Dr Alex De Figueiredo
Assistant Professor
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Keppel Street
London
United Kingdom
I am a Research Fellow at LSHTM and Statistics Lead at the Vaccine Confidence Project™. I hold a PhD in Mathematics from Imperial College, where I was also an EPSRC Prize Fellow.
My research focuses on using (mainly) Bayesian statistical methods to solve problems at the intersection of public health and vaccine confidence and vaccine acceptance. I am particularly interested in novel methods to infer vaccine confidence at national and sub-national levels; estimating and forecasting vaccine coverage rates for COVID-19 vaccines and routine childhood immunisation programmes; and the social and demographic determinants of vaccine confidence and acceptance.
I have worked extensively on large-scale surveys at global, national, and -- more recently -- sub-national scales, where my recent research seeks to understand local heterogeneities in vaccine acceptance, how this is linked to spatial variation in socio-demographic groups and inequalities, and how this impacts local disease burdens.
My research focuses on using (mainly) Bayesian statistical methods to solve problems at the intersection of public health and vaccine confidence and vaccine acceptance. I am particularly interested in novel methods to infer vaccine confidence at national and sub-national levels; estimating and forecasting vaccine coverage rates for COVID-19 vaccines and routine childhood immunisation programmes; and the social and demographic determinants of vaccine confidence and acceptance.
I have worked extensively on large-scale surveys at global, national, and -- more recently -- sub-national scales, where my recent research seeks to understand local heterogeneities in vaccine acceptance, how this is linked to spatial variation in socio-demographic groups and inequalities, and how this impacts local disease burdens.
Affiliations
Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Dynamics
Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health
Teaching
In 2022/23 I am teaching on the following courses on the Medical Statistics MSc programme:
=> Probability
=> Advanced Statistical Modelling
=> Survival Analysis and Bayesian Statistics
=> Foundations of Medical Statistics.
I am currently organising the 2023 Introductory Course in Epidemiology & Medical Statistics (ICEMS) summer school.
Each year I take on 2-3 students for Master's degree dissertation projects based on the research interests listed above. If you are interested in doing a dissertation in the areas above, please do get in touch.
=> Probability
=> Advanced Statistical Modelling
=> Survival Analysis and Bayesian Statistics
=> Foundations of Medical Statistics.
I am currently organising the 2023 Introductory Course in Epidemiology & Medical Statistics (ICEMS) summer school.
Each year I take on 2-3 students for Master's degree dissertation projects based on the research interests listed above. If you are interested in doing a dissertation in the areas above, please do get in touch.
Research
Bayesian inference, applied statistics, vaccine confidence & coverage estimation and inference, vaccine coverage forecasting, large-scale population surveys, local public health burdens, the social & economic determinants of health.
Research Area
Vaccines
Bayesian Analysis
Infectious disease policy
Social and structural determinants of health
Epidemiology
GIS/Spatial analysis
Mathematical Modelling
Social Policy
Country
United Kingdom
India
Selected Publications
Quantifying the role of maternal recall in estimates of routine immunisation rates in India: a large-scale sub-national Bayesian modelling study
2024
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies
Spatiotemporal trends in COVID-19 vaccine sentiments on a social media platform and correlations with reported vaccine coverage.
2023
Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Recent trends in vaccine coverage and confidence: A cause for concern.
2023
Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics
Forecasting sub-national trends in COVID-19 vaccine uptake in the UK before vaccine rollout.
2022
Scientific reports
Exploratory study of the global intent to accept COVID-19 vaccinations.
2021
Communications Medicine