This place is getting more sinister, maybe on my way out. Director @CCDD_HSPH Tweets in personal capacity. Didn’t pay for blue check
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Marc Lipsitch retweeted
Our latest set of GCBR Organization Updates is our longest issue yet, featuring statements on AIxBio risks, RFPs for clean indoor air, hiring for biosurveillance, resilient synthesis screening, and more!
Don't post much here any more but this is worth commenting on statnews.com/2025/05/27/covi…
I'm fortunate to live in a state with a high-quality health department that provides information based on science. For those who don't I recommend Canadian canada.ca/en/public-health.h… or UK gov.uk/government/organisati… advice.
I just joined APHA bit.ly/3tPy1KU -- a strong advocate for public health right now. Encourage others to do the same!
Marc Lipsitch retweeted
We will kick off the @ColumbiaMSPH seminar series on infectious disease modeling in the spring semester with a fantastic talk by Dr. Marc Lipsitch @mlipsitch from @CCDD_HSPH @HarvardChanSPH! Welcome to join in person or over Zoom on 1/21.
Register here: events.columbia.edu/cal/even…
Excited to share a new preprint led by Indra Gonzalez Ojeda on a new tool to improve pangenome calling in bacteria, CLARC. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… . Passing output of Roary for S. pneumoniae populations through this tool reduces accessory genome > 30%, resolves other puzzles
Marc Lipsitch retweeted
A new CDC report shows how real-time modeling can spot COVID-19 surges early, aiding early public health action. Learn more: bit.ly/mm7346a3
ALT An illustration of a downward trending red line and a person holding magnifying glass showing infection particles.
Marc Lipsitch retweeted
Interested in causal inference and #IDEpi? Come and join the @DGEpi and @gmdsEV IDEpi’s working group workshop in Hamburg on December 12th & 13th. With @mlipsitch of @HarvardChanSPH , #WillHulme of @UniofOxford and @UweSiebert9 of @UMIT_University!
👉 bit.ly/CausalInferenceAndIDE…
My profound thought for today: Jargon and buzzwords are opposites. Jargon are words almost no one uses that have precise meaning. Buzzwords are words everyone uses that have little meaning. Clarity is avoiding both.
Marc Lipsitch retweeted
Trump’s Project 2025 explained hilariously, terrifyingly, and perfectly.
Trump’s Project 2025 will end America as we know it and turn it into the White Christian Nationalist version of Afghanistan.
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Just out w @chrisbboyer academic.oup.com/aje/advance… Emulating target trials of postexposure vaccines using observational data. Spurred by great collab with @nycHealthy on mpox vaccines, but applies to any postexposure intervention on an infection to reduce risk of bad outcomes.
Application in a paper published recently sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Just out w @chrisbboyer doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwae350 Emulating target trials of postexposure vaccines using observational data. Spurred by great collab with @nycHealthy on mpox vaccines, but applies to any postexposure intervention on an infection to reduce risk of bad outcomes.
Application in a paper published recently sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Marc Lipsitch retweeted
Qiu et al. developed a weighting system to adjust pneumococcal invasive disease data to represent the carriage population, allowing the NFDS mechanism to predict strain proportions in carriage in post-PCV13 era. @XuetingQ @mlipsitch @BillHanage @CCDD_HSPH journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
The @nytimes should not have this even in the Opinion section. No responsible statistician uses 13 predictors (actually many more because many of the predictors have variable thresholds) to predict 30 data points ("120 years of presidential elections"). Clickbait pure and simple. nytimes.com/2024/09/05/opini…
Marc Lipsitch retweeted
This book was a behemoth for the editors I am sure- and years in the making. But I’m so honored to part of the critical effort on “Principles and Practice of Emergency Research Response” with some incredible thinkers & doers in our field including Dr Fauci, @DrTedros, @doctorsoumya, Dr Collins and so many others I respect. And some I’ve had the great fortune to work with over the years.
link.springer.com/book/10.10…
