Dr Ting Shi is an Inflammation and Immunity’s affiliate member, and is the primary supervisor of Daira Trusinska, one of the programme’s PhD students. She is also a member of HDR UK’s Impact Committee, which meets monthly to select the most impactful outputs from across the HDR UK community.
A Senior Lecturer at the Usher Institute, the University of Edinburgh, Ting is an Epidemiologist with expertise in infectious diseases and global health. She has a particular interest in viral respiratory infections such as Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) and COVID-19.
Ting’s current work focuses on:
- Understanding the short- and long-term impacts of RSV on:
- A person’s future health; and
- The delivery of health and care services;
- Developing risk prediction tools that can:
- Help identify which groups of people are most at risk of becoming seriously ill with respiratory infections during the winter months
- Help predict the extra demand experienced by health and care services due to these diseases
These two areas are of considerable policy interest as an improved understanding of the risks and impacts of these diseases will underpin the development of future targeted and preventive intervention strategies (e.g., vaccination, monoclonal antibodies, antivirals/antibiotics, optimising care for at risk individuals).
Ting hopes that the knowledge exchange gained through collaborating with our programme will facilitate and enhance her investigations, as well as assist in sharing her findings to the desired audiences. In return, Ting shares with us her expertise in:
- Infectious disease and global health
- Statistical modelling and systematic approaches to epidemiological evidence;
- Analysing national scale linked data
