Nayantara Wijayanandana

Nayantara is an infectious disease epidemiologist. She is doing her PhD at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on transmission dynamics of dengue in Sri Lanka, applying statistical and mathematical models to geolocated case data to understand the spatio-temporal heterogeneity of transmission. She is also interested in incorporating genetic and mobility data in her research to describe transmission patterns. Her experience is in vector-borne diseases - specifically dengue and malaria - and she has previously done field surveys and established sentinel surveillance to describe malaria transmission in distinct endemic settings in Nigeria, Uganda, Southern Sudan, and Zambia.