Jiayi Du is a PhD candidate at University of Hong Kong. She holds a master of public health in the epidemiology of microbial diseases from Yale University and a bachelor of science in biology and statistics from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on infectious disease modelling, with current work on the effectiveness of long-acting monoclonal antibodies and vaccines against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and upcoming projects on dynamic transmission modelling of RSV and human metapneumovirus (hMPV).