Join me in congratulating Dr Mmamapudi Kubjane, the latest #SACEMA-sponsored student to complete her PhD! Mmamapudi Kubjane worked with Leigh Johnson CIDER, School of Public Health, UCT on developing the #ThembisaTB model and got some great pubs in the process - e.g., sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Well done!!

We are hiring! #SACEMA is looking for a Science Officer to provide scientific support, including writing and editing support for funding proposals and scientific publications by early-career researchers. Deadline: 8 November Full details: sun-e-hr.sun.ac.za/OA_HTML/OA.jsp…..

Reminder: deadline is tomorrow!

📣AIDS, mathematics and Isaac Asimov...sound interesting? Join our hybrid public lecture to commemorate #WorldAIDSDay ! Limited in-person space! Register today: bit.ly/3DGYJqw #AIDSDAYSACEMA #AIDS #SACEMA

This month's SARS-CoV-2 reinfections report for South Africa, with data through data through 2 November, has been released; updated data are available at doi.org/10.5281/zenodo… No changes in reinfection trends have been detected since the last report. nicd.ac.za/wp-content/upl…

Can’t recommend this workshop highly enough! Two weeks learning principles of software engineering and applying them directly to your own scientific programming project. I attended in Jan 2020, and it set the stage for a lot of the work I did during the pandemic. Apply today!

Nice new paper using comparative modelling to examine at the effect of HIV on cervical cancer elimination in South Africa, including the MicroCOSM-HPV model developed by Leigh Johnson and #SACEMA's @carivs sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I'm now at @[email protected] I've used fedifinder.glitch.me to find people I follow here on #Mastadon... but so far only about 1/4 of the people I've found there are women. Ladies, please come join us!

Applications are open now for Software Engineering for Applied Mathematical Sciences Workshop in Stellenbosch, South Africa co-ordinated by @cap1024. Practically oriented and looks great. seams-workshop.gitlab.io. Awesome location STIAS, associated with #SACEMA.

We have re-opened this opportunity, new deadline is 30 November #SACEMA is looking for a Science Officer to provide scientific support, including writing and editing support for funding proposals and scientific publications by early-career researchers. sun-e-hr.sun.ac.za/OA_HTML/OA.jsp…..

📣 Join us for the next CMMID seminar! Ivy Kadzo Kombe-W will discuss "different ways to think about & use information on viral diversity". 📅 29 November ⏰ 12:45 GMT 📍 LSHTM & online 🔗 bit.ly/3V4zV3a

Congratulations to all on SPI-M-O for receiving the Weldon Prize last week for their work during the pandemic. Juniper Consortium co-lead Prof Julia Gog was honoured to jointly accept the award with Graham Medley on behalf of SPI-M-O. Find out more here: maths.org/juniper/news/j…

Lauren is a dynamical and driven farm girl that hails from KwaZulu-Natal. Meet our outstanding MSc student! #MeetSACEMAteam #SACEMA

Such an honour to share #SACEMA #WAD2022 lecture with Leigh Johnson and to reflect on the incredible progress against #HIV of the past decade, what modellers got right and wrong, and what the future could hold; and so many special collaborations along the way. MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis