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title: People
subtitle: The humans behind this project
board-list:
  - name: Gregory Armstrong
    img: /img/people/gregory-armstrong.jpg
    desc: Director of the Advanced Molecular Detection initiative, with extensive experience in epidemiology and outbreak response at CDC, Atlanta, USA.
    website: http://www.cdc.gov/amd/
    url: http://www.cdc.gov/amd/
    twitter: https://twitter.com/CDC_AMD
  - name: Gabor Csardi
    img: /img/people/gabor-csardi.jpg
    desc: 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.
    website: http://gaborcsardi.org/
    url: http://gaborcsardi.org/
    github: http://github.com/gaborcsardi
    twitter: http://twitter.com/gaborcsardi
  - name: Christl Donnelly
    img: /img/people/christl-donnelly.jpg
    desc:  Professor of Statistical Epidemiology, Fellow of the Royal Society, Christl has extensive experience in epidemics analysis and emergency outbreak response. Imperial College London, UK.
    website: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/c.donnelly
    url: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/c.donnelly
  - name: Jennifer Gardy
    img: /img/people/jennifer-gardy.jpg
    desc: 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.
    url: http://www.jennifergardy.com/
    twitter: https://twitter.com/jennifergardy
    github: https://github.com/jlgardy
  - name: Oliver Morgan
    desc: Acting Director, Health Emergency Information and Risk Assessment Department, World Health Organisation. Geneva, Switzerland.
    img: /img/people/oliver-morgan.jpg
  - name: Jacco Wallinga
    img: /img/people/jacco-wallinga.jpg
    desc:  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.
    website: http://www.rivm.nl/en/About_RIVM/Knowledge_and_expertise/Experts_and_expertise/Related_information/Modelling_Infectious_Diseases/Prof_Dr_J_Jacco_Wallinga
    url: http://www.rivm.nl/en/About_RIVM/Knowledge_and_expertise/Experts_and_expertise/Related_information/Modelling_Infectious_Diseases/Prof_Dr_J_Jacco_Wallinga
admin-list:
  - name: Claire Thomson
    img: /img/people/claire-thomson.jpg
    website: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/c.thomson
    url: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/c.thomson
    desc: Administrative support. Imperial College London, UK.
  - name: Evgenia Markvardt
    img: /img/people/evgenia-markvardt.jpg
    website: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/e.markvardt
    url: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/e.markvardt
    desc: Administrative support. Imperial College London, UK.
people-list:
  - name: Thibaut Jombart
    img: /img/people/thibaut-jombart.jpg
    desc: Founder of RECON. Statistician and R programmer specialized in outbreak analysis. Imperial College London, UK.
    website: https://sites.google.com/site/thibautjombart/
    url: https://sites.google.com/site/thibautjombart/
    github: https://github.com/thibautjombart/
    twitter: https://twitter.com/TeebzR
  - name: Philip AbdelMalik
    img: /img/people/philip-abdelmalik.jpg
    desc: Epidemiologist focused on epidemic intelligence and health informatics. World Health Organization, Switzerland.
  - name: Rawan Araj
    img: /img/people/rawan-araj.jpg
    desc: EMPHNET Program Manager. GHD-EMPHNET, Jordan.
  - name: Dean Attali
    img: /img/people/dean-attali.jpg
    desc: Web and R developer, designer of the RECON website. AttaliTech, Canada.
    website: http://deanattali.com/
    url: http://deanattali.com/
    github: https://github.com/daattali/
    twitter: https://twitter.com/daattali
  - name: Marc Baguelin
    img: /img/people/marc-baguelin.jpg
    desc: Mathematical modeller and health economist specialised in Public Health intervention. Strong believer in open code and sharing. Public Health England, UK.
    website: http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/baguelin.marc
    url: http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/baguelin.marc
    github: https://github.com/MJomaba/
    twitter: https://twitter.com/marcbaguelin
  - name: Amrish Baidjoe
    img: /img/people/amrish-baidjoe.jpg
    desc: Field epidemiologist/microbiologist, outbreak response expert, and RECON coordinator. President of the EPIET alumni network. Imperial College London, UK.
    website: https://ammer.tweakblogs.net/
    url: https://ammer.tweakblogs.net/
    twitter: https://twitter.com/Ammer_B
  - name: Robert Balshaw
    img: /img/people/robert-balshaw.jpg
    desc: Caretaker for the aberration detection algorithm PHIDO, shiny developer. British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Canada.
  - name: Kazim Beebeejaun
    img: /img/people/kazim-beebeejaun.jpg
    desc: EPIET fellow, cohort 2017. Public Health England, UK.
    twitter: www.twitter.com/KazimB
    url: www.twitter.com/KazimB
  - name: Sangeeta Bhatia
    img: /img/people/sangeeta-bhatia.jpg
    desc: Modeller and software developer contributing packages for outbreak analysis using digital surveillance data. Imperial College London, UK.
    website: https://sangeetabhatia03.github.io
    url: https://sangeetabhatia03.github.io
    github: https://github.com/sangeetabhatia03
    twitter: https://twitter.com/sangeeta0312
  - name: Matthew Biggerstaff
    img: /img/people/matthew-biggerstaff.jpg
    desc: Epidemiologist focused on using modeling and forecasting outputs to inform public health decision making. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA.
  - name: Jun Cai
    img: /img/people/jun-cai.jpg
    desc: PhD candidate interested in influenza transmission dynamics and R programming. Center for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, China.
    website: http://blog.tonytsai.name/
    url: http://blog.tonytsai.name/
    github: https://github.com/caijun
    twitter: https://twitter.com/caijun2046
  - name: Finlay Campbell
    img: /img/people/finlay-campbell.jpg
    desc: PhD student, interested in outbreak analysis and R package development. Imperial College London, UK.
    github: http://github.com/finlaycampbell
    url: http://github.com/finlaycampbell
    twitter: http://twitter.com/fCampbell93
  - name: David Champredon
    img: /img/people/david-champredon.jpg
    desc: Epidemic modelling. McMaster University, Canada.
  - name: Anne Cori
    img: /img/people/anne-cori.jpg
    desc: Statistician specialized in disease modelling and outbreak response. Imperial College London, UK.
    website: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/a.cori
    url: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/a.cori
    github: https://github.com/annecori/
  - name: Zulma Cucunuba
    img: /img/people/zulma-cucunuba.jpg
    desc: Vector borne disease modelling to inform public health policy, emphasis in Latin America. Imperial College London, United Kingdom.
    website: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/zulma.cucunuba
    url: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/zulma.cucunuba
    github: https://github.com/zulmac
    twitter: https://twitter.com/Zulma.Cucunuba
  - name: Irina Czogiel
    img: /img/people/irina-czogiel.jpg
    desc: Statistician, bioinformatician and EPIET project supervisor, with expertise in machine learning methods for to epidemiological and molecular data. Robert Koch Institut, Germany.
  - name: Elisabeth Dahlqwist
    img: /img/people/elisabeth-dahlqwist.jpg
    desc: PhD student in biostatistics and R programmer. Karolinska Institutet, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Sweden.
    website: http://ki.se/en/people/elisda
    url: http://ki.se/en/people/elisda
    github: https://github.com/ElisabethDahlqwist
  - name: Alex Demarsh
    img: /img/people/alex-demarsh.jpg
    desc: R and Shiny for risk assessment and epidemic parameter estimation for emerging infections. Public Health Agency of Canada, McGill University, Canada.
    github: https://github.com/alexdemarsh
    url: https://github.com/alexdemarsh
  - name: Xavier Didelot
    img: /img/people/xavier-didelot.jpg
    desc: Genomic epidemiology of bacterial pathogens. Imperial College London, UK.
    website: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/x.didelot
    url: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/x.didelot
    github: https://github.com/xavierdidelot/
    twitter: https://twitter.com/XavierDidelot
  - name: Jeff Eaton
    img: /img/people/jeff-eaton.jpg
    desc: HIV surveillance, estimation, mathematical modelling, and policy in sub-Saharan Africa. Imperial College London, UK.
    github: https://github.com/jeffeaton
    url: https://github.com/jeffeaton
  - name: Roz Eggo
    img: /img/people/roz-eggo.jpg
    desc: Infectious disease modeller of outbreaks, epidemics, and endemic infections. LSHTM, UK.
    github: https://github.com/rozeggo
    url: https://github.com/rozeggo
  - name: Flavio Finger
    img: /img/people/flavio-finger.jpg
    desc: Epidemiological modelling, cholera, real-time analysis, spatial dynamics, environmental determinants of outbreaks. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom.
    website: http://ffinger.github.io
    url: http://ffinger.github.io
    github: https://github.com/ffinger
  - name: Thomas Finnie
    img: /img/people/thomas-finnie.jpg
    desc: Modeller and Data-Scientist specializing in applying High Performance Computing to public health problems. Public Health England, UK.
    website: www.gov.uk/phe
    url: www.gov.uk/phe
    github: https://github.com/twomagpi
  - name: Simon Firestone
    img: /img/people/simon-firestone.jpg
    desc: Veterinary and public health epidemiologist. The University of Melbourne, Australia.
    website: http://fvas.unimelb.edu.au/veam
    url: http://fvas.unimelb.edu.au/veam
  - name: Rich Fitzjohn
    img: /img/people/rich-fitzjohn.jpg
    desc: R developper specialized in data analysis infrastructures. Imperial College London, UK.
    website: http://richfitz.github.io/
    url: http://richfitz.github.io/
    github: https://github.com/richfitz/
    twitter: https://twitter.com/rgfitzjohn
  - name: Simon Frost
    img: /img/people/simon-frost.jpg
    desc: Viral evolution, dynamics and epidemiology. University of Cambridge, UK.
    website: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/sdf22@cam.ac.uk
    url: http://www.vet.cam.ac.uk/directory/sdf22@cam.ac.uk
    github: http://github.com/sdwfrost
    twitter: https://twitter.com/sdwfrost
  - name: Daniel Gardiner
    img: /img/people/daniel-gardiner.jpg
    desc: Infectious disease epidemiologist using R for analysis and automated reporting. Public Health England, UK.
    github: http://github.com/DanielGardiner
    url: http://github.com/DanielGardiner
  - name: George Githinji
    img: /img/people/george-githinji.jpg
    desc: Bioinformatician with a strong research interest in epidemiology. KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya.
    website: http://virec-group.org
    url: http://virec-group.org
    github: https://github.com/biorelated
    twitter: https://twitter.com/george_l
  - name: Stephan Gloeckner
    img: /img/people/stephan-gloeckner.jpg
    desc: Epidemiologist / computer scientist working on outbreak detection algorithms using R and python. Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Germany.
    website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stephan_Gloeckner
    url: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stephan_Gloeckner
    github: https://github.com/gstephan30
    twitter: https://twitter.com/ericlindros84
  - name: Joana Gomes Dias
    img: /img/people/joana-gomes-dias.jpg
    desc: Expert Biostatistics at ECDC. Applied statistical modelling. Epidemiology and Infection diseases. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Sweden.
  - name: José Guerra
    img: /img/people/josé-guerra.jpg
    desc: Medical epidemiologist, support countries strengthening their public health surveillance systems; Rthusiastic for many years. World Health Organization, France.
  - name: Michael H&ouml;hle
    img: /img/people/michael-hohle.jpg
    desc: Statistical modelling in infectious disease epidemiology. Stockholm University, Sweden.
    website: http://www.math.su.se/~hoehle
    url: http://www.math.su.se/~hoehle
    github: https://github.com/hoehleatsu
    twitter: https://twitter.com/m_hoehle
  - name: Andreas Handel
    img: /img/people/andreas-handel.jpg
    desc: Modeling and data analysis of infectious diseases on the within-host and between-host scales. Main focus on influenza, TB and Norovirus. University of Georgia, USA.
    website: http://handelgroup.uga.edu/
    url: http://handelgroup.uga.edu/
    github: https://github.com/ahgroup
    twitter: https://twitter.com/andreashandel
  - name: Tambri Housen
    img: /img/people/tambri-housen.jpg
    desc: Field epidemiologist and research fellow on Australia's FETP. Australian National University, Australia.
  - name: Benido Impouma
    img: /img/people/benido-impouma.jpg
    desc: Preparedness for, surveillance of and response to disease outbreaks and other public health emergencies. World Health Organization, Congo, Republic.
  - name: Samuel Jenness
    img: /img/people/samuel-jenness.jpg
    desc: Epidemic modeling, network science, HIV/STI epidemiology. Emory University, USA.
    website: http://www.samueljenness.org
    url: http://www.samueljenness.org
    github: https://github.com/EpiModel
    twitter: https://twitter.com/SamuelJenness
  - name: Joshua Kaminsky
    img: /img/people/joshua-kaminsky.jpg
    desc: Developer of the R package spatialpred. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA.
    website: http://iddynamics.jhsph.edu
    url: http://iddynamics.jhsph.edu
  - name: Zhian Kamvar
    img: /img/people/zhian-kamvar.jpg
    desc: R developer and population geneticist; core developer and trainer for RECON. Imperial College London, UK.
    website: http://zkamvar.github.io
    url: http://zkamvar.github.io
    github: https://github.com/zkamvar
    twitter: https://twitter.com/zkamvar
  - name: Andee Kaplan
    img: /img/people/andee-kaplan.jpg
    desc: shiny, D3, JavaScript. Iowa State University, USA.
    website: http://www.andeekaplan.com
    url: http://www.andeekaplan.com
    github: http://github.com/andeek
    twitter: https://twitter.com/andeekaplan
  - name: Ioannis Karagiannis
    img: /img/people/ioannis-karagiannis.jpg
    desc: Epidemiologist and coordinator of the UK field epidemiology training programme (FETP), EPIET alumnus with a background in biostatistics. Public Health England, UK.
  - name: Patrick Keating
    img: /img/people/patrick-keating.jpg
    desc: Infectious disease epidemiologist using R for analysis. Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Austria.
  - name: Nelson Kibinge
    img: /img/people/nelson-kibinge.jpg
    desc: Bioinformatician with an interest in RSV diversity and surveillance efficiency. KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research program Kenya, Kenya.
    github: https://github.com/nelkibs
    url: https://github.com/nelkibs
  - name: Don Klinkenberg
    img: /img/people/don-klinkenberg.jpg
    desc: Infectious disease epidemiologist, mathematical modeller, and R developer. RIVM (National Institute for Public Health and the Environment), The Netherlands.
    website: http://www.rivm.nl/en/About_RIVM/Knowledge_and_expertise/Experts_and_expertise/Related_information/Modelling_Infectious_Diseases/D_Don_Klinkenberg_PhD
    url: http://www.rivm.nl/en/About_RIVM/Knowledge_and_expertise/Experts_and_expertise/Related_information/Modelling_Infectious_Diseases/D_Don_Klinkenberg_PhD
    github: https://github.com/donkeyshot
    twitter: https://twitter.com/donkeyshot
  - name: Stefan Kroeger
    img: /img/people/stefan-kroeger.jpg
    desc: R developper with background in bioinformatics and network analysis. Working on transmission analysis for disease surveillance. Robert Koch Institute, Germany.
    website: https://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~kroeger/Research.html
    url: https://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~kroeger/Research.html
  - name: Henry Kyobe-Bosa
    img: /img/people/henry-kyobe-bosa.jpg
    desc: Epidemiologist with interest in outbreak risk analysis, surveillance and response to emerging infectious diseases. African Risk Capacity, South Africa.
    website: http://www.africanriskcapacity.org
    url: http://www.africanriskcapacity.org
    twitter: https://twitter.com/hskyobe
  - name: Justin Lessler
    img: /img/people/justin-lessler.jpg
    desc: Epidemiology and infectious disease dynamics. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA.
    website: http://iddynamics.jhsph.edu
    url: http://iddynamics.jhsph.edu
    github: http://github.com/jlessler
    twitter: http://twitter.com/justinlessler
  - name: Joanna Lewis
    img: /img/people/joanna-lewis.jpg
    desc: Mathematical and statistical modelling of sexually-transmitted bacterial infections. Imperial College London, UK.
    website: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/joanna.lewis
    url: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/joanna.lewis
    github: https://github.com/joanna-lewis
  - name: Christian Massidi
    img: /img/people/christian-massidi.jpg
    desc: Data developer. World Health Organization, Congo, Republic.
  - name: Kevin McDermott
    img: /img/people/kevin-mcdermott.jpg
    desc: Water research using molecular biology, microbiology, bioinformatics and data science. Public Health Ontario, Canada.
  - name: Oliver McManus
    img: /img/people/oliver-mcmanus.jpg
    desc: Epidemics analyst with an interest in R. Public Health England, United Kingdom.
    github: https://github.com/cucumberry
    url: https://github.com/cucumberry
  - name: Lore Merdrignac
    img: /img/people/lore-merdrignac.jpg
    desc: Epidemiologist, Bioinformatics engineer, R and Shiny programmer. EpiConcept, France.
    website: http://www.epiconcept.fr/en/
    url: http://www.epiconcept.fr/en/
  - name: Eve Miguel
    img: /img/people/eve-miguel.jpg
    desc: Ecologist  specialised in diseases pillover at the wild / domestic / human interface. IRD, France.
    website: https://evemiguelblog.wordpress.com/
    url: https://evemiguelblog.wordpress.com/
  - name: Amy Mikhail
    img: /img/people/amy-mikhail.jpg
    desc: Epidemiologist and R programmer using genomics for early outbreak detection.  EUPHEM alum and EPIET/EUPHEM supervisor. Public Health England, UK.
    github: https://github.com/AmyMikhail
    url: https://github.com/AmyMikhail
  - name: Paula Moraga
    img: /img/people/paula-moraga.jpg
    desc: Spatial statistics and disease surveillance. Lancaster University, UK.
    website: https://paula-moraga.github.io/
    url: https://paula-moraga.github.io/
    github: https://github.com/Paula-Moraga
    twitter: https://twitter.com/paumose
  - name: Roger Morbey
    img: /img/people/roger-morbey.jpg
    desc: Statistician working in public health real-time surveillance. Public Health England, UK.
  - name: Facundo Munoz
    img: /img/people/facundo-munoz.jpg
    desc: Biostatistician at the French agricultural research and international cooperation organization (Cirad). Cirad, France.
    website: https://www.uv.es/famarmu/
    url: https://www.uv.es/famarmu/
    github: https://github.com/famuvie
    twitter: https://twitter.com/famuvie
  - name: Kamarul Imran Musa
    img: /img/people/kamarul-imran-musa.jpg
    desc: Quantitative epidemiologist and public health physician. School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia.
    website: http://www.medic.usm.my/jpm/index.php/en/academic-information/587-prof-madya-dr-kamarul-imran-musa
    url: http://www.medic.usm.my/jpm/index.php/en/academic-information/587-prof-madya-dr-kamarul-imran-musa
    github: https://github.com/drkamarul
    twitter: https://twitter.com/kamarul_imran
  - name: VP Nagraj
    img: /img/people/vp-nagraj.jpg
    desc: R developer and contributor to epicontacts package. University of Virginia, USA.
    website: http://nagraj.net/
    url: http://nagraj.net/
    github: https://github.com/vpnagraj
    twitter: https://twitter.com/vpnagraj
  - name: Pierre Nouvellet
    img: /img/people/pierre-nouvellet.jpg
    desc: Modelling for outbreak response and zoonotic diseases. Imperial College London, UK.
    website: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/p.nouvellet
    url: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/p.nouvellet
    github: https://github.com/pnouvellet
  - name: Ajay Oza
    img: /img/people/ajay-oza.jpg
    desc: Surveillance of healthcare-associated inflections, R programmer. Health Protection Surveillance Centre, Dublin, Ireland.
    github: https://github.com/AjayOza
    url: https://github.com/AjayOza
    twitter: https://twitter.com/ajayoza_actual
  - name: Julia Palacios
    img: /img/people/julia-palacios.jpg
    desc: Method development and implementation of phylodynamic methods for infectious diseases. Stanford University, USA.
    website: http://juliapalacios.github.io/
    url: http://juliapalacios.github.io/
    github: https://github.com/JuliaPalacios
  - name: Pawel Piatkowski
    img: /img/people/pawel-piatkowski.jpg
    desc: Bioinformatician, avid R/Shiny programmer. Independent contractor (working for Genentech/Roche), Poland.
    website: http://cosi1.github.io/
    url: http://cosi1.github.io/
    github: https://github.com/cosi1/
    twitter: https://twitter.com/Cosi1125
  - name: Jonathan Polonsky
    img: /img/people/jonathan-polonsky.jpg
    desc: Epidemiologist focusing on humanitarian and outbreak settings. I use R for automating analyses and reproducible reporting. World Health Organisation, Switzerland.
    website: http://who.int/emergencies/en/
    url: http://who.int/emergencies/en/
    github: https://github.com/jpolonsky
    twitter: https://twitter.com/jonny_polonsky
  - name: Karthik Ram
    img: /img/people/karthik-ram.jpg
    desc: Data scientist and ecologist, Karthik is also heading the <a href="http,//ropensci.org">rOpenSci</a> initiative. UC Berkeley, USA.
    website: http://karthik.io/
    url: http://karthik.io/
    github: https://github.com/karthik
    twitter: https://twitter.com/_inundata/
  - name: Nistara Randhawa
    img: /img/people/nistara-randhawa.jpg
    desc: Epidemiologist and R programmer contributing to the Epicontacts package. University of California, Davis, USA.
    website: http://nistara.net
    url: http://nistara.net
    github: https://github.com/nistara
  - name: Lukas Richter
    img: /img/people/lukas-richter.jpg
    desc: Mathematical and statistical modelling in infectious disease epidemiology, R programming. Austrian Agency for Food and Health Safety, Austria.
    github: https://github.com/lukric
    url: https://github.com/lukric
  - name: Benjamin Roche
    img: /img/people/benjamin-roche.jpg
    desc: Evolutionary ecologist specialist in mathematical modeling of zoonotic diseases and optimization of public health strategies. IRD, France / Mexico.
    website: http://roche.ben.googlepages.com
    url: http://roche.ben.googlepages.com
    github: https://github.com/rocheben
    twitter: https://twitter.com/BenRocheGroup
  - name: Noam Ross
    img: /img/people/noam-ross.jpg
    desc: Disease ecologist, working on zoonotic disease emergence, dynamical systems, economics and R programming standards. EcoHealth Alliance, USA.
    github: https://github.com/noamross/
    url: https://github.com/noamross/
    twitter: https://twitter.com/noamross
  - name: Barry Rowlingson
    img: /img/people/barry-rowlingson.jpg
    desc: Spatial statistician and data scientist (R, Python) on tropical diseases and health surveillance. Lancaster University, UK.
    website: http://barry.rowlingson.com/
    url: http://barry.rowlingson.com/
    github: https://github.com/barryrowlingson
    twitter: https://twitter.com/geospacedman
  - name: Maria Saavedra-Campos
    img: /img/people/maria-saavedra-campos.jpg
    desc: Senior epidemiology scientist involved in outbreak investigation, surveillance and research. Public Health England, UK.
  - name: Adom San Koffi
    img: /img/people/adom-san-koffi.jpg
    desc: Field epidemiologist and outbreak response expert. World Health Organization, Côte d'Ivoire.
    website: http://www.who.int/countries/civ/fr/
    url: http://www.who.int/countries/civ/fr/
  - name: Sompob Saralamba
    img: /img/people/sompob-saralamba.jpg
    desc: Mathematical modeller and R programmer. Thailand.
    website: http://www.sakngoi.com
    url: http://www.sakngoi.com
    github: https://github.com/slphyx
    twitter: https://twitter.com/slphyx
  - name: Ilana Schafer
    img: /img/people/ilana-schafer.jpg
    desc: Veterinary epidemiologist with expertise in field outbreak response, and software development for outbreak data management and contact tracing. US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA.
  - name: Dirk Schumacher
    img: /img/people/dirk-schumacher.jpg
    desc: R developer with experience in infectious disease epidemiology, surveillance and outbreak response. Berlin, Germany.
    website: https://www.dirk-schumacher.net/
    url: https://www.dirk-schumacher.net/
    github: https://github.com/dirkschumacher
    twitter: https://twitter.com/dirk_sch
  - name: Ellie Sherrard-Smith
    img: /img/people/ellie-sherrard-smith.jpg
    desc: Epidemiologist specialized in statistics and data analysis, with strong focus on malaria. Imperial College London, UK.
    github: https://github.com/EllieSherrardSmith
    url: https://github.com/EllieSherrardSmith
  - name: Janetta Skarp
    img: /img/people/janetta-skarp.jpg
    desc: MRes student working in infectious disease modelling, contributor to RECON packages. Imperial College London, UK.
    github: https://github.com/jeskarp
    url: https://github.com/jeskarp
  - name: Pavel Skums
    img: /img/people/pavel-skums.jpg
    desc: Epidemiology and intra-host viral evolution using computational genomics and mathematical modeling. Georgia State University, USA.
    website: http://alan.cs.gsu.edu/compbel/
    url: http://alan.cs.gsu.edu/compbel/
    github: https://github.com/skumsp
  - name: Andy South
    img: /img/people/andy-south.jpg
    desc: R developer, mapping, insecticide resistance, QGIS training for operational disease vector surveillance. Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK.
    website: http://andysouth.co.uk
    url: http://andysouth.co.uk
    github: https://github.com/AndySouth
    twitter: https://twitter.com/southmapr
  - name: Alex Spina
    img: /img/people/alex-spina.jpg
    desc: Infectious disease epidemiologist using R for surveillance data and outbreak response. Austrian Agency for Food and Health Safety / European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Austria.
    github: https://github.com/aspina7
    url: https://github.com/aspina7
  - name: Tony Stewart
    img: /img/people/tony-stewart.jpg
    desc: Medical epidemiologist working on international epidemics, with a background in tools development for response. World Health Organization, GOARN, Switzerland.
    website: http://www.who.int/ihr/alert_and_response/outbreak-network/en/
    url: http://www.who.int/ihr/alert_and_response/outbreak-network/en/
  - name: Savina Stoitsova
    img: /img/people/savina-stoitsova.jpg
    desc: Infectious disease epidemiologist (EPIET alumni) based in Bulgaria, interested in affordable analytic tools for outbreak response. National center of infectious and parasitic diseases, Sofia.
    website: http://www.ncipd.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=featured&Itemid=730&lang=en
    url: http://www.ncipd.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=featured&Itemid=730&lang=en
  - name: Ying-shih Su
    img: /img/people/ying-shih-su.jpg
    desc: Infection disease specialist, epidemiologist and pharmacology and toxicology. Taiwan CDC, Taiwan.
    twitter: https://twitter.com/ying_shih0818
    url: https://twitter.com/ying_shih0818
  - name: Bertrand Sudre
    img: /img/people/bertrand-sudre.jpg
    desc: 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, Sweden.
    website: http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/Pages/home.aspx
    url: http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/Pages/home.aspx
  - name: Callum Thirkell
    img: /img/people/callum-thirkell.jpg
    desc: Intensive care paramedic currently undertaking the Australian Field Epidemiology Training Program. Australian National University - National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australia.
    twitter: https://twitter.com/callumthirkell
    url: https://twitter.com/callumthirkell
  - name: Robin Thompson
    img: /img/people/robin-thompson.jpg
    desc: Epidemiological modeller and computer programmer, interested in diseases of humans, animals and plants. University of Oxford, UK.
    website: http://www.robin-thompson.co.uk
    url: http://www.robin-thompson.co.uk
  - name: Salla Toikkanen
    img: /img/people/salla-toikkanen.jpg
    desc: Statistical and epidemiological analysis of infectious disease surveillance data. EPIET alumnus. National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland.
    github: https://github.com/stoikkanen/
    url: https://github.com/stoikkanen/
    twitter: https://twitter.com/stoekkane
  - name: Gerry Tonkin-Hill
    img: /img/people/gerry-tonkin-hill.jpg
    desc: Mathematical Genomics PhD student interested in statistics and infectious disease. Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK.
    github: https://github.com/gtonkinhill
    url: https://github.com/gtonkinhill
    twitter: https://twitter.com/gerrythill
  - name: Sai Thein Than Tun
    img: /img/people/sai-thein-than-tun.jpg
    desc: Mathematical and economic modeller with some experience in R package development. Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Myanmar.
    github: https://github.com/SaiTheinThanTun
    url: https://github.com/SaiTheinThanTun
  - name: Rolina van Gaalen
    img: /img/people/rolina-van-gaalen.jpg
    desc: Infectious disease epidemiologist, mathematical and statistical modeller, and R programmer. National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), The Netherlands.
  - name: Edwin van Leeuwen
    img: /img/people/edwin-van-leeuwen.jpg
    desc: Experienced epidemiological modeller, with a strong background as R programmer. Public Health England, UK.
    github: http://github.com/BlackEdder
    url: http://github.com/BlackEdder
  - name: Erik Volz
    img: /img/people/erik-volz.jpg
    desc: Population genetics, phylogenetics, and mathematical epidemiology. Imperial College London, UK.
    github: https://github.com/emvolz
    url: https://github.com/emvolz
  - name: Brooke Watson
    img: /img/people/brooke-watson.jpg
    desc: Epidemiologist studying ecological, biological, and behavioral drivers of zoonotic disease emergence. EcoHealth Alliance, USA.
    website: https://brooke.science
    url: https://brooke.science
    github: https://github.com/brooke-watson
    twitter: https://twitter.com/brooklynevery1
  - name: Jon Zelner
    img: /img/people/jon-zelner.jpg
    desc: outbreak reconstruction, spatial epidemiology, social determinants of infection risk. University of Michigan School of Public Health, USA.
    website: http://www.jonzelner.net
    url: http://www.jonzelner.net
    github: http://github.com/jzelner
    twitter: http://twitter.com/jzelner
  - name: Bing Zhang
    img: /img/people/bing-zhang.jpg
    desc: Infectious disease models, respiratory diseases, vaccine impact, and data visualization in Public Health. Guangdong provincial institute of Public Health, China.
    website: http://www.spatial-r.com
    url: http://www.spatial-r.com
    github: https://github.com/Spatial-R
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## Community

RECON is a group of people sharing their time and expertise to lead, facilitate, advise, and promote the development of analysis tools for outbreak response using the [R software](https://www.r-project.org/). The list of people below is growing as we are recruiting more members. See [this page](../join) 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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## Former members

Their interests may have shifted since, but these people were at some point
members of RECON for at least a year:

- Thomas Crellen
- Tini Garske
- Martin Hinsch
- Eben Kenah
- John Lees
- Oliver Watson
- James Hayward