Dr Alex De Figueiredo
Assistant Professor
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street
London
United Kingdom
I am a Research Fellow at LSHTM and Statistics Lead at the Vaccine Confidence Project™. I hold a PhD in Mathematics from Imperial College, where I was also an EPSRC Prize Fellow.
My research focuses on using (mainly) Bayesian statistical methods to solve problems at the intersection of public health and vaccine confidence and vaccine acceptance. I am particularly interested in novel methods to infer vaccine confidence at national and sub-national levels; estimating and forecasting vaccine coverage rates for COVID-19 vaccines and routine childhood immunisation programmes; and the social and demographic determinants of vaccine confidence and acceptance.
I have worked extensively on large-scale surveys at global, national, and -- more recently -- sub-national scales, where my recent research seeks to understand local heterogeneities in vaccine acceptance, how this is linked to spatial variation in socio-demographic groups and inequalities, and how this impacts local disease burdens.
Affiliations
Teaching
In 2022/23 I am teaching on the following courses on the Medical Statistics MSc programme:
=> Probability
=> Advanced Statistical Modelling
=> Survival Analysis and Bayesian Statistics
=> Foundations of Medical Statistics.
I am currently organising the 2023 Introductory Course in Epidemiology & Medical Statistics (ICEMS) summer school.
Each year I take on 2-3 students for Master's degree dissertation projects based on the research interests listed above. If you are interested in doing a dissertation in the areas above, please do get in touch.
Research
Bayesian inference, applied statistics, vaccine confidence & coverage estimation and inference, vaccine coverage forecasting, large-scale population surveys, local public health burdens, the social & economic determinants of health.