Dr Mark Booth

Mark joined the Wolfson Research Institute in 2008 after previous research posts at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Insitute, Basel and Cambridge University. His long-term interest in parasitology continues at Durham with collaborators drawn from within and outwith the University, taking an interdisciplinary approach that combines information from genetics, ecology, ethnography and immunology to yield novel inferences. Simultaneously, Mark has been using his epidemiological background to work in health-related themes of particular relevance to Durham University, including health inequalities in the UK and a broader range of health-related issues in developing countries. He is actively interested in developing methods of combining biomedical and social research, underpinned by epidemiological principles of study design and inference.