melismarx

Infectious disease epidemiologist and teacher

[Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health @JohnsHopkinsSPH]

Are you interested in moving into analytical and/or technical roles or curious about how health departments investigate outbreaks?
We are now offering a free intermediate-level course on Coursera: Investigating Epidemics like COVID-19: An Analyst's Guide
https://t.co/ztAHeBOROJ

[melismarx @melismarx]

@benryanwriter Well that makes the intervention clear, now doesn’t it, Benjamin Ryan! (Says someone with experience with the same dreaded, but hilarious typo)

[Nicholas Papageorge @NWPapageorge]

Super excited to read and share this fantastic writeup of our paper by @petercoy at @nytimes on bringing Epidemiology + Economics together.

@petercoy calls the paper a "manifesto" and he's perhaps correct 😉

[melismarx @melismarx]

Got to hand it to TAMU. They opened but are trying hard to protect their students with knowledge. Thx to our JHU team: Pat Tarwater, Katie Overbey and Emily Frost for helping design their COVID-19 Random Testing Program.
https://t.co/2lpdXaWcz1

[melismarx @melismarx]

Long-term care facilities house people at high risk for COVID-19 outbreaks. Our new report highlights specific ways these facilities should be supported. @drJoshS @JenniferNuzzo
https://t.co/WKqO5LwUSL

[melismarx @melismarx]

We hope other states follow the recommendations of experts: Carolyn Sufrin, Steve Huettner, Elena Martin, @JenniferNuzzo, Gabriel Eber, Len Rubenstein (Editors: @drJoshS & myself) who produced these recommendations for incarcerated populations this week:
https://t.co/KD7KorPHG4

[melismarx @melismarx]

Maryland is heading in the right direction on incarceration and COVID
https://t.co/NNkMHygTKZ

[melismarx @melismarx]

See our seven-step strategy for cities to slow and prevent the transmission of the novel coronavirus (Emily Gurley, Jennifer Nuzzo, Lauren Sauer, Rupali J. Limaye, William Moss, Justin Lessler, and Josh Sharfstein @drJoshS #COVIDー19 https://t.co/TiBwcR3tkY

[International Health @JohnsHopkinsIH]

Within hours of a positive [#COVID19] result, public health workers should be retracing the steps of the infected person, write @JohnsHopkinsSPH's faculty @melismarx and @drJoshS in their @TheNYTims op-ed on the US #coronavirus response https://t.co/pl1LgngsJd #COVID19