Melissa Penny

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Prof. at Swiss TPH, University of Basel, Switzerland. Passionate about modelling #malaria, #COVID, disease dynamics and interventions to improve health

On twitter as @melissa_a_penny

Based in 🇨🇭, from 🇦🇺🦘

Interested in how modelling supports & accelerates R&D of new #malaria prevention tools such as vaccines, monoclonal antibodies & chemoprevention?
https://tinyurl.com/mvs9s9cp
with Narimane Nekkab, Josephine Malinga, Lydia.Braunack-Mayer, Sherrie Kelly from my Disease Modelling Unit @ SwissTPH
& Scott Miller @GatesMRI

Thank you to all my colleagues at Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, University of Basel for the fantastic opportunities and support over the years and I look forward to our continued collaborations and impactful science.

#firstGenAcademic #iwd23 #Womeninmalaria #womeninstem

Prof. Fiona Stanley is not only an inspiring medical researcher and founding Director of Telethon Kids Institute, but she also has and continues to develop, enable and support women researchers in STEM.

I look forward to the new challenges and collaborations that await in malaria, global health and child health research! I am proud to serve as the inaugural Fiona Stanley Chair in Child Health Research at Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia.

Happy #InternationalWomensDay2023 to my inspiring women colleagues & mentors whom I have had the privilege to work alongside! Thank you

Today I also share some exciting news: later 2023, I will join
Telethon Kids Insitute, University of Western Australia as the inaugural Fiona Stanley Chair of Child Health Research.

https://lnkd.in/eKNERCFh

Leading disease modeller appointed inaugural Fiona Stanley Chair of Child Health Research

Telethon Kids Institute and The University of Western Australia are proud to announce the appointment of the inaugural Fiona Stanley Chair of Child Health Research, Professor Melissa Penny.

Are you interested in analyzing single-cell lineage tracing data with novel phylogenetic and phylodynamic methods? We are hiring! Join us
@[email protected]
in Basel, Switzerland as a postdoc: https://jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_ethz_OSBXzVpBRMd6N4oVKN - application deadline is Feb. 13. Starting date is flexible.
Postdoctoral researcher in single-cell phylodynamics

Looking forward to discussing at the Global #malaria Congress in Melbourne 25-26th May 2023 https://www.globalmalariacongress2023.org
Finish the Fight Against Malaria

Finish the Fight Against Malaria
Posting on in case you missed this goodbye letter to Switzerland by Alexandra Dufresne
https://www.ellexx.com/en/themes/career/adieu-liebe-schweiz-a-foreign-feminists-farewell-letter-to-switzerland/
Time to be done with smugness & complacency. Time for ubiquitous male privilege to be seen & NOT just accepted as normal. A call to action for diversity, equity & inclusion
Adieu, liebe Schweiz: a foreign feminist’s farewell letter to Switzerland

After six years, human rights lawyer and working mother Alexandra Dufresne is leaving Switzerland. But not before she shares an urgent call-to-action with all of us.

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And Saas-Fee at sunset
Sunrise in Saas-Fee 🤩
Thank you to all my collaborators in the Disease Modelling unit @SwissTPH @uniBasel for a successful 2022. We celebrated with cheese & ice-skating!
Here’s to a successful 2023 of improving health with all our collaborators worldwide.
We wish everyone a happy holiday & new year