Joe Hilton

I am a Research Fellow based in the Manchester Centre for Health Economics (MCHE) and the Department of Mathematics at the University of Manchester. I have previously been affiliated with the Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences at the University of Liverpool as well as the The Zeeman Institute for Systems Biology & Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research at the University of Warwick.

As a mathematical modeller, I use a combination of maths, statistics, and computing to answer questions relating to human health, with a particular interest in infectious disease epidemiology. The spread of infection is driven both by biological processes at the level of viruses and bacteria and social/ecological processes at the level of human and non-human hosts, and so infectious disease epidemiology requires an interdisciplinary approach to science. My research has two main goals: to develop mathematical methods which can be used by professionals in both academia and public health policy, and to better understand the real-world dynamics of human health with a view to mitigating their impact through scientifically-informed policy choices. I am particularly interested in the role of population structure in the spread of infection, ranging from human demography and family structure to species distribution patterns of wild animals. You can find further details on my research to date on the Research tab of this site.