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Dr Edward Parker

Assistant Professor

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

My research explores factors influencing the implementation and effectiveness of vaccines. I am currently the lead of Theme 1 (Making the most of real-world data) for the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Vaccines and Immunisation at LSHTM. In collaboration with the UK Health Security Agency, our work seeks to harness electronic health record data to improve vaccine coverage and drive evidence-based policy in the UK.

Alongside my work in electronic health records, I am co-director of LSHTM’s Vaccine Centre and collaborate on several projects exploring the link between the gut microbiome and oral vaccine response in low-income countires. This includes a project comparing virome development among newborns in the UK and Malawi funded by a UKRI IMPRINT network pump-priming award.

I am interested in the visualisation and communication of data, and led the development of LSHTM’s COVID-19 vaccine tracker from April 2020 to August 2022. In late 2021, I acted as a consultant for the COVID-19 Working Group of the WHO's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization.

I am a keen but sporadic science writer. My popular science writing has been published The Guardian, The Independent, Science-based Medicine and The Conversation, and I was shortlisted and highly commended for the 2014 Max Perutz science writing award.

Affiliations

Department of Clinical Research
Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases

Centres

Vaccine Centre

Teaching

I currently lecture on various MSc modules at LSHTM, including Vaccine Immunology, Clinical Virology, and Introduction to Disease Agents and their Control. I am a tutor on the Distance Learning Viral Infections module and a module organiser for the Professional Certificate in Pharmacoepidemiology & Pharmacovigilance.

Research

- Vaccines
- Electronic Health Records
- Microbiome
- Data Science
- Poliovirus
- Rotavirus
Research Area
Bacteria
Child health
Immunisation
Neonatal health
Systematic reviews
Vaccines
Bioinformatics
Epidemiology
Immunology
Molecular biology
Vaccinology
Virology
Electronic health records
Disease and Health Conditions
Diarrhoeal diseases
Pandemic diseases
Infectious diseases
Respiratory diseases
Country
Gambia
Malawi
Region
Sub-Saharan Africa (developing only)
Euro area

Selected Publications

Safety, immunogenicity, and effectiveness of chikungunya vaccines in pregnant persons, children, and adolescents: a protocol for a living systematic review and meta-analysis
Berrueta, M; Ciapponi, A; Mazzoni, A; Ballivian, J; Bardach, A; Sambade, JM; Brizuela, M; Stegelman, K; Comandé, D; PARKER, EP K; Stergachis, A; Xiong, X; Munoz, FM; Buekens, PM;
2025
Reproductive health
Safety, immunogenicity, efficacy, and effectiveness of Lassa fever vaccines in pregnant persons, children, and adolescents: a protocol for a living systematic review and meta-analysis
Ballivian, J; Berrueta, M; Ciapponi, A; Sambade, JM; Stegelmann, K; Mazzoni, A; Bardach, A; Brizuela, M; Comandé, D; Castellana, N; PARKER, EP K; Stergachis, A; Xiong, X; Munoz, FM; Buekens, PM;
2025
Reproductive health
Early-life gut microbiome associates with positive vaccine take and shedding in neonatal schedule of the human neonatal rotavirus vaccine RV3-BB.
Wagner, J; Handley, A; Donato, CM; Lyons, EA; Pavlic, D; Ong, DS; Bonnici, R; Bogdanovic-Sakran, N; PARKER, EP K; Bronowski, C; Thobari, JA; Satria, CD; Nirwati, H; Witte, D; Jere, KC; Mpakiza, A; Watts, E; Turner, A; Boniface, K; Mandolo, J; Justice, F; Bar-Zeev, N; Iturriza-Gomara, M; Buttery, JP; Cunliffe, NA; ... Bines, JE.
2025
Nature communications
Immunogenicity of COVID-19 Vaccines During Pregnancy: A Systematic Review and Comparison of Pregnant Versus Nonpregnant Persons.
Ballivian, J; PARKER, EP K; Berrueta, M; Ciapponi, A; Argento, F; Bardach, A; Brizuela, M; Castellana, N; Comande, D; KAMPMANN, B; Mazzoni, A; Sambade, JM; Stegelmann, K; Xiong, X; Munoz, FM; Stergachis, A; Buekens, P;
2025
Pediatric infectious disease journal
Safe in Pregnancy and Safe in Children: Global Living Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses Hub for Emergency Vaccines.
Berrueta, M; Ciapponi, A; Bardach, A; Ballivan, J; Brizuela, M; Castellana, N; Comande, D; Mazzoni, A; PARKER, EP K; Sambade, JM; KAMPMANN, B; Stegelmann, K; Xiong, X; Stergachis, A; Munoz, FM; Buekens, P;
2025
The Pediatric infectious disease journal
Umbrella review of the safety of Chikungunya vaccine platforms used in other vaccines.
Bardach, A; Brizuela, M; Berrueta, M; Ciapponi, A; Sambade, JM; Ballivian, J; Ortega, V; Castellana, N; Comandé, D; PARKER, EP K; KAMPMANN, B; Stegelmann, K; Xiong, X; Stergachis, A; Munoz, FM; Buekens, P; Mazzoni, A;
2025
Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics
Vaccine uptake and effectiveness in high-risk populations
PARKER, E;
2024
Quantifying and Adjusting for Confounding From Health-Seeking Behavior and Health Care Access in Observational Research.
Graham, S; Walker, JL; Andrews, N; Hulme, WJ; NITSCH, D; PARKER, EP K; McDonald, HI;
2024
Open forum infectious diseases
Identifying markers of health-seeking behaviour and healthcare access in UK electronic health records.
GRAHAM, S; Walker, JL; Andrews, N; NITSCH, D; PARKER, EP K; McDonald, H;
2024
BMJ open
Safety and Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccines During Pregnancy: A Living Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
Ciapponi, A; Berrueta, M; Argento, FJ; Ballivian, J; Bardach, A; Brizuela, ME; Castellana, N; Comandé, D; Gottlieb, S; KAMPMANN, B; Mazzoni, A; PARKER, EP K; Sambade, JM; Stegelmann, K; Xiong, X; Stergachis, A; Buekens, P;
2024
Drug safety
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