Thread by @seabbs

1. PhD thesis 'Modelling BCG vaccination in the UK: What is the impact of changing policy?' submitted and everything is totally normal....

Written with #rstats, #bookdown, and #thesisdown.

Read here: bit.ly/seabbs-thesis

#phdchat #epitwitter #openscience #tuberculosis

2. Thanks to my supervisors @n3113n and @Christensen_H + my funders @HPRU_EI + @PHE_uk for the data.

3. Some results: 'getTBinR: an R package for accessing and summarising the World Health Organisation Tuberculosis data'

Code: github.com/seabbs/getTBinR

Paper: doi.org/10.21105/joss.…

#getTBinR

4. More results: ' Exploring the effects of BCG vaccination in patients diagnosed with tuberculosis: Observational study using the Enhanced Tuberculosis Surveillance system'

Code: github.com/seabbs/Explore…

Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/366476

Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.vacc…

5. More results: 'Reassessing the Evidence for Universal School-age Bacillus Calmette Guerin (BCG) Vaccination in England and Wales'

Code: github.com/seabbs/AssessB…

Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/624916

6. More results: 'Estimating the effect of the 2005 change in BCG policy in England: A retrospective cohort study'

Code: github.com/seabbs/DirectE…

Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/567511

7. #rstats package: {#getTBinR} - Access and Summarise World Health Organisation Tuberculosis Data'

Code: github.com/seabbs/getTBinR

8. Another #rstats package: {#idmodelr} - Infectious disease model library and utilities

Code: github.com/seabbs/idmodelr

9. Several more #rstats packages (woo data cleaning and formatting) + #shiny apps available and listed here:

samabbott.co.uk/thesis/1-intro…

Still need something to read? Check out my #rstats blog ....

samabbott.co.uk

Just want a quick summary on BCG and #Tuberculosis?

See here: bit.ly/seabbs-bcg-what

Oh and I'm looking for an #infectiousdisease #postdoc 😇 - hopefully with some keen #rstats people.

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