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Luke Burton

PhD Researcher, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Dynamics, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Sep 2025 – Present

Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Dynamics

PhD, Epidemiology London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Thesis: Understanding and predicting behavioural drivers of epidemic dynamics.

Sep 2024 – Sep 2025

MSc Health Data Science London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Distinction

Thesis: Using machine learning to understand vaccine responses to influenza.

Sep 2020 – Jun 2024

MMath Mathematics University of Oxford

Merit

Thesis: Branching process models for estimating the probability of a major infectious disease epidemic.

Sep 2025 – Present

Visiting Researcher Imperial College London

Held alongside the PhD.

Oct 2025 – Present

Infectious Disease Informatics

Research Assistant, Health Economics (part-time) University College London

NIHR-funded work on cost-utility modelling and economic evaluation of blood-borne virus screening interventions.

Jul 2024 – Sep 2024

Disease Modelling Intern Big Data Institute

Vaccine equity and trachoma resurgence.

Jul 2023 – Sep 2023

Data Science Intern esure Group

Predicting crash rates and quoted premiums.

Jul 2021 – Aug 2021

IT Consulting Intern Aire Logic

Proof-of-concept medical rostering system.

Mar 2026 – Present

Early Career Researcher Representative Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, LSHTM

Helping organise and facilitate monthly meetings between researchers.

2025

Health Data Science Prize London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Awarded annually to the student with the highest numerical GPA on the MSc.

Research interests

Infectious disease modelling · Machine learning · Social contact, mobility and attitude data · Economic evaluation

Software