full list is at www.lshtm.ac.uk/media/87071
These are all in collaboration with Imperial @anne-cori.bsky.social and UKHSA so give lots of opportunities for collaboration and applications to case studies of immediate public health relevance.