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Objectives

This programme serves the following Unit Objectives as a main focus:

• To inform, develop and evaluate population-based approaches to improving health
• To develop new methods, resources and tools for epidemiological and public health research
• To investigate approaches to improving global health, particularly in low and middle income countries

Research

Modelling is the simulation of a partial representation of a system. It can help us answer questions that no single empirical study can answer.

Modelling enables us to estimate longer term and population wide health benefits, harms, and trade-offs of interventions, integrate evidence from different domains, test the potential for behaviour change through hypothetical ‘what if’ scenarios, and address issues of cost and cost-effectiveness. Modelling can also be used to investigate how health related practices might change in complex systems.

Modelling studies can be cheaper and quicker than real world studies and do not require the intervention to actually be implemented. They can therefore support getting the best value from intervention studies and natural experiments.

In public health modelling at the MRC Epidemiology Unit we combine evidence from many different primary studies plus insights from experts and other stakeholders. Simulation of  models containing uncertainty can be used to indicate where the gaps in our knowledge are most critical for decision making.

Work with us

If you are interested in doing a summer project, short term collaboration, or longer term a PhD ora post-doctoral position with the group please get in touch.

We are particularly interested in applicants with the following skills/ to collaborate on the following topics:

• Health impact modelling
• Traffic injury simulation and analysis
• GIS and developing measures of the built enviornment
• Travel behaviours and data in lower and middle income countries
• Travel demand modelling

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Senior team members

• Dr Ali Abbas
• Dr Haneen Khreis
• Dr Ismaïl Saadi

Researchers and PhD students

• Marina Berdikhanova
• Dr Irena Itova
• Kyriaki (Kelly) Kokka
• Dr Yuchen Li
• Dr Anna Schroeder
• Corin Staves
• Dr Lambed Tatah
• Dr Belen Zapata-Diomedi
• Dr Qin Zhang

Current visitors

• Alexandra Bretones
• Lei Li
• Dr Kimihiro Hino

Former members

• Dr Sohail Ahmad
• Dr Leandro Garcia
• Dr Rohit Sharma
• Daniel Gil
• Dr Rob Johnson
• Dr Marko Tainio
• Dr Thiago Hérick de Sá
• Dr Philipp Giabbanelli
• Dr SM Labib
• Dr Arno Steinacher
• Luca Martial
• Elizabeth Oduala
• Hong Tan
• Dr Lambed Tatah

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Group Studies, Models, Tools, and Projects

Includes: