NEW in BMC Medicine: The impact of local vaccine coverage and recent incidence on measles transmission in France between 2009 and 2018 bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Registration now open (and free) The endemic-epidemic framework is a great way to model infectious diseases, combining statistical and epi approaches. And it's implemented in an R package. Find out all about it and applications to measles, covid etc in this hybrid workshop. 👇

Over the moon that Isabel Fletcher has passed her PhD viva! 🎉🎉🎉🥂🥂🥂 It has been such a pleasure working with you Isabel over the years you have created such a brilliant collection of climate and health research, feeling so proud🤩😭🥰 Congratulations Dr. Fletcher! 🎉🎉🎉

Our work combining mathematical modelling & lab work to reveal the dynamics of #phage predation & transfer of #AMR genes by transduction is now published in EIC Jack Gilbert ! 🦠💻 With Gwen Knight Jodi Lindsay Jacob Wildfire Arya Gupta 1/ journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

Really enjoyed this workshop and thought I'd share the materials I put together for the tutorial: htmlpreview.github.io/?https://githu…

Our study on the duration of antibody positivity following Leptospira infection is now out in PLOS NTD! Huge thanks to my coauthors Adam Kucharski, Rachel Lowe, Colleen Lau, Mike Kama, Simon Reid journals.plos.org/plosntds/artic…

How do RSV and Influenza interact? -> Co-infection increases the reporting rate -> Either a moderate reduction or almost no reduction in susceptibility following infection is compatabile with the data Take a look at our PLOS Comp Biol paper to see more! journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…

We're officially math modellers! Alexis Robert and Ali 🎉🍾🌞

🚨 A short article I wrote for Social Research Assn Research Matters about how participant voices are feeding into the design of a new UK birth cohort study, including some really interesting qualitative work and focus groups with parents and young people I was lucky to be involved in

New paper by Alexis Robert and others comparing inference of transmission chains from genomic data with epidemiological investigations - as well as a combination of the two: academic.oup.com/ve/article/9/1…

New paper: The potential cost-effectiveness of next generation influenza vaccines in England and Wales: A modelling analysis! Our paper shows that nextgen flu vaccines may greatly reduce the impact of flu on the population of England & Wales www-sciencedirect-com.ez.lshtm.ac.uk/science/articl…

UK lab-confirmed measles cases just jumped to 140 in the most recent week (w/e 4 March).

The MMR vaccines are commonly thought to give lifelong immunity against measles, but a modelling study suggests the level of protection actually falls by a small amount each year. newscientist.com/article/242868…