Dr Luigi Sedda

Senior Lecturer in Spatial Epidemiology

Additional Information

Lead of the Lancaster Ecology and Epidemiology Group

DSI: Follow-on project: Describing and mapping cancers, cancers relationships and socioeconomic inequalities in the North West of England.
01/01/2025 → 31/12/2025
Research

LU BBSRC 2024 International Partnership Fund
11/03/2024 → 29/06/2024
Research

RCG Culex distribution, vector competence and threat of transmission of arboviruses to humans and animals in the UK
01/04/2023 → 31/03/2026
Research

Mapping underdoctored areas: the impact of medical training pathways on NHS workforce distribution
01/10/2022 → 30/03/2025
Research

DSI: Evaluation of the efficacy of Fludora Co-Max adulticide space spray for control of multiple insecticide resistant Anopheles and Aedes vectors
12/09/2022 → 11/09/2023
Research

DSI: Describing and mapping cancers, cancers relationships and socioeconomic inequalities in the North West of England.
01/02/2022 → 01/12/2024
Research

Mapping geographically co-occurrent cancers in the Morecambe Bay area for designing targeted community-based interventions.
01/02/2022 → 01/12/2024
Research

DSI: Equipping Countries For Evidence-based Malaria Intervention Strategies
01/06/2021 → 31/12/2024
Research

DSI: Research on Spatial Epidemiology and Infectiouse Diseases Network: Fighting Infectious Diseases
01/03/2021 → 31/05/2023
Research

COVID-19 effects on Fleetwood communities and its relationships with deprivation
01/02/2021 → 31/01/2022
Research

Controlling emergent Anopheles stephensi in Ethiopia and Sudan (CEASE)
01/01/2021 → 30/11/2025
Research

Quantifying the influence of wind on mosquito flight and consequences for malaria transmission in southern Malawi
01/09/2020 → 28/08/2021
Research

The gnatwork: building capacity for research on neglected tropical vectors
01/03/2019 → 29/02/2020
Research

DSI: Data Science of the Natural Environment
16/04/2018 → 15/04/2024
Research

Mechanisms of gut brain axis involvement in ectotherm thermotolerance: "how the gut brain axis helps animals weather the heat?"
01/01/1900 → …
Research

Use innovative statistical methods crossing different databases and information at different spatial and temporal resolution in order to generate new understanding capable to inform recommendations aimed at improving the communities afflicted by COVID-19
01/01/1900 → …
Research

Virtual wards, current status and the experience from WWL Teaching Hospitals
Expert Opinion

Mapping Cancer Patterns and Addressing Inequalities in the Morecambe Bay Area
Invited talk

Optimising mosquito surveillance: Adaptive Designs Tested in Mozambique and Ghana
Oral presentation

Patterns in Biology: mechanisms, analysis and utility
Symposium

Geospatial modelling of vector-borne diseases: data challenges
Invited talk

Discovering 'the risk' with epidemiological methods
Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition

Statistics to protect human from deadly diseases
Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition

The Trans-Mediterranean Zoonosis Prevention Surveillance Network
Other

Mujahid Nouredayem
Hosting a Student (PhD)

Creating Operational Research in Vector-borne Diseases' Surveillance and Control.
Symposium

Mosquito surveillance for disease surveillance: advantages and caveats
Invited talk

BIoscience Network Symposium
Invited talk

Heidi E. Brown
Hosting an academic visitor

Optimal Spatial Sampling Designs
Business Course/Training

Evaluation of Virtual Ward deployment in Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Consultancy

Developing adaptive sampling design frameworks for vector surveillance
Invited talk

Gabriel Monteiro
Hosting a student (Other)

Cecile Spychala
Hosting a Student (PhD)

Palliative care in COVID-19 hospital units
Consultancy

The Applied Malaria Modeling Network (External organisation)
Membership of board

VectorBite
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Spatial Epidemiology: From interpolators to spatial model
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Current Research in Parasitology & Vector-Borne Diseases (Journal)
Editorial activity

European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (External organisation)
Member of Advisory Panel

Vectorbite (External organisation)
Membership of network

Farm of James Parker
Business Engagement

Scientific Reports (Journal)
Editorial activity

Parasites and Vectors (Journal)
Editorial activity

Visiting Professor
Appointment

IPUMS research award
Prize (including medals and awards)

NIHR CRN Greater Manchester’s Evening of Excellence 2021
Prize (including medals and awards)

Prize for the best paper published in the Morecambe Bay Medical Journal in 2022.
Prize (including medals and awards)

  • DSI - Health
  • Microbes, Pathogens and Immunity