Hi there, I am a Research Software Engineer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, working on the Epiverse TRACE Initiative, which is a project to develop and maintain R packages for providing reproducible analytics support during epidemics.
I am mainly interested in developing models and methods and accompanying software to improve our understanding of how interventions impact disease spread.
What I do
šØāš¼: Develop and maintain R packages for modelling infectious disease outbreaks, including:
simulating and analyzing transmission chains,
estimating time-varying reproduction numbers,
nowcasting and forecasting epidemiological counts.
š: Co-maintain the Carpentries course on Data Analysis and Visualization in R for Ecologists.
Research Interests
I have a PhD with a specialisation in outbreak response modelling and decision-making. I am interested in the development of models and methods to evaluate the impact of pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions on the spread of infectious vaccine-preventable diseases. However, more broadly, I am interested in quantitative research that improves the health outcomes.
Additionally, I like contributing to and indulging in the literature on how to improve science, including science communication and science policy.
Continuing Professional Development
š: Reading Regression and Other Stories.
š„: Learning how to apply Bayesian data analysis to infectious disease nowcasting and forecasting through the Statistical Rethinking book.
Collaborations
I am interested in working with you on a mathematical or statistical method/model that improves how we do outbreak analytics.
We can also discuss how to generalise it into a piece of software.
Please get in touch through any of my linked contacts. Iām basically everywhere and tend to answer promptly.