Teaching
University of Liverpool
Post-graduate teaching: infectious disease epidemiology for the MSc Clinical Science (Genomic Sciences) on the module Genomics in Infectious Disease; with assessment of MRes in Clinical Sciences modules Research Frontiers 1 and 2; teach ethics in research for the MRes in Advanced Biological Sciences on the module Research Methods and Applications in Biological Sciences; and Stakeholders, health systems and research in prevention and response to outbreaks for the MSc Pandemic Sciences on the module Global Outbreak Surveillance and Control.
I supervise MRes and MPH projects.
I am Academic Advisor for MBChB students and I supervise Academic Clinical Fellows and Academic Foundation Year doctors.
PhD Supervision
Currently supervising five PhD students, two as primary supervisor:
2021: Understanding the impact of local funding cuts on environmental health and regulatory services and gastrointestinal infection outcomes, a longitudinal ecological study (HPRU-GI)
2021: Investigating the impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection on gastrointestinal illness using advanced linked data systems (HPRU-GI)
2022: Improving methods to determine vaccine impact in low and middle income countries (MRC-DiMeN)
2024: Joint models for longitudinally measured outcomes and non-terminal recurrent event processes – developing a framework
2025: Toward Sustainable Measles Control: Investigating Barriers, Outbreaks, and Public Health Interventions (University of Warwick, Institute for Global Pandemic Planning)
External teaching
I teach data science for NIHR CRN Research Scholars Programme.
University of Manchester 2021/22: two invited lectures on epidemiology on the MSc Medical Microbiology Course.
Stakeholder (Ministry of Health in Kenya, Malawi and Ethiopia) and student training in vaccine evaluations using real world data.
Modules for 2024-25
RESEARCH METHODS AND APPLICATIONS IN BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Module code: LIFE731
Role: Teaching
RESEARCH METHODS AND APPLICATIONS IN BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES (OFF-CAMPUS)
Module code: LIFE631
Role: Teaching
Supervised Theses
- Influenza vaccine attitudes, behaviours, and uptake in pregnant women in Liverpool, UK, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed methods study
- Prospective observational study of SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence, transmission and genomic analysis in a cohort of households in Liverpool City Region, UK (COVID-LIV)