#epiverse — Public Fediverse posts

#Mediation & #DAG: “The main mediation models show that there is a partial mediation between cognitive ability, gender, & self-reported well-being, as well as between gender, cognitive ability, & well-being.” #Epiverse #CausalInference https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1396682/full

New paper with everything you might need to know about CAMELOT & its development. It's a tool for assessing the methodology of qualitative research for Cochrane reviews:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cesm.12058

Also, TIL that Cochrane has a qualitative research methods glossary: https://training.cochrane.org/QES-glossary

#EpiVerse

There's an important new review about the effectiveness of masks from @trishgreenhalgh & colleagues.

Digging into it & comparing it with the controversial Cochrane review clarified several issues for me, & left me optimistic about masks & scientific consensus.

If you've ever wondered how meta-analyses can have different conclusions on the same question, this post is for you, too!

New @PLOS: https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2024/06/07/what-a-new-review-reveals-about-the-mask-effectiveness-debate/

#Covid #Covid19 #EpiVerse #Epidemiology #MetaScience #MetaAnalysis #Statistics

A little-known virus (Oropouche) on the rise in South America could overwhelm health systems: https://www.science.org/content/article/little-known-virus-rise-south-america-could-overwhelm-health-systems, in @ScienceMagazine

#EpiVerse #OneHealth #EpiMastodon #Epidemiology #Virus #Oropouche

A must needed project: “Estimating the Reliability and Robustness of Research (ERROR), pays specialists to check highly cited published papers, starting with the social and behavioural sciences (see go.nature.com/4bmlvkj).” #Academia #epiverse https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01465-y

If you are interested in learning MAIHDA from the best Dr. Clare Evans this is the paper to read! #Methods #SocialEpidemiology #EpiVerse #AcademicChatter #Academia #SocialEpi https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235282732400065X?via%3Dihub

NZ Government promotion of mask use for this winter.

Will it be effective?

#COVID19 #PublicHealth #npi #mask
#epiverse

A quick #Introduction

I’m Keeley Allen and I’m a #fieldepidemiology trainee in Australia through the #MAE program. I love communicable disease #epidemiology and #surveillance, and particularly interested in #STI and #BBV conditions and #arboviruses. I’m interested in all things #PublicHealth and #SpatialScience and #maps.

Keen to be part of the #EpiVerse!

🔴 [communiqué de presse] EPI-PHARE publie un rapport qui apporte de nouvelles données sur le risque de saignements menstruels abondants après la #vaccination contre le #COVID19.

💡 Cette étude réalisée à partir du #SNDS a porté sur l'ensemble des femmes de 15 à 50 ans en France ayant eu un diagnostic de saignements menstruels abondants à l’hôpital (hospitalisation de jour ou avec hébergement de nuit) entre le 12 mai 2021 et le 31 août 2022. #EpiVerse #SNDS

🔗 https://www.epi-phare.fr/actualites/communique-de-presse-24-01-2024/

Applications are rolling in! The Yale Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases is looking for two new tenure track faculty. Yale EMD is a great place to work with wonderful colleagues and students. Please spread the word.

https://apply.interfolio.com/122824

#epidemiology #epiverse #causalinference #publichealth #yale #ysph #ecology #infectiousdiseases #microbiology #genomics #mathematicalmodeling #socialdeterminants

https://apply.interfolio.com/122824

Workshop to Increase Diversity in Mathematical Modeling & Public Health March 27-28 Boston

Deadline Jan 15
@epiverse
@idjclub
#IDMastodon #epiverse #MathModeling

https://ccdd.hsph.harvard.edu/increase-diversity-in-mathematical-modeling-and-public-health

✨ Hello #EpiVerse and friends! ✨

I'm Jen, a psychiatric epidemiologist and public mental health researcher, currently working at UCL.

I am interested in the social and spatial determinants of mental illnesses. Much of my research has focused on migrants, refugees, and other historically marginalised populations.

#PsychEpi #Epidemiology #SocialEpidemiology #SpatialEpi #SystemsThinking #Simulation #AgentBasedModelling #SocialDeterminantsOfHealth #DataScience
#PublicMentalHealth #MentalHealth

Delighted to share a #CFP in Preventive Medicine Reports on #SelectionBias as a #CausalInference problem: Manifestations, detection and correction #EpiVerse https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/preventive-medicine-reports/about/call-for-papers#selection-bias-as-a-causal-inference-problem-manifestations-detection-and-correction

Interested in selection mechanisms/bias and their representation as DAGs (directed acyclic graphs)?

I can wholeheartedly recommend this article from Louisa Smith entitled "Selection Mechanisms and Their Consequences: Understanding and Addressing Selection Bias"

https://www.louisahsmith.com/publications/selection-mechanisms-and-their-consequences-understanding-and-addressing-selection-bias/selection-mechanisms-and-their-consequences-understanding-and-addressing-selection-bias.pdf

#EpiVerse #Epidemiology #CausalInference #SelectionBias #datascience

Very excited to be starting this project on Rift Valley Fever forecasting as part of Wellcome Trust's Climate Sensitive Infectious Disease initiative! What an excellent set of applied research projects and teams to be among.

https://www.ecohealthalliance.org/2023/02/ecohealth-alliance-wellcome-trust-digital-tools

https://wellcome.org/news/digital-tools-climate-sensitive-infectious-disease

#RVF #OneHealth #EpiVerse

I love these interdisciplinary One Health projects that span topical and methodological expertise. My main contribution to this work was the development of a multinomial GAMM to jointly model the circulation dynamics and epidemiology of the three viral groups.

Code and data here, all wrapped up in an #rstats {targets} pipeline: https://github.com/ecohealthalliance/sabrenet-rousettus-dynamics

#OneHealth #Bats #DiseaseEcology #Coronavirus #EpiVerse #rstats

New paper published from our Southern Africa Bat Research Network project: In a cave in Limpopo Province, South Africa, longitudinal sampling has revealed three new lineages of coronaviruses, with distinct seasonal dynamics.

This work is led by Marike Geldenhuys at the University of Pretoria Markotter Lab, with a team including myself and @epsteinjon at EcoHealth Alliance.

In Scientific Reports: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-42938-w

#OneHealth #Bats #DiseaseEcology #Coronavirus #EpiVerse

Out from the EHA team + longstanding USAID PREDICT + IDRC collaborators: Prevalence of bat viruses associated with land-use change in Brazil

"We found that deforested sites had a less diverse bat community than forested sites, but higher viral prevalence and richness...In particular, viruses from the Coronaviridae family were detected more frequently in generalist species compared to specialist species."

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcimb.2022.921950/full

#OneHealth #EpiVerse #DiseaseEcology #DisEcol #Bats #JournalCLub

The second edition of Health Inequality is out! @MelB
#EpiVerse #HealthInequities #HealthInequalities #SocialEpidemiology

amazon.com/gp/aw/d/074569…

Hello #rstats programmers! I want to promote this event that I am helping to run:

Come give an R Programming Lightning Talk, co-hosted by the @RUGatHDSI and the Harvard Kennedy School Data & Donuts program! If you're in the #Boston area you should join in-person

I know lots of #EpiVerse folks are using R — come share your #epidemiology R wisdom!

We have a $50 gift card to give away to the voted best-lightning talk, and I think there will be some other prizes, especially in-person.

#Editors must be mindful of #AI use accusations: “One reviewer wrote that it was “obviously ChatGPT”, and the handling editor vaguely agreed, saying that they found “the writing style unusual” #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #Academia #PeerReview #Publication #EpiVerse https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00349-5

Very interesting tool to determine whether your research has impacted policy. #academia #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #EpiVerse https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-04070-7

⬆️ #Influenza activity increasing in England, but remained within baseline level

📖 From the latest UKHSA influenza surveillance report for England

⏰ Covers surveillance week 48 2023 data (27 Nov-03 Dec 2023)

🔗: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6571a95933b7f2000db7201b/Weekly_Flu_and_COVID-19_report_w49.pdf

#flu #epidemiology #PublicHealth #EpiVerse #InfectiousDisease

New #epiverse #rstats blog post!

"Lesser-known reasons to prefer apply() over for loops"

https://epiverse-trace.github.io/posts/for-vs-apply/
The debate on for loops vs apply() often crystallizes around (misconceptions on) performance.
But there are good reasons to prefer apply() to for loops. They revolve around readability and robustness:
1. Clarity of intent
2. Code conciseness
3. No variable leak
4. Pipeability.

New @biorxivpreprint! Quite proud to be part of this epic modelling study led by Dr. Melinda Rostal. We show that trans-ovarial transmission (TOT) is required to maintain Rift Valley Fever at local scales. But TOT allows RVF to persist even in the face of high vaccination, suggesting that intense, multi-pronged approaches are required if elimination is the goal.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.27.564291v1

Data and #rstats code at https://github.com/ecohealthalliance/RVF_SIR_Model

#PrePrint #OneHealth #RVFV #RiftValleyFever #EpiVerse

New post: A view from the Sicily Evidence-Based Healthcare Conference

https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2023/11/01/a-view-from-the-sicily-evidence-based-healthcare-conference/

Last week was the 10th international gathering of EBHC teachers & developers in Sicily. I reflect on some of the major themes - "living" systematic reviews & guidelines, pandemic divisions, & equity in EBHC.

#MedMastodon #EpiVerse #Guidelines #SystematicReviews #EHBC2023

1/ Summary of #influenza activity for England

▶️ Latest report based on UKHSA surveillance week 41 2023 data (between 09-15 Oct 2023)

▶️ Most indicators for influenza remained very low and stable during week 41 2023

🔗: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/653111f1e839fd000d8671a1/Weekly-flu-and-COVID-19-surveillance-report-week-42.pdf

#flu #epidemiology #PublicHealth #EpiVerse #InfectiousDisease

1/ Summary of #influenza activity for England

▶️ Some early indications of increases in influenza-like-illness and influenza
positivity, though less marked increase in hospitalisations

▶️ Latest report based on UKHSA surveillance week 40 2023 data (between 02-08 Oct 2023)

🔗: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6527df49aea2d00013219c49/Weekly-flu-and-COVID-19-surveillance-report-week-41.pdf

#flu #epidemiology #PublicHealth #EpiVerse #InfectiousDisease

📰 [communiqué de presse] Les #vaccins à ARNm contre le #COVID19 n'augmentent pas le risque de syndrome de Guillain-Barré, à la différence des vaccins à vecteur adénoviral.

💡 Les résultats de cette nouvelle étude de pharmaco-épidémiologie réalisée par EPI-PHARE ont été publiés dans la revue Neurology.

#EpiVerse #epidemiology

👉 https://www.epi-phare.fr/actualites/communique-de-presse-11-10-2023/

The creator of #daggity https://www.dagitty.net/ appears to be on mastodon

@johannes_textor

#epidemiology #EpiVerse

Working on a syllabus for a #SocialEpid course and was wondering if anyone has a syllabus to share. I am happy to share what I have so far. Much appreciation in advance! #EpiVerse

Got quantitative and computing skills and interested in epidemiology/global health? Looking for a postdoc job? Come join my team here in #Chicago where we focus on developing infectious disease model to tackle the issues related to #malaria and other #InfectiousDisease. My DM is open if you want to learn more about the job. https://iddjobs.org/jobs/postdoctoral-scholar-position-in-malaria-modeling #Epidemiology #EpiJobs #FediHire #EpiVerse

"Recommended composition of influenza virus vaccines for use in the 2024 southern hemisphere influenza season"

▶️ Meeting report from WHO on 29 Sep 2023

▶️ WHO #influenza #vaccine composition advisory committee recommends trivalent vaccines (two A-types (H1,H3) & B/Victoria)

▶️ States opinion that inclusion of B/Yamagata lineage antigen in quadrivalent influenza vaccines no longer warranted

🔗: https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/recommended-composition-of-influenza-virus-vaccines-for-use-in-the-2024-southern-hemisphere-influenza-season

#PublicHealth #InfectiousDisease #flu #EpiVerse #epidemiology

Won’t you agree? #EpiVerse #academia https://phdcomics.com/

1/ Summary of #influenza activity for England

▶️ General trend from most indicators is that influenza activity remains low and stable

▶️ Latest report based on UKHSA surveillance week 38 2023 data (between 18 – 24 Sep 2023)

🔗: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6515686f7c2c4a001395e181/Weekly-flu-and-covid-19-surveillance-report-week-39.pdf

#flu #epidemiology #PublicHealth #EpiVerse #InfectiousDisease

How come you generally don't have to think about installing system dependencies when testing #rstats packages in the cloud (e.g., on GitHub Actions)? 🤔

Short answer: it's because the pak package 📦 is doing some amazing magic behind the scenes.

Long answer: jump down the rabbit hole with this new blog post where we explore the various layers of complexity pak deals with to achieve this result:

https://blog.r-hub.io/2023/09/26/system-dependency/

(cross-posted on #Epiverse blog: https://epiverse-trace.github.io/posts/system-dependencies/)

This paper builds on our previously published open data set harvesting novel AMR emergence events from clinical reports: https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.26870.2

You can also find all the code, outputs and diagnostics on GitHub and Zenodo: https://github.com/ecohealthalliance/amr-analysis/ , https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7051952

We have a reproducible pipeline based on #rstats, {drake}, and {renv}. The branching features from {drake} (and now {targets}) are great for doing multiverse analyses.

#AMR #OneHealth #epidemiology #EpiVerse

Hi #epitwitter #epiverse #malaria community: in drug treatment, we accept that combination therapy is a good way to prevent drug-resistance emergence. And that #tripletherapy is likely to be more preventative than #doubletherapy. 1/

Hi #epitwitter #epiverse #influenza mastodon, when does influenza transmission occur in the tropics where there’s no winter to concentrate all respiratory virus transmission into a single short season? There has been a lot of focus on this question for the past 15 years. 1/

Honored to work with Dr. MAIHDA, @clarerevans42 is the best! I and Drs. Nieves, @HeidiJones_Epi and Huynh look forward to continue collaborating.

#SDoH #socialepi #medicalsociology #AcademicTwitter #epiverse #epitwitter
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RT @clarerevans42
Excited to share our study on
intersectional inequities in birthweight using intersectional multilevel modeling (MAIHDA)

#socialdeterminants #socialepi #medicalsociology #AcademicTwitter

Ha…
https://twitter.com/clarerevans42/status/1652042863130316800

#Publication, #PeerReview & Rejections: "Interestingly, it is reported that 62% of papers have been rejected at least once by other journals before getting published." #journal #editor #academia #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #epitwitter #epiverse
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RT @Sunitasriv
Why our papers get rejected👇 #PhD #PhDposition #phdlife #research #scientists #Science

@PhDVoice
Source : "Rejection Blues: Why Do Research Papers Get Rejected?" by Suva…
https://twitter.com/Sunitasriv/status/1650733329358921728

Very interesting piece on CIs. #academia #AcademicChatter #epitwitter #epiverse
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RT @DataSciFact
Confidence intervals are better in practice than in theory.

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2023/04/23/confidence-interval/
https://twitter.com/DataSciFact/status/1650200080274583553