Thomas Rawson –

Fellow

Thom Rawson is a senior researcher at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, University of Oxford, where he leads a research agenda on how demographic change reshapes the spread of disease and the subsequent changing demands of health services. During the COVID-19 pandemic Thom worked in Imperial College London's real-time COVID-19 modelling team, providing regular projections to SPI-M-O and supporting the government response, for which he received a Modelling and Data Support Award. He has also worked on modelling a broad spectrum of other diseases, including H5N1 avian influenza, and led retrospective policy studies on topics such as UK vaccine dose-interval protocol and the socioeconomic drivers of COVID-19 transmission across England. He is also a keen science communicator, translating the work of his wider research groups into public-targeted activities, podcasts, and video shorts.