Summary
I am a Technical Analyst based at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analytics.
My role is focused on providing of academic modelling outputs to global health agencies, scientists, NGOs and foreign governments to build up the evidence to support decision-making. Currently I lead the analysis of COVID-19 vaccination in LMIC. I investigate the public health impact and effectiveness of different COVID-19 vaccine implementation strategies, to answer public health questions posed by parters like GAVI and WHO.
Before this role, I completed my PhD in Epidemiology of Infectious DIseases on integrating different components of dynamic transmission models from epidemiology and economic evaluation. Particularly, I explored metapopulation model dynamics and investigating the economic optimisations and trade-offs of infectious disease control.
Publications
Journals
Sheppard R, Watson OJ, Pieciak R, et al., 2023, Using mortuary and burial data to place COVID-19 in Lusaka, Zambia within a global context, Nature Communications, Vol:14, ISSN:2041-1723, Pages:1-15
Mesa DO, Winskill P, Ghani AC, et al., 2023, The societal cost of vaccine refusal: A modelling study using measles vaccination as a case study, Vaccine, Vol:41, ISSN:0264-410X, Pages:4129-4137
Olivera Mesa D, Hogan A, Watson O, et al., 2022, Modelling the impact of vaccine hesitancy in prolonging the need for Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions to control the COVID-19 pandemic, Communications Medicine, Vol:2, ISSN:2730-664X
Challenger J, Olivera Mesa D, Da DF, et al., 2021, Predicting the public health impact of a malaria transmission-blocking vaccine, Nature Communications, Vol:12, ISSN:2041-1723, Pages:1-12