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Nicholas C. Grassly is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a significant number of publications in infectious diseases, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, food science, molecular biology, and health. The main topics covered by their work include viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, viral infections and immunology research, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, salmonella and campylobacter epidemiology, vaccine coverage and hesitancy, animal disease management and epidemiology, and SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing.

Grassly has contributed to several recent scientific papers, including:

  • Estimating the effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in Europe, 2020, Nature
  • The impact of COVID-19 and strategies for mitigation and suppression in low- and middle-income countries, 2020, Science
  • Estimating the effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in Europe, 2020, Spiral (Imperial College London)
  • Report 12: The global impact of COVID-19 and strategies for mitigation and suppression, 2020, Spiral (Imperial College London)
  • Estimating the health impact of vaccination against ten pathogens in 98 low-income and middle-income countries from 2000 to 2030: a modelling study, 2021, The Lancet

Frequent coauthors associated with Grassly's research include:

  • Catherine Troman
  • Gagandeep Kang
  • Alex Shaw
  • Venkata Raghava Mohan
  • Margarita Pons-Salort

Their work appears regularly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vaccine, Spiral (Imperial College London), and The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

The substantial focus of their studies is on infectious diseases, with 68 publications specifically in that subfield. Their research topics demonstrate a strong emphasis on viral infections, epidemiology, and vaccination impact, particularly related to gastrointestinal viruses and SARS-CoV-2.

Grassly's scientific output plays a role in understanding infectious disease dynamics and intervention strategies across different global health contexts. Their collaborations and choice of publication venues reflect engagement with both clinical and epidemiological research communities.

Best Publications

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

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

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

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

  • Seq-Gen: an application for the Monte Carlo simulation of DNA sequence evolution along phylogenetic trees

    Andrew Rambaut;Nicholas C. Grassly

  • 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

  • Mathematical models of infectious disease transmission

    Nicholas C. Grassly;Christophe Fraser

  • Seasonal infectious disease epidemiology

    Nicholas C Grassly;Christophe Fraser

  • Report 13: Estimating the number of infections and the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in 11 European countries

    S Flaxman;S Mishra;A Gandy;H Unwin

  • Report 12: The global impact of COVID-19 and strategies for mitigation and suppression

    P Walker;C Whittaker;O Watson;M Baguelin

  • New Strategies for the Elimination of Polio from India

    Nicholas C. Grassly;Christophe Fraser;Jay Wenger;Jagadish M. Deshpande

  • Host immunity and synchronized epidemics of syphilis across the United States

    Nicholas C. Grassly;Christophe Fraser;Geoffrey P. Garnett

  • Can we reverse the HIV/AIDS pandemic with an expanded response?

    John Stover;Neff Walker;Geoff P Garnett;Joshua A Salomon

  • Estimating the health impact of vaccination against ten pathogens in 98 low-income and middle-income countries from 2000 to 2030: a modelling study.

    Xiang Li;Christinah Mukandavire;Zulma M Cucunubá;Susy Echeverria Londono

  • Systematic review of mucosal immunity induced by oral and inactivated poliovirus vaccines against virus shedding following oral poliovirus challenge

    Thomas R. Hird;Nicholas C. Grassly

  • A likelihood method for the detection of selection and recombination using nucleotide sequences.

    N C Grassly;E C Holmes

  • Causes of impaired oral vaccine efficacy in developing countries.

    Edward Pk Parker;Sasirekha Ramani;Benjamin A Lopman;James A Church

  • The UNAIDS Estimation and Projection Package: a software package to estimate and project national HIV epidemics.

    P D Ghys;T Brown;N C Grassly;G Garnett

  • The Burden of Typhoid and Paratyphoid in India: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

    Jacob John;Carola J. C. Van Aart;Nicholas C. Grassly

  • Comparison of molecular testing strategies for COVID-19 control: a mathematical modelling study.

    Nicholas C Grassly;Margarita Pons-Salort;Edward P K Parker;Peter J White

  • Back to basics in HIV prevention: focus on exposure.

    Elizabeth Pisani;Geoff P Garnett;Nicholas C Grassly;Tim Brown

  • The epidemiology of non-polio enteroviruses: recent advances and outstanding questions.

    Margarita Pons-Salort;Edward P.K. Parker;Nicholas C. Grassly

  • Protective efficacy of a monovalent oral type 1 poliovirus vaccine: a case-control study

    Nicholas C Grassly;Jay Wenger;Sunita Durrani;Sunil Bahl

  • Expression profiling the temperature-dependent amphibian response to infection by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis.

    Laia Ribas;Ming-Shi Li;Benjamin J. Doddington;Jacques Robert

  • Sustained detection of type 2 poliovirus in London sewage between February and July, 2022, by enhanced environmental surveillance

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Frequent Co-Authors

Gagandeep Kang
Gagandeep Kang Christian Medical College & Hospital
Christl A. Donnelly
Christl A. Donnelly University of Oxford
Neil M. Ferguson
Neil M. Ferguson Imperial College London
Roland W. Sutter
Roland W. Sutter World Health Organization
Miren Iturriza-Gomara
Miren Iturriza-Gomara University of Liverpool
Christophe Fraser
Christophe Fraser University of Oxford
Andrew Rambaut
Andrew Rambaut University of Edinburgh
Beate Kampmann
Beate Kampmann Charité - University Medicine Berlin
David Mabey
David Mabey London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Robin L. Bailey
Robin L. Bailey London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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