I collaborate with social scientists, clinicians, basic science researchers, and communities to address contextually relevant questions about infectious disease spread, including through the use of mathematical models to quantify the potential impact of behaviour-focused tools and approaches on interrupting disease transmission.
I have extensive experience working with national programs, including malaria control, immunization, and nutrition programs, as part of efforts to strengthen local capacity for evidence generation and utilization in post-Ebola Liberia. I have also studied barriers to building and sustaining capacity for advanced analysis to inform development of locally owned academic programs in West Africa.
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Centres
Teaching
I am passionate about teaching to strengthen skills for statistics and modelling as well as skills for the utilisation of modelling evidence. Within LSHTM, I am a co-module organiser for the Statistics for Epidemiology (EPM102) course in the Distance Learning Epi programme. I also remain actively involved in teaching and curriculum development at the University of Liberia School of Public Health and a Liberia-based NGO which offer opportunities to strengthen analytics skills among public health professionals in West Africa. Prospective sudents with interest in a One Health approach to modelling and data collection for emerging infectious diseases are welcome to be in touch.
Research
· Modelling the role of socio-demographic and behavioral factors in spillover risk for emerging zoonoses
· Designing methods to integrate cross-disciplinary data sources for modelling the context in which infectious diseases emerge and spread
· Modeling the dynamic interplay of malnutrition and vaccine-preventable diseases
· Studying the learning processes behind generation and use of disease modeling evidence
Selected Publications
