Research Interests:

My research spans three main areas of applied mathematics, namely mathematical biology, applied dynamical systems and computational mathematics. Specifically, my work focuses on using mathematical theories, rigorous analysis, and techniques, backed by data analytics and computation, to gain insight into the transmission dynamics and control of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases of major public health significance.

Some of the current themes of my research program includes the mathematical of One Health Initiative (where public health is viewed at the human-animal-environment interface), climate change and global distribution and burden of infectious diseases (particularly vector-borne disease, such as malaria, dengue, Zika, Lyme disease, West Nile virus and yellow fever), zoonotic spillover and disease pandemics (such as the H1N1, avian flu, swine flu, SARS-CoV-1, MERS, SARS-CoV-2 pandemics), assessment of pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions, insecticide and drug resistance and the mathematics of biocontrol measures against vector-borne diseases (such as the periodic release of transgenic mosquitoes and gene drive-based methods against disease vectors).

We also work on the design and deployment of effective and scalable decision support tools for real-time assessment of risk and burden of infectious diseases.