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Netherlands

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Infectious disease epidemiologist (4+ years experience at WHO) | Surveillance | Global & Public Health | R expert

Profile Summary

A passionate infectious disease epidemiologist with a strong background in research and reporting, with a keen interest in finding the story in the data and relaying complex scientific information to a range of audiences. An experienced data scientist with recent first-hand pandemic epidemiological knowhow, who generates, update, and develop weekly respiratory virus' surveillance reports for the WHO Europe Region (ERVISS), as well as scientific articles, including on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on other respiratory viruses. In my personal time I enjoy discovering new places, keeping fit, compete nationally and internationally in archery and photography.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ R
• ★ Public Health
• ★ Epidemiology
• ☆ Infectious Disease
• ☆ Viral Diseases
• ☆ Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)
• ☆ Influenza
• ☆ Global Health
• ☆ Technical & Scientific Writing
• ☆ Manuscript & Journal Article Writing
• ☆ Science Communication

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Data & AI

Writing Medical Writing, Technical Writing, General Proofreading & Editing

Research Fact Checking, Gray Literature Search, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Data & AI Data Visualization, Big Data Analytics, Data Cleaning, Data Processing

Work Experience

Consultant

World Health Organization

October 2024 - Present

Consultant

World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe

April 2021 - Present

Postdoctoral Researcher

Academic Medical Center University of Amsterdam

March 2019 - March 2021

Education

PhD

University of Liverpool

July 2015 - June 2018

MSc Control of Infectious Diseases

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

October 2013 - September 2014

BSc (Hons)

University of Edinburgh

September 2009 - June 2013

Certifications

• GitHub Ultimate: Master Git and GitHub - Beginner to Expert

  udemy

  September 2024 - Present

• Data Visualisation & Storytelling

  GrowthTribe

  https://growthtribe.io/certificates/data-visualisation-storytelling/

  January 2023 - Present

• Desktop II: Intermediate

  Tableau

  May 2020 - Present

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Margaux Mesle (2024). Estimated number of lives directly saved by COVID-19 vaccination programmes in the WHO European Region from December, 2020, to March, 2023: a retrospective surveillance study . The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.

Mary A. Sinnathamby, Margaux M. I. Meslé, Piers Mook, Kirill Stolyarov, Richard Pebody (2024). Impact of the COVID‐19 Pandemic on Influenza Circulation During the 2020/21 and 2021/22 Seasons, in Europe . Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses.

Margaux M. I. Meslé, Mary Sinnathamby, Piers Mook, Richard Pebody (2023). Seasonal and inter‐seasonal RSV activity in the European Region during the COVID‐19 pandemic from autumn 2020 to summer 2022 . Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses.

Angeliki Melidou, Csaba Ködmön, Nahapetyan K, Kraus A, Alm E, Cornelia Adlhoch, Mooks P, Dave N, Carlos Carvalho, Meslé MM, et al. (2022). Influenza returns with a season dominated by clade 3C.2a1b.2a.2 A(H3N2) viruses, WHO European Region, 2021/22 . Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin.

Meslé MMI, Vivancos R, ian hall, Christley RM, Leach S, Read JM (2022). Estimating the potential for global dissemination of pandemic pathogens using the global airline network and healthcare development indices . Scientific reports.

Meslé MM, Brown J, Mook P, Hagan J, Pastore R, Bundle N, Spiteri G, Ravasi G, Nicolay N, Andrews N, et al. (2021). Estimated number of deaths directly averted in people 60 years and older as a result of COVID-19 vaccination in the WHO European Region, December 2020 to November 2021 . Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin.

Meslé MMI, Hall IM, Christley RM, Leach S, Jonathan Michael Read (2019). The use and reporting of airline passenger data for infectious disease modelling: a systematic review . Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin.

Walters CE, Meslé MMI, ian hall (2018). Modelling the global spread of diseases: A review of current practice and capability . Epidemics.

David Bartley, Meslé M, Donegan H, Devin L, Morrison AA (2016). Phenotypic assessment of the ovicidal activity of monepantel and monepantel sulfone on gastro-intestinal nematode eggs . Veterinary parasitology.

PREPRINT

Margaux MI Mesle, Jeremy Brown, Piers Mook, Mark A Katz, Jose Hagan, Roberta Pastore, Dorit Nitzan, Bernhard Benka, Monika Redlberger-Fritz, Nathalie Bossuyt, et al. (2024). Estimated number of lives directly saved by COVID-19 vaccination programs in the WHO European Region, December 2020 to March 2023 .

Margaux Mesle, Mary Anissa Sinnathamby, Piers Mook, the European Region Influenza Network Group, Richard Pebody (2023). Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on influenza circulation during the 2020/21 and 2021/22 seasons, in Europe .

Margaux Meslé, Mary Sinnathamby, Piers Mook, Richard Pebody (2023). Seasonal and inter-seasonal RSV activity in the European Region during the COVID-19 pandemic from Autumn 2020 to Summer 2022 .