Chicas News Announcements
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Laura’s breakfast
I had a lovely bowl of muesli and granola with a few raspberries on top to give that healthy feel. 🙂
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CHICAS becomes a WHO Collaborating Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease research
As a WHO Collaborating Centre, CHICAS now becomes a formal part of an international collaborative network carrying out activities in support of WHO’s programmes. For more information, read the University News Announcement
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Software Skills Workshops for 2021
Robin Long, the N8CIR Research Software Engineer, will be running a new programme of workshops for research computation skills. The workshops are suitable for PhD students and staff. For more details contact Robin Long via Teams. 2021/2022 Term 1 Schedule All the sessions are online, from 9:30 to 15:30 on Thursdays. Use the Eventbrite links…
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Student Project Showcase Launch
Our new student showcase displays some of the amazing project work done by our students on our MSc and MRes programmes. Currently the 2020/2021 Posters gallery highlights projects from our MRes students.
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COVID-19 Coronavirus Research
A number of CHICAS research staff and students are now devoting much of their research efforts to COVID-19-related activity. Our modelling activities are helping to advise and support pandemic response and decision making in the UK and internationally. We currently have representation on SPI-M (the modelling group advising UK DHSC) and the WHO COVID-19 modelling…
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Peter Diggle’s 70th Birthday Celebrations
Chicas founder, former RSS president and guitarist Peter Diggle celebrated his 70th birthday on the 24th of February this year. For the story of his life all around the world in statistics, check out this Open Access interview article in Statistical Science. The celebrations continue with Developing Statistics on April 15th to 17th, a conference…
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PhD Student Honoured in Sri Lankan President’s Awards
Visiting PhD student Dileepa Ediriweera’s work on mapping and analysis of snakebite incidents in Sri Lanka has been honoured in the Sri Lankan President’s Awards for Scientific Publications. The research, published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases in 2016, was conducted by Dileepa with CHICAS colleagues Peter Diggle and Emanuele Giorgi while Dileepa was visiting CHICAS…
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Benjamin Amoah Teaches Disease Mapping in Kenya
PhD candidate student Benjamin Amoah has been visiting the Kenya Medical Research Institute in Nairobi for the delivery of a four-day workshop from the 25th to the 28th of June. He was teaching staff from the health ministries of six African countries (Kenya, D.R. Congo, Uganda, Sudan, Somalia, Mozambique) the fundamentals of disease mapping. Benjamin…
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Peter Macharia Visit to CHICAS
Peter Macharia of the KEMRI Wellcome Trust recently visited CHICAS to work with Emanuele Giorgi on modelling changes in the spatial distribution of malaria prevalence in Kenya over the period 1990 to 2015. This project is a contribution to Peter’s general objective of understanding determinants of malaria mortality in children under 5 years of age.…
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RSS Awards for CHICAS Staff
Peter Diggle and Emanuele Giorgi are among the recipients of awards in the 2018 Royal Statistical Society Honours. Peter receives the Barnett Award for his contribution to environmental and health statistics. Emanuele has been awarded the Royal Statistical Society Research Prize for his statistics and epidemiology work. The honours will be presented at the RSS…