Kevin Brown

Infectious disease epidemiologist with Public Health Ontario and Assistant Professor at University of Toronto

[Kevin Brown @KevinAnBrown]

@ArroPark Nothing to sigh about these last few days … can we get an update on conditions?

[Brad Langford @BRxAD]

#WAAW2024
#AntibioticResistance

[Kevin Brown @KevinAnBrown]

Job opportunity for infectious disease modeller at Public Health Ontario working on respiratory virus shedding dynamics at individual and population levels
https://t.co/RC6ZPhvPtK. Closes tonight at 11.59PM

[Kevin Brown @KevinAnBrown]

@mbeisen What an excellent thread on academic publishing. Made me think of this revealing discussion between Eric Topol and Nobel Prize winner Katalin Kariko https://t.co/drnlTxDZMf

[Kevin Brown @KevinAnBrown]

@SolomonKurz In R, something like this: glmer(outcomes ~ 1 + outcome2 + outcome 3 + treat + (1|id), family="binomial", data=data). See here: https://t.co/xcZJm9N2IP for a reference. MCMC better in stan_glmer now (same code would work).

[Kevin Brown @KevinAnBrown]

@SolomonKurz If the 3 outcomes are coded the same (say, binary) and similarly correlated, you can structure your dataset in long format (1 row per person-outcome) and then one use a random effects model with a random intercept per individual

[Adam R Houston @HealthLawAdamH]

Disconcerting news about #ProMED, an invaluable service that should really be treated as a global public good.
"ProMED, an early warning system on disease outbreaks, appears near collapse"
https://t.co/zTfWwfwGUc

[Kevin Brown @KevinAnBrown]

@TheBikingLawyer Car driver just leaves the injured cyclist stranded in the middle of the intersection

[Kevin Brown @KevinAnBrown]

@TWenseleers @Jean__Fisch https://t.co/MFmyKdSZtp

[Kevin Brown @KevinAnBrown]

@TWenseleers @kallmemeg Good idea. Easier (i.e data available) would be to show that logisitic slopes would vary with the country-level vaccination rates. Sure this would be the case during BA.1 emergence -- steeper slope in more vaccinated countries

[Kevin Brown @KevinAnBrown]

@cyq199801 @drjasonseidel @gradworkersofBU @PatrickBloniasz @BU_Tweets Probably best to contact U of T SGS or the DLSPH graduate office first

[Kevin Brown @KevinAnBrown]

@drjasonseidel @gradworkersofBU @PatrickBloniasz @BU_Tweets A PhD program is work though. Here’s a link to the full funding policy of the public health school at Universal of Toronto. https://t.co/dHgQQNW6va

[Alex Selby @alexselby1770]

A suggestion for visualising and predicting the effects of new variants using "variant pressure", a quantity that can be calculated from the proportion of each variant. Shown here is variant pressure for the BA.2 and BA.5 waves in the UK, with a comparison to infection numbers.

[Kevin Brown @KevinAnBrown]

@buildingdecarb @GeoJayegg Missed this -- will there be a recording?

[Kevin Brown @KevinAnBrown]

@kareem_carr But needs some space for Tweedie!

[Kevin Brown @KevinAnBrown]

@NathanStall @ihpmeuoft @UofT_DoM @SinaiGeriatrics @WCHResearch @CIHR_IRSC @_TheRushton Congratulations Nathan!

[Kevin Brown @KevinAnBrown]

@BogochIsaac @AmitabhSuthar Neat! Here's the Ontario version of this https://t.co/isueRr0hDC

[Kevin Brown @KevinAnBrown]

@DrKevinSchwartz This is really neat.

[Kevin Brown @KevinAnBrown]

@DGBassani Just out of curiosity - are these figures that you developed yourself?

[Kevin Brown @KevinAnBrown]

@adam_ldr Replace this canola with sunflowers you have the opening scene of an mesmerising anti-war (of aggression) film, Lebanon https://t.co/C4D3bvmg56