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I am a Research Software Engineer :computer: at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical 

Medicine, working on the [Epiverse TRACE](https://github.com/epiverse-trace) Initiative, 

which is a project to develop and maintain R packages for providing reproducible analytics 

support during epidemics.



I am interested in developing mathematical and statistical models and methods and accompanying software to improve our understanding of how pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions impact disease spread.



# What I do



📦: **Develop** epidemiological modelling R packages:

  - [epichains](https://github.com/epiverse-trace/epichains), an R package for analysing the distribution of the size and length of transmission chains), and 

  - [EpiNow2](https://github.com/epiforecasts/EpiNow2), an R package for forecasting and nowcasting infectious disease dynamics and estimating the time-varying reproduction number.



📦: **Contribute** to the following R packages:



  - Several packages in the [Epiverse-TRACE Initiative](https://github.com/epiverse-trace/),

  - [epinowcast](https://github.com/epinowcast/epinowcast),

  - [scoringutils](https://epiforecasts.io/scoringutils/).



🕵️‍♂️: **Conduct code reviews**. See examples in:

  - [the epidemics R package](https://github.com/epiverse-trace/epidemics/pull/176#pullrequestreview-1925558435)

  - [the cfr R package](https://github.com/epiverse-trace/cfr/pull/78#pullrequestreview-1617135290)

  - [the superspreading R package](https://github.com/epiverse-trace/superspreading/pull/77#pullrequestreview-1833259711)

  - [the epiparameter R package](https://github.com/epiverse-trace/epiparameter/pull/341#pullrequestreview-2161323012)



👨‍🏫: **Teach** (not officially). For example,

  - For the "Modelling for Pandemic Preparedness and Response" modular short course on behalf of the [German West African Center for Pandemic Preparedness and Prevention in Ghana](https://g-wac.org/). See my materials [here](https://github.com/jamesmbaazam/intro-to-idd-modelling) and [here](https://github.com/jamesmbaazam/mppr).

  - My [YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@JamesAzam)



🕵️‍♂️: Peer review scientific manuscripts in Infectious disease modeling, Global Public Health, and R package development.



  - I've so far reviewed articles in [Scientific Reports](https://www.nature.com/srep/), [Plos Global Public Health](https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/), [The Journal of Open Source Software](https://joss.theoj.org/), and [BMC Infectious Diseases](https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/).



🌐: Collaborate & Affiliate with several networks including:

  -  The [Global Burden of Disease Network](https://www.healthdata.org/research-analysis/gbd) as a collaborator,

  -  [South African Center for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis](https://www.sacema.org/) as a [Research Associate](https://www.sacema.org/person/james-azam-phd/),

  -  [German West African Center for Pandemic Preparedness and Prevention in Ghana](https://g-wac.org/) as an infectious disease analytics fellow.



# Technical concepts I'm currently (re-)learning



- Probabilistic Programming with the [Stan programming language](https://mc-stan.org/)

- [Bayesian Data Analysis](https://www.bayesrulesbook.com/)

- [Model fitting](https://sbfnk.github.io/mfiidd/)

- [Nowcasting and Forecasting](https://nfidd.github.io/nfidd/)



# Books I'm currently reading



- [A Game of Thrones](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13496.A_Game_of_Thrones)

- [The Art of Explanation](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Explanation-Communicate-Clarity-Confidence/dp/1472298446)

- [How to talk to anyone](https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Talk-Anyone-Success-Relationships/dp/0722538073)

- [Standard Deviation](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Standard-Deviation/dp/B071HJB4S2/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1M3BZ5MVYPHFP&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ULOMqOgbe_Mhp_ZkQ9ONEn895_j7e1l_KAleKJh89s70d6Or09GA_mN6K0K8LC8z5zoMQ8HITecRmb52ea83lePTBEbZXVf8Dw0WicLj6EA.M59exQWJacSBic88KSlZh3rvTtsgJ2yX5DzUfWEIXTg&dib_tag=se&keywords=standard+deviation+katherine+heiny&qid=1719228399&s=books&sprefix=standard+%2Cstripbooks%2C145&sr=1-1)



See more on my [website](https://jamesmbaazam.github.io/).