NIH releases new notices about funding opportunities for SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research.
The New York Times continues to feature expertise from MIDAS members in articles published about the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
MIDAS member Micaela Martinez discusses seasonality in Science!
An extraordinary collection of data and information regarding the COVID-19 pandemic created by MIDAS members and the broader public health and research community.
The National Science Foundation has several funding opportunities related to COVID-19. Find details of these announcements here!
Who loves statistics? Tonight at 7:30pm check out this @EmoryEPI webinar: Epidemic Models for Projecting the COVID-19 Global Pandemic from @SamuelJenness Zoom here: https://emory.zoom.us/j/694929263
Join me, @michaelmina_lab, and @nataliexdean today for a COVID-19 Zoomposium at 2pm ET. https://twitter.com/rafalab/status/1245718860600414208
Join us for our #COVID19 zoomposium today Thu at 2pm EST.
Questions we will answer:
How do we model disease dynamics?
How do we test and why is it important?
How do we evaluate vaccines and therapies?
How do we obtain and report data?
Come ask your own: http://dfci.zoom.us/j/363273371
We made an R package to go from line list syndromic data, through fitting a seasonal baseline and adjusting for influenza activity, to generating an interactive dashboard. All in a few lines of code. Check it out here:
Going from line list data to an interactive app
ExcessILI
weinbergerlab.github.io
Thanks to #opendata sharing on @GISAID, http://nextstrain.org/ncov is updated with 20 new #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 sequences!
- Pakistan (1, thanks to Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University)
- Belgium (3)
- Japan (16)
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Our article out today in @NEJM. "Creating a Framework for Conducting Randomized Clinical Trials during Disease Outbreaks." We explain the theory behind the use of core/master protocols in outbreaks. Tweetorial later today!
Creating a Framework for Conducting Randomized Clinical Trials during Disease Outbreaks | NEJM
Sounding Board from The New England Journal of Medicine — Creating a Framework for Conducting Randomized Clinical Trials during Disease Outbreaks
www.nejm.org
#Northeastern network scientists are advising the @WhiteHouse on #COVID19 and ways to reduce its spread. @alexvespi @NUnetsi
Northeastern models are helping shape US COVID-19 policy
Northeastern researchers are part of the network of teams creating models to advise the Trump administration on the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S., Whi...
news.northeastern.edu
Emerging infectious diseases
Du Z, Wang L, Cauchemez S, Xu X, Wang X, Cowling BJ, Meyers LA
2020-05-17
Emerging infectious diseases
Ryu S, Gao H, Wong JY, Shiu EYC, Xiao J, Fong MW, Cowling BJ
2020-05-17
Emerging infectious diseases
Xiao J, Shiu EYC, Gao H, Wong JY, Fong MW, Ryu S, Cowling BJ
2020-05-17
Emerging infectious diseases
Fong MW, Gao H, Wong JY, Xiao J, Shiu EYC, Ryu S, Cowling BJ
2020-05-17
National Science Foundation, Division of Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI)
People: Shan Liu
2020 – 2022
National Institutes of Food and Agriculture
People: Achla Marathe
2019 – 2023
Centers for Disease Control Prevention, National Center For Immunization And Respiratory Diseases
People: Roni Rosenfeld, Willem van Panhuis
2019 – 2024
National Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences
People: Travis Porco
2019 – 2023
MIDAS Coordination Center
University of Pittsburgh
A737 Public Health
130 DeSoto Street
Pittsburgh PA 15261
