Richard Maude

Professor Maude is Head of the Epidemiology Department at Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Bangkok, Thailand where he has worked 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 ThaiGISNet and 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, board member of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Malaria Modelling Consortium and member of the COVID-19 Mobility Data Network.

Professor Maude is Assistant Director of Graduate Studies at the Nuffield Department of Medicine and co-chairs the MORU Postgraduate Committee. He runs training courses for government disease control programmes and academics on epidemiology, data analysis, modelling and GIS.