Kari Auranen (National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland)
Kari Auranen is Senior Scientist at the Department of Vaccination and Immune Protection at the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Finland. He received his PhD in Biometry at the University of Helsinki in 1999 and has worked on various vaccination-related research problems since then. He is currently the local principal investigator in the PneumoCarr project, an international collaboration which aims at inclusion of vaccine efficacy against Streptococcus pneumoniae colonisation in the licensure pathway of new pneumococcal vaccine products. His research interests include statistical modelling and analysis of infectious disease data, estimation of vaccine efficacy from trial and field data, natural dynamics of nasopharyngeal pneumococcal carriage, and the effects of vaccination on the epidemiology of the pneumococcus.
A list of recent publications:
Leino T, Hoti F, Syrjänen R, Tanskanen A, Auranen K: Clustering of serotypes in a longitudinal study of Streptococcus pneumoniae – carriage in three day care centres. BMC Infectious Diseases 2008; 8: 173
Rinta-Kokko H, Dagan R, Givon-Lavi N, Auranen K: Estimation of vaccine efficacy against pneumococcal carriage, Vaccine 2009; 27:3831-3837
Karhunen M, Leino T, Salo H, Davidkin I, Kilpi T, Auranen K: Modelling the impact of varicella vaccination on varicella and zoster in Finland. Epidemiol Infect 2009; 138(4):469-481
Auranen K, Mehtälä J, Tanskanen A, Kaltoft M: Between-serotype competition on acquisition and clearance of pneumococcal carriage – epidemiological evidence from a longitudinal study of day care children. Am J Epidemiol 2010; 171(2):169-176.
Mehtala J, Auranen K, Kulathinal S: Optimal designs for epidemiologic longitudinal studies with binary outcomes Stat Methods Med Res 2011 Dec 13.
Tony Barnett (LSE)
Tony Barnett is Professorial Research Fellow in the Department of Social Policy at LSE and Honorary Professor at LSHTM. He is a determinedly undisciplinedsocial scientist with degrees in economics, social anthropology, political science and sociology. He began research on the social and economic impact of HIV/AIDS in 1986. His wider interest in infectious diseases has led to work on avian influenza, tuberculosis, swine ‘flu and zoonoses of various kinds. Publications include: AID in Africa: its present and future impact (1992) (with Piers Blaikie) and AIDS in the 21st Century: disease and globalization (2nd edition 2006) (with Alan Whiteside). Forthcoming publications include: “Social Policy Interventions to enhance the HIV/AIDS response in Sub-Saharan Africa: Sets, Metaphors and Hope” in, Rethinking HIV/AIDS Priorities in Africa: A Cost-Benefit Analysis, edited by Bjorn Lombörg, Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Robert Dingwall (Dingwall Enterprises/Nottingham Trent University)
Robert Dingwall is a consulting sociologist, providing research and advisory services particularly in relation to organizational strategy, public engagement and knowledge transfer. He is also a part-time professor in the School of Social Sciences at Nottingham Trent University. His career has mainly been spent in research, spanning a wide range of topics in health care, law, and science and technology studies, reflected in over 100 peer reviewed papers together with numerous books, reports and book chapters. Much of this work has crossed traditional disciplinary boundaries, involving collaboration with health professionals, lawyers, engineers, and scholars from other humanities and social science disciplines. He has also served on a number of advisory committees, including the Committee on Ethical Aspects of Pandemic Influenza and the BBSRC Bioscience and Society Strategy Panel.
Helen Lambert (University of Bristol)
Helen Lambert (DPhil) is Reader in Medical Anthropology in the School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol. Helen is a social anthropologist who has undertaken a range of health-related research, from classical ethnography to multi-method analyses with multidisciplinary teams. Her research interests include South Asian health systems and therapeutic traditions; HIV and sexual health; suicide and social networks; perceptions of risk; treatment-seeking practices; and notions of evidence and expertise in medicine, epidemiology and anthropology. Recent publications include: Lambert, H. ‘Evidentiary truths? The evidence of anthropology through the anthropology of medical evidence’, Anthropology Today 2009; 25(1):16-20; Lambert, H, McDonald M (eds) Social Bodies, Berghahn, 2009; Evans,C, Jana,S & Lambert H. ‘What makes a structural intervention? Reducing vulnerability to HIV in community settings, with particular reference to sex work’, Global Public Health 2010; 5(5): 449-461; Evans, C & Lambert, H. ‘Implementing community interventions for HIV prevention: Insights from project ethnography’, Social Science and Medicine 2008; 66(2):467-478; Owen C, Owen G, Belam J, Lloyd K, Rapport F, Donovan, JL & Lambert H. ‘Recognising and responding to suicidal crisis within family and social networks: qualitative study’ BMJ 2011; 343:1-9; Lambert, H. Medical pluralism and medical marginality: Bone doctors and the selective legitimation of therapeutic expertise In India’, Social Science and Medicine 2012;74:1029-1036.
Erika Mansnerus (LSE)
Erika Mansnerus is a British Academy Postdoctoral fellow at the London School of Economics, LSE Health and Social Care. She is a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine, King’s College London. Her key research interests are development and use of mathematical models in public health.
Prior to her British Academy fellowship, she held postdoctoral positions at the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation, CARR (funded by ESRC) and at Economic History Department, in “Nature of Evidence: How Well Do Facts Travel” project (funded by the Leverhulme Trust and ESRC) at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has conducted a long term study on interdisciplinary modelling at the National Institute for Health and Welfare in Helsinki, Finland.
Key publications are:
2012: with Gabriele Gramelsberger: “The inner world of models: case of climate and infectious disease modelling” In C. Bissell & C. Dillon (eds): Ways of Thinking, Ways of Seeing. Springer.
2012: “Understanding and governing public health risks by modelling” In Roser, S (et. al.) (eds): Handbook of Risk Theory. Springer.
2011: “Using models to keep us healthy: Productive Journeys of Facts across Public Health Networks” In P. Howlett and M. Morgan (eds.): How Well Do ‘Facts’ Travel? Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
2009: “The lives of facts in mathematical models: a story of population-level disease transmission of Haemophilus influenzae type b bacteria”. BioSocieties Vol. 4 (2/3).
2006: “Struggle between specificity and generality: How do infectious disease models become a simulation platform?” In Küppers, Günther, Lenhard, Johannes and Shinn, Terry: Simulation: Pragmatic Constructions of Reality. Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook vol 25 pp. 125-138. Springer.
2006: “Interdisciplinarity ‘In the Making’: Modelling Infectious Diseases”. Perspectives on Science: Historical, Philosophical, Sociological 13:4. Pp. 531-553. MIT Press.
Angela McLean (University of Oxford)
I studied mathematics at Oxford followed by a PhD in biomathematics at Imperial College, London. After a brief spell in the City I returned to science to do postdocs in London, Oxford, Paris and Compton. Returning to Oxford in 2000 I became Professor of Mathematical Biology in 2004 and Director of the Institute for Emerging Infections in 2005. Since 1st October 2008 I have been a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College. I was elected to the Royal Society in 2009, and was awarded the Royal Society’s Gabor Medal in 2011.
Key Publications:
Arinaminpathy N., McLean A.R., (2009) Evolution and emergence of novel human infections. Proc. R. Soc. B. 273, 3075–3083
Kubiak RJ, Arinaminpathy N, McLean AR (2010) Insights into the Evolution and Emergence of a Novel Infectious Disease. PLoS Comput Biol 6(9): e1000947
Fryer HR, Frater J, Duda A, Roberts MG, The SPARTAC Trial Investigators, Phillips RE, McLean AR. (2010) Modelling the evolution and spread of HIV immune escape mutants. PLoS Pathogens vol 6 issue 11 e1001196
Kubiak RJ, McLean AR (2012) Why Was the 2009 Influenza Pandemic in England So Small? PLoS ONE 7(2): e30223
Mary Morgan (London School of Economics and University of Amsterdam)
Mary S. Morgan, Fellow of the British Academy and Overseas Fellow of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences, is Professor of History and Philosophy of Economics at the London School of Economics and University of Amsterdam. She has published on a range of topics from observation to measurement, narrative to tacit knowledge, and nineteenth-century Social Darwinism to game theory in the Cold War. Her main research projects are reported in The History of Econometric Ideas (1990), Models as Mediators (1999 with Margaret Morrison), How Well Do Facts Travel? (2011 with Peter Howlett) and The World in the Model (2012). She is currently “Re-thinking Case Studies Across the Social Sciences” as a British Academy-Wolfson Research Professor, last year as a Davis Center Fellow at Princeton University.
Angus Nicoll CBE (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
MB, CBE, Senior Expert and Influenza Programme Coordinator, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden; Honorary Professor, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK.
Prof. Angus Nicoll was dually trained in paediatrics and public health in the UK. Following clinical practice, he lived and worked in Africa in 1987-91 on HIV and sexually transmitted infections establishing the Mwanza Programme. From 1991 to 2005 he worked with the UK Public Health Laboratory Service, which became the Health Protection Agency. He guided its HIV Unlinked Anonymous Surveillance, became Head of its HIV & STD Division and then Director of the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre from 2000 to 2005. He was awarded CBE for work after 9/11. During SARS Prof. Nicoll chaired WHO meetings reviewing epidemiology and control measures. He worked extensively in China as a visiting consultant for the World Bank on communicable disease control. From 2005 he was Seconded National Expert from the UK HPA and as Influenza Coordinator at ECDC he developed and steered its activities on influenza including its response to avian influenza A(H5N1), its work on pandemic preparedness and seasonal influenza and with many others ECDC’s response to the 2009 A(H1N1) pandemic in 2009-10.
Sabine Roeser (University of Delft)
Sabine Roeser is Professor of Political Philosophy and Ethics at Twente University (Socrates Chair, part-time) and associate professor at TU Delft. She is managing director of the 3TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology. Roeser is head of a research group on Moral Emotions and Risk Politics, funded with a grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. Sabine Roeser has published six books, three of which on risk, and more than 40 articles on ethics, risk and emotion. Roeser is editor in chief of Springer’s recently published Handbook of Risk Theory. She is a member of several advisory committees on risk for the Dutch government.
Professor Charlotte Watts (London School for Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
Charlotte Watts is Head of the Social and Mathematical Epidemiology Group in the Department of Global Health and Development at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and research director of the DFID funded STRIVE Structural HIV drivers Research Programme Consortium. Originally trained as a mathematician, her initial post-doctoral research explored the potential importance of concurrent sexual partnerships for HIV transmission. She then received further training in epidemiology, economics and social science methods, and now heads a large multi-disciplinary research group that seeks to identify effective interventions to address HIV/AIDS. Prof. Watts now has more than fifteen years experience in international HIV and violence research, and brings a strong multi-disciplinary perspective to the issue of addressing HIV in developing countries, with her research now spanning issues of gender inequality and violence; intervention evaluation, economic analyses and the potential role of new HIV prevention technologies. She has served on several expert advisory committees, including for UNAIDS, WHO, the World Bank, and the US Institute of Medicine, and teaches MSc and Ph.D. students at LSHTM.