Kiesha Prem

Kiesha Prem is an Assistant Professor at the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, specializing in infectious disease modelling to evaluate vaccination strategies and social mixing patterns.

• PhD in Public Health and B.Sc. Hons. in Statistics

Her research focuses on the global impact and cost-effectiveness of HPV vaccination, Tuberculosis control, and sexually transmitted infections, with technical leadership roles in Laos and Cambodia. She pioneered synthetic contact matrices for disease transmission studies.

Key publications include analyses of COVID-19 control strategies and HPV vaccine schedules, reflecting expertise in computational epidemiology and health policy evaluation.

• 2023: Women in Modelling Initiative by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Kiesha advises governments on vaccine implementation and leads cross-cultural public health collaborations in Southeast Asia.