What happened? As of the 19th September 2018, the R Epidemics Consortium (RECON) has adopted a non-governmental organisation (NGO) structure. We are now a not-for-profit, incorporated association declared in France. You can find our statutes online here, and the publication in the official journal (“Journal Officiel”) there. Why? After 2... [Read More]

The R Epidemics Consortium (RECON) together with the EPIET Alumni Network (EAN) organised a short 4-day course titled “an introduction into using R for surveillance and outbreak analytics”. The course was held from the 8-11 October 2018 in Sofia, Bulgaria, and delivered by Thibaut Jombart, Zhian Kamvar, Janetta Skarp, and... [Read More]

In this post we present SpatialEpiApp, a Shiny web application for the analysis of spatial and spatio-temporal disease data. SpatialEpiApp integrates two of the most common approaches in public health surveillance: disease risk mapping and detection of clusters. The application allows to fit Bayesian disease models to obtain risk estimates... [Read More]

Another small hackathon After the first RECON hackfest which was dedicated to graphical user interfaces earlier this year, we repeated the experiment: bring a few hand-picked experts together, lock them in a room with sufficient food and coffee supply, put a lid on, let the mix simmer, and collect outcomes... [Read More]

A new Ebola outbreak in DRC RECON members Jonathan Polonsky (WHO) and Thibaut Jombart (Imperial College London) joined the WHO response team for an Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak which took place in DRC in May-July 2017. This deployment took place as part of the activation of the Global Alert... [Read More]