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Melissa Penny

@melissa-a-penny.bsky.social
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Head Global Disease Modelling and Professor at The Kids Research Institute Australia, University of Western Australia. Passionate about modelling #malaria, disease dynamics & interventions

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Melissa Penny @melissa-a-penny.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
🚨 OpenMalaria v48.0 is out! Major updates: 🦟 Elimination model improvements 📊 Heterogeneous intervention coverage 📝 Simplified XML structure 🔗 Download: github.com/SwissTPH/ope... 📋 Changelog: github.com/SwissTPH/ope... #OpenMalaria #GlobalHealth #Epidemiology @thekidsau.bsky.social @swisstph.ch
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Release schema-48.0 · SwissTPH/openmalaria
Release of OpenMalaria version 48.0. Update to version 48.0: https://github.com/SwissTPH/openmalaria/wiki/SchemaUpdateGuide Changelog: https://github.com/SwissTPH/openmalaria/wiki/Changelog Example...
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Melissa Penny @melissa-a-penny.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
📢I'm honoured to join @WHO Malaria Policy Advisory Group with 15 other esteemed #malaria experts supporting WHO, Global Malaria Programme, and malaria evidence-based strategies. I'm excited to support responsible #modelling in decision making. www.who.int/groups/malar... @UWA @thekidsau.bsky.social
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The Malaria Policy Advisory Group (MPAG) provides independent, strategic advice to WHO on all technical areas relating to malaria control and elimination
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Melissa Penny @melissa-a-penny.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Exciting opportunity for a talented scientific software developer to join our Global Disease Modelling team(bit.ly/4gtvnNN) to build & maintain #malaria & disease #models! If you share a passion for achieving impact in #GlobalHealth, please apply here: bit.ly/40ZSdrF Closing date: 12th Feb
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The OpportunityIt is a very exciting time at The Kids Research Institute Australia as we continue to evolve from what began in the 1980’s as a ...
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Melissa Penny @melissa-a-penny.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Mathematical models are and have been incredibly useful in our fight to defeat #malaria— let’s collectively ensure they remain so! Check out our new article from @jalinegerardin.bsky.social and I on "How can modelling responsibly inform decision-making in malaria?" journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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How can modeling responsibly inform decision-making in malaria?
When models are used to inform decision-making, both their strengths and limitations must be considered. Using malaria as an example, this Perspective explains how and why models are limited and offer...
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PLOS Global Public Health @plosglobalpublichealth.org · 15/01/2025
NEW on our blog: Designing effective training programs for applied mathematical modeling By Jaline Gerardin and Sheetal P. Silal speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2025/01/14/d...
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Designing effective training programs for applied mathematical modeling
Applied modeling is a highly cross-disciplinary field, requiring a unique mixture of hard skills, soft skills, and domain knowledge. Successful training programs are those that include hands-on simult...
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Women in Malaria @womeninmalaria.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Registration for the 2nd WiM online conference is now OPEN, everyone can register: womeninmalaria.es/wim-conferen... There is a fee waiver application for LMICs & also an option to buy fee waivers for others during the registration process 🧫🧬🦟 Please share!
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