Deadline 28th July! See link for further info and DM me if you have any questions.

CLOSING SOON: PhD position (Povo (Trento), Italy) Statistical, mathematical and computational models of mosquito populations and mosquito-borne infections with Giorgio Guzzetta 🏳️‍🌈 Piero Poletti mattia manica at Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/statistic…

Hiring! Opening of a new post-doc position Università Bocconi Dondena Centre on European Research Council (ERC) funded project IMMUNE on epi modelling, vaccination and human behaviours. Apply here: unibocconi.eu/faculty-postdoc

Nell'ultimo numero di LeScienze spiego come un gruppo di fisic* e matematic* italian* hanno rivoluzionato il modo di studiare e prevedere le epidemie. Oggi tutti i governi e le agenzie si rivolgono a loro. Nel rumore e nel rancore della pandemia non ce ne eravamo accorti.

3-year postdoc position Oxford Mathematics in infectious disease modelling, involving developing models of avian influenza transmission and control in the UK. maths.ox.ac.uk/node/66050 In collaboration with colleagues in Warwick and at the UK government’s Animal and Plant Health Agency.

Oggi La Stampa pubblica un editoriale del Professor Alessandro Vespignani Alessandro Vespignani sul nuovo piano pandemico

If you are an academic these people were our colleagues. The silence of universities in the face of such barbarity is a shame never to be washed away.

It has been 6 months since the brutal attacks in #Israel by Hamas and other groups, in which 1,200 people were killed, many more injured and hundreds abducted. World Health Organization (WHO) once again condemns this barbaric act of violence and demands the release of remaining hostages. However, this

Incubation period, serial interval, generation time and reproduction number of mpox clade I medrxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #medRxiv

From Muhammad Abu Salmiya, the director of Al-Shifa Hospital in #Gaza: "a plea to every human being to help stop this genocide right now—we cannot live like this; the world should not be silent about the killing of civilians in the thousands." thelancet.com/journals/lance…

We are looking for an *excellent* candidate for the PhD project "Data-driven modeling of disease transmission integrating risk perception and adaptive behavior" in collaboration with Alessia Melegaro Dondena Centre Università Bocconi epicx-lab.com/open-positions… iddjobs.org/jobs/data-driv…

Wonderful opportunity for a PhD position with Vittoria Colizza on epi modelling and behavioural aspects in collaboration with us at Dondena Centre and working on data gathered in the European Research Council (ERC) funded IMMUNE project.

Great to see more research on optimizing end-of-outbreak determinations! Deciding when to demobilize resources is an important component of public health response during outbreaks, and infectious disease modeling can support public health leadership in making those calls.

Wartime bereavement is high (eg in 2023, 1 in every 67 Palestinians had lost a child to war) and is projected to endure. Reducing deaths now will prevent future escalation of violence fueled by resentment & generational trauma. Read Science Advances piece: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

1/ 📢 Preprint news! 📢 📄"Quantifying infectious disease epidemic risks: A practical approach for seasonal pathogens" #EpiTwitter ✍️Authors: Alex Kaye Giorgio Guzzetta 🏳️‍🌈 Mike Tildesley Robin Thompson 💻 code: github.com/KayeARK/Quanti… 🔗: doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Our assessment of nowcasting for estimating reproduction numbers during real-time surveillance is out: frontiersin.org/journals/publi… . A collaboration of Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK and Istituto Superiore di Sanità finalized thanks to the tireless efforts of andrea bizzotto 🙂

We estimated the incubation period, serial interval, and generation time distributions for mpox clade I from historical data + the reproduction number of mpox clade Ib in Kamituga (DRC). We found slower dynamics compared to clade IIb wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/30…

🧵1/ New preprint out on medrxiv: “Collaborative forecasting of influenza-like illness in Italy: the Influcast experience” In this work, we analyze the first year of Influcast, Italy’s first collaborative hub for epidemic forecasting. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

🚨Out in Nature Communications : our paper “Model-based evaluation of the impact of a potential HIV cure on HIV transmission dynamics”. We found that a cure could help end the epidemic, but only under the right conditions. Let’s break it down. nature.com/articles/s4146…