Lecturer and Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Fellow at @Imperial_IDE. Mathematical modelling of malaria, COVID-19 & humanitarian response.
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Our analysis on how official COVID-19 mortality has hindered our understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic globally, what novel approaches have been taken rapidly to fill the data gap and what long term solutions are required. A thread on the story behind this piece:
Mortality data have been essential in understanding the spread of covid-19 and navigating the trade-offs that underlie political decision making, yet under-reporting in official death records has greatly obscured this understanding.
What should be done?
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🚨 Big day at @MSF_uk #MSFScientificDay as the Jameel Institute-RISE team presented their Crisis Vaccination Planner – a tool to innovate crisis response. 🩺🌍
It was also a privilege to hear Dr @SaniaNishtar from @Gavi discuss the future of vaccines in humanitarian work💉
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🧵 Excited to share our new paper on the 100 Days Mission and its potential impact on COVID-19. We modelled how earlier vaccine rollouts could have saved millions of lives and trillions of dollars. Here’s what we found 👇 (1/n)
NEW EPISODE #ScienceInContext! This week Dr @SabineLvE speaks with Dr @ojwatson92 about modelling the impact of @CEPIvaccines 100 Days Mission for vaccines on #COVID19, how many lives this could have saved & how realistic it is 👇
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Thanks to my brilliant co-authors, especially @GregBarnsley at @LSHTM, who drove the recent model and fitting developments to better account for a winder range of uncertainty. You are a rockstar! 🌟 (10/n)
Full paper now published at Lancet Global Health: thelancet.com/journals/langl… (n/n)
Full imposter syndrome yesterday attending the President of South Korea's visit and address for the UK-Korea Science Forum at @royalsociety. Thrilled to see international commitments with focus on AI/health & great to reconnect with @nematodegirl. @MRC_Outbreak @IX_AI_SciCentre
Just back from the @SchmidtFellows annual senior fellows conference in Chicago.
Immense gratitude to the team for organizing such a fantastic event that fosters our community's connections and sparks new collaborations for the future of science.
See y'all in Toronto next year
Beyond privileged to have had the opportunity to work these two amazing scientists and thrilled to see them present their work at #astmh23. Thank you @ruth_mccabe and Cecile for all your hard work these past few years.
Brilliant analysis of Ukraine war, combining satellite data to quantitatively show the impact of the war.
The %building destruction in particular clearly translates the scale of destruction.
Great work as always by @Sondreus
It has been months in the making, but it is finally ready. For this week's issue of @TheEconomist, we have used thermal imaging and radar to provide an entirely new view of the war economist.com/interactive/20…
Looking for a new job? We're hiring a research fellow to build software to help support humanitarian crises and estimate the impact of food insecurity in Africa. jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/vacancy.asp…
The role will involve supporting mortality investigations in Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia and will include travel to support the training of data scientists in Somalia. We are aiming to build a suite of software tools to support rapid response to humanitarian crises.