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.
Key publications
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The impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on early-stage COVID-19 epidemic dynamics in rural communities in the United States
Preprint
Alahakoon P. et al, (2024)
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Tracking West Nile virus dynamics using viral loads from trapped mosquitoes
Preprint
Alahakoon P. et al, (2025)
Recent publications
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Tracking West Nile virus dynamics using viral loads from trapped mosquitoes
Preprint
Alahakoon P. et al, (2025)
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The impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on early-stage COVID-19 epidemic dynamics in rural communities in the United States
Preprint
Alahakoon P. et al, (2024)
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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
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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
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How effective were Australian Quarantine Stations in mitigating transmission aboard ships during the influenza pandemic of 1918-19?
Preprint
Alahakoon P. et al, (2023)