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Professor John Edmunds
Head of the Modelling and Economics Unit, Health Protection Agency

Prof. John Edmunds has a PhD in modelling the transmission of infectious diseases from Imperial College, London and an MSc in Health Economics from the University of York. His work concentrates on the design of cost-effective intervention programmes against infectious diseases, taking account of the direct and indirect (sometimes called herd-immunity) effects of such programmes. He is the head of the Modelling and Economics Unit at the Health Protection Agency Centre for Infections in London. He has co-authored over 100 peer-review articles, and acted as an advisor on national and international committees on a number of occasions on topics ranging from HPV vaccination to pandemic influenza. He has recently accepted a Chair in Modelling Infectious Diseases at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and will be taking up this post later in 2008.

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