Dr David Hodgson
BSc MSci MRes PhD
Research Fellow
LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom
I completed my undergraduate studies in Mathematics at University College London (UCL) in 2013. I then join the Center of Mathematics and Physics in Life sciences and Experimental Biology (CoMPLEX) at UCL. During my time at CoMPLEX, I worked on various infectious disease modelling projects which led to my PhD in Mathematical modelling and cost-effectivess of future RSV intervention strategies. During this time I also worked at Public Health England as a Senior Mathematical Modeller, where I used mathematical models to evaluate the effectiveness of existing Influenza vaccination programmes in England and Wales.
I joined The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine as a Research Fellow in 2020.
Affiliations
Centres
Teaching
I am a tutor on two courses at LSHTM, EPM202: Statistical methods in epidemiology, and EPM302: Modelling and the dynamics of infectious diseases.
Research
My main research uses mathematical and statistical models to inform vaccination resource allocation against respiratory viruses. My work on RSV evaluates the impact of future vaccine candidates and determines cost-effective ways to roll-out potential vaccination programmes. My work on Influenza has previously explored ways to re-allocate the existing seasonal vaccination programme to generate a greater level of herd immunity. My current research is still focused on Influenza, but now looking at host-level Influenza antibody dynamics to try and answer questions such as i) how does influenza immunity influence the severity of disease? and ii) how does influenza immunity affect the effectiveness of vaccination strategies?
From a statistical and mathematical perspective, I’m interested in research into Bayesian parameter estimation though Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods.