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Roy M. Anderson is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research contributions mainly focus on medicine, particularly in the fields of immunology and microbiology. They have a substantive publication record in parasitology, ecology, pediatrics, perinatology, child health, infectious diseases, nutrition, and dietetics.

The work of Roy M. Anderson frequently addresses topics related to parasites and host interactions, parasite biology and host interactions, global maternal and child health, child nutrition and water access, parasitic diseases research and treatment, helminth infection and control, and zoonotic diseases and public health.

Some of the recent papers authored by Roy M. Anderson include:

  • How will country-based mitigation measures influence the course of the COVID-19 epidemic?, 2020, published in The Lancet
  • Challenges in creating herd immunity to SARS-CoV-2 infection by mass vaccination, 2020, published in The Lancet
  • Twenty-seven-year time trends in dementia incidence in Europe and the United States, 2020, published in Neurology
  • Plasma tau, neurofilament light chain and amyloid-β levels and risk of dementia; a population-based cohort study, 2020, published in Brain
  • Patterns of individual non-treatment during multiple rounds of mass drug administration for control of soil-transmitted helminths in the TUMIKIA trial, Kenya: a secondary longitudinal analysis, 2020, published in The Lancet Global Health

Frequent coauthors working with Roy M. Anderson include Rosie Maddren, Benjamin Collyer, T. Déirdre Hollingsworth, Klodeta Kura, and James E. Truscott.

The scholar's work is often published in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Parasites & Vectors, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Best Publications

  • Infectious Diseases of Humans: Dynamics and Control

    Roy M. Anderson;Robert M. May

  • Population biology of infectious diseases: Part II

    Robert M. May;Roy M. Anderson

  • Population biology of infectious diseases.

    R. M. Anderson;R. M. May

  • 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

  • Heterogeneities in the transmission of infectious agents: implications for the design of control programs.

    M. E. J. Woolhouse;C. Dye;J.-F. Etard;T. Smith

  • 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

  • The relationship between the volume of antimicrobial consumption in human communities and the frequency of resistance

    D. J. Austin;K. G. Kristinsson;R. M. Anderson

  • Transmission dynamics of HIV infection

    Robert M. May;Robert M. May;Roy M. Anderson;Roy M. Anderson

  • Epidemiology and Genetics in the Coevolution of Parasites and Hosts

    Robert Mccredie May;Roy Malcolm Anderson

  • Vaccination and herd immunity to infectious diseases

    Roy M. Anderson;Robert M. May

  • The invasion, persistence and spread of infectious diseases within animal and plant communities.

    Roy Malcolm Anderson;Robert Mccredie May

  • Sexual mixing patterns and sex-differentials in teenage exposure to HIV infection in rural Zimbabwe.

    Simon Gregson;Constance A. Nyamukapa;Geoffrey P. Garnett;Peter R. Mason

  • HIV-1 transmission, by stage of infection.

    T. Déirdre Hollingsworth;Roy M. Anderson;Christophe Fraser

  • Directly transmitted infections diseases: control by vaccination

    Roy M. Anderson;Robert M. May

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

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

  • Transmission dynamics and epidemiology of BSE in British cattle.

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

  • Regulation and stability of host-parasite population interactions: II - Destabilizing processes

    Roy M. Anderson;Robert M. May

  • Helminth infections of humans: mathematical models, population dynamics, and control.

    Roy M. Anderson;Robert M. May

  • Averting a malaria disaster.

    NJ White;F Nosten;S Looareesuwan;WM Watkins

Frequent Co-Authors

Neil M. Ferguson
Neil M. Ferguson Imperial College London
Christl A. Donnelly
Christl A. Donnelly University of Oxford
Robert M. May
Robert M. May University of Oxford
Azra C. Ghani
Azra C. Ghani Imperial College London
Simon Brooker
Simon Brooker Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Simon Gregson
Simon Gregson Imperial College London
Sunetra Gupta
Sunetra Gupta University of Oxford
Christophe Fraser
Christophe Fraser University of Oxford
Graham F. Medley
Graham F. Medley London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Sammy M. Njenga
Sammy M. Njenga Kenya Medical Research Institute

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