Richard J. Maude

Professor Maude is Head of the Epidemiology Department at Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Bangkok, Thailand and Professor of Tropical Medicine at the University of Oxford, Honorary Consultant Physician at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, and Visiting Professor at The Open University. He has worked at Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit since 2007. His research combines clinical studies, descriptive epidemiology and mathematical modelling of human diseases in South and Southeast Asia. His areas of interest include spatiotemporal epidemiology, GIS mapping, disease surveillance, health policy, pathogen genetics and population movement with a focus on malaria, dengue, novel pathogens including COVID-19 and environmental health. He is a founding member of GroupMappers, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, Royal College of Physicians and Royal Society for Public Health in the UK, Co-Chair of the Asia-Pacific Malaria Elimination Network Surveillance and Response Working Group, Co-Chair of the Roll Back Malaria Surveillance Monitoring and Evaluation Reference Group Community Health Committee, Co-Chair of the COVID-19 Clinical Research Coalition Clinical Epidemiology Working Group, and member of the COVID-19 Mobility Data Network. Professor Maude co-chairs the MORU postgraduate committee and is Assistant Director of Graduate Studies in the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford. He runs training courses for government disease control programmes and academics.