Day 2 of our #Epiverse training in Africa 🌍 is underway!

Participants dive into:
✅ Interoperability in health data systems
✅ Practical sessions with Epiverse tools

These topics strengthen data-driven decision-making & boost #RegionalCollaboration in health research across #WestAfrica.

Epiverse Epidemiological Data Science Training for Africa - data.org This program offers a comprehensive and structured curriculum, beginning with foundational epidemiology, progressing through an introduction to programming with R, and culminating in practical modules...

Developed under the Epiverse initiative and the
Epiverse Epidemiological Data Science Training for Africa, through strong South–South collaboration.

A massive shoutout to everyone who made it possible.

🙏 Thank you!

#Epiverse #GlobalHealth #Africa

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🚨 New FREE self-paced course!

We are excited to launch the #EpiTrainingKit #Africa: Introduction to Infectious Disease Modelling for Public Health.

🎯 Tailored for the African context
🌍 With a gender perspective
🆓 Open-access and online

#EpiTKit #Epiverse #PublicHealth

🚨 vaccineff 1.0 is now on CRAN! 💉

Our R 📦 #Epiverse library, {vaccineff}, offers robust tools for estimating #vaccine effectiveness.

Currently tailored for cohort study data, including iterative matching process.

install.packages("vaccineff")

More info: ▶️ epiverse-trace.github.io/vaccineff/in...

🚨sivirep 1.0.0 is now on CRAN!🚨

Our new #Epiverse R package 📦 {sivirep} unlocks the epidemiological potential of #individual records from SIVIGILA, Colombia’s national surveillance system. Covering 100+ diseases from 2007 to 2023.

install.packages("sivirep")

▶️ epiverse-trace.github.io/sivirep

This week, we had the Third #Epiverse TRACE Summit at MRC The Gambia 🇬🇲.

With collaborators from three continents (🇬🇲🇨🇴🇬🇧), we delivered open software tools (17 R packages) and a growing training programme to support global, locally tailored epidemiological solutions.

▶️ epiverse-trace.github.io

Our new #Epiverse R package available in CRAN #vaccineff 😊

Frontiers | Cognitive ability, gender, and well-being in school contexts: longitudinal evidence from Sweden While well-being does generally constitute a moderate predictor of school achievement, research on the predictive validity of cognitive ability for well-bein...

#Mediation & #DAG: “The main mediation models show that there is a partial mediation between cognitive ability, gender, & self-reported well-being, as well as between gender, cognitive ability, & well-being.” #EpiVerse #CausalInference www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

A tutorial for conducting intersectional multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (MAIHDA) Intersectional multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (I-MAIHDA) is an innovative approach for investigating ineq…

If you are interested in learning MAIHDA from the best Dr. Clare Evans this is the paper to read! #Methods #SocialEpidemiology #EpiVerse #AcademicChatter #Academia #SocialEpi

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Interventions to Reduce Risk for Pathogen Spillover and E... Interventions to Reduce Risk for Pathogen Spillover

of communities at emerging infectious disease hotspots, enhance biosecurity in animal husbandry, regulate wildlife markets and trade, and expand pathogen surveillance at human-livestock-wildlife interfaces

https://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2903.221079
#EpiVerse (2/3)

Christian Testa (@ctesta@fediscience.org) Attached: 1 image Are you interested in learning about h...

#EpiVerse #epidemiology #DataScience #academia
https://fediscience.org/@ctesta/109422902812274426 (2/2)

most disease burden is environmentally mediated, and this burden is much more strongly associated with rural poverty than climate, biodiversity, or land use.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/...

#EpiVerse #DiseaseEcology...