Diogo Marques Email & Phone Number

Portugal

Lisbon, Portugal

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Key roles: - Leads several teams within the Enhanced Surveillance Cell part of the Scottish COVID-19 pandemic response; - Responsible for workforce management and development; - Leads on the planning, development and implementation of research studies and surveillance systems; - Provides scientific and epidemiologic expertise to surveillance and research projects that require new primary data collection or data linkage of large routinely collected healthcare datasets; - Frequently liases with senior leadership and external stakeholders (Government, Academia, ECDC, WHO); - Participates in Out of Hours On-call rota to provide 24/7 support to public health emergencies.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Key roles: - Leads a team of 2 epidemiologists and 4 data managers; - Responsible for supervision, mentoring and training of staff; - Develop and manages team work plans; - Supervises the analysis, interpretation and presentation of complex epidemiological data to support the delivery of key health protection functions; - Provides scientific and epidemiological advice to consultants and senior leadership staff in management of outbreaks; - Leads burden of disease and vaccine effectiveness studies; - Prepares material to be used in media briefings or in answer to Parliamentary Questions; - Provides expert advice and information to a range of stakeholders on health protection topics and issues relating to surveillance programmes. - Participates in Out of Hours On-call rota to provide 24/7 support to public health emergencies.

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Key roles: - Lead for influenza surveillance; - Developed protocols and lead the analysis of large datasets on laboratory results, enhanced urveillance, patient records and healthcare service delivery; - Epidemiology lead for development, maintenance, analysis and improvement of existing surveillance systems for influenza and other respiratory pathogens. - Provision of epidemiology expertise to the Scottish influenza vaccination programme. - Responsible for development of protocols, performance of analysis and write up reports on routine surveillance data - Development, analysis and reporting of epidemiological studies on influenza vaccine effectiveness, vaccine population impact, influenza severity/burden - Provision of epidemiological advice/reports to outbreaks, public health alerts, media briefings, parliamentary questions and freedom of information requests related to influenza, iGAS or other respiratory pathogens. - Liaison with data managers, project managers and IT developers on existing and new GP software systems to obtain data on ILI consultation rates and influenza vaccine uptake. - Experience with analysing large datasets on laboratory results, enhanced surveillance, patient records and healthcare service delivery. - Line-management responsibilities for data management/epidemiology staff. - Supervision of HPS epidemiology training fellows. - Provide cover for senior epidemiologists and support for consultant epidemiologists. - Participation in Out of Hours On-call rota to provide 24/7 support to public health emergencies. - Responsible for organising monthly HPS Scientific Seminars. - Participation on European projects, e.g. Evaluation of EU/EEA public health surveillance systems (EPHESUS) - evaluation of ECDC surveillance systems for Malaria, Plague and Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers.

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Key outcomes:Surveillance - Set up an enhanced surveillance system for carbapenemase producing organisms (CPO) in Scotland through data linkage between laboratory results and data on hospital admissions, medicines use and patient outcomes. I developed the surveillance protocol, an enhanced surveillance questionnaire and completed all documents necessary for information governance approval. This work was accepted as a poster presentation at ESCAIDE 2016. - Evaluated the burden of Mycoplasma pneumoniae (MPN) infections in Scotland between seasons 2009/10 and 2015/16 through linkage between laboratory, hospitalisation and mortality data. Outbreak investigations - Led the epidemiological investigations of a large cyclosporiasis outbreak in the UK linked with travel to Mexico. I developed a database combining data from collected questionnaires, laboratory data and HPzone records. The outbreak investigation and public health recommendations were published as a peer-reviewed manuscript in Eurosurveillance and accepted as a late-breaker poster presentation at ESCAIDE 2016. - Estimation of the size of a norovirus outbreak in restaurant customers using capture-recapture methodology. Alongside the main outbreak investigation, I led the epidemiological analysis and this work was accepted as a poster presentation at ESCAIDE 2017.Research - Conducted a research project on HIV infections among people who inject drugs in Glasgow. I developed the research protocol, conducted descriptive and multivariable analysis and identified key recommendations. This work was accepted as an oral presentation at TEPHINET 2017 and ESCAIDE 2017.Teaching: - Delivered lectures on influenza infection and facilitated case-studies on a vaccine preventable disease outbreak to students of the Masters in Public Health of the University of Glasgow.

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Key tasks: - Developed protocols, analysed large epidemiological datasets and produced epidemiological reports; - Analysed influenza surveillance data (e.g. GP consultation rates for ILI, laboratory results, vaccine uptake, SARI surveillance, ARI outbreaks surveillance, NHS24, Hpzone, all-cause excess mortality). - Produced weekly epidemiological reports (e.g. HPS weekly influenza report and Infection Pressures Bulletin). - Developed/improved epidemiological databases (e.g. SARI surveillance, ARI outbreaks surveillance, iGAS enhanced surveillance). - Responsible for the GP Sentinel surveillance system in Scotland. - Participated in several research projects: GBS infections in infants, influenza vaccine effectiveness (UK TNCC and IMOVE) and evaluation of impact of the influenza vaccination programme. - Provided epidemiological and statistical support to the team lead/consultant epidemiologist on outbreak management. - Produced public health guidance and public health alerts (e.g. regarding MERS-CoV and avian influenza). - Prepared responses to Parliamentary Questions (e.g. GBS in infants, Flu B mismatch) and Freedom of Information requests (e.g. ARI outbreaks in care homes).Corporate tasks: - Participated in the HPS emergency response to the 2014 Glasgow Ebola case where I was responsible for the airplane contact tracing and maintenance of the contacts database. This situation required a coordinated response and the ability to work under pressure in a complex political environment. - Responsible for surveillance reporting during the "XX Commonwealth Games" in Glasgow, 2014. I developed the surveillance protocol and training materials, was responsible for training of staff and participated in the routine surveillance activities. I also supported the development of new surveillance systems (e.g. daily laboratory reporting, daily excess mortality monitoring, Twitter and NHS24 website analysis).

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Affiliation with Scotland's Rural College (SRUC)Project: Influence of between-farm contacts and farm geographical location on temporal change of swine lesions detected through slaughterhouse surveillance - Analysed large surveillance databases (swine slaughterhouse disease monitoring schemes and between-farm animal movements); - Produced epidemiological reports and presented results both at scientific meetings and to industry stakeholders;

Integrated Master’S Degree In Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary Medicine Degree + Master'S Degree In Epidemiology

Epiet Fellowship, Field Epidemiology, Epiet Diploma