Miss Em Prestige

Research Fellow

United Kingdom

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Hi I'm Em (they/them). I am a doctoral fellow at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, with a first class BSc in Mathematics and Statistics and Distinction in MSc Medical Statistics. I have been at the school for three years now and have developed my interests in medical statistics and mathematical modelling of infectious diseases. I am passionate about using tools from both fields to answer key publich health questions. I currently hold an NIHR Doctoral Fellowship and have undertaken an NIHR Pre-Doctoral Fellowship.

Affiliations

Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Dynamics

Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Centres

Centre for Data and Statistical Science for Health

Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases

Vaccine Centre

Research

I am interested in:

Medical statistics
Mathematical modelling
Respiratory viruses
Health inequalities
Electronic Health Records (EHRs)

Selected Publications

Estimating social contact rates for the COVID-19 pandemic using Google mobility and pre-pandemic contact surveys

PRESTIGE, E; Coletti, P; Backer, J; DAVIES, NG; EDMUNDS, WJ; Jarvis, CI;

2025

Epidemics

Comparative safety and effectiveness of Pfizer BA.4-5 versus Sanofi during the spring 2023 COVID-19 booster vaccination programme in England: a matched cohort study in OpenSAFELY-TPP

Andrews, C; PRESTIGE, E; PARKER, EP K; Walker, V; Palmer, T; Schaffer, A; Green, AC A; Curtis, H; Walker, A; Smith, R; Wood, C; Bates, C; Mehrkar, A; MacKenna, B; Bacon, SC J; GOLDACRE, B; Hernán, M; Sterne, JA C; The OpenSAFELY collaborative,; Hulme, W;

2024

medRxiv

Estimating social contact rates for the COVID-19 pandemic using Google mobility and pre-pandemic contact surveys

PRESTIGE, E; Coletti, P; Backer, J; Davies, N; Edmunds, J; Jarvis, C;

2023

medRxiv

Covid lockdowns in the UK: Estimating their effects on transmission.

PRESTIGE, E; Stander, J; Wei, Y;

2022

Significance

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