Lucy Okell works on the development of mathematical models of malaria and analysis of epidemiological data to better understand malaria burden, the impact of public health interventions and to inform malaria control policy.

Her current research focuses on estimating the impact of antimalarial treatments in Africa on morbidity and community-wide transmission, and the epidemiology of drug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria. She also has an interest in diagnostics and the contribution of low density malaria infections to sustaining transmission.

After an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at the University of Leeds, Lucy obtained a MSc Epidemiology and PhD in mathematical modelling of malaria from LSHTM.