Alexis Robert
alxsrobert.bsky.social
Alexis Robert
@alxsrobert.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Infectious Diseases Dynamics @ London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; work on all things measles, especially interested in elimination and eradication of pathogens
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How much statistical sleight of hand can you spot in this paragraph on the new CDC website, which is now littered with muddled and flawed claims about vaccines and autism? www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe... 🧵
November 20, 2025 at 9:58 AM
We're advertising an MRC-LID PhD studentship on modelling measles outbreak risk in teenagers and adults, with me, @amsuffel.bsky.social and @rozeggo.bsky.social
You'll design mathematical models using vaccine data and Electronic Health Records to analyse recent transmission patterns, get in touch!
2026-27 Project (Robert & Eggo & Suffel) - MRC London Intercollegiate Doctoral Training Partnership Studentships
Modelling measles transmission risk in adults SUPERVISORY TEAM Supervisor Dr Alexis Robert at LSHTMFaculty of...
mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
📢New paper led by @amsuffel.bsky.social in Nature Comms! We implemented a mathematical model to evaluate how vaccination timing and vaccine coverage impact measles dynamics, following the JCVI's recommendation to bring forward the second dose of MMR vaccine to 18 months of age by 2026 in England🧶
Impact of vaccination timing and coverage on measles near elimination dynamics: a mathematical modelling analysis - Nature Communications
In response to declining vaccination coverage in England the recommended age for the second vaccine dose has been changed from 40 months to 18 months. Here, the authors perform a mathematical modelling study to assess the impacts of this change on measles transmission dynamics.
www.nature.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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[New finding!]

Ryohei Mogi, Ryota Mugiyama, & Alyce Raybould (@alyceraybould.bsky.social ) has shown that individuals without a romantic partner are more likely to revise their fertility desires downward.‪

August 6, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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West parents warned as fifth of UK measles cases in region

In Bristol Live @benk-d.bsky.social & @alxsrobert.bsky.social discuss why #vaccination is best protection against #measles as new figures from UKHSA show cases rising in Bristol & South West England.

www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
West parents warned as fifth of UK measles cases in region
Parents are being urged to get their children vaccinated after hundreds of cases
www.bristolpost.co.uk
April 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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In response to unsupported claims about the magnitude of measles waning, @alxsrobert.bsky.social contributed to this FactCheck piece, drawing on evidence from our recent paper on measles dynamics in England: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

www.factcheck.org/2025/03/rfk-...
RFK Jr. Misleads About Measles Vaccine in Hannity Interview - FactCheck.org
In an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made several unsupported or misleading claims about the measles vaccine, which the Centers for Di...
www.factcheck.org
April 11, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Should you get a measles booster?

In National Geographic @alxsrobert.bsky.social discusses modelling study showing two doses of #measles vaccine gives lifelong protection from measles even if #immunity decreases very slowly over time.💉

www.nationalgeographic.com/health/artic...
Should you get a measles booster? Here's how to protect yourself amid the recent outbreaks.
Cases in Texas and other states are on the rise, but most of the infected were not vaccinated. Here’s what to know about the very contagious disease and how immunity works.
www.nationalgeographic.com
March 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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PhD position with me and Neil Ferguson (Imperial) starting in September. March 7 deadline. Home fees only (unfortunately).

Looking for an enthusiastic student looking to learn new things.
Please get in touch for more info or an informal conversation.
PhD position (London, UK)
Incorporating stratification by ethnicity in mathematical models of respiratory virus transmission in England
with @rozeggo.bsky.social, Neil Ferguson
at @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2260
February 12, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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The advert is now live here:
jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/EPH-EPED-202...

Until August 2027 we would be working on data analysis and modelling to try and untangle the dynamics of #AMR by age and sex exploring electronic health records 🧫📑👩‍💻. Get in touch if any questions!
February 3, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Job opening for full professor and head of dept in infectious disease epidemiology and dynamics at @lshtm.bsky.social. Deadline 31st Jan: jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at LSHTM: Professor (and Head of Department)
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working i...
jobs.lshtm.ac.uk
January 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Incredibly excited to share that our manuscript was just published in @nature.com ! What a way to start the new year! 🎉
https://buff.ly/4gyYCzx

We present phylowave, a framework that enables to learn the fitness dynamics of pathogens from phylogenies.

🧵 A thread... 1/n
#IDSky #IDModelling
Learning the fitness dynamics of pathogens from phylogenies - Nature
Phylowave, an innovative phylogenetic approach, can identify the main circulating pathogen lineages with increased fitness and the associated genetic changes, enabling the timely identification of…
buff.ly
January 2, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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1/ 🎉 Thrilled to share our new study: Quantifying the impact of pre-vaccination titre and vaccination history on influenza vaccine immunogenicity 🦠💉 Published in Vaccine! link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kD7x,60n7... with @adamjkucharski.bsky.social
authors.elsevier.com
December 5, 2024 at 7:59 AM
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We used a transmission model to understand differences in Covid severity and mortality in different socioeconomic strata in England.
The model had different demography and underlying health status by strata.
Led by @lucygoodfellow.bsky.social
bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
COVID-19 inequalities in England: a mathematical modelling study of transmission risk and clinical vulnerability by socioeconomic status - BMC Medicine
Background The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major inequalities in infection and disease burden between areas of varying socioeconomic deprivation in many countries, including England. Areas of higher...
bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com
November 20, 2024 at 12:05 PM
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Starter pack of infectious disease modellers from CMMID - the Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases at LSHTM.
We are 150 in CMMID but just getting started on Bluesky!

go.bsky.app/625gwoG
November 15, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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The challenge of a measles resurgence

In @gavi @alxsrobert.bsky.social & Ben Kasstan-Dabush
explain how #measles outbreaks in lower vaccine coverage groups & the restructuring of vaccination services have made access to vaccines harder💉 #PublicHealth

www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...
How the West lost its grip on measles (and what we can do about it)
Falling vaccination coverage is promoting a resurgence of measles in countries that had previously eliminated it.
www.gavi.org
November 11, 2024 at 4:36 PM