(above) Principle and Co-Investigators of JUNIPER consortium.

JUNIPER Consortium Newsletter
March 2021

Dear friends and associates of JUNIPER,

Welcome to the first edition of the JUNIPER consortium's newsletter. Last month saw the official announcement by UKRI regarding funding for JUNIPER consortium as well as our first research meeting, hosted by the Isaac Newton Institute (INI). The research meeting included talks from one of the co-investigators from each of the seven universities that are part of the consortium: Bristol, Cambridge, Exeter, Lancaster, Manchester, Oxford and Warwick. Recordings of the talks available here.

Events

MONTHLY SEMINAR AT ISAAC NEWTON INSTITUE
Title: Models for Vaccination in the UK : what do models tell us about targeting, timing and impact?
Speaker: Prof Matt Keeling (University of Warwick)
Date: 22nd March 12pm-1pm (GMT)
Register here.
This talk will be live streamed here.

WEEKLY SEMINAR SERIES
We have started a weekly informal seminar on Wednesday at 16:00-17:00 GMT followed by a virtual beer hour. Recent talks by JUNIPER members Dr Rob Challen and Dr Ed Hill have covered topics including the impact of the B.1.1.7 variant on mortality and modelling COVID-19 transmission within universities. If you are interested in attending please sign up here. 

Recent Papers & Articles

Article in BMJ on increased hazard of mortality of the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 lineage (aka VOC202012/01 or ‘Kent’ variant) from members at Exeter, Bristol, Lancaster and Warwick. Check out the full paper here.

We are happy to be working with Plus Magazine to bring the work from consortium members to a wider audience. Check out the full list of articles here. Recent highlights include 'Testing testing in schools' and 'R's not all you need'.

NEW PODCAST - MATHEMATICS ON THE FRONT LINE: What's it like advising government on the maths of COVID-19 ? Julia Gog spoke to Plus magazine for their new podcast series in collaboration with JUNIPER consortium. Listen here.

For a full list of outputs from the consortium, check out our website here​.

Upcoming events

Our next half day research meeting will be in May. Please check next months newsletter for further information on the date and how to sign up to attend.

Thanks as always for your continued support and interest. 

- JUNIPER consortium

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Contact: c.dangerfield@newton.ac.uk (JUNIPER scientific programme manager)

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(above) Image from preprint on Household bubbles and COVID-19 transmission. Full preprint available here