HAT Modelling and Economic Predictions for Policy (HAT MEPP)
Human African Trypanosomiasis Modelling and Economic Predictions for Policy (HAT MEPP) is a research project started in 2018, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to support global efforts to eliminate gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (gHAT or sleeping sickness).
Sleeping sickness is a tropical disease found in West and Central Africa, transmitted to humans by tsetse (biting flies), that is typically fatal without treatment. To date, interventions have reduced sleeping sickness cases to historically low levels and the World Health Organization (WHO) has set a goal to eliminate transmission of the infection by 2030.
HAT MEPP research will continue to 2028 with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Project Aims
- To provide decision support to national programmes in Democratic Republic of Congo, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea and Uganda regarding intervention strategies and cost effectiveness, taking into account resource constraints
- Model novel and modified strategies to achieve and sustain elimination of gHAT.
- Develop legacy tools for making modelling-based strategy decisions.
HAT MEPP team
Our team, led by Dr Kat Rock, consists of four mathematical modellers, three health economists, two data visualisation and AI experts, a statistician, a software developer and a scientific project manager. The team is based at the University of Warwick.
Click to discover more about the team.
Project Results
The team's work is helping to support ongoing interventions against gHAT and the global efforts to eliminate the disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Uganda and Chad.
We are also interested in the impact that infection reservoirs and intervention interruptions could have on gHAT transmission. Click to explore our results.
Graphical User Interface
Our gHAT GUI (Graphical User Interface) is designed to provide easy and user-friendly access to the data and results from the HAT MEPP research project.
Booklet & Newsletter
Here you can find our HAT MEPP 1 project booklet from 2020 and the annual HAT MEPP newsletter from 2022 and 2023 summarising some of the team's key findings from the past four years.
Publications
Here you will find a list of our publications as well as publication summaries in English and French.
Contact us
Group leader: Dr Kat Rock k.s.rock@warwick.ac.uk
Scientific Project Manager: Dr Emily Crowley emily.crowley@warwick.ac.uk
