Prof Adam Kucharski
Prof of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
United Kingdom
My research focuses on making better use of data and analytics for understanding infectious disease dynamics, to inform epidemic preparedness and response. This includes large-scale studies of social behaviour and immunity, as well as development of open source software tools. I am also co-director of the Centre for Epidemic Preparedness and Response at LSHTM.
From 2017–21, I was a Wellcome Trust/Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow and from 2013–17, I held a Medical Research Council Career Development Award in Biostatistics. Prior to joining the School in October 2013, I was a postdoc at Imperial College London. I have a degree in mathematics from the University of Warwick (2009) and a PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Cambridge (2012).
Affiliations
Centres
Teaching
I co-organise the MSc module Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases (2437), and teach about outbreak analysis and modelling on a range of other modules.
Research
Much of my work involves developing new mathematical and statistical approaches to understand the dynamics of infectious disease outbreaks. I am particularly interested in how to combine multiple data sources – including surveillance data, social behaviour studies and novel serological surveys – to uncover transmission dynamics and impact of interventions. This research covers directly transmitted infections like COVID-19, influenza and Ebola as well as arboviruses like dengue and Zika.
Public engagement is also an important part of my work: as well as running events in schools, museums and festivals, I have worked on several projects linking citizen science with large-scale data collection.