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---
title: "About"
---
## Executive Board
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#### Cyril Geismar {.item-name}
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PhD in Clinial Medical Research (Public Health) : Developing methodologies and software for Bayesian inference of transmission trees (outbreaker2). Imperial College London, United Kingdom.
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#### Noam Ross {.item-name}
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Vice-President. Disease Ecologist and Principal Scientist, Computational Research. Software peer review lead for rOpenSci. EcoHealth Alliance, United States.
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#### Janetta Skarp {.item-name}
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PhD student working in infectious disease modelling, contributor to RECON packages., Imperial College London, UK.
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## Contact
If you have questions regarding our [Packages](packages/) consider exploring
the package documentation or opening issues in their GitHub repositories.
For general inquiries or learn more about supporting our activities,
please get in touch by emailing [Noam Ross](mailto:noam@ropensci.org).
## Funders
RECON's activities are made possible by its members, who often volunteer time
and effort for the greater good, but also by funding bodies and partners who
have been supporting the organisation since its early days. On this page, we
acknowledge institutions who supported RECON in terms of:
* *direct funding*: these funders support RECON through direct donations to the
organisation, or free/discounted services
* *indirect funding*: these funders support RECON through means other than
direct donations, typically through salaries of members who contribute to
RECON activities through their professional activity, or financial support of
events
* *partners*: these are organisations which have been collaborating with RECON
to co-organise events such as workshops and short courses
### Direct funding
RECON has received the following direct funding:
* R Consortium / Linux foundation: USD 23,300 for the [*COVID-19 challenge*](https://www.repidemicsconsortium.org/2020-06-09-covid-challenge/)
project
* [Zoom](https://zoom.us): granted free license to the organisation account
### Indirect funding
#### MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis (MRC GIDA)
Based at Imperial College London and headed by
[Pr Neil Ferguson](https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/neil.ferguson),
[MRC GIDA](https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-infectious-disease-analysis/about-us/)
(MR/R015600/1) has played a key role supporting the emergence of RECON and its
activities, by helping us fund various events and supporting salaries of several
key members. In particular, it provided the core funding for
[Hackout 3](http://hackout3.ropensci.org/), which led to
the creation of RECON, as well as for our first meeting on outbreak analytics in
[March 2018](https://recon-gathering-march2018.netlify.com/).
#### NIHR Health Protection Research Unit for Modelling Methodology (NIHR HPRU MM)
A structural collaboration between Public Health England and Imperial College
London, the [NIHR HPRU MM](https://www.imperial.ac.uk/hpru-modelling)
(HPRU-2012-10080) has been established in 2014 with the aim of developing novel
analytical and computational tools to improve public health. It has supported
events, activities and members salaries since the emergence of RECON. In
particular, it funded most of our short course in
[Sofia](https://recon-sofia-2018.netlify.com/) and the satelite
[short course](https://recon-malta-2018.netlify.com/) and
[workshop](https://recon-hackfest-3.netlify.com/) for the ESCAIDE conference in
Malta in 2018.
#### UK Public Health Rapid Support Team (UK-PHRST)
The [UK-PHRST](https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/UKPHRST) is a unique collaboration
between Public Health England and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine to provide and coordinate the UK’s public health response to outbreaks
in low- and middle-income countries. In addition to the public health response,
the UK-PHRST conducts outbreak-related research and capacity building for
outbreak response. The UK-PHRST is financed through UK Official Development
Assistance funding and supports RECON primarily through salary support of some
members and meeting sponsorship.
### Partners
In alphabetic order, our partners include:
#### The EPIET Alumni Network (EAN)
The [EAN](https://epietalumni.net/) is a regular partner for co-organising
workshops and shot-courses, including satellite events to the ESCAIDE conference
and via the support of activities of the EPIET/EUPHEM fellows.
#### Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
[MSF](https://www.msf.org.uk/) and RECON collaborate on the development of
[R4epi](https://blogs.msf.org/bloggers/larissa/innovation-introducing-r4epis),
a project aiming to provide new, free and widely accessible resources for field
epidemiology.
#### US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The US [CDC](https://www.cdc.gov/) funded and co-organised a short course in
Atlanta on infectious disease modelling in April 2018.
#### World Health Organization - Afro region (WHO Afro)
[WHO Afro](https://www.afro.who.int/) has funded and co-organised a short course
on outbreak analytics in December 2018.