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title	subtitle	board-list	admin-list	people-list
People	The humans behind this project	name img desc website twitter Gregory Armstrong /img/people/gregory-armstrong.jpg Director of the Advanced Molecular Detection initiative, with extensive experience in epidemiology and outbreak response at CDC, Atlanta, USA. http://www.cdc.gov/amd/ https://twitter.com/CDC_AMD name img desc website github twitter Gabor Csardi /img/people/gabor-csardi.jpg Computer scientist with a strong background in statistics and network theory, Gabor is a prominent member of the R community who develops and contributes to a number of major packages such as <i>igraph</i>, <i>roxygen</i> and <i>R6</i>. Mango Solutions, Chippenham, UK. http://gaborcsardi.org/ http://github.com/gaborcsardi http://twitter.com/gaborcsardi name img desc website Christl Donnelly /img/people/christl-donnelly.jpg Professor of Statistical Epidemiology, Fellow of the Royal Society, Christl has extensive experience in epidemics analysis and emergency outbreak response. Imperial College London, UK. http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/c.donnelly name img desc website twitter github Jennifer Gardy /img/people/jennifer-gardy.jpg Canada Research Chair in Public Health genomics at the university of British Columbia and BC Centre for Disease Control, with extensive experience in inferring disease transmission from genomic data. Vancouver, Canada. http://www.jennifergardy.com/ https://twitter.com/jennifergardy https://github.com/jlgardy name img desc website Jacco Wallinga /img/people/jacco-wallinga.jpg Professor of infectious disease modelling at Leiden University Medical Center, Head of the Infectious Disease Modelling Department at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), The Netherlands. http://www.rivm.nl/en/About_RIVM/Knowledge_and_expertise/Experts_and_expertise/Related_information/Modelling_Infectious_Diseases/Prof_Dr_J_Jacco_Wallinga	name img desc James Hayward /img/people/james-hayward.jpg Administrative support. Imperial College London, UK. name img desc Evgenia Markvardt /img/people/evgenia-markvardt.jpg Administrative support. Imperial College London, UK.	name img desc website url github twitter Thibaut Jombart /img/people/thibaut-jombart.jpg Founder of RECON. Statistician and R programmer specialized in outbreak analysis. Imperial College London, UK. https://sites.google.com/site/thibautjombart/ https://sites.google.com/site/thibautjombart/ https://github.com/thibautjombart/ https://twitter.com/TeebzR name img desc website url github twitter Dean Attali /img/people/dean-attali.jpg Web and R developer, designer of the RECON website. Canada. http://deanattali.com/ http://deanattali.com/ https://github.com/daattali/ https://twitter.com/daattali name img desc website url github twitter Marc Baguelin /img/people/marc-baguelin.jpg Mathematical modeller and health economist specialised in Public Health intervention. Strong believer in open code and sharing. Public Health England, UK. http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/baguelin.marc http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/baguelin.marc https://github.com/MJomaba/ https://twitter.com/marcbaguelin name img desc github url twitter Finlay Campbell /img/people/finlay-campbell.jpg PhD student, interested in outbreak analysis and R package development. Imperial College London, UK. http://github.com/finlaycampbell http://github.com/finlaycampbell http://twitter.com/fCampbell93 name img desc website url github Anne Cori /img/people/anne-cori.jpg Statistician specialized in disease modelling and outbreak response. Imperial College London, UK. http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/a.cori http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/a.cori https://github.com/annecori/ name img desc website url github Elisabeth Dahlqwist /img/people/elisabeth-dahlqwist.jpg PhD student in biostatistics and R programmer. Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Sweden. http://ki.se/en/people/elisda http://ki.se/en/people/elisda https://github.com/ElisabethDahlqwist name img desc github url Alex Demarsh /img/people/alex-demarsh.jpg R and Shiny for risk assessment and epidemic parameter estimation for emerging infections. Public Health Agency of Canada, McGill University, Canada. https://github.com/alexdemarsh https://github.com/alexdemarsh name img desc website url github twitter Xavier Didelot /img/people/xavier-didelot.jpg Genomic epidemiology of bacterial pathogens. Imperial College London, United Kingdom. http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/x.didelot http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/x.didelot https://github.com/xavierdidelot/ https://twitter.com/XavierDidelot name img desc github url Jeff Eaton /img/people/jeff-eaton.jpg HIV surveillance, estimation, mathematical modelling, and policy in sub-Saharan Africa. Imperial College London, United Kingdom. https://github.com/jeffeaton https://github.com/jeffeaton name img desc website url github Thomas Finnie /img/people/thomas-finnie.jpg Modeller and Data-Scientist specializing in applying High Performance Computing to public health problems. Public Health England, UK. www.gov.uk/phe www.gov.uk/phe https://github.com/twomagpi name img desc website url github twitter Rich Fitzjohn /img/people/rich-fitzjohn.jpg R developper specialized in data analysis infrastructures. Imperial College London, UK. http://richfitz.github.io/ http://richfitz.github.io/ https://github.com/richfitz/ https://twitter.com/rgfitzjohn name img desc website url github twitter Simon Frost /img/people/simon-frost.jpg Viral evolution, dynamics and epidemiology. University of Cambridge, UK. http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/sdf22@cam.ac.uk http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/sdf22@cam.ac.uk http://github.com/sdwfrost https://twitter.com/sdwfrost name img desc website url github Tini Garske /img/people/tini-garske.jpg Outbreak analysis and infectious disease modelling. Imperial College London, UK. http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/t.garske http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/t.garske http://github.com/tinigarske name img desc website url github twitter Michael H&ouml;hle /img/people/michael-hohle.jpg Statistical modelling in infectious disease epidemiology. Stockholm University, Sweden. http://www.math.su.se/~hoehle http://www.math.su.se/~hoehle https://github.com/hoehleatsu https://twitter.com/m_hoehle name img desc website url Joshua Kaminsky /img/people/joshua-kaminsky.jpg Developer of the R package spatialpred. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA. http://iddynamics.jhsph.edu http://iddynamics.jhsph.edu name img desc website url github twitter Zhian Kamvar /img/people/zhian-kamvar.jpg R developer and population geneticist. Oregon State University, USA. http://zkamvar.github.io http://zkamvar.github.io https://github.com/zkamvar https://twitter.com/zkamvar name img desc website url github twitter Andee Kaplan /img/people/andee-kaplan.jpg shiny, D3, JavaScript. Iowa State University, USA. http://www.andeekaplan.com http://www.andeekaplan.com http://github.com/andeek https://twitter.com/andeekaplan name img desc website url github twitter Don Klinkenberg /img/people/don-klinkenberg.jpg Infectious disease epidemiologist, mathematical modeller, and R developer. RIVM (National Institute for Public Health and the Environment), The Netherlands. http://www.rivm.nl/en/About_RIVM/Knowledge_and_expertise/Experts_and_expertise/Related_information/Modelling_Infectious_Diseases/D_Don_Klinkenberg_PhD http://www.rivm.nl/en/About_RIVM/Knowledge_and_expertise/Experts_and_expertise/Related_information/Modelling_Infectious_Diseases/D_Don_Klinkenberg_PhD https://github.com/donkeyshot https://twitter.com/donkeyshot name img desc website url github twitter John Lees /img/people/john-lees.jpg Genomics PhD student. Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK. http://johnlees.me http://johnlees.me https://github.com/johnlees https://twitter.com/johnlees6 name img desc website url github twitter Justin Lessler /img/people/justin-lessler.jpg Epidemiology and infectious disease dynamics. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA. http://iddynamics.jhsph.edu http://iddynamics.jhsph.edu http://github.com/jlessler http://twitter.com/justinlessler name img desc website url github Joanna Lewis /img/people/joanna-lewis.jpg Mathematical and statistical modelling of sexually-transmitted bacterial infections. Imperial College London, UK. http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/joanna.lewis http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/joanna.lewis https://github.com/joanna-lewis name img desc website url github twitter VP Nagraj /img/people/vp-nagraj.jpg R developer and contributor to epicontacts package. University of Virginia, USA. http://nagraj.net/ http://nagraj.net/ https://github.com/vpnagraj https://twitter.com/vpnagraj name img desc website url github twitter Jonathan Polonsky /img/people/jonathan-polonsky.jpg Epidemiologist focusing on humanitarian and outbreak settings. I use R for automating analyses and reproducible reporting. World Health Organisation, Switzerland. http://who.int/emergencies/en/ http://who.int/emergencies/en/ https://github.com/jpolonsky https://twitter.com/jonny_polonsky name img desc website url github twitter Karthik Ram /img/people/karthik-ram.jpg Data scientist and ecologist, Karthik is also heading the <a href="http://ropensci.org">rOpenSci</a> initiative. UC Berkeley, USA. http://karthik.io/ http://karthik.io/ https://github.com/karthik https://twitter.com/_inundata/ name img desc website url github Nistara Randhawa /img/people/nistara-randhawa.jpg Epidemiologist and R programmer contributing to the Epicontacts package. University of California, Davis, USA. http://nistara.net http://nistara.net https://github.com/nistara name img desc github url twitter Noam Ross /img/people/noam-ross.jpg Disease ecologist, working on zoonotic disease emergence, dynamical systems, economics and R programming standards. EcoHealth Alliance, USA. https://github.com/noamross/ https://github.com/noamross/ https://twitter.com/noamross name img desc website url github twitter Dirk Schumacher /img/people/dirk-schumacher.jpg R developer with experience in infectious disease epidemiology, surveillance and outbreak response. Berlin, Germany. https://www.dirk-schumacher.net/ https://www.dirk-schumacher.net/ https://github.com/dirkschumacher https://twitter.com/dirk_sch name img desc github url Ellie Sherrard-Smith /img/people/ellie-sherrard-smith.jpg Epidemiologist specialized in statistics and data analysis, with strong focus on malaria. Imperial College London, UK. https://github.com/EllieSherrardSmith https://github.com/EllieSherrardSmith name img desc website url github twitter Andy South /img/people/andy-south.jpg R developer currently working on insecticide resistance in malaria vectors. Norwich, UK. http://andysouth.co.uk http://andysouth.co.uk https://github.com/AndySouth https://twitter.com/southmapr name img desc website url Bertrand Sudre /img/people/bertrand-sudre.jpg Epidemiology, outbreak response, Emerging and vector-borne dieases, data analysis, GIS and outbreak mapping, data vizualisation, long term R user. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Sweden. http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/Pages/home.aspx http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/Pages/home.aspx name img desc Rolina van Gaalen /img/people/rolina-van-gaalen.jpg Infectious disease epidemiologist, mathematical and statistical modeller, and R programmer. National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), The Netherlands. name img desc github url Edwin van Leeuwen /img/people/edwin-van-leeuwen.jpg Experienced epidemiological modeller, with a strong background as R programmer. Public Health England, UK. http://github.com/BlackEdder http://github.com/BlackEdder name img desc github url Erik Volz /img/people/erik-volz.jpg Population genetics, phylogenetics, and mathematical epidemiology. Imperial College London, United Kingdom. https://github.com/emvolz https://github.com/emvolz name img desc website url github twitter Oliver Watson /img/people/oliver-watson.jpg Modeller and R programmer specialised in malaria population genetics. Imperial College London, UK. http://www.ojwatson.co.uk http://www.ojwatson.co.uk https://github.com/OJWatson https://twitter.com/ojwatson92

Members

RECON is a group of people sharing their time and expertise to lead, facilitate, and promote the development of analysis tools for outbreak response using the R software. The list of people below is growing as we are recruiting more members. See this page to join us.

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Advisory board

We are extremely lucky to have the following people supporting and guiding our efforts:

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Administration

RECON also benefits from some outstanding administrative support from the following people:

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