Great opportunity - amazing community! 👇🏾

📢NEW Publication in eClinicalMedicine – The Lancet Discovery Science as part of the SPIRIT|CONSORT-Surrogate Project A framework for the definition and interpretation of the use of surrogate endpoints in interventional trials sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The protocol for our cluster-randomized trial assessing the effectiveness of community-based diabetes care in rural Lesotho has just been published at BMC Trial. trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Just published: "Two‐stage or not two‐stage? That is the question for IPD meta‐analysis projects" - some claims pro 1-stage approach are misleading - 2-stage will often suffice unless data sparse - here we provide guidance for a broad audience onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jr…

Thrilled to see this project taking off - thanks to our wonderful partner in Lesotho: The Hub 🇱🇸 Supported by @CitSciZurich_en (citizenscience.uzh.ch/en/projects/ha…) hairsalonproject.com

Excited to join University of Bristol and collaborate with teams across Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science, Cambridge University and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine on OpenSAFELY to assess 💊💉 for (Long) COVID across >24 million🇬🇧#electronichealthrecords. 🙏to Swiss National Science Foundation, EU-SolidAct, The Division of Clinical Epidemiology Basel #causalinference #targettrialemulation

Hairstylistinnen als Citizen Scientists – eine Pilotprojekt von @CitSciZurich will Frauen in Coiffeursalons in Lesotho mit Gesundheitsprodukten und wichtigen Informationen zur sexuellen Gesundheit versorgen: news.uzh.ch/de/articles/ne… UZH_EBPI

MPX-RESPONSE is a large pan-European consortium to understand and tackle #mpox. It includes 3 #RCT, assessing #antivirals, as well as a #cohort study to better understand the disease. #clinep_basel contributes to this effort. Find out more: mpx-response.eu

‘Europe united against old and new pandemics’ will take place in Belgium on 14-15 May to provide an overview of lessons learnt from the COVID pandemic and options to be globally prepared for future health threats in a forward looking scene pandemicconference.eu/home/

Current text will be sent to WHA, with colours on “ agreed”, “ contented”, etc where WHA will decide how to take it forward.

Yazdan Yazdanpan Yazdan Yazdanpanah (ANRS Maladies infectieuses émergentes Inserm) highlighting challenges and providing a vision of European (+global!) trial networks beyond 2024 at "Europe United Against Old and New Pandemics" conference. @Ecraid EU-SolidAct pandemicconference.eu/home/

Antibody and T-cell response to bivalent booster SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in people with compromised immune function Alain Amstutz🇨🇭🇱🇸 @BenjaminSpeich Journal of Infectious Diseases Read here the full COVERALL-3 study: academic.oup.com/jid/advance-ar…

📢📢TWO NEW and #OpenAccess publications in The BMJ as a culmination of the SPIRIT|CONSORT-Surrogate project. CONSORT-Surrogate: doi.org/10.1136/bmj-20… SPIRIT-Surrogate: doi.org/10.1136/bmj-20… Please share or RT for awareness 🧵

9/ Thank you to the Medical Research Council for funding this work and all the 36 authors CC Sylwia Bujkiewicz Alain Amstutz🇨🇭🇱🇸 Prof. Dalia M Dawoud @PhilippaDvs Martin Offringa Joseph Ross Jane Blazeby Derek Stewart Oriana Ciani Dr. Nancy Butcher Larisa Tereshchenko, MD, PhD

Guidance helps researchers set up + report on trials using #SurrogateOutcomes Great work by anthony Muchai Manyara, Oriana Ciani, Rod Taylor Improving Health + Jane Blazeby et al. Published in The BMJ News tinyurl.com/48ewkfe3 SPIRIT tinyurl.com/5h8fba3n CONSORT tinyurl.com/32d5webn

Thank you Marion Campbell for this weeks' #MethodologyMonday thread on #TwiCs !

Thanks to the fantastic team in Lesotho The Hub 🇱🇸, we completed the @citizenscientist survey in rapid time; recruited >100 hair stylists across all 10 districts in #Lesotho, and they recruited >300 clients!🎉more info👇@CitSciZurich_en The Division of Clinical Epidemiology Basel