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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.

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.

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
Singh, R; Agarwal, S; DE FIGUEIREDO, A; Mishra, M; Agarwal, D;
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.
Zhou, X; Zhang, X; LARSON, HJ; DE FIGUEIREDO, A; JIT, M; Fodeh, S; Vermund, SH; Zang, S; LIN, L; Hou, Z;
2023
Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Recent trends in vaccine coverage and confidence: A cause for concern.
EAGAN, RL; LARSON, HJ; DE FIGUEIREDO, A;
2023
Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics
Ability to detect fake news predicts sub-national variation in COVID-19 vaccine uptake across the UK
Loomba, S; Maertens, R; Roozenbeek, J; Götz, F; Van der Linden, S; DE FIGUEIREDO, A;
2023
medRxiv
The Unintended Consequences of COVID-19 Vaccine Policy: Why Mandates, Passports, and Segregated Lockdowns May Cause more Harm than Good
Bardosh, K; Figueiredo, AD; Gur-Arie, R; Jamrozik, E; Doidge, JJ; Lemmens, T; Keshavjee, S; Graham, J; Baral, S;
2022
SSRN Electronic Journal
Exploratory study of the global intent to accept COVID-19 vaccinations.
DE FIGUEIREDO, A; LARSON, HJ;
2021
Communications Medicine
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