Research Team
Professor Robin Goodwin (Project Lead), University of Warwick
Prof. Robin Goodwin is Professor of Psychology at Warwick University and Project Lead for the CONTAIN project. He specialises in individual and societal responses to major traumatic events, including pandemic outbreaks, with a particular interest in interdisciplinary approaches to novel threats.
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Dr Katy Stokes, University of Warwick
Dr Katy Stokes is a Research Fellow with a background in interdisciplinary biomedical research and health policy. Her work focuses on understanding interpersonal interactions and infection risks in wet markets with a high risk of zoonotic disease transmission.
Professor Eliasu Mumuni, University for Development Studies
Prof. Eliasu Mumuni is an Associate Professor of Development Communication and Knowledge Management and a development practitioner with extensive experience in communication, public health, social protection, agriculture and gender-focused issues. In the CONTAIN project, he serves as the Ghana-based Research Lead, overseeing the project management process in Ghana and leading in the data collection, data analysis and stakeholder engagement to better understand the practices and the lived experiences of containment in the wet markets’ areas in the Northern region of Ghana.
University for Development Studies Profile: https://uds.edu.gh/staff/emumuni-53680
Dr Michael Head, University of Southampton
Dr Michael Head is a Senior Research Fellow in Global Health, in the Faculty of Medicine at University of Southampton. His main focus is population health in rural Ghana, and is in particular here contributing to the household survey methodology.
Profile page :
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5xdyvw/doctor-michael-head
Dr Anna Six, University of Warwick
Dr Anna Six is a writer and academic who works in the medical humanities, particularly exploring mental distress and cultural politics. Anna is part of the drama team in the project who will explore how to use performance as a research methodology for studying disease transmission.
Dr Nicole Robb, University of Warwick
Nicole Robb is an Associate Professor in Virology at the Warwick Medical School. Her research interests include developing tools for viral diagnostics and surveillance and she is PhD Course Director of the
Institute for Global Pandemic Planning, formed to research solutions to mitigate the effects of pandemics. Her role in the CONTAIN project is to advise on the virology underpinning zoonosis and disease transmission risks.
Dr Robin Thompson, University of Oxford
Dr Robin Thompson is an Associate Professor in the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford, where he leads the Infectious Disease Modelling group
In this project, Dr Thompson is developing epidemiological models and assessing infectious disease outbreak risks based on observed contact patterns. The overall goal is to understand how different types of contact and differences in contact patterns between locations affect outbreak risks. By doing this, it will be possible to provide more nuanced estimates of outbreak risks than those generated using standard approaches based on averaged contact matrices that account for population age-structure alone.
Dr Wirichaada Pan-ngumm, Mahidol University
Dr Dangkamon Na-pombejra, Chulalongkorn University
Dr Elise Smith, University of Warwick
Professor John Kofi Odoom, University of Ghana
Professor John Kofi Odoom is an Associate Professor of Virology at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana. He is head of the National Polio Laboratory which also doubles as the WHO Regional Reference Polio Laboratory for the African Region and also the immediate past head of the Virology Department of the institute.
His role in this project is to provide key insight into the virological challenges in Ghana.
Academic website: https://noguchi.ug.edu.gh/
Dr Winfred Dotse-Gborgbortsi, University of Southampton
Winfred is a research fellow in spatial epidemiology at the University of Southampton. He is a multidisciplinary researcher, specialising in the intersection of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Public Health. His research interests are healthcare accessibility, spatial inequalities in health, routine health data analysis, spatial interaction modelling, with particular focus on maternal, new born and child health.
On the CONTAIN project, he leads geospatial analysis and supports survey design and statistical analysis.
Academic website:
Doctor Winfred Dotse-Gborgbortsi | University of Southampton
Dr. Juthatip Wiwattanapantuwong, Chulalongkorn University
Dr. Juthatip Wiwattanapantuwong is an Associate Professor in applied psychological research at the faculty of psychology, Chulalongkorn University. Her research interests are about behavioural and emotional studies for disaster preparation and resilience. She also serves as leader of Research Unit on Disaster Psychology and Well-being, funded by Chulalongkorn University.
Website:
https://www.psy.chula.ac.th/en/people/juthatip-wiwattanapantuwong/
Dr. Arunya Tuicomepee
Dr. Arunya Tuicomepee is a Professor of the Counselling Psychology Program at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand’s oldest and most prestigious university. Her research interests are in psychological adjustment, mental health concerns and well-being as well as issues in counselling and psychotherapy in the context of preventive counselling psychology. Dr. Tuicomepee has passion in working with individuals from various age groups, honouring their unique ways of adjusting and growing, especially those who facing with life difficulties and major life crises. She has published on topic of counselling psychology and preventive psychological sciences. Dr. Tuicomepee has an on-going project with the elderly including educating elders and their caregivers about staying healthy, happy, and productive in the latter years of life. The project has focused and largely centred on topics concerning psychology prevention on aging and approached aging populations.
Website: https://www.psy.chula.ac.th/th/people/arunya-tuicomepee/
