MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis

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[MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis @MRC_Outbreak]

✨ NEW EPISODE ✨ #ScienceInContext This week @SabineLvE speaks with @liza_p_semenova about surrogate models and why unified reporting standards matter more than ever in the age of AI
@ImperialSPH @imperialcollege @tim_hitge @smhall97

[MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis @MRC_Outbreak]

Details of the shortcourse:

📅 13-25th of September 2026
✨ Application deadline 31 August 2026
✏️ Find out more & apply 👇
https://t.co/dwAZiKtQst

[MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis @MRC_Outbreak]

OPPORTUNITY ✨ Join our short course this September to explore how modelling can inform public health decision-making, outbreak response, & disease control strategies.

📽️ Watch this video to see how the shortcourse can benefit your work 👇
https://t.co/rVfTdm4NRE

[MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis @MRC_Outbreak]

Read their position paper advocating for a unified reporting standard for surrogate models in the artificial intelligence era 👇
https://t.co/739dMmOPmm

@ImperialSPH @imperialcollege @tim_hitge @smhall97 @liza_p_semenova @UniofOxford @universityofedinburg

[MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis @MRC_Outbreak]

✨ NEW EPISODE ✨ #ScienceInContext This week @SabineLvE speaks with @liza_p_semenova about surrogate models and why unified reporting standards matter more than ever in the age of AI
@ImperialSPH @imperialcollege @tim_hitge @smhall97

[MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis @MRC_Outbreak]

Read about the opportunities and challenges of global wastewater surveillance for pathogens with pandemic potential published in @TheLancet Microbe 👇
https://t.co/d4Kdn7xsZM
@VaccineEpi

[MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis @MRC_Outbreak]

✨ NEW EPISODE ✨ #ScienceInContext! This week @SabineLvE speaks with Prof @VaccineEpi & Dr Joyce Odeke Akello about wastewater surveillance as an early warning of viruses with pandemic potential and the WASPP Network👇
@imperialcollege @gatesfoundation

[MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis @MRC_Outbreak]

Find out more about the Wastewater Surveillance for Pandemic Prevention WaSPP network 👇
https://t.co/bJG9vLncm7

[MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis @MRC_Outbreak]

Always wanted to learn about mathematical models of infectious diseases?
💼 This short course might be for you!
✨We offer a limited number of scholarships for participants from low- and middle-income countries.

Find out more and apply 👇
https://t.co/dwAZiKtQst

[MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis @MRC_Outbreak]

Read more about this work in the @NaturePortfolio Health publication👇
https://t.co/NmFj5fu4wo

@imperialcollege @anna_vicco @kcharniga @SabineLvE @GinaCuomo2 @EttieUnwin @ZulmaCucunuba

[MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis @MRC_Outbreak]

NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! This week @SabineLvE speaks with @anna_vicco and Kelly McCain about Zika outbreaks, congenital Zika syndrome and next steps investigating the cross-reactivityof Zika with dengue 👇
@imperialcollege @NaturePortfolio

[MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis @MRC_Outbreak]

💼 Research Assistant or Associate in Viral Genomics and Immunology
✏️ Find out more & apply: https://t.co/ffEFMTKkNC

[MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis @MRC_Outbreak]

OPPORTUNITIES! We are looking for two research assistants or associates within the DeZi Network (application deadline 15 January):
💼 Research Assistant or Associate in Viral Computational Genomics
✏️ Find out more & apply: https://t.co/jqdqvy6BTr

[MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis @MRC_Outbreak]

💼 PhD in health analytics & modelling of environmental & personal determinants of heat related health risk
✏️ Find out more & apply: https://t.co/BM9jZGPPNw

[MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis @MRC_Outbreak]

OPPORTUNITIES! Always wanted to do a PhD in health analytics? Check out these fully funded @NIHRresearch studentships (application deadline 18 January):

💼PhD in health analytics & modelling of respiratory pandemics
✏️Find out more & apply: https://t.co/gRXd7VKGvd

[MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis @MRC_Outbreak]

OPPORTUNITY! Always wanted to do a PhD? This fully funded @NIHRresearch HPRU studentship might be for you👇

💼 PhD in Environmental & personal determinants of heat-related health risks
📅 Deadline 18 January 2026
✏️ Find out more & apply https://t.co/HlrwmlMrUl

[MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis @MRC_Outbreak]

Find out more about historical and current spatiotemporal patterns of wild and vaccine-derived poliovirus spread in this @NatureMicrobiol paper 👇
@imperialcollege @ImperialSPH @VaccineEpi @IsoBlake @candido_darlan
https://t.co/5rNVeyd6q1

[MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis @MRC_Outbreak]

NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! This week Dr @SabineLvE speaks with Dr @candido_darlan about historical transmission of poliovirus, immunity, cross border transmission and data availability👇
@imperialcollege @ImperialSPH @VaccineEpi @IsoBlake

[MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis @MRC_Outbreak]

Find out more about robust phylodynamic inference and model specification for HIV transmission dynamics in this Elsevier Epidemics publication 👇
@imperialcollege @ImperialSPH @erikmvolz @UCSanDiego
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https://t.co/0eNnLlC40d

[MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis @MRC_Outbreak]

It is #WorldAIDSDay! For this special #ScienceInContext Dr Fabricia Nascimento & Prof Sanjay Mehta join @SabineLvE to speak about phylodynamic inference & HIV transmission, migration rates, HIV genome sequencing & ethics
@imperialcollege @UCSanDiego @erikmvolz
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[MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis @MRC_Outbreak]

Find out more & visit the CABBAGE platform 👇
@emblebi @imperialcollege
https://t.co/0aj8c6MUIy

[MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis @MRC_Outbreak]

NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! It is World Antimicrobial Resistance #AMR Week and @SabineLvE is joined by Dr Emily Dickens to speak about CABBAGE, a new portal bringing together comprehensive, global, curated AMR data for @WHO priority pathogens👇
@emblebi @imperialcollege