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Dr Laith Yakob

Associate Professor

United Kingdom

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I am an epidemiologist seeking to develop strategies for mitigating resistance in infectious disease control. There are two main themes in which I contribute research: modernized integrated management of insecticide-resistant disease vectors, and, improved methods of surveillance and control of antimicrobial resistance. Although these systems are distinct, there is considerable homology in the mechanisms by which resistance spreads and is managed. I use different kinds of statistical and mathematical modelling to address these themes.

Affiliations
Department of Disease Control
Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases

Centres

Malaria Centre
Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases
Antimicrobial Resistance Centre

Teaching

I am Taught Programme co-Director for the Faculty of Infectious & Tropical Diseases.

Teacher on Parasitology and Entomology (3122) supermodule; Vector Sampling, Identification & Incrimination (3141); Vector-Parasite Interactions (3166); Medical Parasitology & Medical Entomology 1-week field trip (3133); Modelling & the Dynamics of Infectious Diseases (2464); Integrated Vector Management (3176).

Short course instructor for 'Introduction to Infectious Disease Modelling and Its Applications', and, 'Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR): a Multidisciplinary Approach'

Research

mosquito ecology; vector-borne diseases; infectious disease dynamics; antimicrobial resistance; disease control strategy; healthcare-associated infections

Research Area
Climate change
Complex interventions
Disease control
Global Health
Helminths
Infectious disease policy
Modelling
Outbreaks
Parasites
Protozoa
Public health
Statistical methods
Entomology
Epidemiology
GIS/Spatial analysis
Mathematical Modelling
Operational research
Parasitology
Disease and Health Conditions
Chagas Disease
Dengue
Diarrhoeal diseases
Influenza
Leishmaniasis
Malaria
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)
Tropical diseases
Infectious diseases
Zoonoses
Emerging infectious diseases
Vector borne diseases

Selected Publications
Global antimicrobial-resistance drivers: an ecological country-level study at the human-animal interface.
ALLEL, K; Day, L; Hamilton, A; LIN, L; Furuya-Kanamori, L; Moore, CE; Van Boeckel, T; Laxminarayan, R; YAKOB, L;
2023
The Lancet. Planetary health
β-Lactam-Resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae Dynamics Following Treatment: A Dose-Response Meta-analysis.
Griskaitis, M; Furuya-Kanamori, L; ALLEL, K; STABLER, R; Harris, P; Paterson, DL; YAKOB, L;
2022
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Zika Virus after the Public Health Emergency of International Concern Period, Brazil.
YAKOB, L;
2022
Emerging infectious diseases
Mathematical modelling to assess the feasibility of Wolbachia in malaria vector biocontrol.
Andreychuk, S; YAKOB, L;
2022
Journal of theoretical biology
The importance of saturating density dependence for population-level predictions of SARS-CoV-2 resurgence compared with density-independent or linearly density-dependent models, England, 23 March to 31 July 2020.
NIGHTINGALE, ES; BRADY, OJ; CMMID Covid-19 working group,; YAKOB, L;
2021
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin
Repurposing the orphan drug nitisinone to control the transmission of African trypanosomiasis.
Sterkel, M; Haines, LR; Casas-Sánchez, A; Owino Adung'a, V; Vionette-Amaral, RJ; Quek, S; Rose, C; Silva Dos Santos, M; García Escude, N; Ismail, HM; Paine, MI; Barribeau, SM; Wagstaff, S; MacRae, JI; Masiga, D; YAKOB, L; Oliveira, PL; Acosta-Serrano, Á;
2021
PLoS biology
Glycan–glycan interactions determine <i>Leishmania</i> attachment to the midgut of permissive sand fly vectors
Hall, AR; Blakeman, JT; Eissa, AM; Chapman, P; Morales-García, AL; Stennett, L; Martin, O; Giraud, E; Dockrell, DH; Cameron, NR; Wiese, M; YAKOB, L; ROGERS, ME; Geoghegan, M;
2020
CHEMICAL SCIENCE
The cost-effectiveness of controlling dengue in Indonesia using wMel Wolbachia released at scale: a modelling study.
BRADY, OJ; Kharisma, DD; Wilastonegoro, NN; O'REILLY, KM; Hendrickx, E; BASTOS, LS; YAKOB, L; Shepard, DS;
2020
BMC medicine
Evidence of extrinsic factors dominating intrinsic blood host preferences of major African malaria vectors.
ORSBORNE, J; Mohammed, AR; JEFFRIES, CL; KRISTAN, M; Afrane, YA; WALKER, T; YAKOB, L;
2020
Scientific Reports
Optimising systemic insecticide use to improve malaria control.
Meredith, HR; Furuya-Kanamori, L; YAKOB, L;
2019
BMJ Global Health
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United Kingdom