Alexander Richard Cook
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Research Fields:
- STEMM – Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Medical Sciences
- SIAP – Social Sciences, International Affairs, Politics/Policies
Research Keywords:
- Modelling
- Infectious Diseases
- Epidemiology
- Biostatistics
- Bayesian Statistics
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Brief Description of Research:
Dr Alex Cook is an Associate Professor in the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at the National University of Singapore. He works on infectious disease modelling and statistics, including dengue, influenza and other respiratory pathogens, and on population modelling to assess the effect of evolving demographics on non-communicable diseases such as diabetes. His multidisciplinary team brings together researchers from the fields of statistics, computational biology, computer engineering, mathematics, geography and environmental sciences.
Previous research by the Cook lab has studied pandemic and seasonal influenza, COVID-19, dengue, tuberculosis and hand, foot and mouth disease. His team’s work—which has appeared in the national and international media, including the Straits Times, the Sunday Times, the Lianhe Zaobao, New Paper, Today, Reuters, Agence-France Presse, France 24, the Times of India, and Sky News—is often in close collaboration with government agencies, including in Singapore the Ministry of Health, the National Environment Agency, the Health Promotion Board and the Ministry of Defence, as well as with overseas partners.
Total Number of Publications:
Five Representative Publications:
Five recent publications:
Jin S, Dickens BL, Quek AM, Hartman M, Tambyah PA, Seet RCS, Cook AR (2022). Estimating transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 at different intraspatial levels in an institutional outbreak. Epidemics. 40:100617.
Jin S, Dickens BL, Lim JT, Cook AR (2022). EpiRegress: A Method to Estimate and Predict the Time-Varying Effective Reproduction Number. Viruses. 14:1576.
Sun H, Koo J, Dickens BL, Clapham HE, Cook AR (2022). Short-term and long-term epidemiological impacts of sustained vector control in various dengue endemic settings: A modelling study. PLoS Computational Biology.18:e1009979
Koo JR, Dickens BL, Jin S, Lim JT, Sun Y, Tan KW, Cook AR (2022). Testing strategies to contain COVID-19 in migrant worker dormitories. Journal of Migration and Health. 5:100079.
Mao Y, Tan KXQ, Seng A, Wong P, Toh SA, Cook AR (2022). Stratification of Patients with Diabetes Using Continuous Glucose Monitoring Profiles and Machine Learning. Health Data Science. 2022:9892340
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Alexander Richard Cook
Appointments
Education
Research Areas
- Modelling
- Infectious Diseases
- Epidemiology
- Biostatistics
- Bayesian Statistics
Research Description
Dr Alex Cook is an Associate Professor in the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at the National University of Singapore. He works on infectious disease modelling and statistics, including dengue, influenza and other respiratory pathogens, and on population modelling to assess the effect of evolving demographics on non-communicable diseases such as diabetes. His multidisciplinary team brings together researchers from the fields of statistics, computational biology, computer engineering, mathematics, geography and environmental sciences.
Previous research by the Cook lab has studied pandemic and seasonal influenza, COVID-19, dengue, tuberculosis and hand, foot and mouth disease. His team’s work—which has appeared in the national and international media, including the Straits Times, the Sunday Times, the Lianhe Zaobao, New Paper, Today, Reuters, Agence-France Presse, France 24, the Times of India, and Sky News—is often in close collaboration with government agencies, including in Singapore the Ministry of Health, the National Environment Agency, the Health Promotion Board and the Ministry of Defence, as well as with overseas partners.
Research Videos
Selected Publications
Five recent publications:
Jin S, Dickens BL, Quek AM, Hartman M, Tambyah PA, Seet RCS, Cook AR (2022). Estimating transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 at different intraspatial levels in an institutional outbreak. Epidemics. 40:100617.
Jin S, Dickens BL, Lim JT, Cook AR (2022). EpiRegress: A Method to Estimate and Predict the Time-Varying Effective Reproduction Number. Viruses. 14:1576.
Sun H, Koo J, Dickens BL, Clapham HE, Cook AR (2022). Short-term and long-term epidemiological impacts of sustained vector control in various dengue endemic settings: A modelling study. PLoS Computational Biology.18:e1009979
Koo JR, Dickens BL, Jin S, Lim JT, Sun Y, Tan KW, Cook AR (2022). Testing strategies to contain COVID-19 in migrant worker dormitories. Journal of Migration and Health. 5:100079.
Mao Y, Tan KXQ, Seng A, Wong P, Toh SA, Cook AR (2022). Stratification of Patients with Diabetes Using Continuous Glucose Monitoring Profiles and Machine Learning. Health Data Science. 2022:9892340