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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

Vial, F. et al. (2015) “Bovine Tuberculosis Risk Factors for British Herds Before and After the 2001 Foot-and-Mouth Epidemic: What have we Learned from the TB99 and CCS2005 Studies?”, Transboundary and emerging diseases, 62(5), pp. 505–515.
Garske, T. et al. (2015) “INFERRING THE YELLOW FEVER FORCE OF INFECTION FROM THE OBSERVED AGE DISTRIBUTION OF CONFIRMED CASES”, in AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE. AMER SOC TROP MED & HYGIENE, pp. 441–441.
Donnelly, C. et al. (2015) “Exploration of the power of routine surveillance data to assess the impacts of industry-led badger culling on bovine tuberculosis incidence in cattle herds.”, The Veterinary record, 177(16), p. 417.
Donnelly, C. and Woodroffe, R. (2015) “Bovine tuberculosis: Badger-cull targets unlikely to reduce TB.”, Nature, 526(7575), p. 640.
Dorigatti, I. et al. (2015) “Modelling the immunological response to a tetravalent dengue vaccine from multiple phase-2 trials in Latin America and South East Asia.”, Vaccine, 33(31), pp. 3746–3751.
Kucharski, A. et al. (2015) “Transmission Potential of Influenza A(H7N9) Virus, China, 2013-2014.”, Emerging infectious diseases, 21(5), pp. 852–855.
WHO Ebola Response Team, . et al. (2015) “Ebola virus disease among children in West Africa.”, The New England journal of medicine, 372(13), pp. 1274–1277.
WHO Ebola Response Team, . et al. (2015) “West African Ebola epidemic after one year--slowing but not yet under control.”, The New England journal of medicine, 372(6), pp. 584–587.
Carvalho, D. et al. (2015) “Suppression of a Field Population of Aedes aegypti in Brazil by Sustained Release of Transgenic Male Mosquitoes.”, PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 9(7), p. e0003864.
Lipsitch, M. et al. (2015) “Potential Biases in Estimating Absolute and Relative Case-Fatality Risks during Outbreaks.”, PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 9(7), p. e0003846.

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

Nicholas Steyn

Cathal Mills

Tarek Alrefae

Research Groups

Statistical Genetics and Epidemiology

Statistical Theory and Methodology

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

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