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PhD candidate + MSc Epidemiology @LSHTM | 🇵🇪 in 🇬🇧 | MD @CayetanoHeredia | Researcher @IMTAVH_UPCH | Learning R and Greek | Imagine pleasant nonsense.
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PhD opportunity @lshtm-tbmod.bsky.social modelling intersection of TB (world #1 infectious killer) & climate change. Do apply to be part of a great group doing impactful work! www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a... @lshtm.bsky.social @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social @reinhouben.bsky.social @laragosce.bsky.social

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Hot off the press! 🔥 Our new systematic review digs deep into #TB cluster randomised trials, exploring how contamination can influence results, and offers insights for improving trial design #TBSky #IDSky #MedSky doi-org.ez.lshtm.ac.uk/10.5588/ijtl...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Reducing #TB burden requires understanding local contexts. Our new preprint emphasizes the importance of considering social contact patterns for interventions like active case finding, infection prevention & control, & cluster trial design #TBsky #IDsky #GlobalHealth www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

📣 New publication in #AIDS led by Tom Sumner estimating the impact of new TB #vaccines on the burden of TB in PLHIV in #SouthAfrica 🇿🇦 @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social @lshtm-tbmod.bsky.social @richardwhite321.bsky.social Read the full paper now 👉 tinyurl.com/ezhc9ppx

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

Nutritional care for TB-affected households is likely to be highly cost-effective & could avert a substantial amount of disease and death in India – our paper out now in Lancet Global Health @raclark18.bsky.social @reinhouben.bsky.social @lshtm-tbmod.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

New preprint (with all pre-print caveats!) tinyurl.com/589ffhu4 on Mtb infection risk by sex & age. Men are at higher risk of #tuberculosis v women- but unclear how much driven by higher infection vs progression to disease. We meta-analysed Mtb immunoreactivity surveys to find out more🧵 #tbsky

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

I’m thrilled to share that I’ve submitted my PhD thesis at LSHTM (@lshtm.bsky.social) with the TB Modelling Group (@lshtm-tbmod.bsky.social)! The past three years have been an incredible journey, and I’m so proud of all that’s been accomplished. Excited to continue working in TB research! #TBSky

submitted 49 days ago • 13 comments

1/ 📢 In our new PREPRINT - tinyurl.com/2pmudzrk - we evaluate how symptom-agnostic, population-wide screening interventions could significantly reduce the TB burden in Viet Nam. These require a substantial front-loaded investment but yield lasting cost savings. 🧵 #Tuberculosis #TBSky

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Undernutrition is a key driver of TB accounting for 1/5 cases, but relationship is poorly understood. New sys review of this based on 42 studies (>26 million people) by Matt Saunders et al: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @reinhouben.bsky.social @raclark18.bsky.social @lshtm-tbmod.bsky.social

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

Our ASCENT modelling paper on Digital Adherence Technologies (DAT) for TB treatment is now out in BMJ Global Health gh.bmj.com/content/9/12... DATs may have limited epidemiological impact but can reduce costs and have important budgetary implications. @cfmcquaid.bsky.social @lshtm-tbmod.bsky.social

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

I love how shocked they look.

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Great to see more TB modellers joining. Welcome @richardwhite321.bsky.social, @cfmcquaid.bsky.social, and, of course, @tb-mac.bsky.social!

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

Day 18 #30DayMapChallenge I 3D-printed John Snow's 1854 cholera map of Soho. It took ages.

submitted 100 days ago • 28 comments

Best group in TB research ❤️

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve started a TB Modelling starter pack that I plan on editing as more people join. Please prompt me if I haven’t added you yet! go.bsky.app/9XWLFX4

submitted 102 days ago • 1 comment

Don't miss @lightontb.bsky.social this afternoon at the Union - "Assessing the epidemiological impact of strategies to address social and structural determinants: the underutilised role of modelling"

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

1/📢 In our new PREPRINT - tinyurl.com/yc6kbay9 - we estimate that 156 million people globally carry a recent, viable M. tuberculosis (Mtb) infection and are at high risk of progressing to TB disease.

submitted 105 days ago • 6 comments