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Dr Olivier le Polain

Deputy Director of Operations on the UK-Public Health Rapid Support Team

United Kingdom

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I am Deputy Director of Operations on the UK-Public Health Rapid Support Team (UK-PHRST), a joint partnership between Public Health England and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine established to support outbreak response, build capacity for epidemic response and help strengthen the evidence-base for epidemic response in low and middle income countries. My background is in medicine, epidemiology and public health, and my main areas of interest and work are in understanding infectious disease dynamics, optimising disease control strategies, as well as surveillance systems and health information to inform public health action, particularly in outbreak and crisis settings.

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

Centres

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

Teaching
I have been involved in practical teaching on several modules: Epidemiology & Control of Communicable Diseases, Modelling & the Dynamics of Infectious Diseases, Statistics for EPH

Research
My main areas of interest are in surveillance, public health information, infectious disease dynamics and disease control, particularly in crisis and outbreak settings.

Selected Publications
Reorienting Ebola care toward human-centered sustainable practice.
Omasumbu, RK; Fontana, L; LE POLAIN DE WAROUX, O; Diaz, J; Dierberg, K; Keita, M;
2026
Nature medicine
Epidemiology and Characteristics of MPXV Clade I cases in the WHO European Region, 2024-2025
Karagiannis, I; Pires, J; Akhmetniyaz, P; LE POLAIN DE WAROUX, O; Hoorelbeke, B; Gagnière, B; Jansen, K; Tsiara, C; Igoe, D; Campitiello, MR; Van Ewijk, C; Veríssimo, VC; Larrégola, LS; Sturegård, E; Gardiol, C; Karakök, T; Hughes, GJ; Widdowson, M-A;
2025
openRxiv
World Health Organization Event-Based Surveillance During the First 4 Months of the 2022 Ukraine Crisis.
Brough, G; Nezu, IH; Shimizu, K; Ikejezie, J; Kassamali, ZA; Meyer, ED; Mirembe, BB; Mitri, ME; Cristea, V; Abdulhady, SM; Idoko, FE; Ajong, BN; Ejoh, OO; LE POLAIN DE WAROUX, O; Ciobanu, S; Papowitz, HE; Aregay, A; Kovalchuk, A; Slobodianyk, L; Musani, A; Mahamud, AR; Pavlin, BI;
2025
Health security
A systematic nomenclature for mpox viruses causing outbreaks with sustained human-to-human transmission.
Ruis, C; Lusamaki, E; O'Toole, A; Otieno, JR; Colquhoun, R; Roemer, C; Wawina-Bokalanga, T; Tshiani-Mbaya, O; Jansen, D; Makangara, J-C; Agrawal, A; Abu-Raddad, LJ; Ahuka-Mundeke, S; Ayouba, A; Azhar, EI; Caly, L; Drosten, C; Faria, NR; Fowotade, A; Hoxha, A; Huang, B; Korber, B; LE POLAIN DE WAROUX, O; Lewis, RF; Liesenborghs, L; ... Rambaut, A.
2025
Nature medicine
Case Series of Patients With Laboratory-Confirmed Marburg Virus Disease in 2023 in Equatorial Guinea.
Ondo Ndoho, FA; Fontana, L; Ondo Avomo, CO; Mikue, LE N; Fuga Eyemam, DÑ; Nguere, MA; Mometolo, IE; Bibang Nzang, RN; Nguema Maye, DM; Hernandez Suarez, Y; Esono, SE; Miko Ayang, JA; Giuliani, R; Jacquerioz, F; Lang, H-J; Kojan, R; Chaillon, A; Ngai, S; DE WAROUX, OL P; Silenzi, A; Di Marco, M; Legand, A; Formenty, P; Negron, ME; Klena, JD; ... Diaz, J.
2025
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Outbreak of Marburg Virus Disease, Equatorial Guinea, 2023.
Ngai, S; Evers, ES; Seoane, AK L; Ameh, G; Anoko, JN; Barnadas, C; Choi, MJ; Diaz, J; Fontana, L; Formenty, P; Nezu, IH; Jacquerioz, F; Klena, J; Laurenson-Schafer, H; DE WAROUX, OL P; Legand, A; Carrera, RM; Metcalf, T; Montgomery, J; Morreale, S; Negrón, ME; Nvé, JO; Ayekaba, MO; Pavlin, BI; Shoemaker, T; ... Marburg Virus Disease Outbreak Response Working Gr,
2025
Emerging infectious diseases
Case Series of Patients with Marburg Virus Disease, Equatorial Guinea, 2023.
Fontana, L; Ondo Avomo, CO; Ngomo Mikue, LE; Fuga Eyemam, DÑ; Nguere, MA; Mometolo, IE; Bibang Nzang, RN; Nguema Maye, DM; Giuliani, R; Jacquerioz, F; Lang, H-J; Kojan, R; Chaillon, A; Ngai, S; LE POLAIN DE WAROUX, O; Silenzi, A; Di Marco, M; Negrón, ME; Klena, JD; Choi, MJ; Mayer, O; Scholte, FE M; Welch, SR; Zielinski-Gutierrez, E; Diaz, J;
2024
The New England journal of medicine
Informing the pandemic response: the role of the WHO's COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update.
Ikejezie, J; Miglietta, A; Hammermeister Nezu, I; Adele, S; Higdon, MM; Feikin, D; Lata, H; Mesfin, S; Idoko, F; Shimizu, K; Acma, A; Moro, S; Attar Cohen, H; Sinnathamby, MA; Otieno, JR; Temre, Y; Ajong, BN; Mirembe, BB; Guinko, TN; Sodagar, V; Schultz, C; Muianga, J; De Barros, S; Escobar Corado Waeber, AR; Jin, Y; ... Mahamud, A.
2024
BMJ global health
Surveillance for variants of SARS-CoV-2 to inform risk assessments.
Attar Cohen, H; Mesfin, S; Ikejezie, J; Kassamali, Z; Campbell, F; Adele, S; Guinko, N; Idoko, F; Mirembe, BB; Mitri, ME; Nezu, I; Shimizu, K; Ngongheh, AB; Sklenovska, N; Gumede, N; Mosha, FS; Mohamed, B; Corpuz, A; Pebody, R; Marklewitz, M; Gresh, L; Mendez Rico, JA; Hundal, K; Kato, M; Babu, A; ... Pavlin, BI.
2023
Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Mpox in Children and Adolescents during Multicountry Outbreak, 2022-2023.
Hoxha, A; Kerr, SM; Laurenson-Schafer, H; Sklenovská, N; Mirembe, BB; Nezu, IH; Ndumbi, P; Fitzner, J; Almiron, M; Vila, M; Pebody, R; Vaughan, AM; Haussig, JM; De Sousa, LA; Lukoya, OC; Sanni, OF; Nabeth, P; Naiene, JD; Kato, M; Matsui, T; Kuppalli, K; Mala, PO; Lewis, RF; DE WAROUX, OL P; Pavlin, BI; ... WHO Mpox surveillance and Analytics Team,
2023
Emerging infectious diseases
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