User:Sandflier/sandbox/Zulma Cucunubá

Zulma M. Cucunubá is a Colombian doctor and epidemiologist. She's an MRC Rutherford Fund Research Fellow at Imperial College London. Her work focuses on modelling of infectious diseases such as Zika and Chagas disease, and more recently, COVID-19. In addition to her advisory work with the Colombian health authorities [ref], Cucunuba's public engagement efforts through social media in the topic of COVID-19 have helped inform the general public by translating complicated research into more understandable concepts.

Education
Cucunubá was educated in the Universidad Pedagogica y Tecnológica de Colombia.

Research and career
== Selected publicationsundefined ==


 * Report 9: Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID19 mortality and healthcare demand. 2020. Neil Ferguson, D. Laydon, G. Nedjati Gilani, N. Imai, K. Ainslie, M. Baguelin, S. Bhatia, A. Boonyasiri, Z. Cucunuba Perez, G. Cuomo-Dannenburg, A. Dighe, I. Dorigatti, H. Fu, K. Gaythorpe, W. Green, A. Hamlet, W. Hinsley, L. Okell, S. Van Elsland, H. Thompson, R. Verity, E. Volz, H. Wang, Y. Wang, P. Walker, C. Walters, P. Winskill, C. Whittaker, C. Donnelly, S. Riley, A. Ghani. DOI: 10.25561/77482
 * Estimates of the severity of coronavirus disease 2019: a model-based analysis. 2020. R. Verity, L. C Okell, I. Dorigatti, P. Winskill, C. Whittaker, N. Imai, G. Cuomo-Dannenburg, H. Thompson, P. GT Walker, H. Fu, A. Dighe, J. Griffin, M. Baguelin, S. Bhatia, A. Boonyasiri, A. Cori, Z. Cucunubá, R. FitzJohn, K. Gaythorpe, W. Green, A. Hamlet, W. Hinsley, D. Laydon, G. Nedjati-Gilani, S. Riley, S. Van Elsland, E. Volz, H. Wang, Y. Wang, X. Xi, C.A. Donnelly, A.C. Ghani, N.M. Ferguson. The Lancet. 20(6): 669-677. DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30243-7.
 * Countering the zika epidemic in Latin America. 2016. N.M. Ferguson, Z.M. Cucunubá, I. Dorigatti, G.L .Nedjati-Gilani, C.A. Donnelly, M.G. Basáñez, P. Nouvellet, J. Lessler. Science. 353(6297): 353-354. DOI: 10.1126/science.aag0219.
 * Increased mortality attributed to Chagas disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 2016. Z.M. Cucunubá, O. Okuwoga, M.G. Basáñez, P. Nouvellet. Parasites & Vectors. 9(42). DOI: 10.1186/s13071-016-1315-x.