Aakash Pandey

UD: Thank you for informing me. I will seriously consider vaccinating my children.
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I am so happy we had the conversation!!! And I hope he really does vaccinate his kids.

UD: I thought it was a thing of the past. I didn’t know there was measles in the US. I homeschool my children. Should I be worried?
Me: Goes on explaining the current measles outbreak and explain why it’s important to vaccinate kids.
UD: I am not anti-vax. But I did not know it was going on…

Conversation with my uber driver…
UD: So do you live here or are you visiting?
Me: Oh we had a meeting about infectious disease modeling in the city.
UD: Do you guys still talk about covid?
Me: All the time…. But there’re new threats emerging. Measles is spreading…

On some personal news, I have just moved on from my CDC position to a new role in academia as a research assistant professor. It was a great experience working at CDC, including being part of an emergency response. I look forward continue working on outbreak analytics and disease ecology.

Technology transfer, intellectual property, and the fight for the soul of WHO Debates over the scope, terms, and governance of technology transfer–the sharing of essential technical information, know-how, and materials needed to manufacture a health product–are prominent and co...

Throughout #PandemicAgreement #INB negotiations, some have questioned WHO's mandate on tech transfer and IP.

In the 1950s, WHO dreamed big, embarking on a bold initiative establishing a network of non-profit public drug manufacturers committed to open science.💊🌐 1/
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Could I be added? Thanks!

🙋‍♂️ can you add me please?

I’m an infectious disease modeler at a cool public health gov agency, but this is a strictly personal account. I study IDD in human and wildlife populations focusing on prevention and control strategies. Have worked on mpox, bovine TB, and other environmental pathogens.

Thanks for the link. I will take a closer look this weekend. I’m sure it will be helpful to me since I am also working on a DRC model, but mainly focusing on vaccination.

Thanks for sharing this. It looks really interesting.

The two phrases that really irritate me:

1. Data/code available upon reasonable request

2. Salary: Competitive and dependent on qualifications.

Take 2: Thrilled to see this preprint posted from a large collaborative team looking at mpox epi trends in DRC

Mpox in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Analysis of National Epidemiological and Laboratory Surveillance Data, 2010 - 2013

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Can I tag myself for it? Thanks!

It seems the short memories of funding agencies is not a new phenomenon. Below is a story from 1964. Source: The Coming Plague by Laurie Garret

Thank you!

Is there a link for the news in English? Thanks!

ecoevojobs.net 2024-25

The ecoevo job list for 2024-2025 is out. This is for those who are looking for a faculty position or postdoc in ecology, evolutionary biology, etc

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From being late to exams or missing exams in my dreams to being late to a job talk in a dream, I think I have grown a little.

Not sure if DRC has prairie dogs (12th paragraph).

Viruses Finally Reveal Their Complex Social Life | Quanta Magazine New research has uncovered a social world of viruses full of cheating, cooperation and other intrigues, suggesting that viruses make sense only as members of a community.

Awesome Quanta article from @carlzimmer.bsky.social on 'Sociovirology' that quotes and profiles some of my favorite and inspiring colleagues.

www.quantamagazine.org/viruses-fina...

Even Taylor published The Manuscript. So much pressure!

Citizenship privilege harms science Researchers from the global south face often-distressing immigration bureaucracy that most from the global north do not. Six steps can begin to counteract this inequity. Researchers from the global so...

"Citizenship privilege is an asset experienced by citizens of the global north, simply because of the country they were born in [...] This inequity affects many researchers. It’s time that academics take action to rebalance the scales."

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Wildlife vaccination strategies for eliminating bovine tuberculosis in white-tailed deer populations Author summary Many wildlife species act as reservoirs of bovine tuberculosis from which they can transmit to cattle and humans. In Michigan, bovine tuberculosis is endemic in white-tailed deer causin...

37/250 is Wildlife vaccination strategies for eliminating bovine tuberculosis in white-tailed deer populations

Perfect use of modeling. Assuming, of course, that BCG is blocking infection and not just symptoms - if the latter, very different results.

Thank you!
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Dynamic Ecology is back! Hi everyone! Remember how Brian, Meghan, and I pretty much stopped blogging back in 2021? How we joked that we'd mastered the hard part of spelling "banana"? ("knowing when to stop") Well, it was true...

Great blogging news - Dynamic Ecology is (coming) back! dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2024/01/08/d...

Wildlife vaccination strategies for eliminating bovine tuberculosis in white-tailed deer populations Author summary Many wildlife species act as reservoirs of bovine tuberculosis from which they can transmit to cattle and humans. In Michigan, bovine tuberculosis is endemic in white-tailed deer causin...

Happy to share a couple of recently published papers from my previous position.

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Clade I–Associated Mpox Cases Associated with Sexual Contact, the Democratic Republic of the Congo Clade I Mpox, Democratic Republic of the Congo

A very important investigation from an amazing international team of experts. Here is our report on clade I monkeypox virus transmission associated with sexual contact, with support from CIHR and IDRC

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Does anyone here know the proposed date for EEID 2024 at Stanford? I can’t find that info anywhere.