Research Projects

After 15 years of decreases in overall burden, malaria transmission has now become highly heterogeneous in space (with areas of high transmission surrounded by vast areas of little or no transmission) and/or restricted to specific high-risk groups such a migrants, forest workers or miners. If elimination is to be achieved, it will essential to be able to accurately identify and map such high-risk areas / populations and understand the key processes driving this heterogeneity. As part of this project you will apply advanced statistical methods to extensive longitudinal and cross-sectional dataset (incl. epidemiological, genetic and immunological variables) from Papua New Guinea, Cambodia, Thailand and Brazil investigate key factors that contribute to these differences and develop novel metrics to quantify heterogeneity. Integrating this knowledge into mathematical malaria transmission models (White et al 2018), you will explore how current and novel intervention can be used to target transmission ‘hotspots’. Requires strong numerical abilities.

This project could be undertaken as PhD Project or individual parts could be shaped into in 2-3 separate MSc projects.

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