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Dr Finn McQuaid

PhD

Assistant Professor
in Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Room
Room 104b

LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

I am mathematical modeller, with experience in modelling infectious diseases in a range of settings. I am the TB Modelling and Analysis Consortium (TB MAC) Secretariat Epidemiologist, involved in developing guidance and resources for country-level TB modelling to support decision-making, and facilitating coordination between international funders and stakeholders. I am also a member of the TB Modelling Group, researching TB treatment and care (including drug-resistance), and the impact of crises on TB. I am currently co-director of the TB Centre.

I gained a BSc (hons) in Mathematics from Rhodes University, South Africa, and was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to study for an MSc and subsequent PhD in Mathematical Biology at the University of Bath. Before joining LSHTM I worked on global food security at Rothamsted Research.

Affiliations

Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health
Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Centres

Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases (CMMID)
TB Centre
Antimicrobial Resistance Centre

Teaching

I am a module organiser for the Distance Learning module Modelling and the Dynamics of Infectious Diseases (EPM302), and teach on this course, the Introduction to Infectious Disease Modelling and its Applications short course, and Applied Communicable Disease Control

Research

Research Area
Modelling
Discipline
Epidemiology
Mathematical modelling
Disease and Health Conditions
Tuberculosis
Country
Ethiopia
Region
World

Selected Publications

Tuberculosis and nutrition: what gets measured gets managed.
McQuaid CF; Sinha P; Bhargava M; Weerasuriya C; Houben RMGJ; Bhargava A
2023
The Lancet Respiratory medicine
Inequalities in the impact of COVID-19-associated disruptions on tuberculosis diagnosis by age and sex in 45 high TB burden countries.
McQuaid CF; Henrion MYR; Burke RM; MacPherson P; Nzawa-Soko R; Horton KC
2022
BMC medicine
Antimicrobial resistance and COVID-19: Intersections and implications.
Knight GM; Glover RE; McQuaid CF; Olaru ID; Gallandat K; Leclerc QJ; Fuller NM; Willcocks SJ; Hasan R; van Kleef E
2021
eLife
An approach for improving the quality of country-level TB modelling.
McQuaid CF; Clarkson MC; Bellerose M; Floyd K; White RG; Menzies NA
2021
The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
The impact of COVID-19 on TB: a review of the data.
McQuaid CF; Vassall A; Cohen T; Fiekert K; White RG
2021
International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
Self-clearance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection: implications for lifetime risk and population at-risk of tuberculosis disease.
Emery JC; Richards AS; Dale KD; McQuaid CF; White RG; Denholm JT; Houben RMGJ
2020
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Ongoing challenges to understanding multidrug- and rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis in children versus adults.
McQuaid CF; Cohen T; Dean AS; Houben RMGJ; Knight GM; Zignol M; White RG
2020
European Respiratory Journal
The risk of multidrug- or rifampicin-resistance in males versus females with tuberculosis.
McQuaid CF; Horton KC; Dean AS; Knight GM; White RG
2020
The European respiratory journal
The potential impact of COVID-19-related disruption on tuberculosis burden.
McQuaid CF; McCreesh N; Read JM; Sumner T; CMMID COVID-19 Working Group; Houben RMGJ; White RG; Harris RC
2020
The European respiratory journal
The epidemiologic impact and cost-effectiveness of new tuberculosis vaccines on rifampicin resistant and multidrug resistant tuberculosis in India and China
Weerasuriya C; Harris R; McQuaid C; Bozzani F; Gomez GB; White R
2020
Spotting the old foe-revisiting the case definition for TB.
Houben RMGJ; Esmail H; Emery JC; Joslyn LR; McQuaid CF; Menzies NA; Sanz J; Shrestha S; White RG; Yang C
2019
Lancet Respiratory Medicine
Global burden of latent multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: trends and estimates based on mathematical modelling.
Knight GM; McQuaid CF; Dodd PJ; Houben RMGJ
2019
Lancet Infectious Diseases
Improving the quality of modelling evidence used for tuberculosis policy evaluation.
Menzies NA; McQuaid CF; Gomez GB; Siroka A; Glaziou P; Floyd K; White RG; Houben RMGJ
2019
The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease
Guidance for country-level TB modelling
World Health Organization; TB Modelling and Analysis Consortium; Menzies NA; McQuaid CF; Gomez Guillen G; Houben RMGJ
2018
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