Announcing the award recipients for the MIDAS COVID-19 Urgent Grant Program!
Researchers are now able to request access to the N3C Data Enclave, a centralized national COVID-19 data analytics platform to enable the rapid collection and analysis of clinical, laboratory and diagnostic data.
Congratulations to MIDAS member Professor Marc Lipsitch on being newly elected to the National Academy of Medicine!
MIDAS member Dr. Lauren Gardner is listed as a ‘Pioneer’ on TIME Magazine list of 100 most influential people in 2020.
MIDAS member Prof. Alex Vespignani receives 2020 Euler Prize.
Interested in learning about using High Performance Computing (HPC) for your research? Check out this webinar hosted by the MIDAS Coordination Center.
Friday Dec 11, 12:00 - 1:00pm Eastern (US).
Webinar: High Performance Computing for MIDAS Members
Learn about High Performance Computing and how the MIDAS Coordination Center can help with resources for your research.
midasnetwork.us
Looking to do a PhD in infectious disease modelling, while building skills in using big data?
Please take a look at this MRC LID project at @LSHTM and do get in touch with questions etc ahead of the deadline on Jan 18! https://twitter.com/IDDjobs/status/1333040633632714754
PhD position (London, UK)
Modelling influenza transmission and detecting health outcomes in at-risk populations, using big data in OpenSafely
with @rozeggo @LiamSmeeth1
at @cmmid_lshtm @ehr_lshtm @LSHTM @OpenSafely
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/influenza-transmission-models-and-detecting-infection-outcomes-in-electronic-health-records-a-big-data-study-in-opensafely
I had the privilege of handpicking speakers for the first @COPSSNews-@NISS_DataSci COVID-19 webinar series!
On Thursday, December 3rd at 12pm ET/9am PT, join me as I moderate a session with vaccine trial experts @biosbenk and @betzhallo.
Register here 👇
COPSS-NISS COVID-19 Data Science Webinar Series
The Statistics of COVID-19 Vaccine Trials About this Webinar Series
www.niss.org
The first webinar on Statistics of COVID-19 vaccine trials (Dec 3 at noon, EST) will be moderated by @nataliexdean. David Benkeser (@EmoryUniversity) will speak on At warp speed: Statistics and COVID-19 vaccine development. Betz Halloran (@fredhutch) will be a discussant (3/)
Transmission heterogeneities, kinetics, and controllability of SARS-CoV-2. Great work by @SunKaiyuan and colleagues drawn on detailed contact tracing data from China. 👏👏
Transmission heterogeneities, kinetics, and controllability of SARS-CoV-2
A long-standing question in infectious disease dynamics concerns the role of transmission heterogeneities, driven by demography, behavior and interven...
science.sciencemag.org
Join us Dec 10 for the #COVID19 Data Forum's next event all about mobility data! w/Caroline Buckee of @CCDD_HSPH, @ChristoPhraser of @bdi_oxford , @simulacrandrew of @DirectRelief. Moderated by @statpumpkin. Hosted w/@RConsortium+ @StanfordData. More info: https://covid19-data-forum.org
PLoS genetics
Taylor AR, Echeverry DF, Anderson TJC, Neafsey DE, Buckee CO
2020-11-16
Epidemiology and infection
Razafimahatratra SL, Wesolowski A, Rafetrarivony L, Heraud JM, Jones FK, Cauchemez S, Razafindratsimandresy R, Raharinantoanina SJ, Harimanana A, Collard JM, Metcalf C
2020-11-16
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
Perniciaro SR, Weinberger DM
2020-11-09
RAND Corporation
Vardavas, Raffaele, Aaron Strong, Jennifer Bouey, Jonathan William Welburn, Pedro Nascimento de Lima, Lawrence Baker, Keren Zhu, Michelle Priest, Lynn Hu, and Jeanne S. Ringel
2020-11-13
American Institute of Mathematics – Structured Quartet Research Ensembles (SQUARES)
People: Omar Saucedo
2020 – 2020
Midas Coordination Center Urgent Grant Program – New Initiatives
People: Daniel Larremore
2020 – 2021
Midas Coordination Center Urgent Grant Program – New Initiatives
People: Isabel Rodriguez-Barraquer
2020 – 2021
Midas Coordination Center Urgent Grant Program – New Initiatives
People: Joseph Lewnard
2020 – 2021
MIDAS Coordination Center
University of Pittsburgh
A737 Public Health
130 DeSoto Street
Pittsburgh PA 15261
