epidemiologist @UZH_EBPI. innovating epi methods with digital data. into all things health and mobility/R stats/open science related.
Zurich, Switzerland
Joined May 2009
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Really shocked and happy that my talk today was chosen as the winner of the free communications abstracts! Huge thanks to my co-authors Ulf Blanke, Olivia Veit, @PuhanMilo, Jan Fehr, Christoph Hatz, and Silja Bühler. Thanks #CISTM18 🤗
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A recent study by @SwissTPH found that opening up industrial #Mines in sub-Saharan #Africa, doubles the likelihood of the local population to be #HIV positive.
The results were published in @AIDS_Journal.
@dominik_dietler @andreafarnham @guenther_fink
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Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene had $183,504 in PPP loans forgiven.
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Happy to be heading out on maternity leave with one final paper published. This mHealth study started as my PhD project and I am proud to see it soar! doi.org/10.1016/j.tmaid.2022…
Just found this great resource through my Google news algorithm, of all things! Interesting for multiple reasons.
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A super heartening take on the recent data out of Israel, this may be the first time i have hoped for a data artefact.
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This is a wonderful list of #datajournalism & #dataviz resources. Thanks to @GurmanBhatia for the shout-out to our newsletter and #podcast “Conversations With Data.” Subscribe here! datajournalism.com/subscribe
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Listen right here
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Hi ya'll I am trying something new this year: podcasting 🤩🎙️
The podcast is called *Open Science Stories*
For this to be successful I need you!
Join me for a short session to tell YOUR story!
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So cool that my old institute is spearheading this!
Hear hear! @gd_zuerich just announced that we will start #vaccinating against #covid19 on January 4 @uzh_EBPI! Great news! First up: people aged 75+
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Since launching our #COVID19 #Vaccine Tracker last week, we have added 11 more states to our dashboard: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Maine, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Utah. hub.jhu.edu/2020/12/18/coron…
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Check our latest article on #aircraftnoise!
Can airplane noise during the night trigger cardiovascular death? According to a new study by @SwissTPH and partners, yes.
Researchers compared mortality data with nighttime noise exposure by Zurich airport from 2000-2015✈️The results might surprise you: bit.ly/3q7jgwU
taking a break from maternity leave to enjoy this video my colleagues made about our work on the HIA4SD project. Well done!
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Are you interested in doing a PhD at the EBPI? We have an open PhD position on research at the cornerstone between infectious diseases in travellers and digitalisation. Check this out and share with interested colleagues:
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We need open data, open code, open review and open science. Stop reviewing only the pdf. Start to review the analysis behind. Request data and code. Request reproducibility
Today, three of the authors have retracted "Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis" Read the Retraction notice and statement from The Lancet hubs.ly/H0r7gh50
It was a pleasure to work with @KnoblauchAstrid on this publication- it is unique to have such long-term follow-up data on the effects of mining on population health. More to come!
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”Conveying uncertainty can take various forms [...]. Journalists need to develop more ways to do this well.”
Well let us researchers know when you figured it out! 😉
This is truly a hard problem that we are also trying to tackle.
„Communicating the uncertainty of a prediction, while challenging, can help soften the ostensible authority of a mathematical model“ - @ndiakopoulos about #predictions in #journalism cjr.org/tow_center/predictiv…
Proud of my colleagues who won a distinction for their image showing the diversity of pesticide application in Uganda. Science can be beautiful too :)
The winners of the SNSF Scientific Image Competition have been announced! The 1600 images submitted since 2017 are available online. #Photography #Video #Research #SwissScienceImage
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