Research Associates
Senior Research Associate (CHICAS)
Barry Rowlingson has worked at Lancaster University on the integration of spatial statistics and GIS since 1990. He is involved with a WHO-funded project on disease mapping in Africa which he presented at the FOSS4G 2007 conference in Canada.
Research Associate (CHICAS)
Dr Ben Taylor joined CHICAS at the start of 2011 after having studied for a doctorate in the department of Mathematics and Statistics. He is working collaboratively on spatio-temporal statistical methods, associated computational algorithms and the integration of these into web-based information systems.
Research Associate (CHICAS)
Paula Moraga joined CHICAS in April 2012. She is interested in public health surveillance and her research focuses on the development of novel spatio-temporal statistical methods. Before joining the department, she was a visiting researcher at the Harvard Medical School and the Medical University of South Carolina working on methods for the estimation of geographic variations in disease temporal trends, disease mapping and the detection of clusters. She also worked on the early detection of infectious disease outbreaks in the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and completed a traineeship at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). At Lancaster, she collaborates with researchers at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) conducting studies on the spatio-temporal patterns and the determinants of leptospirosis transmission in urban areas in Salvador, Brazil. Paula received her Master's degree in Biostatistics from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2011, and expects to earn her doctorate degree in Mathematics from the University of Valencia, Spain, in 2012.