Dr Alvaro Schwalb
Research Fellow
United Kingdom
I am a research degree student and research assistant focusing on the study of tuberculosis through mathematical modelling.
Affiliations
Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Dynamics
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health
Teaching
I am a tutor in some Distance Learning modules at LSHTM, including Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases (EPM301) and Epidemiology and Modelling and the Dynamics of Infectious Diseases (EPM302).
Research
Research Area
Mathematical modelling
Statistical methods
Disease and Health Conditions
Tuberculosis
Infectious diseases
Emerging infectious diseases
Country
Peru
Region
Latin America & Caribbean (all income levels)
Selected Publications
Impact of Reversion of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Immunoreactivity Tests on the Estimated Annual Risk of Tuberculosis Infection.
2023
American journal of epidemiology
Use of chest radiography screening for TB: a re-evaluation of the Kolín study.
2022
The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
New perspectives on the secular trend in pulmonary TB in post-war Japan (1953-1980).
2024
The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
Classification of early tuberculosis states to guide research for improved care and prevention: an international Delphi consensus exercise.
2024
The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
Recent Travel and Tuberculosis in Migrants: Data From a Low-Incidence Country.
2023
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Data for: "Impact of micro- and macronutrient status on the incidence of tuberculosis: an examination of an African cohort initiating antiretroviral therapy"
2023
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine