Professor Ben Cooper
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Ben Cooper
Professor of Epidemiology
MAEMOD
Ben Cooper holds an MRC senior non-clinical research fellowship and is based in Oxford.
His work uses mathematical modelling and statistical techniques to help understand infectious disease dynamics and evaluate potential control measures. This involves developing mathematical models to help evaluate the likely impact and cost-effectiveness of control measures, developing and applying new statistical approaches based on mechanistic models for the analysis of longitudinal infectious disease data (increasingly making use of whole genome sequence data), and designing and analysing epidemiological studies. The major focus of this work is on antibiotic-resistant bacteria in resource-limited hospital settings.
Additional projects include within-host dynamics of Plasmodium vivax, ecological interactions of the nasopharyngeal flora, cost-effectiveness of seasonal influenza vaccination in Thailand, and dynamics and control of Hepatitis E infections in refugee camps.
Key publications
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Mo Y. et al, (2020), BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 370
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Niehus R. et al, (2020), eLife, 9
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Crellen T. et al, (2019), eLife, 8
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Wittekamp BH. et al, (2018), JAMA, 320, 2087 - 2087
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Cooper BS. et al, (2018), PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 12
Recent publications
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Eyre DW. et al, (2021), PLOS Computational Biology, 17, e1008417 - e1008417
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Lim C. et al, (2020), Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22, e19762 - e19762
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Mo Y. et al, (2020), BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 370
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Niehus R. et al, (2020), eLife, 9
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Maechler F. et al, (2020), The Lancet. Infectious Diseases, 20, 575 - 584