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evansst.bsky.social
Principal infectious disease modeller at UKHSA, specialising in transmission modelling and computational immunology. Researching AMR and HCAI. Ironman triathlete, runner, cyclist, cold water swimmer, mum to a toddler, and animal lover
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The overview of AMR that you always wanted (someone else to write) - amazing! Truly brilliant paper with great figures! @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

New paper, led by Yaki Saciuk, out in @naturecomms.bsky.social It's challenging to estimate the causal effect of antibiotic use on future resistance due to unmeasured confounding. We leverage a new form of iv - reported allergy to penicillin. 📄: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat to human health. Bur it's GROSSLY under reported This study showed 4% of ALL deaths at a major London hospital were actually caused AMR but NONE were on the death certificate as cause of death.

Great piece about epidemiology, a science whose remarkable successes have profoundly shaped the modern world, even as those achievements often go unnoticed. #publichealth #epidemiology bigthink.com/health/the-d...

Our work on immortal time bias "Illustrating the structures of bias from immortal time using directed acyclic graphs" led by Emma Guoyi Yang @yanggy_hku is out at International Journal of Epidemiology: doi.org/10.1093/ije/.... Brief thread:

Worked with this crew through the thick & thin of Covid over MSTeams. Met them in real life for the first time this week after nearly 4 years! Public Health England’s Joint Modelling Team for the pandemic. We went through a lot together, has been a special couple of days.

Sitting in the front seat of a double decker bus on my way to see a friend deliver a lunchtime seminar at my MSc university is definitely making me feel 18 again #universityofleeds #mathematics #seminar