Email aendo@nus.edu.sg

Dr Akira Endo is an Assistant Professor at the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health. His research focuses on mathematical modelling of infectious disease dynamics in the population. Compared with other types of diseases, infectious diseases are unique in that protecting an individual from a disease also means protecting other people by reducing their risk of exposure to the pathogen. This “interdependency” makes the control of infectious disease outbreaks an important social agenda. His current research interests include disease spread within and across households/schools/workplaces, transmission dynamics over heterogeneous social and/or sexual networks and quantitative design and assessment of optimal control strategies.

• NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (Primary)
• NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine (Joint)
• Visiting Research Fellow, Nagasaki University
• Visiting Research Fellow, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

• Infectious disease modelling

• MD & BSc Medicine, The University of Tokyo (2011-2017)
• PhD Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (2017-2021)

• Japan Society for Mathematical Biology Early Career Award (2022)
• Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Overseas Research Fellowship (2021)

• Assistant Professor, Nagasaki University, 2022-2023
• JSPS Research Fellow, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, 2021-2023

• Murayama H, Pearson CAB, Abbott S, Miura F, Jung S-m, Fearon E, Funk S, Endo A. Accumulation of immunity in heavy-tailed sexual contact networks shapes monkeypox outbreak sizes. J Infect Dis. 2023;jiad254. doi:10.1093/infdis/jiad254
• Endo A, Jung S-m, Miura F. Mpox emergence in Japan: ongoing risk of establishment in Asia. Lancet. 2023;401(10392):1923-1924. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(23)00766-3
• Endo A, Murayama H, Abbott S, Ratnayake R, Pearson CAB, Edmunds WJ, Fearon E, Funk S. Heavy-tailed sexual contact networks and the epidemiology of monkeypox outbreak in the global outbreak, 2022. Science. 2022:eadd4507. doi: 10.1126/science.add4507
• Endo A; CMMID COVID-19 Working Group, Uchida M, Liu Y, Atkins KE, Kucharski AJ, Funk S. Simulating respiratory disease transmission within and between classrooms to assess pandemic management strategies at schools. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022;119(37):e2203019119. doi:10.1073/pnas.2203019119
• Endo A, Uchida M, Hayashi N, Liu Y, Atkins KE, Kucharski AJ, Funk S. Within and between classroom transmission patterns of seasonal influenza among primary school students in Matsumoto city, Japan. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021;118(46):e2112605118. doi:10.1073/pnas.2112605118
• Endo A; Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases COVID-19 Working Group, Abbott S, Kucharski AJ, Funk S. Estimating the overdispersion in COVID-19 transmission using outbreak sizes outside China. Wellcome Open Res. 2020;5:67. doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15842.3
• Endo A, Uchida M, Kucharski AJ, Funk S. Fine-scale family structure shapes influenza transmission risk in households: Insights from primary schools in Matsumoto city, 2014/15. PLoS Comput Biol. 2019;15(12):e1007589. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007589