@rozeggo
Professor of Infectious Disease Dynamics. Epidemiology. Modelling. Respiratory viruses. Vaccination. Electronic Health Records. Health Inequalities. Comorbidities. Open Science. Big Data. Policy support. Science Communication. at LSHTM. Run IDDjobs.org
🌟 Excited to share my first PhD publication! 🌟
Our paper in Epidemics uses a mathematical model + Scottish surveillance data to understand what COVID-19 pandemic disruptions revealed about RSV disease in young children.
Launch of the Global Society of Infectious Disease Dynamics. 🎉
2 online webinars on Thursday 26th.
Do join to see what it's all about, and get involved in the community as it kicks off!
www.gsidd.org/post/join-us...
👉New: Winter Pressures in General Practice
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⚠️50% of practices “very busy/burnt out” by Dec
📋Proactive planning & better data use needed
@bjgp.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social @rozeggo.bsky.social @ruthcostelloepi.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @bennettoxford.bsky.social
🗞️ ICYMI: recent article with @rozeggo.bsky.social & @lshtm.bsky.social researchers considers the effects of winter pressures on GPs within UK #PublicHealth
Read about the problem & potential solutions 🔽
bjgp.org/content/76/7...
Yes I think so! Absolutely wild. Around 5 hours….!
Excited for the sixth instalment of our meeting on infectious disease dynamics!
IDDconf 2026 - July 7-9 in Ambleside, UK.
A new summer date & a new ticketing system!
Plus, 2 exciting workshops this year!
See IDDconf.org for more info
Tickets will go on sale on 2nd Feb. To be notified when, sign up at: tinyurl.com/IDDconf2026
This is a really cool project, I was lucky to have the opportunity to participate.
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Thanks Ed. Do you know if there is
any public info on the scale of school closures? and if they were reactive (e.g. due to absence) or proactive (e.g. purposely to slow community spread)
what even is this?! never used it but very happy to welcome you to a joint author position at 306 :)
Symposium & workshop on inequalities in infectious disease dynamics at LSHTM in April 2026. We aim to will bring together leading researchers and practitioners to share ideas, discuss recent advances, and reflect on future directions. Details & application: iddconf.org/lshtm-sympos... Closing 21 Jan
We're advertising an MRC-LID PhD studentship on modelling measles outbreak risk in teenagers and adults, with me, @amsuffel.bsky.social and @rozeggo.bsky.social
You'll design mathematical models using vaccine data and Electronic Health Records to analyse recent transmission patterns, get in touch!
IDDconf 2025 is next week! Very exciting! Follow us on @iddconf.bsky.social where I will post updates on the neat infectious disease dynamics research presented!
Text reads: 'UK and Caribbean outbreak response teams train Caribbean Health Professionals in emergency response.'
The UKHSA and @lshtm.bsky.social’s UK Public Health Rapid Support Team worked with the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) to deliver a 3-day training event in Trinidad, expanding regional public health emergency response capacity in the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA).
Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities
Great! We should catch up! We've seen your [very nice] pre-print in my group - may yet do a journal club on it!
PhD position for January start with me and Neil Ferguson, doing some neat model development for ethnicity-stratified transmission models. Please get in touch with any questions.
Home fees (UK) only unfortunately.
Great to see our work on the value of better influenza vaccines published in Plos Med today. Led by the amazingly talented @lucygoodfellow.bsky.social, together with @rozeggo.bsky.social, @markjit.bsky.social and other colleagues @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social and elsewhere.
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Presenter showing figures of how attainment and engagement increase during a trial of the 4 day work week
Charlotte Rae telling us about the benefits of and methods to implement the 4 day working week.
Very exciting! Michael is a star!
Hurray! Come join a fun infectious disease modelling conference near Lake Windermere!
The amount of money that @who.int is asking for an entire year in its already reduced budget, $2.1 billion, is what the world spends on its military every 8 hours, @drtedros.who.int says in his opening remarks at the World Health Assembly in Geneva.
#globalhealth #IDsky
A 9-panel line chart with each panel representing trends in all-cause mortality rates since 1980 in the US and a range of high income countries including the UK, France, Canada and Japan. Each panel is an age group from 0-9, 10-19 etc. up to 80+. In each panel, the US line is both higher (i.e. higher mortality rates) and has a worse trend (rising or stagnant while others are falling).
I know that the US has seen worse life expectancy trends than other high income countries in recent years, but I hadn't realised things were so bad across all ages - particularly people of working age.
US 20-59 year olds are dying at several times the rate of their peers, and it's getting worse.
This is neat!
And the music in the linked youtube video is by my cousin. 😀
(which I did not know when I clicked it!)
The impact of the PEPFAR funding freeze on HIV deaths and infections: a mathematical modelling study of seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa
The sudden cessation of #PEPFAR funding likely results in tens of thousands of #HIV deaths and new infections
www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...
#MedSky
No need to apologise! To me anyway. I feel similarly. Keen to hear from others their thoughts!
Given discussions at I had at #ESCMIDGlobal, it might be useful for new researchers to know how a journal editor screens submissions (obviously this is my approach and so it might differ for others).
So, to the infectious disease modellers: how are we feeling about Epidemics conference this year?
(So sorry to US colleagues for what is happening. A true nightmare. )
MSCA Postdoc Fellowships - happy to hear from infectious disease epis/modellers who want to come to LSHTM.
Eligibility: "researchers of any nationality who wish to engage in R&I projects by...coming to Europe from any country in the world" marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p...
2025 here we come!
iddconf.org
IDDconf will be September 2-4 2025 in Ambleside.
Ticket info coming soon.