Dr Mark Pritchard
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Mark Pritchard
DPhil Student in Clinical Medicine
- Specialty Registrar in Public Health
Mark is a DPhil [PhD] student and public health registrar. He is interested in how we can use observational data to generate evidence to change practice and improve outcomes. A current focus in his DPhil is using mathematical models to explore the effect of natural immune boosting on outbreaks of respiratory-tract infections. His aim is to use this to inform vaccination policies against these viruses.
Mark's DPhil is funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections. He joined the Thames Valley Public Health training programme in 2017. In 2020, he came to work with the International Severe Acute Respiratory and emerging Infection Consortium (ISARIC) as part of the response to covid-19. After working with Buckinghamshire Council on the implementation of rapid testing and the "roadmap out of lockdown", he paused his public health training in the summer of 2021 to undertake his DPhil.
Recent publications
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Symptom‐based case definitions for COVID‐19: Time and geographical variations for detection at hospital admission among 260,000 patients
Baruch J. et al, (2022), Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses, 16, 1040 - 1050
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An international observational study to assess the impact of the Omicron variant emergence on the clinical epidemiology of COVID-19 in hospitalised patients
Gonçalves BP. et al, (2022), eLife, 11
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The value of open-source clinical science in pandemic response: lessons from ISARIC
Abbas A. et al, (2021), The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 21, 1623 - 1624