Punya Alahakoon
Postdoctoral Researcher
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Pandemic Sciences Institute, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford.
I completed my PhD at the University of Melbourne, Australia in 2023. I completed my undergraduate studies in Statistics at the University of Jayawardenapura, Sri Lanka, and a master's in Statistics at La Trobe University, Australia.
My research interests and experience lie in infectious disease modeling, Bayesian and other statistical inference methods, and public health.
Recent publications
Stochastic modelling of early-stage COVID-19 epidemic dynamics in rural communities in the United States
Journal article
Alahakoon P. et al, (2025), Journal of Theoretical Biology, 615, 112248 - 112248
Tracking West Nile virus dynamics using viral loads from trapped mosquitoes
Preprint
Alahakoon P. et al, (2025)
Stochastic modelling of early-stage COVID-19 epidemic dynamics in rural communities in the United States
Preprint
Alahakoon P. et al, (2024)
Improving estimates of waning immunity rates in stochastic SIRS models with a hierarchical framework
Journal article
Alahakoon P. et al, (2023), Infectious Disease Modelling, 8, 1127 - 1137
How effective were Australian Quarantine Stations in mitigating transmission aboard ships during the influenza pandemic of 1918-19?
Journal article
Alahakoon P. et al, (2023), PLOS Computational Biology, 19, e1011656 - e1011656