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Melissa Penny
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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 · Aug 8
We’re grateful to our community of users and contributors who continue to support OpenMalaria’s development.
📄 Example XML: github.com/SwissTPH/ope...
🛠️ Guide to update existing XML: github.com/SwissTPH/ope...

If you have any questions don’t hesitate to reach out. We’re here to help!
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Melissa Penny @melissa-a-penny.bsky.social · Aug 8
🚨 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...
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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 · Feb 19
📢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 · Feb 4
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 · Jan 30
We had a great time reflecting on where applied malaria modelling is today and where we can do better as technology, data, and the field changes.

PS Figure one has some useful tips, challenges and solutions for ensuring a model is fit for purpose in decision-making.
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Melissa Penny @melissa-a-penny.bsky.social · Jan 30
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?"
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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 · Jan 15
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...
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 · Dec 26
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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