It is difficult to estimate a vaccine's population-level impact. Here a group used LASSO regression to select variables in a synthetic control model to predict the counterfactual and accurately estimated vaccine impact. Anabelle Wong Marco Piccininni ow.ly/IVHI50Nn7oK

Our paper is out 🤗 Jess Rohmann Tobias Kurth @ulrike_gr Domenech de Cellès lab thank you again for working with me on this project!

How do we estimate the impact of pneumococcal #vaccines? Check out Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology's breakdown of Anabelle Wong's paper on using #LassoRegession to estimate the impact of these vaccines! mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/2145206/wie-be…

When is varicella season in Colombia? 🇨🇴🇨🇴Please have a look at the press release from our last paper. (Sie können es auch auf Deutsch finden y también pueden encontrar la traducción en español 🌎).

Open call for #interns! Do you have a solid foundation in #mathematics and #statistics as well as good #programming skills (ideally in R)? Then join the Domenech de Cellès lab for a fully funded three-month internship in Summer 2024. More info and how to apply: mpiib-berlin.mpg.de/mpiib-isi

When is the best age to vaccinate against #measles? Check out our new preprint on @medrxiv, where we try to answer exactly that! medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Hochsaison für #Viren! Diese #Infografiken zeigen, wie sich Krankheitswellen ausbreiten. Eine Rolle dürften auch saisonale Temperaturschwankungen spielen. #Infektionsbiologie Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology

New paper alert!! 🥳 Our new article on the #Vaccination of mothers against #Pertussis (AKA #whoopingcough) and the epidemiological consequences of blunting is out in Nature Communications. Read it here: doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

🌞Excited to share our latest preprint on how causal inference can guide research into the effects of climate on infectious diseases arxiv.org/abs/2402.12507 #ClimateHealth #CausalInference Laura Andrea Barrero Guevara Tobias Kurth

How can #math help us understand epidemics like #flu, #COVID19 and #chickenpox? Join Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology postdoc and epidemiologist Sarah Kramer for an insight into her research at Soapbox Science Berlin. 🗓️ June 8, 3 pm 📍 Holzmarkt 25, Berlin More info: berlinsoapboxscience.wordpress.com

Pertussis vaccines, epidemiology and evolution rdcu.be/dLI8d Domenech de Cellès and Rohani explore the contemporary epidemiology of pertussis and discuss the controversies surrounding the mechanisms responsible for the re-emergence of pertussis

Want to read about pertussis vaccines, epidemiology, and evolution? Check out our recent review with Pejman Rohani in Nature Reviews Microbiology.