Dr Jamie Griffin

I am a statistician and modeller working primarily on malaria. I hold an MRC Methodology research fellowship. The main aim of the research is to better parameterise malaria transmission models, both in terms of the development of acquired immunity and also the impact of interventions in different settings.

I have programmed a flexible individual-based model of malaria transmission, which along with others in in the research group of Professor Azra Ghani and the department, we have used to model the potential impact on transmission of all the principal current interventions in various different sub-Saharan African settings.

In collaboration with people at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, I have worked on several other malaria projects. The main one is assessing the use of serological data as a measure of malaria transmission intensity: how to compare it to other measures such as parasite prevalence, and how to correctly incorporate uncertainty.

Other research interests include inference for stochastic epidemic models, most recently work during the H1N1 swine flu pandemic.

I co-supervise one PhD student, Michael White, whose project involves modelling vaccines for preventing infection with malaria.