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2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
111
Citations
48333
World Ranking
188
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Andrew J. Tatem is affiliated with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields, with primary focus on Social Sciences and Medicine. Within these broad fields, their work concentrates on subfields including Transportation, Modeling and Simulation, Global and Planetary Change, Epidemiology, and Health.

Their main research topics cover a range of critical areas: COVID-19 epidemiological studies, Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis, Impact of Light on Environment and Health, Data-Driven Disease Surveillance, Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy, Global Maternal and Child Health, and Urban Transport and Accessibility.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Andrew J. Tatem include Shengjie Lai, Nick Ruktanonchai, C. Edson Utazi, Corrine W. Ruktanonchai, and Maksym Bondarenko.

Their recent notable publications include:

  • Infectious disease in an era of global change, 2021, Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • Effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions to contain COVID-19 in China, 2020, Nature
  • Risk of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Transmission in Train Passengers: an Epidemiological and Modeling Study, 2020, Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions for containing the COVID-19 outbreak in China, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Assessing the impact of coordinated COVID-19 exit strategies across Europe, 2020, Science

Andrew J. Tatem frequently publishes in venues such as ePrints Soton (University of Southampton), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Preprints.org, The Journal of Sexual Medicine, and Remote Sensing.

They have been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • The global distribution and population at risk of malaria: past, present, and future

    Simon I Hay;Carlos A Guerra;Andrew J Tatem;Abdisalan M Noor

  • Global threats from invasive alien species in the twenty-first century and national response capacities

    Regan Early;Bethany A. Bradley;Jeffrey S. Dukes;Joshua J. Lawler

  • Effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions to contain COVID-19 in China.

    Shengjie Lai;Shengjie Lai;Nick W. Ruktanonchai;Nick W. Ruktanonchai;Liangcai Zhou;Olivia Prosper

  • Past and future spread of the arbovirus vectors Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus.

    Moritz U. G. Kraemer;Moritz U. G. Kraemer;Moritz U. G. Kraemer;Robert C. Reiner;Oliver J. Brady;Jane P. Messina

  • Quantifying the impact of human mobility on malaria.

    Amy Wesolowski;Nathan Eagle;Nathan Eagle;Andrew J. Tatem;Andrew J. Tatem;David L. Smith;David L. Smith

  • Disaggregating census data for population mapping using Random forests with remotely-sensed and ancillary data

    Forrest F.R. Stevens;Andrea A.E. Gaughan;Catherine Linard;Andrew J Tatem

  • Dynamic population mapping using mobile phone data

    Pierre Deville;Catherine Linard;Samuel Martin;Marius Gilbert

  • WorldPop, open data for spatial demography

    Andrew J. Tatem

  • The early spread and epidemic ignition of HIV-1 in human populations

    Nuno Rodrigues Faria;Andrew Rambaut;Marc A Suchard;Guy Baele

  • Urbanization, malaria transmission and disease burden in Africa

    Simon I. Hay;Carlos A. Guerra;Andrew J. Tatem;Peter M. Atkinson

  • Global traffic and disease vector dispersal

    Andrew J. Tatem;Simon I. Hay;David J. Rogers

  • Population Distribution, Settlement Patterns and Accessibility across Africa in 2010.

    Catherine Linard;Catherine Linard;Marius Gilbert;Robert W. Snow;Abdisalan M. Noor

  • A long neglected world malaria map: Plasmodium vivax endemicity in 2010.

    Peter W. Gething;Iqbal R. F. Elyazar;Catherine L. Moyes;David L. Smith;David L. Smith

  • The limits and intensity of Plasmodium falciparum transmission: implications for malaria control and elimination worldwide

    Carlos A Guerra;Priscilla W Gikandi;Andrew J Tatem;Abdisalan M Noor;Abdisalan M Noor

  • The international limits and population at risk of Plasmodium vivax transmission in 2009

    Carlos A. Guerra;Rosalind E. Howes;Anand P. Patil;Peter W. Gething

  • Estimating the Global Clinical Burden of Plasmodium falciparum Malaria in 2007

    Simon I. Hay;Emelda A. Okiro;Peter W. Gething;Anand P. Patil

  • Super-resolution target identification from remotely sensed images using a Hopfield neural network

    A.J. Tatem;H.G. Lewis;P.M. Atkinson;M.S. Nixon

  • A new urban landscape in East?Southeast Asia, 2000?2010

    A. Schneider;C. M. Mertes;A. J. Tatem;A. J. Tatem;B. Tan

  • A systematic review of mathematical models of mosquito-borne pathogen transmission: 1970–2010

    Robert C Reiner;Robert C Reiner;T Alex Perkins;T Alex Perkins;Christopher M Barker;Christopher M Barker;Tianchan Niu;Tianchan Niu

  • Mapping the zoonotic niche of Ebola virus disease in Africa

    David M. Pigott;Nick Golding;Adrian Mylne;Zhi Huang

  • Mapping global environmental suitability for Zika virus

    Jane P. Messina;Moritz Ug G. Kraemer;Oliver J. Brady;David M. Pigott;David M. Pigott

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon I. Hay
Simon I. Hay University of Washington
David L. Smith
David L. Smith University of Washington
Robert W. Snow
Robert W. Snow Kenya Medical Research Institute
Peter W. Gething
Peter W. Gething Telethon Kids Institute
Peter M. Atkinson
Peter M. Atkinson Lancaster University
Abdisalan M. Noor
Abdisalan M. Noor World Health Organization
Moritz U G Kraemer
Moritz U G Kraemer University of Oxford
Bryan T. Grenfell
Bryan T. Grenfell Princeton University
C. Jessica E. Metcalf
C. Jessica E. Metcalf Princeton University
Zoe Matthews
Zoe Matthews University of Southampton

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