newpeople.md

title	subtitle	executive-board	advisory-board	members
People	The humans behind this project	name img desc website url github twitter Thibaut Jombart /img/people/thibaut-jombart.jpg Founder, President. Statistician and R programmer specialized in outbreak analysis. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine / Imperial College London, UK. https://thibautjombart.netlify.com/ https://thibautjombart.netlify.com/ https://github.com/thibautjombart/ https://twitter.com/TeebzR name img desc github twitter Soledad Colombe /img/people/soledad-colombe.jpg Secretary. Infectious disease epidemiologist with a strong interest in zoonotic diseases. Outbreak Research Team, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium. https://github.com/scolombe https://twitter.com/S_Colombe name img desc github url Janetta Skarp /img/people/janetta-skarp.jpg Training Coordinator. PhD student working in infectious disease modelling, contributor to RECON packages. Imperial College London, UK. https://github.com/jeskarp https://github.com/jeskarp name img desc github twitter Tim Taylor /img/people/tim-taylor.jpg Sofware Coordinator. Research Software Engineer interested in outbreak analytics and R package development. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. https://github.com/tjtnew https://twitter.com/_TimTaylor_ name img website url desc Claire Thomson /img/people/claire-thomson.jpg http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/c.thomson http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/c.thomson Deputy Secretary and Deputy Treasurer. Project coordinator with a Public Health background. Imperial College London, UK. name img desc twitter github url website Charlie Whittaker /img/people/charlie-whittaker.jpg Treasurer, Vice-president. PhD student, epidemiologist at Imperial College London, UK. https://twitter.com/charliewhittak https://github.com/cwhittaker1000 https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/charles.whittaker16 https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/charles.whittaker16	name img desc website url twitter Gregory Armstrong /img/people/gregory-armstrong.jpg Director of the Advanced Molecular Detection initiative, with extensive experience in epidemiology and outbreak response at CDC, Atlanta, USA. http://www.cdc.gov/amd/ http://www.cdc.gov/amd/ https://twitter.com/CDC_AMD name img desc website url github twitter Gabor Csardi /img/people/gabor-csardi.jpg Computer scientist with a strong background in statistics and network theory, Gabor is a prominent member of the R community who develops and contributes to a number of major packages such as <i>igraph</i>, <i>roxygen</i> and <i>R6</i>. Mango Solutions, Chippenham, UK. http://gaborcsardi.org/ http://gaborcsardi.org/ http://github.com/gaborcsardi http://twitter.com/gaborcsardi name img desc website url Christl Donnelly /img/people/christl-donnelly.jpg Professor of Statistical Epidemiology, Fellow of the Royal Society, Christl has extensive experience in epidemics analysis and emergency outbreak response. Imperial College London, UK. http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/c.donnelly http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/c.donnelly name img desc url twitter github Jennifer Gardy /img/people/jennifer-gardy.jpg Canada Research Chair in Public Health genomics at the university of British Columbia and BC Centre for Disease Control, with extensive experience in inferring disease transmission from genomic data. Vancouver, Canada. http://www.jennifergardy.com/ https://twitter.com/jennifergardy https://github.com/jlgardy name desc img Oliver Morgan Acting Director, Health Emergency Information and Risk Assessment Department, World Health Organisation. Geneva, Switzerland. /img/people/oliver-morgan.jpg name img desc website url Jacco Wallinga /img/people/jacco-wallinga.jpg Professor of infectious disease modelling at Leiden University Medical Center, Head of the Infectious Disease Modelling Department at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), The Netherlands. http://www.rivm.nl/en/About_RIVM/Knowledge_and_expertise/Experts_and_expertise/Related_information/Modelling_Infectious_Diseases/Prof_Dr_J_Jacco_Wallinga http://www.rivm.nl/en/About_RIVM/Knowledge_and_expertise/Experts_and_expertise/Related_information/Modelling_Infectious_Diseases/Prof_Dr_J_Jacco_Wallinga	name img desc github url twitter Jamalludin Ab Rahman /img/people/jamalludin-ab-rahman.jpg Professor of epidemiology. International islamic University of Malaysia Malaysia. https://github.com/arjamal70 https://github.com/arjamal70 https://twitter.com/arjamal name img desc github url twitter Ayodele Adeyemo /img/people/ayodele-adeyemo.jpg Senior Technical Associate, GIS and Data Analytics. eHealth Africa Nigeria. github.com/christad92 github.com/christad92 https://twitter.com/iyoaye name img desc website url Manuel Albela Miranda /img/people/manuel-albela-miranda.jpg Epidemiology Adviser. Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) Switzerland. https://www.msf.ch https://www.msf.ch name img desc website url github twitter Tomas Aragon /img/people/tomas-aragon.jpg R instructor; infectious disease epidemiologist; public health official. University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health USA. https://taragonmd.github.io/ https://taragonmd.github.io/ https://github.com/taragonmd https://twitter.com/TAragonMD name img desc website url github twitter Dean Attali /img/people/dean-attali.jpg Web and R developer, designer of the RECON website. AttaliTech, Canada. http://deanattali.com/ http://deanattali.com/ https://github.com/daattali/ https://twitter.com/daattali name img desc website url github twitter Marc Baguelin /img/people/marc-baguelin.jpg Mathematical modeller and health economist specialised in Public Health intervention. Strong believer in open code and sharing. Public Health England, UK. http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/baguelin.marc http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/baguelin.marc https://github.com/MJomaba/ https://twitter.com/marcbaguelin name img desc website url twitter Amrish Baidjoe /img/people/amrish-baidjoe.jpg Field epidemiologist/microbiologist, outbreak response expert. President of the EPIET alumni network. https://ammer.tweakblogs.net/ https://ammer.tweakblogs.net/ https://twitter.com/Ammer_B name img desc github url Neale Batra /img/people/neale-batra.jpg Communicable disease epidemiologist specialized in emergency response and preparedness. https://github.com/nsbatra https://github.com/nsbatra name img desc website url github Cici Bauer /img/people/cici-bauer.jpg Academic faculty (assistant professor) - Bayesian spatiotemporal modeling. Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston USA. https://cicibauer.netlify.com/ https://cicibauer.netlify.com/ https://github.com/cicibauer name img desc website url github twitter Matthijs Berends /img/people/matthijs-berends.jpg Infectious Disease Epidemiology. University of Groningen The Netherlands. https://www.rug.nl/staff/m.s.berends/ https://www.rug.nl/staff/m.s.berends/ https://github.com/msberends https://twitter.com/msberends name img desc website url Mahendra Bhandari /img/people/mahendra-bhandari.jpg Head Intelligent Automation, Predictive Modelling, Ensemble Forecast, Location Based Intelligence, Python / R. AINQA India. www.ainqa.com www.ainqa.com name img desc website url github twitter Sangeeta Bhatia /img/people/sangeeta-bhatia.jpg Modeller and software developer contributing packages for outbreak analysis using digital surveillance data. Imperial College London, UK. https://sangeetabhatia03.github.io/ https://sangeetabhatia03.github.io/ https://github.com/sangeetabhatia03 https://twitter.com/sangeeta0312 name img desc Matthew Biggerstaff /img/people/matthew-biggerstaff.jpg Epidemiologist focused on using modeling and forecasting outputs to inform public health decision making. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA. name img desc github url twitter Hannah Brindle /img/people/hannah-brindle.jpg Research Fellow with the Emergency and Epidemic Data at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Current work on electronic data collection methods, automated reporting and research during health emergencies. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine United Kingdom. hannahbrindle hannahbrindle https://twitter.com/brindle_hannah name img desc website url github twitter Jun Cai /img/people/jun-cai.jpg PhD candidate interested in influenza transmission dynamics and R programming. Center for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, China. http://blog.tonytsai.name/ http://blog.tonytsai.name/ https://github.com/caijun https://twitter.com/caijun2046 name img desc github url twitter Finlay Campbell /img/people/finlay-campbell.jpg Data scientist interested in outbreak analysis and R package development. WHO Geneva, Switzerland. http://github.com/finlaycampbell http://github.com/finlaycampbell https://twitter.com/fcampbell_ name img desc website url github Anne Cori /img/people/anne-cori.jpg Statistician specialized in disease modelling and outbreak response. Imperial College London, UK. http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/a.cori http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/a.cori https://github.com/annecori/ name img desc website url github twitter Zulma Cucunuba /img/people/zulma-cucunuba.jpg Vector borne disease modelling to inform public health policy, emphasis in Latin America. Imperial College London, UK. http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/zulma.cucunuba http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/zulma.cucunuba https://github.com/zulmac https://twitter.com/Zulma.Cucunuba name img desc twitter url Amy Dighe /img/people/amy-dighe.jpg PhD Student - using mathematical modelling and statistical analyses to better characterise the transmission dynamics of emerging infectious diseases. MRC centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Imperial College London United Kingdom. https://twitter.com/amy__dighe https://twitter.com/amy__dighe name img desc github url Roz Eggo /img/people/roz-eggo.jpg Infectious disease modeller of outbreaks, epidemics, and endemic infections. LSHTM, UK. https://github.com/rozeggo https://github.com/rozeggo name img desc website url github twitter Flavio Finger /img/people/flavio-finger.jpg Epidemiologist & Outbreak Analyst. Epicentre, Paris France. ffinger.github.io ffinger.github.io https://github.com/ffinger/ https://twitter.com/flavio_finger name img desc website url github twitter Rich Fitzjohn /img/people/rich-fitzjohn.jpg R developper specialized in data analysis infrastructures. Imperial College London, UK. http://richfitz.github.io/ http://richfitz.github.io/ https://github.com/richfitz/ https://twitter.com/rgfitzjohn name img desc website url github twitter Simon Frost /img/people/simon-frost.jpg Viral evolution, dynamics and epidemiology. University of Cambridge, UK. http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/[email protected] http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/[email protected] http://github.com/sdwfrost https://twitter.com/sdwfrost name img desc github url Amy Gimma /img/people/amy-gimma.jpg Software development / data management & analysis / research fellow. https://github.com/amygimma https://github.com/amygimma name img desc github url twitter Emma Glennon /img/people/emma-glennon.jpg Sir Henry Wellcome Research Fellow. University of Cambridge United Kingdom. github.com/eeg31 github.com/eeg31 https://twitter.com/emma__glennon name img desc website url github twitter Michael Hohle /img/people/michael-hohle.jpg Statistical modelling in infectious disease epidemiology. Stockholm University, Sweden. http://www.math.su.se/~hoehle http://www.math.su.se/~hoehle https://github.com/hoehleatsu https://twitter.com/m_hoehle name img desc Benido Impouma /img/people/benido-impouma.jpg Preparedness for, surveillance of and response to disease outbreaks and other public health emergencies. World Health Organization, Congo, Republic. name img desc github url twitter Christopher Jarvis /img/people/christopher-jarvis.jpg Statistician and Researcher. LSHTM United Kingdom. https://github.com/jarvisc1 https://github.com/jarvisc1 https://twitter.com/TheJarvisC1 name img desc website url github twitter Samuel Jenness /img/people/samuel-jenness.jpg Epidemic modeling, network science, HIV/STI epidemiology. Emory University, USA. http://www.samueljenness.org/ http://www.samueljenness.org/ https://github.com/EpiModel https://twitter.com/SamuelJenness name img desc github url Michael Johansson /img/people/michael-johansson.jpg Biologist. I develop, evaluate, and apply statistical and mechanistic modeling tools for public health problems in vector-borne diseases and emerging epidemics. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Outbreak Science United States. https://github.com/majohansson https://github.com/majohansson name img desc website url github David Jorgensen /img/people/david-jorgensen.jpg PhD student in infectious disease epidemiology. Imperial College London UK. https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/david.jorgensen13 https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/david.jorgensen13 https://github.com/JorgensenD name img desc website url github twitter Zhian Kamvar /img/people/zhian-kamvar.jpg R developer and population geneticist. Imperial College London, UK. https://zkamvar.netlify.com/ https://zkamvar.netlify.com/ https://github.com/zkamvar https://twitter.com/zkamvar name img desc Patrick Keating /img/people/patrick-keating.jpg Infectious disease epidemiologist using R for analysis. Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Austria. name img desc website url github Mohammad Kibria /img/people/mohammad-kibria.jpg Technical advisor in Health Information Systems and Monitoring and Evaluation systems. USAID STAR Senior Fellow Bangladesh. http://globalhealthanalytics.info/ http://globalhealthanalytics.info/ Rampura Bonosree name img desc website url Meryam Krit /img/people/meryam-krit.jpg Mathematical modeller and researcher. Tropical Institute of Medicines Belgium. https://pure.itg.be/en/persons/meryam-krit(ed3c0fa1-dde1-41cc-9a4a-b10051c9f93a).html https://pure.itg.be/en/persons/meryam-krit(ed3c0fa1-dde1-41cc-9a4a-b10051c9f93a).html name img desc website url twitter Henry Kyobe-bosa /img/people/henry-kyobe-bosa.jpg Epidemiologist with interest in outbreak risk analysis, surveillance and response to emerging infectious diseases. African Risk Capacity, South Africa. http://www.africanriskcapacity.org/ http://www.africanriskcapacity.org/ https://twitter.com/hskyobe name img desc Olivier Le Polain /img/people/olivier-le-polain.jpg Senior Epidemiologist,. UK-Public Health Rapid Support Team, UK. name img desc Annick Lenglet /img/people/annick-lenglet.jpg Epidemiological Advisor. Médecins Sans Frontières OCA The Netherlands. name img desc github url twitter Rafael Lopes Paixao Da Silva /img/people/rafael-lopes-paixao-da-silva.jpg PhD Candidate in physics researching on drivers of epidemics dynamics and Health System impact. Instituto de Física Teórica - IFT (UNESP) Brazil. rafalopespx rafalopespx https://twitter.com/rafalpx name img desc website url github twitter Greg Martin /img/people/greg-martin.jpg Health service executive; host of Global Health and R Programming 101 YouTube series. www.youtube.com/c/drgregmartin www.youtube.com/c/drgregmartin https://github.com/drgregmartin https://twitter.com/drgregmartin name img desc website url github twitter Paula Moraga /img/people/paula-moraga.jpg Spatial statistics and disease surveillance. Lancaster University, UK. https://paula-moraga.github.io/ https://paula-moraga.github.io/ https://github.com/Paula-Moraga https://twitter.com/paumose name img desc website url github twitter Kamarul Imran Musa /img/people/kamarul-imran-musa.jpg Associate Professor / Expertise in disease modelling. School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia Malaysia. http://www.medic.usm.my/jpm/index.php/en/academic-information/587-prof-madya-dr-kamarul-imran-musa http://www.medic.usm.my/jpm/index.php/en/academic-information/587-prof-madya-dr-kamarul-imran-musa https://github.com/drkamarul https://twitter.com/kamarul_imran name img desc website url github twitter Vp Nagraj /img/people/vp-nagraj.jpg R developer and contributor to epicontacts package. University of Virginia, USA. http://nagraj.net/ http://nagraj.net/ https://github.com/vpnagraj https://twitter.com/vpnagraj name img desc twitter url Aminata Ndiaye /img/people/aminata-ndiaye.jpg Biostatistician. WHO France. https://twitter.com/aminata_fadl https://twitter.com/aminata_fadl name img desc website url github Pierre Nouvellet /img/people/pierre-nouvellet.jpg Modelling for outbreak response and zoonotic diseases. Imperial College London, UK. https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/p.nouvellet https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/p.nouvellet https://github.com/pnouvellet name img desc website url Lulla Opatowski /img/people/lulla-opatowski.jpg Lecturer in mathematical epidemiology. Universite Versailles St Quentin / Institut Pasteur / Inserm, France. https://research.pasteur.fr/en/member/lulla-opatowski/ https://research.pasteur.fr/en/member/lulla-opatowski/ name img desc github url twitter Benjamin Ortiz Ulloa /img/people/benjamin-ortiz-ulloa.jpg Data Visualization Engineer. Freelancer USA. benjaminortizulloa benjaminortizulloa https://twitter.com/plzbeemyfriend name img desc website url github twitter Pawel Piatkowski /img/people/pawel-piatkowski.jpg Bioinformatician, avid R/Shiny programmer. Independent contractor (working for Genentech/Roche), Poland. http://cosi1.github.io/ http://cosi1.github.io/ https://github.com/cosi1/ https://twitter.com/Cosi1125 name img desc website url github twitter Jonathan Polonsky /img/people/jonathan-polonsky.jpg Epidemiologist focusing on humanitarian and outbreak settings. I use R for automating analyses and reproducible reporting. World Health Organisation, Switzerland. http://who.int/emergencies/en/ http://who.int/emergencies/en/ https://github.com/jpolonsky https://twitter.com/jonny_polonsky name img desc website url github twitter Juliet Pulliam /img/people/juliet-pulliam.jpg Infectious disease modeler focusing on outbreaks and zoonotic diseases. Acting Program Director of the ICI3D. Director, South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA) South Africa. www.sacema.org www.sacema.org https://github.com/jrcpulliam https://twitter.com/SACEMAdirector name img desc website url github twitter Karthik Ram /img/people/karthik-ram.jpg Data scientist and ecologist, Karthik is also heading the rOpenSci initiative. UC Berkeley, USA. http://karthik.io/ http://karthik.io/ https://github.com/karthik https://twitter.com/_inundata/ name img desc website url github Nistara Randhawa /img/people/nistara-randhawa.jpg Epidemiologist and R programmer contributing to the Epicontacts package. University of California, Davis, USA. http://nistara.net/ http://nistara.net/ https://github.com/nistara name img desc github url Matthieu Rolland /img/people/matthieu-rolland.jpg Statistician - Environmental Epidemiologist. Institute for Advanced Biosciences - INSERM France. https://gitlab.com/mjrolland https://gitlab.com/mjrolland name img desc Ilana Schafer /img/people/ilana-schafer.jpg Veterinary epidemiologist with expertise in field outbreak response, and software development for outbreak data management and contact tracing. US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA. name img desc website url github twitter Dirk Schumacher /img/people/dirk-schumacher.jpg R developer with experience in infectious disease epidemiology, surveillance and outbreak response. Berlin, Germany. https://www.dirk-schumacher.net/ https://www.dirk-schumacher.net/ https://github.com/dirkschumacher https://twitter.com/dirk_sch name img desc website url github Jakob Schumacher /img/people/jakob-schumacher.jpg Public health consultant. Local public health institute, Berlin Germany. www.jakiva.de www.jakiva.de https://github.com/jakobschumacher name img desc github url Alex Spina /img/people/alex-spina.jpg Infectious disease epidemiologist using R for surveillance data and outbreak response. Austrian Agency for Food and Health Safety / European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Austria. https://github.com/aspina7 https://github.com/aspina7 name img desc website url Savina Stoitsova /img/people/savina-stoitsova.jpg Infectious disease epidemiologist (EPIET alumni) based in Bulgaria, interested in affordable analytic tools for outbreak response. National center of infectious and parasitic diseases, Bulgaria. http://www.ncipd.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=featured&Itemid=730&lang=en http://www.ncipd.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=featured&Itemid=730&lang=en name img desc website url github Philip Turk /img/people/philip-turk.jpg Director of Biostatistics and Data Science. Atrium Health United States. https://atriumhealth.org/research/multi-disciplinary-centers-and-cores/core https://atriumhealth.org/research/multi-disciplinary-centers-and-cores/core https://github.com/philturk name img desc github url twitter Esther Van Kleef /img/people/esther-van-kleef.jpg Senior epidemiologist. Transmission dynamics AMR, and think I am starting to get a grasp of outbreak analytics. Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp Belgium. https://github.com/esthervankleef https://github.com/esthervankleef https://twitter.com/estherkleef name img desc Jean-pierre Veyrenche /img/people/jean-pierre-veyrenche.jpg International expert (WHO, IOM, UNICEF) in WASH and operations management for emergency response to health crises. Freelance consultant, France.

Executive board

These people are currently heading RECON.

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Members

Members are people actively involved in, and contributing to, RECON's activities. See this page if you would like more information on membership.

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Advisory board

We are extremely lucky to have the following people supporting and guiding our efforts:

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