Research Projects

Recently completed

1️⃣: Azam, J.M., Pang, X., Are, E.B., Pulliam, J.R. and Ferrari, M.J., 2023. Modelling outbreak response impact in human vaccine-preventable diseases: A systematic review of differences in practices between collaboration types before COVID-19. Epidemics, p.100720.

Ongoing work

1️⃣: Age-structured compartmental model for estimating the timing of detection of polio-related acute flaccid paralysis in South Africa (generalizable to other settings).

2️⃣: A surveillance pipeline to detect changes in reported COVID-19 severity (case fatality, case hospitalization, and hospital fatality).

3️⃣: A two-strain compartmental model for studying the impact of the timing of the emergence of variants on control strategies.

Broad research interests

1️⃣: Compartmental modelling of the impact of control measures against infectious diseases.

2️⃣: (Bayesian) Models and methods for (near) real-time forecasting and nowcasting of infectious diseases.

Find out more from my Google Scholar profile.