Biography:
Anna Fairweather is in the 1st year of her DPhil in Healthcare Data Science at the University of Oxford. She is specialising in improving calibration and wider application of agent-based models across infectious diseases. She is primarily focussing on pathogens which cause respiratory infectious diseases, in particular Streptococcus Pneumoniae, Coronavirus and Influenza. She is focussed on developing agent-based models that project the spread of the pathogen within a population and can be utilised to provide evidence to inform vaccine policy decisions. Her background is in mathematics, and she obtained her BA in Mathematics from the University of Oxford in 2023.
Title : The impact of expanded adolescent vaccination against Omicron waves depends on the epidemic status: A mathematical modelling study