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🌟 I'm a quantitative epidemiologist at Epicentre, Médecins Sans Frontières.

• 👩‍💻 I'm interested in developing and/or applying mathematical and statistical methods to support response to infectious disease outbreaks, primarily in humanitarian settings. I'm currently working on projects on cholera and Ebola virus disease, and I also worked on the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • ❗📄 Recent publication: Quantifying the impact of hospital catchment area definitions on hospital admissions forecasts: COVID-19 in England, September 2020–April 2021.
• ⚙️ R user, and dabbling occasionally in Stan.
  • 📦 {pepbp}: Simulating an infectious disease outbreak with post-exposure prophylaxis for high-risk contacts.
  • 📦 {technocolour}: Colour palettes based on electronic music records.
• 💻 I'm an R instructor with the nonprofit Applied Epi.
• 🇫🇷 Based in Paris, France.
• ⬅️ Previously a Research Fellow in real-time modelling of infectious disease outbreaks at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (UK), and a consultant with the World Health Organisation (Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo).
• 🎓 PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Warwick.

📫 Contact me at [email protected]