Timothy Pollington
MSc MSc AMIMA
Postdoctoral Researcher - Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases
I'm working with Professor Déirdre Hollingsworth and the Neglected Tropical Disease Modelling Consortium. My main disease of focus is visceral leishmaniasis (VL), a sandfly-transmitted parasitic disease that can be fatal if not treated. I am currently completing my PhD studies at the University of Warwick under Lloyd Chapman, Mike Tildesley & Déirdre Hollingsworth.
My current projects include: simulating outbreaks of VL at the village level; deconvolution of observed time series; an interrupted time series analysis of VL at the district level; developing a rate estimator for the tau statistic - a spatiotemporal clustering statistic for infectious diseases.
Recent publications
Impact of intensified control on visceral leishmaniasis in a highly-endemic district of Bihar, India: an interrupted time series analysis.
Journal article
Kumar V. et al, (2022), Epidemics, 39
Contact tracing is an imperfect tool for controlling COVID-19 transmission and relies on population adherence.
Journal article
Davis EL. et al, (2021), Nature communications, 12
How modelling can help steer the course set by the World Health Organization 2021-2030 roadmap on neglected tropical diseases
Journal article
Clark J. et al, (2021)
Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 with waning immunity in the UK population.
Journal article
Crellen T. et al, (2021), Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 376
Developments in statistical inference when assessing spatiotemporal disease clustering with the tau statistic.
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Pollington TM. et al, (2021), Spatial statistics, 42