MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis

It is and for this special , Dr Sabine van Elsland is joined by Dr Fabricia Nascimento and Prof Sanjay Mehta to speak about phylodynamic inference and HIV transmission. We discuss migration rates, the role of HIV genome sequencing and the ethical considerations for implementing these methods 👇

Find out more about robust phylodynamic inference and model specification for HIV transmission dynamics in this Epidemics publication 👇 https://lnkd.in/e67xGhZN

NEW EPISODE ! This week Dr Sabine van Elsland speaks with Dr Samuel Horsfield about diagnostic and surveillance methods for Streptococcus pneumoniae and new method GNASTy improving our ability to detect variants that haven’t been seen before 👇

Read the full publication by Horsfield et al 2025 on optimizing nanopore adaptive sampling for pneumococcal serotype surveillance in complex samples published in Genome Research👇
https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.279435.124

Imperial College London University of Oxford

NEW EPISODE ! This week, Dr Sabine L. van Elsland speaks with Dr Kris Parag about methods to estimate the instantaneous reproduction number and approaches to estimate uncertainty 👇

Read the full publication by Nic Steyn & Kris Parag on the robust uncertainty quantification in popular estimators of the instantaneous reproduction number in the American Journal of Epidemiology https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwaf165

Imperial College London University of Oxford

In this episode of Science in Context, Dr Sabine van Elsland is joined by Dr Romain Silhol, Dr Serge Niangoran and Kelly McCain to speak about their experience from a modelling workshop on HIV, HPV and cervical cancer in Côte d'Ivoire jointly organized by Programme PACCI, Site ANRS de Côte d'Ivoire , Université Laval and Imperial College London 👇

Find out more about the PAC-CI programme 👇
https://web.pac-ci.org/

NEW EPISODE ! This week, Dr Sabine van Elsland is joined by Maggie Walters to speak about HIV, vertical transmission, the impact of starting ART before and during pregnancy, and the importance of testing and treatment throughout pregnancy and breastfeeding.

Read the full paper published in The Lancet HIV on the probability of vertical HIV transmission: a systematic review and meta-regression, here 👇
https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-3018(25)00132-8