DominicThorrington

PhD DIC ARCS · Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications

Mathematical modeller and health economist, specialising in vaccines.

Tea drinker, bookworm, nerd.

Experience

Mathematical Modeller and Health Economist

Public Health England, UK

Economic evaluations of vaccination strategies for pneumococcal disease and influenza in Europe. Funded by the EU H2020 I-MOVE+ project.

November 2015 - November 2017

Information Analyst

NHS North West London PCTs, UK

Monitoring the effectiveness of commissioned acute and community services.

May 2010 - April 2012

Education

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

PhD in Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Mathematical modelling of infectious disease outbreaks and preventative vaccination strategies.

Analysis of the economic, epidemiological and societal consequences of heterogeneous vaccination coverage in the community.

April 2012 - March 2016

Imperial College London

MSc Modern Epidemiology

A broad look at epidemiology, and where infectious disease modelling fits in.

October 2006 - September 2007

Imperial College London

BSc Mathematics

Maths. Lots of it.

October 2003 - September 2006

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools

Research interests

  • Economic evaluations of vaccination strategies
  • International vaccination recommendations and their scientific bases
  • Dynamic transmission models of disease
  • Social, epidemiological and economic impacts of infectious disease outbreaks
  • Estimating health utilities in infants, children and adolescents
  • Determinants of attitudes to vaccination
  • Consequences of heterogeneous vaccination coverage in the community

Languages

Language Level
English Native speaker
French Professional capacity
Spanish Basic, I'm working on it
Arabic (Modern Standard) Basic, I'm also working on that one

Interests

I am a member of the following societies:
  • Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
  • London Mathematical Society
  • European Mathematical Society
  • Société mathématique de France
  • John Snow Society
  • Collège des economistes de la santé
  • Association des epidémiologistes de langue française
  • Société française de santé publique
  • European Public Health Association

  • Outside of my scientific interests I am fond of:
  • Good tea
  • Raspberry Pi
  • FC United of Manchester
  • Publications

    2022

    Derhy et al., Extension de la vaccination contre les HPV aux garçons : enquête auprès de familles et de médecins généralistes Bulletin du Cancer

    Sandmann et al., Health and economic impact of seasonal influenza mass vaccination strategies in European settings: A mathematical modelling and cost-effectiveness analysis Vaccine

    2019

    Hodgson et al., Estimates for quality of life loss due to Respiratory Syncytial Virus. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses

    Thorrington et al., Assessing optimal use of the standard dose adjuvanted trivalent seasonal influenza vaccine in the elderly. Vaccine

    2018

    Thorrington et al., Impact and cost-effectiveness of different vaccination strategies to reduce the burden of pneumococcal disease among elderly in the Netherlands. PLoS ONE

    Thorrington et al., Elucidating the impact of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine programme on pneumonia, sepsis and otitis media hospital admissions in England using a composite control. BMC Medicine

    2017

    van Leeuwen et al., fluEvidenceSynthesis: An R package for evidence synthesis based analysis of epidemiological outbreaks. PLoS Computational Biology

    Thorrington et al., Cost-effectiveness analysis of quadrivalent seasonal influenza vaccines in England. BMC Medicine

    Thorrington et al., Social and economic impacts of school influenza outbreaks in England: survey of caregivers. Journal of School Health

    2016

    Ghebrehewet et al., The economic cost of measles: healthcare, public health and societal costs of the 2012–13 outbreak in Merseyside, UK. Vaccine

    2015

    Thorrington et al., Targeted vaccination in healthy school children – Can primary school vaccination alone control influenza? Vaccine

    Thorrington and Eames, Measuring Health Utilities in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review of the Literature. PLoS ONE

    2014

    Thorrington et al., The Effect of Measles on Health-Related Quality of Life: A Patient-Based Survey. PLoS ONE


    For more information, you can download my PhD Thesis and view my Google Scholar profile.

    Some nerdy stuff about my life

    Reading in my free time

    Since March 2018 I've made of note of every book I have read in my free time, and noted every book that I will read. The spreadsheet decides which book I read next, not me.

    I can analyse my reading habits and predict when my reading list will be exhausted (February 2025, at the time of writing).


    Tracking caffeine consumption over 12 months

    I tracked every hot caffeinated drink I consumed in a year. Tracking finished mid-February 2019 and I'm going to stick a load of graphs on a separate website, and perhaps some things on reddit.

    A rough-and-ready analysis is available here.


    Commuting by bike

    I try to cycle to work every day, and Strava accompanies my rides. This sheet updates automatically when I save my rides.