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Neil M. Ferguson is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on infectious diseases, epidemiology, and mathematical modeling and simulation within medicine.

The scientist's work spans multiple subfields including infectious diseases, public health, environmental and occupational health, health sciences, and epidemiology. Their key research topics highlight a significant concentration on COVID-19 epidemiological studies, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, vaccine coverage and hesitancy, COVID-19 clinical research studies, viral infections and outbreaks research, impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and mosquito-borne diseases and control.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Neil M. Ferguson include:

  • Katy A. M. Gaythorpe
  • Christl A. Donnelly
  • Marc Baguelin
  • Wes Hinsley
  • Samir Bhatt

Common venues for their research publications reflect a balance between high-impact journals and institutional platforms. These include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Spiral (Imperial College London)
  • Nature Communications
  • Wellcome Open Research
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Representative recent papers by Neil M. Ferguson and collaborators are:

  • "Estimates of the severity of coronavirus disease 2019: a model-based analysis," 2020, The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • "Report 9: Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID19 mortality and healthcare demand," 2020, Spiral (Imperial College London)
  • "Estimating the effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in Europe," 2020, Nature
  • "Genomics and epidemiology of the P.1 SARS-CoV-2 lineage in Manaus, Brazil," 2021, Science
  • "Assessing transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7 in England," 2021, Nature

Their scientific output includes extensive work within 254 publications categorized under medicine and 119 under mathematics. This interdisciplinary approach supports research ranging from disease modeling to epidemiological analysis.

Best Publications

  • Estimates of the severity of coronavirus disease 2019: a model-based analysis.

    Robert Verity;Lucy C Okell;Ilaria Dorigatti;Peter Winskill

  • Report 9: Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID19 mortality and healthcare demand

    N Ferguson;D Laydon;G Nedjati Gilani;N Imai

  • Estimating the effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in Europe.

    Seth Flaxman;Swapnil Mishra;Axel Gandy;H. Juliette T. Unwin

  • Strategies for mitigating an influenza pandemic

    Neil M. Ferguson;Derek A. T. Cummings;Christophe Fraser;James C. Cajka

  • Pandemic Potential of a Strain of Influenza A (H1N1) : Early Findings

    Christophe Fraser;Christl A. Donnelly;Simon Cauchemez;William P. Hanage

  • Strategies for containing an emerging influenza pandemic in Southeast Asia

    Neil M. Ferguson;Derek A.T. Cummings;Simon Cauchemez;Christophe Fraser

  • Transmission dynamics of the etiological agent of SARS in Hong Kong: impact of public health interventions.

    Steven Riley;Christophe Fraser;Christl A. Donnelly;Azra C. Ghani

  • Time Lines of Infection and Disease in Human Influenza: A Review of Volunteer Challenge Studies

    Fabrice Carrat;Fabrice Carrat;Elisabeta Vergu;Elisabeta Vergu;Elisabeta Vergu;Neil M. Ferguson;Magali Lemaitre;Magali Lemaitre

  • Genomics and epidemiology of the P.1 SARS-CoV-2 lineage in Manaus, Brazil.

    Nuno R Faria;Thomas A Mellan;Charles Whittaker;Ingra M Claro

  • Epidemiological determinants of spread of causal agent of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong

    Christl A Donnelly;Azra C Ghani;Gabriel M Leung;Anthony J Hedley

  • Factors that make an infectious disease outbreak controllable.

    Christophe Fraser;Steven Riley;Roy M. Anderson;Neil M. Ferguson

  • Suppression of a SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in the Italian municipality of Vo'.

    Enrico Lavezzo;Elisa Franchin;Constanze Ciavarella;Gina Cuomo-Dannenburg

  • Assessing transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.1.7 in England.

    Erik Volz;Swapnil Mishra;Meera Chand;Jeffrey C. Barrett

  • Ecological and immunological determinants of influenza evolution

    Neil M. Ferguson;Alison P. Galvani;Robin M. Bush

  • The impact of COVID-19 and strategies for mitigation and suppression in low- and middle-income countries.

    Patrick G. T. Walker;Charles Whittaker;Oliver J. Watson;Oliver J. Watson;Marc Baguelin;Marc Baguelin

  • The effect of public health measures on the 1918 influenza pandemic in U.S. cities

    Martin C. J. Bootsma;Neil M. Ferguson

  • The Foot-and-Mouth Epidemic in Great Britain: Pattern of Spread and Impact of Interventions

    Neil M. Ferguson;Christl A. Donnelly;Roy M. Anderson

  • Estimating the impact of school closure on influenza transmission from Sentinel data

    Simon Cauchemez;Alain-Jacques Valleron;Alain-Jacques Valleron;Pierre-Yves Boëlle;Pierre-Yves Boëlle;Antoine Flahault;Antoine Flahault;Antoine Flahault

  • Transmission dynamics and epidemiology of BSE in British cattle.

    R. M. Anderson;C. A. Donnelly;N. M. Ferguson;M. E. J. Woolhouse

  • Estimates of the severity of COVID-19 disease

    Verity R;Okell Lc;Dorigatti I;Winskill P

Frequent Co-Authors

Christl A. Donnelly
Christl A. Donnelly University of Oxford
Azra C. Ghani
Azra C. Ghani Imperial College London
Christophe Fraser
Christophe Fraser University of Oxford
Roy M. Anderson
Roy M. Anderson Imperial College London
Samir Bhatt
Samir Bhatt Imperial College London
Simon Cauchemez
Simon Cauchemez Institut Pasteur
Anne Cori
Anne Cori Imperial College London
Maria D. Van Kerkhove
Maria D. Van Kerkhove World Health Organization
Derek A. T. Cummings
Derek A. T. Cummings University of Florida

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