Organisers

The people behind this event

Organising committee

Main organisers

  • Amrish Baidjoe (Imperial College London / RECON / EAN): Research Associate in health emergencies operational support, research and capacity building, president of the EAN and vice-president of RECON.

  • Patrick Keating (UK-PHRST / London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine / EDK / RECON) Data scientist with the UK-PHRST, member of the Emergency and Epidemic Data Kit team and field deployment coordinator with RECON.

  • Hannah Brindle (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine/EDK) Research fellow with the Emergency and Epidemic Data Kit study.

  • Thibaut Jombart (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine / UK-PHRST / RECON): Associate Professor in Outbreak Analytics at LSHTM, core member of the UK-PHRST, and president of RECON.

  • Chrissy Roberts (LSHTM / EDK) Associate professor of Clinical Research. The principal investigator of the LSHTM Emergency and Epidemic Data Kit project. He is also a member of the LSHTM trachoma group, data & laboratories lead for the FIEBRE study, PI of Mos-Def the and academic lead of the LSHTM Open Research Kits programme

  • Olivier le Polain (UK-PHRST / PHE) Senior Epidemiologist and Deputy Director of Response for the UK-PHRST.

Financial support was given by

Wellcome Trust

The UK-Public Health Rapid Support Team

Amrish Baidjoe and Thibaut Jombart are financially supported by the National Institute for Health Research - Health Protection Research Unit for Modelling Methodology.

Thibaut Jombart is funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) project ‘RECAP – research capacity building and knowledge generation to support preparedness and response to humanitarian crises and epidemics’ managed through RCUK and ESRC (ES/P010873/1).

Patrick Keating, Olivier Le Polain and Thibaut Jombart are financially supported by the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team, which is funded by the United Kingdom Department of Health and Social Care.

Hannah Brindle and Chrissy Roberts are both financially supported by the NIHR

Logistics and project support

  • Susan Ismaeel (UK-PHRST / PHE)

  • Elizabeth McFarland (UK-PHRST / PHE)

  • Thom Banks (UK-PHRST / LSHTM)