Summary
Garyfallos Konstantinoudis is an MRC Skills Development Research Fellow at the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and part of the MRC Centre for Environment and Health. Before that he did his PhD in Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) at the University of Bern in Switzerland. Garyfallos gained an MSc in Biostatistics at the University of Glasgow and BSc in Mathematics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Garyfallos' current domain of research is on Bayesian spatiotemporal models using exact point data and INLA. As part of his fellowship, he combines the aforementioned modelling framework with health economics to investigate the climate related respiratory disease burden in the UK. This project is a collaboration with University College London and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, but also with international institutes like University of Goettingen, ISGlobal and ISPM.
Publications
Journals
Riou J, Hauser A, Althaus C, et al., 2023, Direct and indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality in Switzerland, Nature Communications, Vol:14, ISSN:2041-1723
Konstantinoudis G, Cosetta M, Vicedo Cabrera, et al., 2022, Ambient heat exposure and COPD hospitalisations in England: a nationwide case-crossover study during 2007-2018, Thorax, Vol:77, ISSN:0040-6376, Pages:1098-1104
Konstantinoudis G, Cameletti M, Gómez-Rubio, et al., 2022, Regional excess mortality during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in five European countries, Nature Communications, Vol:13, ISSN:2041-1723, Pages:1-11
Heydari S, Konstantinoudis G, Behsoodi AW, 2021, Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on bike-sharing demand and hire time: Evidence from Santander Cycles in London, Plos One, Vol:16, ISSN:1932-6203