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People
The humans behind this project
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Gregory Armstrong
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Director of the Advanced Molecular Detection initiative, with extensive experience in epidemiology and outbreak response at CDC, Atlanta, USA.
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Gabor Csardi
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Computer scientist with a strong background in statistics and network theory, Gabor is a prominent member of the R community who develops and contributes to a number of major packages such as <i>igraph</i>, <i>roxygen</i> and <i>R6</i>. Mango Solutions, Chippenham, UK.
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Christl Donnelly
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Professor of Statistical Epidemiology, Fellow of the Royal Society, Christl has extensive experience in epidemics analysis and emergency outbreak response. Imperial College London, UK.
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Jennifer Gardy
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Canada Research Chair in Public Health genomics at the university of British Columbia and BC Centre for Disease Control, with extensive experience in inferring disease transmission from genomic data. Vancouver, Canada.
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Oliver Morgan
Acting Director, Health Emergency Information and Risk Assessment Department, World Health Organisation. Geneva, Switzerland.
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Jacco Wallinga
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Professor of infectious disease modelling at Leiden University Medical Center, Head of the Infectious Disease Modelling Department at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), The Netherlands.
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James Hayward
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Administrative support. Imperial College London, UK.
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Evgenia Markvardt
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Administrative support. Imperial College London, UK.
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Thibaut Jombart
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Founder of RECON. Statistician and R programmer specialized in outbreak analysis. Imperial College London, UK.
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Dean Attali
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Web and R developer, designer of the RECON website. AttaliTech, Canada.
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Marc Baguelin
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Mathematical modeller and health economist specialised in Public Health intervention. Strong believer in open code and sharing. Public Health England, UK.
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Amrish Baidjoe
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Field epidemiologist, outbreak response expert, and RECON trainer / analyst. President of the EPIET alumni network. Imperial College London, UK.
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Robert Balshaw
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Caretaker for the aberration detection algorithm PHIDO, shiny developer. British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Canada.
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Jun Cai
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PhD candidate interested in influenza transmission dynamics and R programming. Center for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, China.
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Finlay Campbell
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PhD student, interested in outbreak analysis and R package development. Imperial College London, UK.
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David Champredon
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Epidemic modelling. McMaster University, Canada.
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Anne Cori
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Statistician specialized in disease modelling and outbreak response. Imperial College London, UK.
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Thomas Crellen
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PhD student proficient in R, joining MSF in 2017 so will put packages to use in the field. Imperial College London, UK.
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Zulma Cucunuba
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Vector borne disease modelling to inform public health policy, emphasis in Latin America. Imperial College London, United Kingdom.
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Irina Czogiel
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Statistician, bioinformatician and EPIET project supervisor, with expertise in machine learning methods for to epidemiological and molecular data. Robert Koch Institut, Germany.
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Elisabeth Dahlqwist
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PhD student in biostatistics and R programmer. Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Sweden.
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Alex Demarsh
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R and Shiny for risk assessment and epidemic parameter estimation for emerging infections. Public Health Agency of Canada, McGill University, Canada.
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Xavier Didelot
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Genomic epidemiology of bacterial pathogens. Imperial College London, UK.
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Jeff Eaton
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HIV surveillance, estimation, mathematical modelling, and policy in sub-Saharan Africa. Imperial College London, UK.
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Roz Eggo
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Infectious disease modeller of outbreaks, epidemics, and endemic infections. LSHTM, UK.
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Thomas Finnie
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Modeller and Data-Scientist specializing in applying High Performance Computing to public health problems. Public Health England, UK.
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Simon Firestone
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Veterinary and public health epidemiologist. The University of Melbourne, Australia.
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Rich Fitzjohn
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R developper specialized in data analysis infrastructures. Imperial College London, UK.
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Simon Frost
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Viral evolution, dynamics and epidemiology. University of Cambridge, UK.
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Tini Garske
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Outbreak analysis and infectious disease modelling. Imperial College London, UK.
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George Githinji
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Bioinformatician with a strong research interest in epidemiology. KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya.
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Stephan Gloeckner
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Epidemiologist / computer scientist working on outbreak detection algorithms using R and python. Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Germany.
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Joana Gomes Dias
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Expert Biostatistics at ECDC. Applied statistical modelling. Epidemiology and Infection diseases. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Sweden.
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José Guerra
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Medical epidemiologist, support countries strengthening their public health surveillance systems; Rthusiastic for many years. World Health Organization, France.
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Andreas Handel
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Modeling and data analysis of infectious diseases on the within-host and between-host scales. Main focus on influenza, TB and Norovirus. University of Georgia, USA.
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Martin Hinsch
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Modeller working on outbreak analysis. Imperial College London, UK.
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Michael H&ouml;hle
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Statistical modelling in infectious disease epidemiology. Stockholm University, Sweden.
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Benido Impouma
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Preparedness for, surveillance of and response to disease outbreaks and other public health emergencies. World Health Organization, Congo, Republic.
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Samuel Jenness
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Epidemic modeling, network science, HIV/STI epidemiology. Emory University, USA.
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Joshua Kaminsky
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Developer of the R package spatialpred. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA.
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Zhian Kamvar
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R developer and population geneticist. Oregon State University, USA.
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Andee Kaplan
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shiny, D3, JavaScript. Iowa State University, USA.
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Ioannis Karagiannis
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Epidemiologist and coordinator of the UK field epidemiology training programme (FETP), EPIET alumnus with a background in biostatistics. Public Health England, UK.
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Patrick Keating
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Infectious disease epidemiologist using R for analysis. Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Austria.
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Eben Kenah
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Survival analysis of infectious disease transmission data. University of Florida, USA.
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Don Klinkenberg
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Infectious disease epidemiologist, mathematical modeller, and R developer. RIVM (National Institute for Public Health and the Environment), The Netherlands.
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Stefan Kroeger
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R developper with background in bioinformatics and network analysis. Working on transmission analysis for disease surveillance. Robert Koch Institute, Germany.
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John Lees
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Genomics PhD student. Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK.
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Justin Lessler
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Epidemiology and infectious disease dynamics. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA.
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Joanna Lewis
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Mathematical and statistical modelling of sexually-transmitted bacterial infections. Imperial College London, UK.
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Christian Massidi
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Data developer. World Health Organization, Congo, Republic.
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Kevin McDermott
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Water research using molecular biology, microbiology, bioinformatics and data science. Public Health Ontario, Canada.
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Oliver McManus
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Epidemics analyst with an interest in R. Public Health England, United Kingdom.
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Lore Merdrignac
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Epidemiologist, Bioinformatics engineer, R and Shiny programmer. EpiConcept, France.
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Eve Miguel
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Ecologist specialised in diseases pillover at the wild / domestic / human interface. IRD, France.
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Amy Mikhail
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Epidemiologist and R programmer using genomics for early outbreak detection. EUPHEM alum and EPIET/EUPHEM supervisor. Public Health England, UK.
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Paula Moraga
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Spatial statistics and disease surveillance. Lancaster University, UK.
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Roger Morbey
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Statistician working in public health real-time surveillance. Public Health England, UK.
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Facundo Munoz
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Biostatistician at the French agricultural research and international cooperation organization (Cirad). Cirad, France.
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Kamarul Imran Musa
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Quantitative epidemiologist and public health physician. School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia.
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VP Nagraj
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R developer and contributor to epicontacts package. University of Virginia, USA.
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Pierre Nouvellet
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Modelling for outbreak response and zoonotic diseases. Imperial College London, UK.
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Ajay Oza
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Surveillance of healthcare-associated inflections, R programmer. Health Protection Surveillance Centre, Dublin, Ireland.
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Julia Palacios
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Method development and implementation of phylodynamic methods for infectious diseases. Stanford University, USA.
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Pawel Piatkowski
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Bioinformatician, avid R/Shiny programmer. Independent contractor (working for Genentech/Roche), Poland.
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Jonathan Polonsky
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Epidemiologist focusing on humanitarian and outbreak settings. I use R for automating analyses and reproducible reporting. World Health Organisation, Switzerland.
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Karthik Ram
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Data scientist and ecologist, Karthik is also heading the <a href="http://ropensci.org">rOpenSci</a> initiative. UC Berkeley, USA.
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Nistara Randhawa
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Epidemiologist and R programmer contributing to the Epicontacts package. University of California, Davis, USA.
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Lukas Richter
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Mathematical and statistical modelling in infectious disease epidemiology, R programming. Austrian Agency for Food and Health Safety, Austria.
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Benjamin Roche
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Evolutionary ecologist specialist in mathematical modeling of zoonotic diseases and optimization of public health strategies. IRD, France / Mexico.
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Noam Ross
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Disease ecologist, working on zoonotic disease emergence, dynamical systems, economics and R programming standards. EcoHealth Alliance, USA.
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Barry Rowlingson
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Spatial statistician and data scientist (R, Python) on tropical diseases and health surveillance. Lancaster University, UK.
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Maria Saavedra-Campos
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Senior epidemiology scientist involved in outbreak investigation, surveillance and research. Public Health England, UK.
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Adom San Koffi
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Field epidemiologist and outbreak response expert. World Health Organization, Côte d'Ivoire.
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Sompob Saralamba
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Mathematical modeller and R programmer. Thailand.
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Dirk Schumacher
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R developer with experience in infectious disease epidemiology, surveillance and outbreak response. Berlin, Germany.
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Ellie Sherrard-Smith
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Epidemiologist specialized in statistics and data analysis, with strong focus on malaria. Imperial College London, UK.
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Pavel Skums
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Epidemiology and intra-host viral evolution using computational genomics and mathematical modeling. Georgia State University, USA.
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Andy South
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R developer currently working on insecticide resistance in malaria vectors. Norwich, UK.
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Alex Spina
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Infectious disease epidemiologist using R for surveillance data and outbreak response. Austrian Agency for Food and Health Safety / European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Austria.
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Tony Stewart
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Medical epidemiologist working on international epidemics, with a background in tools development for response. World Health Organization, GOARN, Switzerland.
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Savina Stoitsova
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Infectious disease epidemiologist (EPIET alumni) based in Bulgaria, interested in affordable analytic tools for outbreak response. National center of infectious and parasitic diseases, Sofia.
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Bertrand Sudre
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Epidemiology, outbreak response, Emerging and vector-borne dieases, data analysis, GIS and outbreak mapping, data vizualisation, long term R user. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Sweden.
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Robin Thompson
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Epidemiological modeller and computer programmer, interested in diseases of humans, animals and plants. University of Oxford, UK.
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Salla Toikkanen
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Statistical and epidemiological analysis of infectious disease surveillance data. EPIET alumnus. National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland.
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Gerry Tonkin-Hill
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Mathematical Genomics PhD student interested in statistics and infectious disease. Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK.
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Sai Thein Than Tun
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Mathematical and economic modeller with some experience in R package development. Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Myanmar.
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Rolina van Gaalen
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Infectious disease epidemiologist, mathematical and statistical modeller, and R programmer. National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), The Netherlands.
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Edwin van Leeuwen
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Experienced epidemiological modeller, with a strong background as R programmer. Public Health England, UK.
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Erik Volz
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Population genetics, phylogenetics, and mathematical epidemiology. Imperial College London, UK.
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Brooke Watson
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Epidemiologist studying ecological, biological, and behavioral drivers of zoonotic disease emergence. EcoHealth Alliance, USA.
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Oliver Watson
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Modeller and R programmer specialised in malaria population genetics. Imperial College London, UK.
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Jon Zelner
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outbreak reconstruction, spatial epidemiology, social determinants of infection risk. University of Michigan School of Public Health, USA.
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Bing Zhang
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Infectious disease models, respiratory diseases, vaccine impact, and data visualization in Public Health. Guangdong provincial institute of Public Health, China.

Community

RECON is a group of people sharing their time and expertise to lead, facilitate, advise, and promote the development of analysis tools for outbreak response using the R software. The list of people below is growing as we are recruiting more members. See this page to join us.

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Advisory board

We are extremely lucky to have the following people supporting and guiding our efforts:

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Administration

RECON also benefits from some outstanding administrative support from the following people:

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