DrPablo Perez Guzman

I am a post-doctoral researcher in integrated economic-epidemiological modelling of infectious diseases at the Jameel Institute - Kenneth C Griffin Initiative for the Economics of Pandemic Preparedness in Imperial College's School of Public Health. Under Prof Katharina Hauck's leadership, my current research focuses on collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to develop integrated modelling methods to assess the epidemiological and economic implications of preparedness and response interventions to emerging (new) and known pandemic threats globally.

During my PhD, I developed mathematical methods to characterise the transmissibility and severity of pandemic pathogens, with a focus on SARS-CoV-2, which I applied to high- and low-income settings. In the latter, I further assessed the cost-effectiveness of counterfactual strategies to implement vaccination and improved healthcare for COVID-19, had low-income settings had been given equitable access to them.

Previously, I trained as infectious diseases physician and practiced clinically for over 10 years in my home country, Mexico, and collaborated in multi-disciplinary projects in Myanmar, Kenya and the UK. I was part of the Imperial College COVID-19 response team, initially working at the Imperial College NHS Trust to assess the determinants of disease severity in patients admitted with COVID-19, and subsequently contributing to modelling analyses that informed the pandemic response in the UK in real-time.