Professor Christl Donnelly CBE FMedSci FRS

Head of Department, Professor of Applied Statistics

Biographical Sketch

2018 – present - Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford
2002 – present - Professor of Statistical Epidemiology, Imperial College London
2000 – 2002 - Reader in Epidemiological Statistics, Imperial College London
1995 – 2000 - Head of Statistics Unit (Reader in Statistical Epidemiology in 2000), Wellcome Trust Centre for the Epidemiology of Infectious Disease, University of Oxford
1998 – 2000 - Lecturer in Biology, St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford
1992 – 1995 - Lecturer in Statistics, University of Edinburgh

Research Interests

  • Infectious disease epidemiology and control
  • Real-time outbreak analysis and response
  • Disease transmission dynamics
  • Science-policy interface
     

Publications

Smith, D., Turner, J., Fahr, P., Attfield, L., Bessell, P., Donnelly, C., Gibb, R., Jones, K., Redding, D., Asogun, D., Ayodeji, O., Azuogu, B., Fischer II, W., Jan, K., Olayinka, A., Wohl, D., Torkelson, A., Dinkel, K., Nixon, E., Pouwels, K. and Hollingsworth, D. (2024) “Health and economic impacts of Lassa vaccination campaigns in West Africa”, Nature Medicine [Preprint].
Woodroffe, R., Astley, K., Barnecut, R., Brotherton, P., Donnelly, C., Grub, H., Ham, C., Howe, C., Jones, C., Marriott, C., Miles, V., Rowcliffe, M., Shelley, T. and Truscott, K. (2024) “Farmer‐led badger vaccination in Cornwall: Epidemiological patterns and social perspectives”, People and Nature [Preprint].
Woodroffe, R., Astley, K., Barnecut, R., Brotherton, P., Donnelly, C., Grub, H., Ham, C., Howe, C., Jones, C., Marriott, C., Miles, V., Rowcliffe, M., Shelley, T. and Truscott, K. (2024) “Farmer-led badger vaccination in Cornwall: epidemiological patterns and social perspectives”, People and Nature [Preprint].
Watson, L., Plank, M., Armstrong, B., Chapman, J., Hewitt, J., Morris, H., Orsi, A., Bunce, M., Donnelly, C. and Steyn, N. (2024) “Jointly estimating epidemiological dynamics of Covid-19 from case and wastewater data in Aotearoa New Zealand”, communications medicine, 4(1).
Laing, R. and Donnelly, C. (2024) “Evolution of an epidemic: Understanding the opioid epidemic in the United States and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on opioid-related mortality”, PLoS ONE, 19(7).
Penn, M., Scheidwasser, N., Khurana, M., Duchene, D., Donnelly, C. and Bhatt, S. (2024) “Phylo2Vec: a vector representation for binary trees”, Systematic Biology [Preprint].
Hayes, S., McCabe, R., De Angelis, D., Donnelly, C., Evans, S., Medley, G., Spiegelhalter, D. and Bird, S. (2024) “Modelling hepatitis C infection acquired from blood transfusions in the UK between 1970 and 1991 for the Infected Blood Inquiry”, Royal Society Open Science, 11(6).
Mendes, C., Albert, W., Amir, Z., Ancrenaz, M., Ash, E., Azhar, B., Bernard, H., Brodie, J., Bruce, T., Carr, E., Clements, G., Davies, G., Deere, N., Dinata, Y., Donnelly, C., Duangchantrasiri, S., Fredriksson, G., Goossens, B., Granados, A., Hearn, A., Hon, J., Hughes, T., Jansen, P., Kawanishi, K., Kinnaird, M., Koh, S., Latinne, A., Linkie, M., Loi, F., Lynam, A., Meijaard, E., Mohd-Azlan, J., Moore, J., Nathan, S., Ngoprasert, D., Novarino, W., Nursamsi, I., O’Brien, T., Ong, R., Payne, J., Priatna, D., Rayan, D., Reynolds, G., Rustam, R., Selvadurai, S., Shia, A., Silmi, M., Sinovas, P., Sribuarod, K. and Steinmetz, R. (2024) “CamTrapAsia: a dataset of tropical forest vertebrate communities from 239 camera trapping studies”, Ecology, 105(6).
Rivera, L., Lezcano-Coba, C., Galué, J., Rodriguez, X., Juarez, Y., de Souza, W., Capitan-Barrios, Z., Valderrama, A., Abrego, L., Cedeño, H., Jackman, C., Waggoner, J., Aguilar, P., Guzman, H., Weaver, S., Tesh, R., López-Vèrges, S., Donnelly, C., Estofolete, C., Nogueira, M., Faria, N., Vasilakis, N., Vittor, A., Smith, D. and Carrera, J.-P. (2024) “Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of Madariaga and Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus infections.”, medRxiv [Preprint].
Hampshire, A., Azor, A., Atchison, C., Trender, W., Hellyer, P., Giunchiglia, V., Husain, M., Cooke, G., Cooper, E., Lound, A., Donnelly, C., Chadeau-Hyam, M., Ward, H. and Elliott, P. (2024) “Cognition and Memory after Covid-19 in a Large Community Sample.”, The New England journal of medicine, 390(9), pp. 806–818.

Contact Details

College Affiliation: Fellow at St Peter's College

Email: christl.donnelly@stats.ox.ac.uk

Office: 2.13

Pronouns: She/Her

Executive Assistant:  Lauren Haynes

Research Students

Ruth McCabe

Matthew Penn

Nicholas Steyn

Cathal Mills

Research Groups

Statistical Genetics and Epidemiology

Statistical Theory and Methodology

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

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