Hannah Lepper

Hannah Lepper is a Research Fellow in Mathematical Modelling at the Centre for Global Health within the Usher Institute, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh. Her work bridges mathematical modelling with global health challenges in antimicrobial resistance.

Her research focuses on:

• Mathematical modelling of antibiotic resistance dynamics in Streptococcus pneumoniae
• Strain competition and vaccination impacts
• Metagenomic analysis of resistomes and microbiomes
• Environmental transmission pathways in human-animal ecosystems

Lepper's publications demonstrate a cohesive trajectory integrating wastewater-based epidemiology with clinical resistance patterns, revealing distinct hospital-community transmission networks through advanced metagenomic and mathematical approaches.

Based at Edinburgh BioQuarter's Usher Building, she contributes to interdisciplinary teams addressing antimicrobial resistance through the Centre for Global Health's global health security initiatives.