Rate My Professor Matt Keeling

Keeling's research utilizes mathematics, statistics, and computational methods to model infectious disease dynamics, evolution, and ecology, informing policy on epidemic control and vaccination. His work addresses diseases in humans such as COVID-19, measles, influenza, HPV, and neglected tropical diseases, and in animals including foot-and-mouth disease and bovine tuberculosis. He contributed to responses for the 2001 and 2009 foot-and-mouth outbreaks, 2009 swine flu, and COVID-19, serving on SPI-M since 2008, JCVI from 2010 to 2022, and NERVTAG since 2023. Key publications include 'Dynamics of the 2001 UK Foot and Mouth Epidemic: Stochastic Dispersal...' (2001), 'Modelling Vaccination Strategies against Foot and Mouth Disease' (2003), 'Optimal reactive vaccination strategies for a foot-and-mouth outbreak in the UK' (2006), 'A dynamic model of bovine tuberculosis spread and control in Great Britain' (2014), and 'Vaccination and non-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19: a mathematical modelling study' (2021). With an H-index of 74 and over 25,000 citations, his contributions have shaped public health strategies. Awards include the OBE for services to SAGE during COVID-19 (2021), Weldon Prize to SPI-MO (2022), Scientific Medal from the Royal Zoological Society of London (2007), and Philip Leverhulme Prize in Mathematics (2005).