WIDER personnel
This provides a list of people associated with the WIDER group, and a brief summary of their research interests:
Academic Staff and Independent Research Fellows
![Matt Keeling](matt_keeling.png)
Prof Matt Keeling
Modelling of infectious diseases in humans and animals. Optimal targeting; Spatial spread and Networks; Stochasticity and persistance of infection.
![Laura Green](lauragreen.jpg)
Prof Laura Green
Statistical and mathematical approaches to understanding the biology and control of diseases in farmed animals; translating research into practice.
![Deidre Hollingsworth](hollingsworth.jpg)
Dr Deirdre Hollingsworth
Transmission dynamics of HIV stages. Dynamics and control of malaria. Prediction and optimal control of helminth infections.
![Orin Courtenay](orin.jpg)
Dr Orin Courtenay
Field epidemiologist and behavioural ecologist of vector and zoonotic infectious diseases.
![Mike Tildesley](michaeltildesley.jpg)
Dr Mike Tildesley
Prediction and control of livestock diseases, especially foot-and-mouth and avian influenza.
![James Nokes](james_nokes.jpg)
Prof D. James Nokes
The epidemiology viral pathogens in developing countries, leading to the rational design of control programmes. Determinants of infection dynamics.
![Louise](Louise_Dyson.jpg)
Dr Louise Dyson
Multiple aspects of mathematical biology, including insect behaviour, cell mobility and epidemiology.
![Simon Spencer](simon_spencer.jpg)
Dr Simon Spencer
Stochastic models for infectious diseases in humans and animals; Bayesian statistics applied to epidemiology, outbreak detection, model selection and uncertainty.
![Lorenzo Pellis](Lorenzo_Pellis.jpg)
Dr Lorenzo Pellis
Multi-strain and multi-pathogen systems, HIV, RSV, epidemics on networks and in socially structured populations (age stratification, households, schools, etc.).
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Prof Stavros Petrou
Perinatal and paediatric health and methodological concerns surrounding the conduct of economic evaluation alongside randomised controlled trials.
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Prof Noel McCarthy
Integrating bacterial population genetics into public health epidemiology; developing and applying epidemiological methods to practical public health problems.
![Daniel Franklin](meagain.jpg?maxWidth=100)
Dr Daniel Franklin
Stochastic simulation modelling of the invasion of novel pest and pathogen species into the English and Welsh honeybee population.
![Gareth Roberts](roberts.jpg)
Prof Gareth Roberts
Bayesian Inference, particularly using modern computational statistics techniques such as Markov chain Monte Carlo and Sequential Monte Carlo.
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Prof Mark Pallen
Using high-throughput sequencing, genomics and metagenomics, to dissect the behaviour of bacterial infection and colonisation in humans and animals.
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Prof Mark Achtman
Epidemiological and sequence data for evaluating the micro-evolution and population structure of pathogenic bacteria, e.g. Salmonella enterica.
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Dr Kevin Purdy
How microbial communities form and change temporally and spatially; microbial communities (microbiomes) associated with endemic diseases in farm animals.
Post-Docs and Research Fellows
Dr Ron Crump
Prediction of risk of bovine tuberculosis infection at herd and individual animal levels.
Part of NTD modelling consortium: Statistical models of Leprosy.
![samik_datta.png](samik.png?maxWidth=150&maxHeight=150)
Dr Samik Datta
Modelling infections in honeybee populations, and simulating control.
Human infectious diseases, and comparisons of vaccination strategies.
![Erin Dilger.jpg](erin.png)
Dr Erin Dilger
Epidemiology and control of vector borne diseases, specifically visceral leishmaniasis. Running and analysing data from a CRCT in Brazil, testing a novel control for VL.
![Sam Brand](sam_brand.png)
Dr Sam Brand
Modelling spatial spread of infectious diseases; insect vectors; fast epidemic simulation; Stochastic transmission; Optimal control.
![Kat Rock](kat_rock.png)
Dr Kat Rock
Vector-borne disease modelling; effects of vector senescence and bite rate upon disease transmission.
Part of NTD modelling consortium: modelling HAT (sleeping sickness).
![Ed Smith](ed_smith.jpg?maxWidth=100)
Dr Ed Smith
Population genetics of livestock associated bacteria at the farm and global level. Impact of host genetics and breeding on disease susceptibility.
![Lloyd](lloyd.png)
Dr Lloyd Chapman
Spatial transmission modelling, vector-borne disease modelling.
Part of NTD modelling consortium: mathematical modelling of Visceral Leishmaniasis.
![Mike Irvine](wider_image.png)
Dr Mike Irvine
Spatial ecology of seagrass, using a variety of mathematical modelling and statistical tools.
Part of NTD modelling consortium: mathematical modelling of Lymphatic Filariasis.
![Jolene](jolenephoto.jpg?maxWidth=200&maxHeight=200)
Dr Jolene Atia
Cross-scale modelling of foot-rot in the UK; linking foot-level and population-level dynamics.
![Joaquin Prada](joaquin.jpg?maxWidth=200&maxHeight=200)
Dr Joaquin Prada
Epidemiology of human diseases, including schistosomiasis and measles. Aspects of spatial modelling, risk of introduction and eradication.
![](Panayiota_Touloupou.jpg)
Panayiota Touloupou
Modelling the transmission of Escherichia coli O157 in cattle, MCMC inference and model selection.
PhD Students
![Peter Dawson](dawson.jpg)
Peter Dawson
Dynamics and control of foot-and-mouth disease in Turkey. Interaction of multiple pathogen strains. Implications of livestock movements.
![Emma Monaghan](emonaghan.jpg)
Emma Monaghan
Investigating development and composition of a microbial community in the mammary glands of suckler sheep.
![Ben Hu](ben_hu_1.jpg?maxWidth=200&maxHeight=200)
Ben Hu
Cross-scale modelling of foot-and-mouth disease. Modelling and control of foot-and-mouth disease in Japan.
![liz.jpg](liz.jpg)
Elizabeth Buckingham-Jeffery
Models for gastro-intestinal illness. Syndromic data analysis. Markov Random Field methods.
![Holly_Borowski.jpg](Holly_Borowski.jpg)
Holly Borowski
Identify and evaluate barriers to the adoption of best practice (in management of footrot) by sheep farmers.
![Rachel_Clifton.jpg](Rachel_Clifton.jpg)
Rachel Clifton
Investigating the role of Fusobacterium necrophorum in the severity and persistence of footrot in sheep.
![](Mel_Munang.jpg)
Mel Munang
Investigating TB epidemiology in the setting of migration (Birmingham) and how contact tracing impacts on control.
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Alex Bishop
Household models of soil-transmitted helminths. Incorporating numerical analysis of large, sparse, stochastic matrices into gradient MCMC methods.
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Katherine Broadfoot
Models and data analysis of modern measles outbreaks, using the 2013 Swansea outbreak as a case study.
Past Members
See here for past members of the WIDER centre.