Simon Alderton

Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa (Website)

Position: Postgraduate Research Student
Institution: Geography (FSHS)
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BSc, MSc in Physical Geography, University of Durham (2007-2011).

I am a postgraduate research student working between the Institute for Complex System Simulation and the Department of Geography. I specialise in spatial epidemiology, with a particular interest in how agent-based modelling techniques can be used as an alternative apporach to traditional compartmentalised epidemioloigcal models.

I am currently working with the Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium (DDDAC) with the aim of constructing an accurate agent-based model of sleeping sickness in the rural Eastern Province of Zambia.

Working with...

Peter Atkinson
Professor, Geography (FSHS)

Jason Noble
Research Fellow, Electronics and Computer Science (FPAS)

Projects

Simulating Sleeping Sickness: a two-host agent-based model

With Jason Noble, Peter Atkinson (Investigators)