Tini Garske

Dr Tini Garske is an Associate Professor at the School of Public Health, Imperial College London's Faculty of Medicine. Her research focuses on mathematical and statistical modelling of infectious disease dynamics, with expertise in real-time outbreak analysis and vector-borne diseases influenced by climate. She has contributed to major outbreak responses including the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, the 2014-2016 West African Ebola outbreak, and the 2016 Yellow Fever outbreak in Angola.

Her work spans Yellow Fever, Ebola, Malaria, MERS, and pandemic influenza, with a strong emphasis on vaccine impact modelling. As former director of the Vaccine Impact Modelling Consortium (2017-2018), she led efforts to quantify the global impact of childhood vaccines. She collaborates with WHO and Gavi to estimate disease burden and vaccine impact, particularly for Yellow Fever in Africa.

Dr Garske supervises PhD students Arran Hamlet (on climate impact on yellow fever) and Obiora Eneanya (on lymphatic filariasis in Nigeria). Her research is supported by the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis and the Vaccine Research Network, and she has been part of the WHO Ebola Response Team producing over 70 real-time reports.

She leads a research group within the MRC Centre, including research fellows Dr Zulma Cucunubá and Dr Katy Gaythorpe, and research associates Dr Nicholas Letchford and Dr Xiang Li. Her group develops tools such as Montagu for vaccine impact estimates and visualizations of yellow fever vaccination coverage in Africa.