Malawian. Medical doctor 👨🏽⚕️ Infectious disease epidemiologist @MLW_Programme. TB Transmission modeller in-training 📚. Views my own. RT not endorsement
Blantyre, Malawi
Joined September 2016
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Very excited to share recent 📹 of our @LIGHTonTB work @MLW_Programme in 🇲🇼. (Genius outtake! 😆idea credit to @JHG_LFC)
Overall question: how much #TB can be ⬇️ at popn level by targeting men w/ community-based #TB active case finding strategies in 🇲🇼?
What are we doing? 🧵
📽️VIDEO!
@MphaDSP outlines how his modelling work is helping with⤵️
🔎 finding and treating young men with undiagnosed #TB in Blantyre 🇲🇼
📉reducing transmission within the community, including to women and children
Check it out! ⤵️
📽️ youtu.be/1wv5G4374e4?si=T3uZ…
@MLW_Programme
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Great to see @davidwdowdy @rycktessman @tomsumner49 @rein_houben @PT_Pelzer @MphaDSP @alexsrichards @DanielJGrint @emilyakendall @cugartegil @MmamapudiK @LeighJohnson9 @FiekertK & many, many others
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Just back from a fantastic week with @LIGHTonTB colleagues at #LIGHTAbuja2024 discussing strategies for a gender-responsive approach to #EndTB. Many thanks to @ZankliC for hosting, to all who presented their work, and to everyone who worked behind the scenes to make it happen!
Day 3 @LIGHTAbuja2024 wrapped up with powerful discussions on stories of change & gender-equitable access to TB care. Inspiring insights and meaningful progress were shared!
@FCDOHealthRes
#LIGHTonTB
#LIGHTonNigeria
Okay, not to name drop but meeting Richard McElreath after reading his book & watching Youtube vidoes for past 2 years was wild. Statistical Rethinking was first Bayesian stats book I read. Also first intro to probabilistic programming. Transformed my view of statistics.
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Richard gave the "Intro to Probabilistic Programming in Stan" tutorial at #StanCon. Nothing less. Jokes & memes as always. Complex material, clearly delivered for newbies to relate to. Spoke to him about my code. Bunch of others also let him know they're fans of his material
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Special mention to Juliette Unwin. Great to meet 2 years after Malawi visit. Really enjoyed the "Infectious disease modelling using Stan" tutorial. Very clearly presented. Super cool to see how it all connects 🔃
Special shout to Charles Margossian & all #StanCon organisers
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Special mention to Juliette Unwin. Great to meet 2 years after Malawi visit. Really enjoyed the "Infectious disease modelling using Stan" tutorial. Very clearly presented. Super cool to see how it all connects 🔃
Special shout to Charles Margossian & all #StanCon organisers
3/3
Stan Conference 2024 #StanCon2024 was unreal! Real people, great community!
Okay, tbh threw myself ↘️ deep end but paid off
1) short-term: spoke to Stan devt team & awesome Bayesian stats teachers (Bob Carpenter, Richard McElreath, Aki Vehtari & +) ⬆️ motivation to learn
2) ⤵️
2/3) medium-term: lots of analyses ahah moments!
3/3) long-term: I guess depends how much work I put in going forward 🤔 (not looking back 💪🏾)
Thank you #StanCon2024 team & sponsors for scholarship. Great to hear about cool work & developments in the community!
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To support the quantity & quality of media coverage on #TB in 🇳🇬, @LIGHTonTB partners in 🇳🇬 @ZankliC conducted a capacity strengthening workshop for health journalists last week.
@FCDOHealthRes @Afidep @LSTMnews @Lung_Institute @MLW_Programme @LSHTM
@ReSoKenya
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Earlier this week, @LIGHTonTB partners in 🇲🇼 engaged with MPs, Hon. Dr. @matthews_ngwale, (Chair of the Parliamentary Health Committee) and Hon. Kamlepo Kalua (Chair of the TB Caucus).
@FCDOResearch
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Hi. I have set up a GoFundMe to help cover costs of my work visa. While my university will reimburse me later, I need help to make my application.I promise to refund all donations
gofundme.com/f/me-secure-my-…
Any contribution or share with networks will be greatly appreciated!
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The folks at @ISBA_events tell me my book Statistical Rethinking has won the 2024 DeGroot Prize for its contributions to "statistical inference, decision theory and statistical applications". This is huge honor especially given the previous winners, who have influenced me so much
ALT Cover of 2nd edition of Statistical Rethinking
ALT Winners of the DeGroot Prize 2021 Nicolas Chopin and Omiros Papaspiliopoulos (2020). An Introduction to Sequential Monte Carlo. Springer. 2019 Subhashis Ghosal and Aad van der Vaart. Fundamentals of Nonparametric Bayesian Inference. Cambridge University Press. 2017 David Banks, Jesus Rios, and David Rios Insua. Adversarial Risk Analysis. CRC Press. 2015 Andrew Gelman, John B. Carlin, Hal S. Stern, David B. Dunson, Aki Vehtari, and Donald B. Rubin. Bayesian Data Analysis, Third Edition. CRC Press. 2013 Noel Cressie and Christopher Wikle (2011). Statistics for Spatio-Temporal Data. John Wiley and Sons. Kevin P. Murphy (2012). Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective. MIT Press. 2011 Jay Kadane (2011). Principles of Uncertainty. CRC Press. 2009 Giovanni Parmigiani and Lurdes Inoue (2009). Decision Theory: Principles and Approaches. John Wiley and Sons. Carl Edward Rasmussen and Christopher K. I. Williams (2006). Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning (freely availa
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Excited to see this out @LancetGH - using new efficacy/safety evidence for DR-TB TPT to estimate epi & econ impact of household contact management. sciencedirect.com/science/ar… @JamesSeddon10 @petedodd24 @babanyasha2022 @foxsimile @LSHTM @cmmid_lshtm @LSHTM_TB @LSHTM_AMR @lshtm_tbmod
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Managing student/colleague confusion and failure is so important. I know this because I am managing my own all the time. We all fall down (from Lecture 18):
There's a part in Statistical Rethinking by @rlmcelreath where he writes something like "If you're confused, it's ok you should be, it's because you're just trying to understand"
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Fantastic PharmacoEconomics article by @Ewmoto, Eve Worrall & @lstmnews team, rethinking #TB morbidity quantification. Disability weights essential for TB DALY calculations but, with gaps in current approaches, this review asks "what are we weighting for?"
link.springer.com/article/10…
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In our new short report in @JIDJournal, we estimate that half of all Mtb transmission occurs before individuals would be expected to access healthcare - and 80% of this transmission is attributable to subclinical disease.
bit.ly/4ddE9yn
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Press Release: Official Launch of CREATOR Building.
Read more here : mlw.mw/news_and_events/mlw-l…
#ResearchDrivingHealth @LivUni @KUHeS_mw @LSTMnews @wellcometrust
