
David Simons
@david_simons_uk
Medical doctor and PhD student in Emerging Zoonotic Infectious Diseases #Lassa
Funder: @LIDo_DTP Institutions: @RoyalVetCollege @LSHTM @UCL
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http://www.dsimons.org 15-09-2014 18:41:47
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Please RT, the Spatial Epidemiology Lab (spell.ulb.be, ULB ComRecherche) is hiring: I am looking for a post-doc to work on spatial models helping to target under-immunised communities during vaccination activities in the DRC: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/234650

Thrilled to share our new paper in Methods in Ecology and Evolution that introduces the spAbundance R package for fitting a variety of single-species and multi-species spatially explicit abundance models! doi.org/10.1111/2041-2…


New The Verena Institute study in preprint! How consistent are the impacts of social and environmental drivers on the outbreak geography of emerging infectious diseases? We harmonised surveillance and geospatial data for 32 diseases to ask this question. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…


The big day is almost here! After years of work at University of Oulu and University of Jyväskylä, this Friday I will defend my PhD thesis "Metals, pathogens, and islands: how the environment shapes the gut microbiota of wild bank voles". The thesis can be found here: oulurepo.oulu.fi/handle/10024/4…






🚨Assistant Prof Job London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine 🚨 For an experienced epidemiologist interested in the intersection of infection & inequality. Working on 2 major grants with Dr Roz Eggo Emily Herrett myself & others. Apply by 22nd Aug Advert: jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?i…




Up to four postdoc opportunities with The Verena Institute and the Yale University Public Health Modeling Unit ‼️

"Half of the countries in Sub-Saharan Africa rely on external financing for more than a third of their health expenditures" Angela Apeagyei, Justice Nonvignon Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) & team PLOS Global Public Health call for African nations to invest more in health & increase efficiency journals.plos.org/globalpubliche…




The brilliance of Olga Perski demonstrating that understanding humans requires A LOT of maths. #EHPS2024


🚨 Are you a biologist who works with museum collections? Come be my colleague at the Sam Noble Museum & U. Oklahoma! We're hiring 2 curators/professors in Ornithology and Invertebrate Zoology! Ornithology: apply.interfolio.com/154668 Invertebrates: apply.interfolio.com/154669