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Prof John Edmunds

Professor of Infec Disease Modelling

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

Tel.
+44(0)207 927 2390

Affiliations

Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Dynamics
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Centres

Malaria Centre
Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases
Vaccine Centre
Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre

Teaching

I teach on a variety of modules and short courses, including "Modelling and the Dynamics of Infectious Diseases", "Introduction to Infectious Disease Modelling and Its Applications" and "Epidemiological evaluation of vaccines: efficacy, safety and policy"

Research

My research centres on understanding the spread of infectious diseases and how best to control them. This uses a variety of techniques, including mathematical, statistical and economic models. I am particularly interested in using these methods to help produce evidence-based public health policy.

Research Area
Immunisation
Infectious disease policy
Modelling
Outbreaks
Vaccines
Epidemiology
Mathematical Modelling
Policy analysis
Disease and Health Conditions
Cervical cancer
Diarrhoeal diseases
Human papillomavirus (HPV)
Influenza
Measles
Meningitis
Pandemic diseases
Infectious diseases
Zoonoses
Emerging infectious diseases
Vector borne diseases
Region
East Asia & Pacific (all income levels)
Euro area
European Union
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)
World

Selected Publications

Determinants of Transmission Risk During the Late Stage of the West African Ebola Epidemic.
ROBERT, A; EDMUNDS, WJ; Watson, CH; Henao-Restrepo, AM; Gsell, P-S; WILLIAMSON, E; Longini, IM; Sakoba, K; KUCHARSKI, AJ; Touré, A; Nadlaou, SD; Diallo, B; Barry, MS; Fofana, TO; Camara, L; Kaba, IL; Sylla, L; Diaby, ML; Soumah, O; Diallo, A; Niare, A; Diallo, A; EGGO, RM;
2019
American Journal of Epidemiology
Real-time analysis of the diphtheria outbreak in forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals in Bangladesh.
Finger, F; FUNK, S; White, K; Siddiqui, MR; EDMUNDS, WJ; KUCHARSKI, AJ;
2019
BMC medicine
Assessing the performance of real-time epidemic forecasts: A case study of Ebola in the Western Area region of Sierra Leone, 2014-15.
FUNK, S; CAMACHO, A; KUCHARSKI, AJ; LOWE, R; EGGO, RM; EDMUNDS, WJ;
2019
PLoS computational biology
Projecting the end of the Zika virus epidemic in Latin America: a modelling analysis.
O'REILLY, KM; LOWE, R; EDMUNDS, WJ; MAYAUD, P; KUCHARSKI, A; EGGO, RM; FUNK, S; Bhatia, D; Khan, K; Kraemer, MU G; WILDER-SMITH, A; RODRIGUES, LC; Brasil, P; Massad, E; Jaenisch, T; Cauchemez, S; BRADY, OJ; YAKOB, L;
2018
BMC medicine
Identifying human encounters that shape the transmission of Streptococcus pneumoniae and other acute respiratory infections.
LE POLAIN DE WAROUX, O; FLASCHE, S; KUCHARSKI, AJ; Langendorf, C; Ndazima, D; Mwanga-Amumpaire, J; Grais, RF; Cohuet, S; EDMUNDS, WJ;
2018
Epidemics
The true cost of epidemic and outbreak diseases in hospitals
Sandmann, FG;
2018
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Effect of HPV vaccination and cervical cancer screening in England by ethnicity: a modelling study.
JOHNSON, HC; LAFFERTY, EI; EGGO, RM; Louie, K; Soldan, K; Waller, J; EDMUNDS, WJ;
2017
The lancet Public health
Social mixing in Fiji: Who-eats-with-whom contact patterns and the implications of age and ethnic heterogeneity for disease dynamics in the Pacific Islands.
Watson, CH; Coriakula, J; Ngoc, DT T; FLASCHE, S; KUCHARSKI, AJ; Lau, CL; Thieu, NT V; LE POLAIN DE WAROUX, O; Rawalai, K; Van, TT; Taufa, M; Baker, S; Nilles, EJ; Kama, M; EDMUNDS, WJ;
2017
PloS one
Drivers for Rift Valley fever emergence in Mayotte: A Bayesian modelling approach.
Métras, R; Fournié, G; Dommergues, L; CAMACHO, A; Cavalerie, L; Mérot, P; Keeling, MJ; Cêtre-Sossah, C; Cardinale, E; EDMUNDS, WJ;
2017
PLoS neglected tropical diseases
Real-time dynamic modelling for the design of a cluster-randomized phase 3 Ebola vaccine trial in Sierra Leone.
CAMACHO, A; EGGO, RM; Goeyvaerts, N; Vandebosch, A; Mogg, R; FUNK, S; KUCHARSKI, AJ; WATSON, CH; Vangeneugden, T; EDMUNDS, WJ;
2016
Vaccine
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