Calling all RSV forecasters! The US RSV Forecast Hub is kicking off the 2024-25 respiratory virus season this week! If you are interested in submitting RSV forecasts, please join the effort! Click on the link for more info:(github.com/HopkinsIDD/rsv…)

Dr. Anice Lowen's lab at Emory School of Medicine is seeking a post doc to perform cutting-edge research on influenza A virus evolutionary dynamics and transmission. Learn more about the Lowen lab here: ow.ly/OwTA50UtSlU and email Dr. Lowen to express your interest!

PEPFAR has saved an estimated 25 million lives — an incredible American achievement. This funding pause needs to be lifted ASAP

Today I am thinking of the people I’ve met around the world—children, parents, health workers, teachers—who will be harmed by the Trump administration’s decision to try to dismantle USAID and walk back U.S. leadership in global health and poverty reduction. I’m thinking, too,

98% of NIH grants that should have gone out this month, didn't. Despite court orders 'unfreezing' the funds, they are frozen. Biomedical research will grind to a halt. Clinical trials will end. All for no reason: the total impact on the US budget is miniscule

Multiple Postdocs (Baltimore/Geneva, USA/Switerland) Better understanding of cholera epidemiology and transmission dynamics with Andrew Azman, Elizabeth Lee, Javier Perez-Saez at Johns Hopkins University/Geneva University Hospitals More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/postdocto…

Nearly 100 NIH study sections were canceled in the past month. Here is a list of the canceled meetings, compiled by Annika Barber at Rutgers Univ. As a result, the process of biomedical science funding has been halted in the United States. tinyurl.com/5auw74s4

Don’t believe the lies Musk & Co are spreading about gov’t workers. Most federal workers are dedicated & hard working civil servants who make sacrifices because they believe in the mission. Losing them will hurt our nation in ways that will take a generation to repair, if at all

Excited to share our recent preprint on quantifying pandemic potential from experimental transmission studies, spearheaded by grad student Elizabeth Somsen in my group and in collab with Troy Sutton & lab at Penn State and Anice Lowen at Emory: biorxiv.org/content/10.110….

Taming the BEAST Beijing! Register now :) taming-the-beast.org/workshops/Tami…