The University of Hong Kong
School of Public Health /
Department of Community Medicine
unit 624-627, Level 6
Core F, Cyberport 3
100 Cyberport Road
Hong Kong
Tel: (852) 3906 2009
Fax: (852) 3520 1945
Email:
My research focuses on using mathematical modeling to understand the spread and control of infectious diseases including influenza and HPV. My recent projects on pandemic influenza include devising pandemic mitigation strategies in the areas of drug-induced antiviral resistance, allocation of pre-pandemic vaccines, and household-based public health interventions. My recent projects on HPV include cost-effectiveness analysis of different combinations of cytology screening, HPV DNA screening, and HPV vaccination for the prevention of cervical cancer in Hong Kong. In addition to mathematical modeling, I am also conducting several field studies to track the age-specific attack rates of the H1N1 pandemic virus in Hong Kong in 2009.
I earned a BS in chemical engineering from MIT in 1999 and a PhD in operations research from MIT in 2003. Before joining the Department of Community Medicine in 2006, I was an assistant professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech from 2003 to 2005 and a research assistant in the Theoretical Biology and Biophysics group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 2002 to 2003.of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech from 2003 to 2005.
Wu JT, Leung GM, Lipsitch M, Cooper BS and Riley S (2009) Hedging against antiviral resistance during the next influenza pandemic using small stockpiles of an alternative chemotherapy, PLoS Medicine 6(5), e1000085.
Wu JT, Riley S and Leung GM (2007) Spatial considerations for the allocation of pre-pandemic influenza vaccination in the United States, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274, 2811-7.
Riley S, Wu JT and Leung GM (2007) Optimizing the dose of pre-pandemic influenza vaccines to reduce the infection attack rate, PLoS Medicine 4, e218.
Wu JT, Riley S, Fraser C and Leung GM (2006) Reducing the impact of the next influenza pandemic using household-based public health interventions, PLoS Medicine 3, e361.
Wu JT, Wein LM and Perelson AS (2004) Optimization of influenza vaccine strain selection, Operations Research 63, 1317-1324.
Wein LM, Wu JT and Kirn DH (2003) Validation and analysis of a mathematical model of a replication-competent virus for cancer treatment: Implications for design and delivery, Cancer Research 63, 1317-1324.
