Warren is a former postdoctoral researcher based in The Zeeman Institute for Systems Biology & Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research (SBIDER). Warren was recently funded by the BBSRC under project US-UK Collab: Adaptive surveillance and control for endemic disease elimination. Warren was also previously funded by the Department of Health and Social Care using UK Aid funding and is managed by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) under the project Vaccine Efficacy Evaluation for Priority Emerging Diseases (VEEPED).

Research

Warren is a mathematical epidemiologist specialising in vector-borne and zoonotic infections, including dengue, Rift Valley fever and plague (Yersinia pestis). He is interested in using mathematical models and statistical inference to decipher the socio-ecological determinants that drive the emergence, spread and persistence of disease with the end-goal of improving control policy against infectious pathogens.

Publications and manuscripts

Tennant W, Carson J, Guyver-Fletcher G, Métras R, Tildesley MJ (2025). Impacts of disease surveillance design on the understanding and control of Rift Valley fever virus. In preparation.

Tennant W, Cardinale E, Moutroifi Y, Spencer SEF, Charafouddine O, Tildesley MJ, Métras R (2024). Effectiveness and equity of vaccination strategies against Rift Valley fever in a heterogeneous landscape. bioRxiv 2024.07.18.604096. doi: 10.1101/2024.07.18.604096Link opens in a new window. Preprint.

McKendrick JQ, Tennant W, Tildesley MJ (2023). Modelling seasonality of Lassa fever incidences and vector dynamics in Nigeria. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 17(11): e0011543. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0011543Link opens in a new window

de Klerk JN, Gorsich EE, Grewar JD, Atkins BD, Tennant W, Labuschagne K, Tildesley MJ (2023). Modelling African horse sickness emergence and transmission in the South African control area using a deterministic metapopulation approach. PLOS Computational Biology 19(9): e1011448. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011448Link opens in a new window

Tennant W, Cardinale E, Cêtre-Sossah C, Moutroifi Y, Le Godais G, Colombi D, Spencer SEF, Tildesley MJ, Keeling MJ, Charafouddine O, Colizza V, Edmunds WJ, Métras R (2021). Modelling the persistence and control of Rift Valley fever virus in a spatially heterogeneous landscape. Nature Communications 12(5593). doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-25833-8Link opens in a new window

Tennant W, Tildesley MJ, Spencer SEF, Keeling MJ (2020). Climate drivers of plague epidemiology in British India, 1898–1949. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287(1928). doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.0538Link opens in a new window

Tennant W, McKinley T, Recker M (2019). Inferring the ecological drivers of arboviral outbreaks. bioRxiv 632133. doi: 10.1101/632133Link opens in a new window. Preprint.

Tennant W, Recker M (2018) Robustness of the reproductive number estimates in vector-borne disease systems. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 12(12): e0006999. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006999Link opens in a new window

Lourenço J, Tennant W, Faria NR, Walker A, Gupta S, Recker M (2017). Challenges in dengue research: A computational perspective. Evolutionary Applications 11: 516– 533. doi: 10.1111/eva.12554Link opens in a new window