Professor Richard J Maude
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Richard Maude
MBChB BSc DTM&H DPhil MD FRGS FRCP FRSPH
Professor of Tropical Medicine
- Head of Epidemiology Department, MORU, Bangkok, Thailand
- Assistant Director of Graduate Studies, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK
- Honorary Consultant Physician, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
- Visiting Professor, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
- Honorary Professor, Hong Kong University
Improving the collection and use of geospatial data to inform health policy for communicable disease control and elimination
Profile
Professor Maude is Head of the Epidemiology Department at Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Bangkok, Thailand where he has worked since 2007.
Research
Leads multidisciplinary, policy-focussed research which combines field studies, descriptive epidemiology and modelling of communicable diseases in the Asia-Pacific region. Areas of interest include spatiotemporal epidemiology, GIS mapping, disease surveillance, pathogen genetics, climate and population movement with a focus on malaria, dengue, novel pathogens and environmental health.
Leads the Health GeoLab Hub at MORU which aims to strengthen and sustain the technical capacity of the health sector in countries in the Asia-Pacific Region in the management and use of geospatial data and technologies through research, technical support and training. Founding member of GroupMappers.
Committees
Co-Chair of the Asia-Pacific Malaria Elimination Network Surveillance and Response Working Group, Co-Chair of the Roll Back Malaria Surveillance Monitoring and Evaluation Reference Group Community Health Committee, and Co-Chair of the Coalition for Equitable ResearCh in Low-resource sEttings (CERCLE) Clinical Epidemiology Working Group.
Expert Groups
Member of the UNICEF Digital Health Centre of Excellence (DICE) roster of experts, Global Fund TA Pool for GIS and Institute for Malaria and Climate Solutions (IMACS) virtual centre of excellence.
Education and Training
Assistant Director of Graduate Studies at the Nuffield Department of Medicine and co-chairs the MORU Postgraduate Committee. Runs training courses for government disease control programmes and academics on epidemiology, data analysis, modelling and GIS.
Fellowships
Royal Geographical Society, Royal College of Physicians, Royal Society for Public Health
Publications
Websites
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GroupMappers
Volunteer and crowdsourcing initiative to map rural Bangladesh to improve health service delivery and communicable disease surveillance
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Health GeoLab Hub
Regional resource supporting countries in Asia and the Pacific with the geo-enablement of their Health Information Systems (HIS)
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APMEN SRWG
Surveillance and Response Working Group
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RBM SMERG
Surveillance Monitoring and Evaluation Reference Group
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CERCLE
Coalition for Equitable ResearCh in Low-resource sEttings (CERCLE), previously COVID-19 Clinical Research Coalition
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COVID-19 Mobility Data Network
Network of infectious disease epidemiologists at universities around the world working with technology companies to use aggregated mobility data to support the COVID-19 response.
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Epidemiology and malaria elimination
Malaria epidemiology focuses on two main challenges to malaria elimination: antimalarial drug resistance and the movement of people that are spreading the malaria parasite. Travel surveys and cellphone records, combined with population parasite genetics help predict the spread of malaria and of drug resistance. Close coordination with all groups and agencies involved is crucial to malaria surveillance and elimination strategies.
DPhil/PhD Applications
If you are interested to apply for a DPhil/PhD, please email me with your CV and research interests at richard@tropmedres.ac