Chikungunya research featured in MedPage Today

Leora Feldstein presented a poster at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene meeting for her research studies on Chikungunya in the US Virgin Islands.  Leora’s work and comments are featured in this MedPage Today article. Leora is an Epidemiology PhD student at the University of Washington, mentored by CIDID Director Betz Halloran. 

Nextflu featured in GenomeWeb article

Nextflu, developed by Trevor Bedford (CIDID/Fred Hutch) and Richard Neher (Max Planck Institute of Developmental Biology), is featured in this GenomeWeb article detailing future developments and the recently-released versions for tracking the evolution of the Ebola virus and the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV).

CIDID Postdoc Amanda Koepke wins ASA 2015 Young Investigator Award

Amanda Koepke won one of the 2015 Young Investigator Awards from the Statistics in 
Epidemiology Section of the American Statistical Association, for her paper "Predictive modeling of cholera outbreaks in Bangladesh,” co-authored with Ira Longini, Betz Halloran, Jon Wakefield, and Vladimir Minin.  Congratulations, Amanda!

Click here for link to the ASA Statistics in Epidemiology Section's announcement about these awards.