DrDaniela Olivera Mesa

I am a Technical Analyst based at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analytics. My role is focused on providing of academic modelling outputs to global health agencies, scientists, NGOs and foreign governments to build up the evidence to support decision-making. Currently I lead the analysis of COVID-19 vaccination in LMIC. I investigate the public health impact and effectiveness of different COVID-19 vaccine implementation strategies, to answer public health questions posed by parters like GAVI and WHO. Before this role, I completed my PhD in Epidemiology of Infectious DIseases on integrating different components of dynamic transmission models from epidemiology and economic evaluation. Particularly, I explored metapopulation model dynamics and investigating the economic optimisations and trade-offs of infectious disease control.