I joined LSHTM in April 2015. I am an infectious disease modeller, and a former director of CMMID. I work a 3-day week.
My overall interest is the transmission dynamics of infectious disease, and I have published on many different pathogens and hosts - see [Google] or [ORCID] or [ResearcherID] for full lists. I am currently a member of the Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) modelling consortium.
I have been on an expert group in the Infected Blood Inquiry. From 2017-2023 I was chair of SPI-M (the pandemic preparedness committee in UK Department of Health), and 2020-2022 I chaired the SPI-M-O modelling subgroup of SAGE which provided evidence to the UK COVID-19 response.
My overall interest is the transmission dynamics of infectious disease, and I have published on many different pathogens and hosts - see [Google] or [ORCID] or [ResearcherID] for full lists. I am currently a member of the Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) modelling consortium.
I have been on an expert group in the Infected Blood Inquiry. From 2017-2023 I was chair of SPI-M (the pandemic preparedness committee in UK Department of Health), and 2020-2022 I chaired the SPI-M-O modelling subgroup of SAGE which provided evidence to the UK COVID-19 response.
Affiliations
Department of Global Health and Development
Faculty of Public Health and Policy
Centres
Centre for Evaluation
Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases
Antimicrobial Resistance Centre
Teaching
I contribute to modules on NTD and Decision Making, and supervise projects.
Research
I am interested in all things infectious. I have projects relating to COVID-19, NTD and HIV.
Research Area
Epidemiology
Mathematical Modelling
Disease and Health Conditions
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)
Infectious diseases
Selected Publications
A spatio-temporal approach to short-term prediction of visceral leishmaniasis diagnoses in India.
2020
PLOS NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES
Inferring transmission trees to guide targeting of interventions against visceral leishmaniasis and post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis.
2020
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
The role of case proximity in transmission of visceral leishmaniasis in a highly endemic village in Bangladesh.
2018
PLoS neglected tropical diseases
Spatial variation in time to diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis in Bihar, India
2025
BMC Global and Public Health
Crises and complexity: how can we make health interventions succeed?
2025
Health policy and planning