{"id":1215,"date":"2021-07-26T11:08:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T11:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2021-08-20T14:29:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T14:29:39","slug":"josh-daeth-research-postgraduate-school-of-public-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/2021\/07\/26\/josh-daeth-research-postgraduate-school-of-public-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh D\u2019Aeth, Research Postgraduate, School of Public Health"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cWe looked at how the NHS could best manage capacity during peaks in infection, as well as how to optimally schedule elective care for non-COVID<\/span>-19<\/span>\u00a0patients\u201d<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

“I came to Imperial in 2017, after completing my undergraduate degree in Biology. During my undergrad, I\u2019d really enjoyed learning about infectious disease evolution, so the Imperial 1 + 3 PhD programme on the epidemiology, evolution and control of infectious disease seemed ideal to me.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“After completing a Master\u2019s in my first year, my PhD now focuses on antibiotic resistance, looking for patterns in how it evolves and spreads through different bacterial species. In particular, I\u2019ve focused on how interactions between species, particularly with those that don\u2019t tend to cause disease, can be important drivers of antibiotic resistance spread.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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“Last year, I also had the opportunity to work as part of the Imperial College COVID-19 Response Team. I\u00a0 focused on hospital capacity and treatment scheduling work. In this, we looked at how the NHS could best manage capacity during peaks in infection, as well as how to optimally schedule elective care for non-COVID-19 patients. I think the immediacy of the work made it both quite challenging and rewarding at the same time.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“It was great to work as part of a wider team of amazing people. Working on a PhD at times can be quite solitary. So to be able to collaborate on a problem as pressing as COVID-19 with brilliant people from not only my department, but the wider <\/span>School of Public Health<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>Imperial College\u00a0Business School<\/span><\/a>\u00a0too, was an excellent experience.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“With the effects of lockdown, the stuff I do in my spare time has changed a bit. Pre-pandemic I enjoyed climbing and playing squash, previously playing for the <\/span>Medics\u2019 squash team<\/span><\/a>\u00a0at Imperial. During lockdown I\u2019ve managed to get back into reading and have fallen in love with basketball! There\u2019s a court close to my house that has been open throughout the pandemic. So that, coupled with binge-watching\u00a0<\/span>The Last Dance<\/span><\/i> – a mini-series about Michael Jordan\u2019s career – means most mornings I\u2019ll be out shooting (but mainly missing!) some hoops.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWe looked at how the NHS could best manage capacity during peaks in infection, as well as how to optimally schedule elective care for non-COVID-19\u00a0patients\u201d\u00a0 “I came to Imperial in 2017, after completing my undergraduate degree in Biology. During my undergrad, I\u2019d really enjoyed learning about infectious disease evolution, so the Imperial 1 + 3 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1554,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1222,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions\/1222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}