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Dr Kiesha Prem

BSc PhD

Assistant Professor

Room
120

LSHTM
Keppel Street
London
WC1E 7HT
United Kingdom

I am an infectious disease modeller at LSHTM. I received my PhD in Public Health from the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (SSHSPH) at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where I have a secondary appointment. From 2019 to 2021, I chaired the seminars at the Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases (CMMID) at LSHTM.

Affiliations

Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health

Centres

Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases (CMMID)

Teaching

With Professor Mark Jit, I helped design and coordinate Health Decision Science, a recommended course for MSc Public Health (Health Economics and Health Services and Management) and MSc Health Policy Planning & Finance. I also lecture on the Public Health and Epidemiology module, a core module for the undergraduate Public Health major at NUS. I have conducted several courses: I have lectured at and facilitated data analysis and biostatistics R workshops — at the University of Public Health (Yangon, Myanmar), Mahidol University (Bangkok, Thailand), UCSI University (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) — and infectious disease modelling workshops — at LSHTM, NUS and Ministry of Health (Brunei). I facilitated a Health Technology Assessment workshop for health professionals jointly organised by the NUS and the Health Intervention and Technology Assessment Program (HITAP). I also lead the Mathematics and Public Health course with secondary school students in Singapore. 

 

I supervise undergraduate and postgraduate students at LSHTM and NUS.


Research

As an infectious disease modeller, my research interests involve building computational models to understand the population impact and cost-effectiveness of interventions against infectious diseases. I led the development and updates of the global age- and location-specific contact synthetic contact matrices for contact-transmissible infections. I am also involved in several modelling studies to evaluate the cost-effectiveness and feasibility of the global eradication of vaccine-type human papillomavirus. I provide technical expertise to the national Tuberculosis and HIV programmes and other local partners in Cambodia, where we evaluate active case-finding modalities and interventions to improve treatment outcomes.
In my secondary appointment at NUS, I lead the NUS public health research office in Lao PDR, where we collaborate with Lao Tropical & Public Health Institute and the University of Health Sciences of Lao PDR.

 

Research Area
Sexual health
Global Health
Modelling
Discipline
Health economics
GIS/Spatial analysis
Mathematical modelling
Operational research
Disease and Health Conditions
HIV/AIDS
Tuberculosis
Human papillomavirus (HPV)
Region
East Asia & Pacific (all income levels)

Selected Publications

Global impact and cost-effectiveness of one-dose versus two-dose human papillomavirus vaccination schedules: a comparative modelling analysis.
Prem K; Choi YH; Bénard É; Burger EA; Hadley L; Laprise J-F; Regan MC; Drolet M; Sy S; Abbas K
2023
BMC medicine
Application of the network scale-up method to estimate the sizes of key populations for HIV in Singapore using online surveys.
Quaye SED; Cheng Y; Tan RKJ; Koo JR; Prem K; Teo AKJ; Cook AR
2023
Journal of the International AIDS Society
Prevalence and risk factors for human papillomavirus infection among female sex workers in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam: a cross-sectional study.
Pham QD; Prem K; Le TA; Van Trang N; Jit M; Nguyen TA; Cao V; Le-Ha T-D; Chu MTN; Le LTK
2022
Western Pacific surveillance and response journal
Evaluating the Covid-19 Screening Regime for Cross-Border Workers
Seow Y; Yin XF; Xu H; Fu X; Qin Z; Tan HK; Hsu LY; Prem K; Tan SW
2022
2022 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)
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