Research Group
Current Post-Docs and Students
Samik Datta : Models of Bee Diseases.
Penny Hancock: Predicting spread and sources of infection from complex human movement patterns.
Matthew Vernon : Animal movements and the spread of infectious diseases of farm animals
Past Post-Docs
Leon Danon : Understanding contact networks and models of pandemics (Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, University of Warwick)
Ken Eames : Contact networks for sexually transmitted infections (NIH personal fellowship)
Jane Heffernan : Immunological models of infectious diseases, waning immunity. (Lectureship, Dept. Mathematics, York Uni., Toronto)
Thomas House : Household structure and its impacts on disease dynamics and intervention strategies. (EPSRC Fellow, University of Warwick)
Amandine Lurette: Network models of Salmonella control in the pig industry. (Lectureship, Montpellier)
Jonathan Read : Contact networks and disease evolution (Lectureship, Vet School, U. Liverpool)
Joshua Ross : Markovian models in ecology and epidemiology (Lecturer, University of Adelaide)
Jayanthi Santhanam : Models of livestock diseases in the USA (Post-Doc in Nick Savill's Lab, Edinburgh)
Mike Tildesley : Spatial simulations of infectious diseases, particularly foot-and-mouth disease (Zeeman fellow, Warwick University)
Steve Webb: Evolution in spatial networks, pair-wise approximation models (Lectureship, Dept. Maths, Uni. Strathclyde)
Past Phd Students
Ken Eames (2000-2003): Contact networks for sexually transmitted infections (NIH personal fellowship)
Jim MacDonald (2002-2006): Seasonal birth pulses in wildlife diseases. (Associate Analyst Programmer for Tessella)
Ellen Brooks Pollock (2004-2008): Cattle movement database and the modelling of bovine TB. (Post-Doc at Harvard School of Public Health)
Collaborators
Bryan Grenfell (Penn State): Foot-and-Mouth disease, Measles
Chris Gilligan (Cambridge): Spatial models.
Gary Smith (U. Penn): Foot-and-Mouth disease, Avian Flu.
Mike Boots (sheffield): Evolution of Diseases
Mark Woolhouse (Edinburgh): Foot-and-mouth disease
Neil Ferguson (Imperial): Pandemic Control
Nick Savill (Edinburgh): H5N1 in poultry and Foot-and-Mouth
Pej Rohani (Georgia): Measles, Childhood Diseases
Rob Deardon (Guelph): Parameter estimation (FMD)
Steve Leach (HPA): Pandemic Control
