Assoc Prof Alex Cook

Vice Dean (Research);
Domain Leader (Biostatistics & Modelling);
Professor

Tel (65) 856 999 49
Fax (65) 6872 3919
Email ephcar@nus.edu.sg

COOK Alex Richard

Dr Alex Cook is a Professor at the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health where he is also the Vice Dean (Research). 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.

Affiliation

  • Vice Dean (Research) and Domain Leader (Biostatistics & Modelling), NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (Primary)
  • Associate Professor at the Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, and the Program in Health Services and Systems Research at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore (Joint)

Research Areas

  • Infectious disease modelling
  • Chronic disease modelling
  • Health economic and policy modelling
  • Biostatistics
  • Global Health

Teaching Areas

  • Biostatistics

Academic/Professional Qualifications

  • PhD Statistics (Heriot-Watt University, UK, for research at Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland)
  • BSc (hons) 1st class in Statistics, Heriot-Watt University, UK

Awards/Honours

  • 2009 Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, Faculty of Science, NUS
  • 2011 Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, Faculty of Science, NUS
  • 2013 Inspiring Research Mentor Award, NUS High School of Mathematics and Science
  • 2014 Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, NUS and National University Health System
  • 2014 Annual Teaching Excellence Award, NUS

Career History

  • 2005-2008: Postdoctoral research associate, Heriot-Watt University, UK and Visiting scholar, University of Cambridge, UK
  • 2013-2015: Assistant Professor, Yale-NUS College, NUS
  • 2008-2015: Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, NUS
  • 2011-2015: Assistant Professor, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore
  • 2011-2015: Assistant Professor, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, NUS

Administrative Leadership

  • Vice Dean (Research), NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health
  • Domain Leader (Biostatistics and Modelling Domain), NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health

Professional/Consulting Activities

  • Communicable Disease Centre, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore
  • Environmental Health Institute, National Environment Agency, Singapore
  • Biodefence Centre, Singapore Armed Forces

Selected Publications

  • Doan TTT, Tan KW, Dickens BSL, Lean YA, Yang Q, Cook AR (2020). Evaluating smoking control policies in the e-cigarette era: a modelling study. Tobacco Control 29(5):522-530.
  • Dickens BL, Koo JR, Wilder-Smith A, Cook AR (2020). Institutional, not home-based, isolation could contain the COVID-19 outbreak. Lancet 395(10236):1541-1542
  • Yue M, Clapham HE, Cook AR (2020). Estimating the Size of a COVID-19 Epidemic from Surveillance Systems. Epidemiology 31(4):567-569.
  • Dickens BL, Koo JR, Lim JT, Sun H, Clapham HE, Wilder-Smith A, Cook AR (2020). Strategies at points of entry to reduce importation risk of COVID-19 cases and re-open travel. Journal of Travel Medicine: taaa141.
  • Lim JT, Dickens BSL, Choo ELW, Chew LZX, Koo JRH, Tam C, Park M, Cook AR (2020). Revealing regional disparities in the transmission potential of SARS-CoV-2 from interventions in Southeast Asia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 287(1933):20201173.

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