Pete Dodd
BA (Cantab), MMath (Cantab), BSc (Open), PhD (London), CStat
HEDS, ScHARR
The University of Sheffield
Regent Court, 30 Regent Street
Sheffield, S1 4DA
Office: 2004
Tel: (+44) (0) 114 222 0740
Fax: (+44) (0)114 222 0749
Email: p.j.dodd@sheffield.ac.uk
ORCiD: 0000-0001-5825-9347
Biography
I am a research fellow in mathematical modelling at the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, UK, which I joined in 2013. I originally studied mathematics at Girton College, Cambridge before doing my PhD in theoretical physics at Imperial College London. I also have an Open degree from the OU for which I mainly studied biological subjects. After my PhD, I worked on infectious disease modelling as a post-doc at Imperial College London, and then at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. I currently hold a career development award fellowship from the UK Medical Research Council.
Research interests
My research uses mathematical and statistical models to understand the epidemiology of tuberculosis (TB), and the impact and cost-effectiveness of interventions to improve TB control.
- Infectious disease modelling
- Burden estimation
- The epidemiology of TB, particularly in settings with high-HIV prevalence, and population-level TB interventions
- TB in children & interventions to improve case detection
- Drug-resistant TB
- Individual-based modelling methodologies
- Methods for model calibration and uncertainty analysis
Teaching interests
I am involved in teaching on the MPH and MBchB courses at the University of Sheffield, particularly supervising projects. I am also a PhD supervisor in the Wellcome Trust Public Health Economics & Decision Science doctoral training centre.
Professional activities
I am a member of the Operational Research Society, the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, the Royal Statistical Society (and a chartered statistician), and the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. I am a member of the WHO Global Task Force on TB Impact Measurement and a member of the steering committee for the NIHR ADVANCE programme grant. I serve as an associate editor for the journals BMC Infectious Diseases and BMC Public Health. I am a mentor in the faculty mentoring scheme and a mathematics tutor for the Linacre Institute charity.
Projects
I am involved with the following projects:
- Mathematical modelling for TB burden estimation (MRC)
- TBSPEED and Cap-TB projects on interventions for paediatric TB (UNITAID)
- TREATS: Tuberculosis Reduction through Expanded Antiretroviral Treatment and Screening for active TB (EDCTP)
- The Sustainable community action for lung health (SCALE) trial
Journal articles
- Dodd PJ, Yuen CM, Becerra MC, Revill P, Jenkins HE & Seddon JA (2018) Potential effect of household contact management on childhood tuberculosis: a mathematical modelling study. The Lancet Global Health. View this article in WRRO
- Dodd PJ, Yuen CM, Sismanidis C, Seddon JA & Jenkins HE (2017) The global burden of tuberculosis mortality in children: a mathematical modelling study. The Lancet Global Health, 5(9), e898-e906. View this article in WRRO
- Dodd PJ, Prendergast AJ, Beecroft C, Kampmann B & Seddon JA (2017) The impact of HIV and antiretroviral therapy on TB risk in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Thorax, 72, 559-575. View this article in WRRO
- Houben RM & Dodd PJ (2016) The Global Burden of Latent Tuberculosis Infection: A Re-estimation Using Mathematical Modelling. PLoS Medicine, 13(10). View this article in WRRO
- Dodd PJ, Sismanidis C & Seddon JA (2016) Global burden of drug-resistant tuberculosis in children: a mathematical modelling study. Lancet Infectious Diseases, 16(10), 1193-1201. View this article in WRRO
- Dodd PJ, Looker C, Plumb ID, Bond V, Schaap A, Shanaube K, Muyoyeta M, Vynnycky E, Godfrey-Faussett P, Corbett EL, Beyers N, Ayles H & White RG (2016) Age- and Sex-Specific Social Contact Patterns and Incidence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection.. Am J Epidemiol, 183(2), 156-166. View this article in WRRO
- Dodd PJ, Gardiner E, Coghlan R & Seddon JA (2014) Burden of childhood tuberculosis in 22 high-burden countries: a mathematical modelling study. The Lancet Global Health. View this article in WRRO
- Pretorius C, Menzies NA, Chindelevitch L, Cohen T, Cori A, Eaton JW, Fraser C, Gopalappa C, Hallett TB, Salomon JA, Stover J, White RG & Dodd PJ (2014) The potential effects of changing HIV treatment policy on tuberculosis outcomes in South Africa: results from three tuberculosis-HIV transmission models. AIDS (London, England), 28 Suppl 1, S25-34.
- Dodd PJ, White RG & Corbett EL (2011) Periodic active case finding for TB: when to look?. PLoS One, 6, e29130-e29130. View this article in WRRO
- Dodd PJ, White PJ & Garnett GP (2010) Notions of synergy for combinations of interventions against infectious diseases in heterogeneously mixing populations. Mathematical Biosciences, 227, 94-104.
- Dodd PJ, Millington KA, Ghani AC, Mutsvangwa J, Butterworth AE, Lalvani A & Corbett EL (2010) Interpreting tuberculin skin tests in a population with a high prevalence of HIV, tuberculosis, and nonspecific tuberculin sensitivity. American Journal of Epidemiology, 171, 1037-1045. View this article in WRRO
- Dodd PJ, Garnett GP & Hallett TB (2010) Examining the promise of HIV elimination by ’test and treat’ in hyperendemic settings. AIDS (London, England), 24, 729-735.