Professor Christl Donnelly CBE FMedSci FRS

Professor of Applied Statistics

Biographical Sketch

2022 – 2025 - Head of Department, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford

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

Bajaj, S. et al. (2024) “Understanding COVID-19 testing behaviour in England through a sociodemographic lens: a population based study”, Lancet Digital Health [Preprint].
Watson, L. et al. (2024) “Jointly estimating epidemiological dynamics of Covid-19 from case and wastewater data in Aotearoa New Zealand”, Communications Medicine [Preprint].