Luke Burton

PhD Researcher · Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Dynamics, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Luke Burton

Understanding and predicting the behavioural drivers of epidemic dynamics. Also economic evaluation of blood-borne virus screening.

My PhD asks how social contact, mobility and attitude data can be used to understand and help anticipate the behavioural drivers of epidemic dynamics. It builds on a background in mathematics and health data science, and on earlier work using branching process models to estimate the probability that an introduction becomes a major epidemic.

I also work in health economics, on cost-utility modelling and economic evaluation of blood-borne virus screening interventions: coding hepatitis B progression models, evaluating TB IGRA testing in high-risk groups, and micro-costing digitally enhanced BBV testing.

I am based in the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Dynamics, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Alongside that:

Visiting Researcher, Imperial College London — Held alongside the PhD.
Research Assistant, Health Economics (part-time), University College London — NIHR-funded work on cost-utility modelling and economic evaluation of blood-borne virus screening interventions.

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