Jonathan Cox BSc PhD

Senior Lecturer

Room 442, Keppel St, London WC1E 7HT, UK

Tel: +44 (0) 207 927 2617

Fax: +44 (0) 207 580 9075

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Affiliated to: DCVBU.

Disciplines: Epidemiology, GIS/Spatial analysis.

Research areas: Climate change, Environment, Malaria, Public health, Surveillance.

Background

I am a medical geographer with research interests in vector borne diseases, particularly malaria. As well as a general interest in spatial epidemiology, my work focuses on issues around disease surveillance and M&E in epidemic/low-endemic settings. Much of this work is centred on the highlands of Kenya, although I am involved with a number of projects elsewhere in Africa and in SE Asia.

Teaching

I am currently Course Director of LSHTM's DrPH programme - our professional doctorate in public health. I am Section leader/deputy organiser for LSHTM's DL module 'Principals of Public Health, Biostatistics and Epidemiology', within the DL Infectious Diseases MSc. I am co-organiser of the MSc study unit 'Spatial Epidemiology in Public Health' and contribute to the study unit 'Epidemiology and Control of Malaria'.

Selected publications

Cox, J.; Hay, S.I.; Abeku, T.A.; Checchi, F.; Snow, R.W.; The uncertain burden of Plasmodium falciparum epidemics in Africa. Trends Parasitol, 2007; 23(4):142-8
Cox, J.; Abeku, T.A.; Early warning systems for malaria in Africa: from blueprint to practice. Trends Parasitol, 2007; 23(6):243-6
Checchi, F.; Cox, J.; Balkan, S.; Tamrat, A.; Priotto, G.; Alberti, K.P.; Guthmann, J.P.; Malaria epidemics and interventions, Kenya, Burundi, southern Sudan, and Ethiopia, 1999-2004. Emerg Infect Dis, 2006; 12(10):1477-85
Reyburn, H.; Mbatia, R.; Drakeley, C.; Bruce, J.; Carneiro, I.; Olomi, R.; Cox, J.; Nkya, W.M.; Lemnge, M.; Greenwood, B.M.; Riley, E.M.; Association of transmission intensity and age with clinical manifestations and case fatality of severe Plasmodium falciparum malaria. JAMA, 2005; 293(12):1461-70
Drakeley, C.J.; Corran, P.H.; Coleman, P.G.; Tongren, J.E.; McDonald, S.L.; Carneiro, I.; Malima, R.; Lusingu, J.; Manjurano, A.; Nkya, W.M.; Lemnge, M.M.; Cox, J.; Reyburn, H.; Riley, E.M.; Estimating medium- and long-term trends in malaria transmission by using serological markers of malaria exposure. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2005; 102(14):5108-13
Abeku, T.A.; Hay, S.I.; Ochola, S.; Langi, P.; Beard, B.; De Vlas, S.J.; Cox, J.; Malaria epidemic early warning and detection in African highlands. Trends Parasitol , 2004; 20 (9 ):400-405
Brooker, S.; Clarke, S.; Njagi, J. K.; Polack, S.; Mugo, B.; Estambale, B.; Muchiri, E.; Magnussen, P.; Cox, J. Spatial clustering of malaria and associated risk factors during an epidemic in a highland area of western Kenya Tropical Medicine and International Health, 2004; :757-766
Cox, J.; Abeku, T.; Beard, J.; Turyeimuka, J.; Tumwesigye, E.; Okia, M.; Rwakimari, J. Detecting epidemic malaria, Uganda Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2007; 13(5):779-780

Full publications listing (since 2001)