Dr Kathleen O'Reilly

BSc MSc PhD

Research Fellow

Room

K445

LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

I am an epidemiologist who specialises in the use of statistical and mathematical models to assist in developing control strategies for infectious diseases. I am an active member of the Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases (CMMID). I regularly supervise MSc and MPH students, and have recently co-authored a paper with 2 previous MPH students. Please get in contact if you would like to collaborate.

Prior to LSHTM I was at Imperial College London where I held a MRC methodology research fellowship that focussed on development of statistical methods applied to polio eradication and other vaccine preventable diseases. This research was in collaboration with the WHO Polio Eradication Initiative, and it has been a valuable opportunity to contribute to a global health priority.

I am an Associate Editor for BMC Infectious Diseases. For my own Publications please see my regularly updated Google Scholar profile. I have highlighted several recent publications at the bottom of this page.

Getting everyone interested in science is very important to me and I regularly visit schools as part of the Inspire Initiative. Additionally, this year I will be a mentor of the Young Scientists Programme.

Affiliations

Department of Disease Control

Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases

Centres

Malaria Centre

Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases

Statistical Methodology

Vaccine Centre

Teaching

I am a co-organiser for Modelling and the Dynamics of Infectious Diseases, that is part of the Distance Learning MSc in Epidemiology at the LSHTM. I have been awarded a Teaching Research Award to engage with past and current students on how they went about learning mathematical modelling of infectious diseases. More information can be found here.

I also teach occassionally on several other courses within LSHTM, including the modelling courses run over the summer.

Research

At the LSHTM I am involved with several projects:

Understanding the future trajectory of the Zika virus epidemic and strategies to prevent transmission (as part of the ZikaPLAN and ZikaAlliance consortia, with Oliver Brady and Laith Yakob)
Development of suitable scale-up strategies for Wolbachia use in high transmission settings (BMGF funded, led by Oliver Brady)
Further understanding the dynamics of elimination of poliomyelitis and measles (primary supervisor of MRC funded student Grace Macklin.

Research Area

Infectious disease policy

Public health

Research : policy relationship

Statistical methods

Surveillance

Vaccines

Viruses

Water

Bayesian Analysis

Disease control

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Global Health

Immunisation

Methodology

Outbreaks

Schools

Spatial analysis

Vector control

Modelling

Discipline

Genetic epidemiology

Epidemiology

GIS/Spatial analysis

Mathematical modelling

Statistics

Vector biology

Virology

Entomology

Vaccinology

Disease and Health Conditions

Diarrhoeal diseases

Infectious disease

Pandemic diseases

Emerging Infectious Disease

Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)

Respiratory disease

Sexually transmitted infection

Tropical diseases

Vector borne disease

Zoonotic disease

Country

Afghanistan

Brazil

Nigeria

Pakistan

Region

Arab World

Caribbean small states

East Asia & Pacific (all income levels)

Euro area

Latin America & Caribbean (all income levels)

Middle East & North Africa (all income levels)

Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)

World

Selected Publications

Routine immunization in Pakistan: comparison of multiple data sources and identification of factors associated with vaccination.

Imran, H. ; Raja, D. ; Grassly, N.C. ; Wadood, M.Z. ; Safdar, R.M. ; O'Reilly, K.M. ;

2018

Int Health

Understanding commitment to polio vaccination.

O'Reilly, K.M. ;

2017

Lancet Infect Dis

Global yellow fever vaccination coverage from 1970 to 2016: an adjusted retrospective analysis.

Shearer, F.M. ; Moyes, C.L. ; Pigott, D.M. ; Brady, O.J. ; Marinho, F. ; Deshpande, A. ; Longbottom, J. ; Browne, A.J. ; Kraemer, M.U.G. ; O'Reilly, K.M. ; Hombach, J. ; Yactayo, S. ; de Araújo, V.E.M. ; da Nóbrega, A.A. ; Mosser, J.F. ; Stanaway, J.D. ; Lim, S.S. ; Hay, S.I. ; Golding, N. ; Reiner, R.C. Jr;

2017

Lancet Infect Dis

Population Immunity against Serotype-2 Poliomyelitis Leading up to the Global Withdrawal of the Oral Poliovirus Vaccine: Spatio-temporal Modelling of Surveillance Data.

Pons-Salort, M. ; Molodecky, N.A. ; O'Reilly, K.M. ; Wadood, M.Z. ; Safdar, R.M. ; Etsano, A. ; Vaz, R.G. ; Jafari, H. ; Grassly, N.C. ; Blake, I.M. ;

2016

PLoS Med

The effect of mass immunisation campaigns and new oral poliovirus vaccines on the incidence of poliomyelitis in Pakistan and Afghanistan, 2001-11: a retrospective analysis.

O'Reilly, K.M. ; Durry, E. ; ul Islam, O. ; Quddus, A. ; Abid, N. ; Mir, T.P. ; Tangermann, R.H. ; Aylward, R.B. ; Grassly, N.C. ;

2012

Lancet

A statistical model of the international spread of wild poliovirus in Africa used to predict and prevent outbreaks.

O'Reilly, K.M. ; Chauvin, C. ; Aylward, R.B. ; Maher, C. ; Okiror, S. ; Wolff, C. ; Nshmirimana, D. ; Donnelly, C.A. ; Grassly, N.C. ;

2011