Co-production, defined as collective knowledge making across different groups of stakeholders, has been suggested as the most effective strategy for mobilising evidence in policy and practice contexts \cite{bandola2023co}. While co-production is becoming an increasingly popular term in research, it is not always evident what counts as co-production: what is being produced, under what...
Mismatches between modelled and real-world outcomes frequently arise from misplaced assumptions about how people live, interact, and respond to infectious disease threats and interventions. Co-production is increasingly recognised as a way of ensuring that models reflect the realities of those most affected. Without it, models risk overlooking context, perpetuating inequities, and causing...
The 2022 mpox outbreak disproportionately affected gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) in the United Kingdom, prompting the need for models that reflect both the epidemiological realities of transmission and the lived experiences of affected communities. We developed a dynamic network model capturing sexual and non-sexual close contact transmission dynamics. Central to...
The Mathematical and Economic Modelling for Vaccination and Immunisation Evaluation project (MEMVIE) involves the construction of epidemiological models and evaluating the cost-effectiveness of different vaccination interventions to help inform vaccination policy in the UK.
A contributor to the MEMVIE project is our MEMVIE public involvement group. The MEMVIE public involvement group and...
The last half-century has experienced ecological change and greater global connectivity, leading to an increase in emerging and pandemic infections alongside existing endemic pathogens. Epidemic impacts on health and well-being have been large and unequal. There has been a growing demand for modelling of infectious diseases to support epidemic decision-making, enabling the exploration of...
