@evansst
Principal infectious disease modeller at UKHSA, specialising in transmission modelling and computational immunology. Researching AMR and HCAI. Ironman triathlete, runner, cyclist, cold water swimmer, mum to a toddler, and animal lover
The overview of AMR that you always wanted (someone else to write) - amazing!
Truly brilliant paper with great figures! @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
New paper, led by Yaki Saciuk, out in @naturecomms.bsky.social
It's challenging to estimate the causal effect of antibiotic use on future resistance due to unmeasured confounding.
We leverage a new form of iv - reported allergy to penicillin.
📄: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@alicele.bsky.social !!
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat to human health.
Bur it's GROSSLY under reported
This study showed 4% of ALL deaths at a major London hospital were actually caused AMR but NONE were on the death certificate as cause of death.
Great piece about epidemiology, a science whose remarkable successes have profoundly shaped the modern world, even as those achievements often go unnoticed. #publichealth #epidemiology bigthink.com/health/the-d...
Our work on immortal time bias "Illustrating the structures of bias from immortal time using directed acyclic graphs" led by Emma Guoyi Yang @yanggy_hku is out at International Journal of Epidemiology: doi.org/10.1093/ije/.... Brief thread:
Worked with this crew through the thick & thin of Covid over MSTeams. Met them in real life for the first time this week after nearly 4 years! Public Health England’s Joint Modelling Team for the pandemic. We went through a lot together, has been a special couple of days.
Sitting in the front seat of a double decker bus on my way to see a friend deliver a lunchtime seminar at my MSc university is definitely making me feel 18 again
#universityofleeds #mathematics #seminar