Emma Davis
PhD MSc MRes
Postdoctoral researcher
I am a Postdoctoral Researcher in infectious disease epidemiology working with Deirdre Hollingsworth and the Neglected Tropical Disease Modelling Consortium. My main disease of focus is currently lymphatic filariasis, a human nematode transmitted by mosquitoes that can cause permanent disability.
I trained as a mathematician at the University of Warwick, with a dissertation in mathematical modelling of STH, before moving to Imperial College London, where I completed a MRes in Biomedical Research focusing on infectious disease epidemiology and control of malaria. I then returned to Warwick for an MSc+PhD in mathematics of real-world systems under Deirdre Hollingsworth and Matt Keeling, with a specialism in modelling for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).
My current projects include: assessing the predicted impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on lymphatic filariasis control and elimination programs; modelling COVID-19 contact tracing for the UK; and investigating the impact of vector control (e.g. insecticide-treated bednets) on achieving the WHO 2030 goals for lymphatic filariasis and preventing resurgence.
Recent publications
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Accelerating Progress Towards the 2030 Neglected Tropical Diseases Targets: How Can Quantitative Modeling Support Programmatic Decisions?
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Vasconcelos A. et al, (2024), Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 78, S83 - S92
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Reducing the Antigen Prevalence Target Threshold for Stopping and Restarting Mass Drug Administration for Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination: A Model-Based Cost-effectiveness Simulation in Tanzania, India and Haiti.
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Antony Oliver MC. et al, (2024), Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 78, S160 - S168
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An analytically tractable, age-structured model of the impact of vector control on mosquito-transmitted infections.
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Davis EL. et al, (2024), PLoS computational biology, 20
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Xenografted human microglia display diverse transcriptomic states in response to Alzheimer’s disease-related amyloid-β pathology
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Mancuso R. et al, (2024), Nature Neuroscience
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A modelling analysis of a new multi-stage pathway for classifying achievement of public health milestones for leprosy
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Davis EL. et al, (2023), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 378