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Dr

Sam Abbott

Assistant Professor

Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Dynamics

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  • Assistant Professor
    Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Dynamics

BIO

I’m an infectious disease researcher interested in real-time analysis, forecasting, semi-mechanistic modelling, and open-source tool development. I am currently based in the Epiforecasts group at the London School of Hygiene. I completed my PhD in the optimal usage of the BCG vaccine at the University of Bristol with a short sojourn into Data Science at a company specialising in peer to peer lending.

LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE APPOINTMENTS

  • Research Fellow
    London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom6 Jan 2020 - present

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Research Associate
    SACEMA, South Africa1 Dec 2021 - present
  • Research Assistant
    University of Bristol, United Kingdom1 Oct 2019 - 31 Dec 2019

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Data Scientist
    Funding Circle2017 - 2019

DEGREES

  • PhD, Epidemiology
    University of Bristol, United Kingdom2015 - 2019
  • Msc, Advanced Mathematical Biology
    University of York, United Kingdom2014 - 2015
  • MMath, Mathematics
    University of Durham, United Kingdom2010 - 2014

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Data Science Career Track
    DataCamp
    Covering the full range of data science skills from data cleaning through to predictive modelling and inference.

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

  • Basic Epidemiology, Multilevel Modelling ,Data. Linkage, Analysis of repeated measures, Bayesian statistics with WINBUGS, Multiple Imputation Methods to deal with Missing Data, Methods for Mediation and Interaction Analysis, and Advanced Survival Analysis and Prognostic Modelling
    University of Bristol, United Kingdom2016 - 2019

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