Policy-driven research
I have worked alongside policy stakeholders, including the World Health Organization (WHO) and UK organisations such as the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (SPI-M) and NHS Test & Trace. Examples:
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs):
- Modelling the impact COVID-19 delays on NTD programmes (WHO NTD team)
- Surveillance design (WHO NTD team)
- Assessing public health milestones for leprosy (WHO leprosy team)
- Elimination and control of lymphatic filariasis (WHO NTD-LF team)
The UK COVID-19 response:
- Determinants of UK contact tracing impact (SPI-M, NHS Test & Trace, JBC, UKHSA)
- Trade-offs between adherence and engagement (SPI-M, NHS Test & Trace, JBC, UKHSA)
Media and outreach
- “What’s my age again?” Live Labs, Warwick Christmas Lecturers 2023.
- BBC Radio 4 interview: 22/12/2021.
- BBC News Channel Interview: 22/12/2021.
- Times Radio Interview: the emergence of omicron in the UK and implications for tracing, testing and vaccination, 07/12/2021.
- BBC News Interview: vaccine impact on COVID-19 cases and deaths in the UK, 02/03/2021 (view here).
- JUNIPER seminar series – An imperfect tool: why is contact tracing so hard to get right? Isaac Newton Institute, invited seminar, 12/07/2021 (view here).
- Is There a Worm on That Branch? Popular science article published in Mathematics Today, IMA, Oct 2019 (link here)
- A Zombie Apocalypse? Invited public science talk on infectious disease modelling, 2018 TakeAIM Awards, The Smith Institute, Feb 2019.
Conference organisation
- NTD Modelling Consortium Science Day. Organised and chaired a virtual one-day meeting of talks and panel discussions around scientific methods for modelling neglected tropical diseases, March 2021.
- Reproducibility Workshop. Conceived, organised and chaired a one-day workshop on reproducibility in disease modelling for the NTD Modelling Consortium, with talks on unit testing, GitHub workflow and reproducible coding, March 2021.
- TTI Workshop. Assisted organisation and presented welcome and overview on key points learned during the pandemic so far around Test Trace and Isolate, Nov 2021.
- NTD Modelling Consortium Science Day. Co-organised and co-chaired a virtual one-day meeting of talks and panel discussions around scientific methods for modelling neglected tropical diseases, March 2020.