Ben Cooper

@bugwonk.bsky.social

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Professor of infectious disease epidemiology at Centre for Global Health Research, Oxford. 🤓🧀☕️🚴🏼🦠💉💊

Screenshot from viva for DPhil candidate Sai Thein Than Tun with examiners Ben Cooper and Jennifer Flegg. All are smiling as Sai has just passed his viva with minor corrections and the examiners were hugely impressed at the quality of the work .
board full of text explaining all the amazing things Oxfordshire charity Yellow Submarine does to support young people and adults with learning disabilities and autism to lead full lives
Joe running in a parkrun event in a field next to the Thames in Abingdon
Joe, a 16 year old neurodivergent boy, deeply lost in music, plays a drum set assembled from from roughly cut lumber in front of a tree covered with ivy in a style that combines the instinctual energy of Moe Tucker, legendary drummer from the Velvet Underground, with the distinctive hi-hat style of Topper Headon, legendary drummer from The Clash.
Rachel Otuko (@missotuko.bsky.social), on the left of the picture, an Oxford DPhil student and teacher on the workshop explains a graph plotted on the laptop screen to a student from the Africa CDC attending the workshop. The room is filled with other students who are deep in thought while staring at computer screens which are running the same R Shiny Application.
students on short course point at laptop screens which is running an R Shiny web application about cost-effectiveness of maintaining a microbiological diagnostic lab which is based on this paper https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.14.24307355v1
Christmas tree being carried on the basket of a green Elephant Bike (a reconditioned posties bike)
screenshot of Chernoff smiley face plotted with ggChernoff package in R and running from within Obsidian