Dr. Samir Bhatt

Visiting Researcher

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Sam investigates the evolutionary and ecological dynamics of infectious diseases. He works as a lecturer of geostatics at Imperial College, but retains strong links with the Malaria Atlas Project. Originally with a background in statistical genetics, he moved to the Malaria Atlas Project in 2011 to develop novel approaches to the spatial modelling of a range of infectious diseases, including the first global map of dengue. Among a suite of different tools, Sam has a particular interest in extending and applying the Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation in the context of fitting high-dimensional Bayesian latent field models for infectious disease distributions.

Selected Biography

URLDOIWeiss DJ., Lucas TCD., Nguyen M., Nandi AK., Bisanzio D., Battle KE., Cameron E., Twohig, KA., Pfeffer, DA., Rozier JA., Gibson HS., Rao PC., Casey D., Bertozzi-Villa A., Collins EL., Dalrymple U., Gray N., Harris JR., Howes RE., Kang SY., Keddie SH., May D., Rumisha S., Thorn MP., Barber R., Fullman N., Huynh CK., Kulikoff X., Kutz MJ., Lopez AD., Mokdad AH., Naghavi N., Nguyen G., Shackelford KA., Vos T., Wang H., Smith DL., Lim SS., Murray CJL., Bhatt S., Hay SI., Gething PW.,

Mapping the global prevalence, incidence, and mortality of Plasmodium falciparum, 2000–17: a spatial and temporal modelling study

 Lancet. June 2019
URLDOIBattle KE., Lucas TCD., Nguyen M., Howes RE., Nandi A., Twohig, KA., Pfeffer, DA., Cameron E., Rao PC., Casey D., Gibson HS., Rozier JA., Dalrymple U., Keddie SH., Collins EL., Harris JR., Guerra CA., Thorn MP., Bisanzio D., Fullman N., Huynh CK., Kulikoff X., Kutz MJ., Lopez AD., Mokdad AH., Naghavi N., Nguyen G., Shackelford KA., Vos T., Wang H., Lim SS., Murray CJL., Price RN., Baird JK., Smith DL., Bhatt S., Weiss DJ., Hay SI., Gething PW.,

Mapping the global endemicity and clinical burden of Plasmodium vivax, 2000–17: a spatial and temporal modelling study

 The Lancet. June 2019
URLDOIBattle KE., Bisanzio D., Gibson HS., Bhatt S., Cameron E., Weiss DJ., Mappin B., Dalrymple U., Howes RE., Hay SI., et al,

Treatment-seeking rates in malaria endemic countries

 Malaria Journal. January 2016 15 20.
URLDOIBhatt S., Weiss DJ., Cameron E., Bisanzio D., Mappin B., Dalrymple U., Battle K., Moyes CL., Henry A., Eckhoff PA., Wenger EA., Briët O., Penny MA., Smith TA., Bennett A., Yukich J., Eisele TP., Griffin JT., Fergus CA., Lynch M., Lindgren F., Cohen JM., Murray CLJ., Smith DL., Hay SI., Cibulskis RE., Gething PW.,

The effect of malaria control on Plasmodium falciparum in africa between 2000 and 2015

 Nature. October 2015 526(7572): 207-211.
URLDOIBhatt S., Weiss DJ., Mappin B., Dalrymple U., Cameron E., Bisanzio D., Smith DL., Moyes CL., Tatem AJ., Lynch M., et al,

Coverage and system efficiencies of insecticide-treated nets in africa from 2000 to 2017

 eLife. 2015 4
URLDOIBhatt S., Gething PW., Brady OJ., Messina JP., Farlow AW., Moyes CL., Drake JM., Brownstein JS., Hoen AG., Sankoh O., Myers MF., George DB., Jaenisch T., Wint GRW., Simmons CP., Scott TW., Farrar JJ., Hay SI.,

The global distribution and burden of dengue

 Nature. April 2013 496(7446): 504-507.
URLDOIBattle KE., Karhunen MS., Bhatt S., Gething PW., Howes RE., Golding N., Van Boeckel TP., Messina JP., Shanks GD., Smith DL., et al,

Geographical variation in Plasmodium vivax relapse

 Malaria Journal. 2014 13 144.
URLDOIGething PW., Battle KE., Bhatt S., Smith DL., Eisele TP., Cibulskis RE., Hay SI.,

Declining malaria in Africa: improving the measurement of progress

 Malaria Journal. January 2014 13 39.