Contact:

Tel:  +44 (0) 161 247 6230 
Fax: +44 (0) 161 247 6344
Email: m.cresswell@mmu.ac.uk

Mark is a lecturer in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences at Manchester Metropolitan University.

He has just finished writing his PhD at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) where he specialised in forecasting meningitis and malaria epidemics using climate forecasts and remote sensing. He previously worked for MALSAT - a specialised research group at LSTM that uses remote sensing and GIS tools for mapping disease risk in Africa.

His research interests are climate prediction and disease mitigation, as he has a strong link with the Met. Office and European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting.

Selected Publications:

Molesworth AM, Thomson MC, Connor SJ, Cresswell MP, Morse AP, Shears P, Hart CA, Cuevas LE. (2002) Where is the Meningitis Belt? Defining an area at risk of epidemic meningitis in Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 96 (3): 242-249

Thomson, M. C., T. N. Palmer, A. P. Morse, M. Cresswell and S. J. Connor. (2000) Forecasting disease risk with seasonal climate predictions. The Lancet, 355, 1559-1560.

Cresswell MP, Morse AP, Thomson MC, Connor SJ. (1999) Estimating surface air temperatures, from Meteosat land surface temperatures, using an empirical solar zenith angle model. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 20 (6): 1125-1132 .