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It is great to annouce that Mike Tildesley has been awarded two major grants through BBSRC in the passed two week:

• Tildesley and Keeling have been awarded a BBSRC grant (in collaboration with Nottingham University) for "Investigating the impact of farmer behaviour and farmer-led control of infectious disease outbreaks in livestock".
• Tildesley has won a EEID NSF-BBSRC US UK collaborative grant (in collaboration with collegues at Penn State) for "Adaptive surveillance and control for endemic disease elimination".

Last week Kat Rock, from SBIDER and WMI, presented modelling work on African sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis, HAT) to Bill Gates. Kat runs the HAT Modelling and Economic Predictions for Policy (HAT MEPP) project, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The project involves modellers and health economists from Warwick, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Institute of Disease Modeling and Oxford. The research is designed to provide data-driven insights to help local decision making and planning as sleeping sickness programmes strive towards elimination of the disease.

Two team of (mainly) SBIDER athletes competed in the annual Warwick Relays. Two mixed teams were entered, thanks to the efforts of Cameron and Ailene who both ran twice. The four-person teams saw each competitor racing a 2mile / 3.3km course, which fortunately this year wasn't a mud-bath.