Professor Christl Donnelly CBE FRS FMedSci FAcadMathSci

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

Blake, I. et al. (2016) “Faster Detection of Poliomyelitis Outbreaks to Support Polio Eradication - Volume 22, Number 3—March 2016 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC”, Emerging Infectious Diseases, 22(3), pp. 449–456.

Agua-Agum, J. et al. (2016) “Ebola Virus Disease among Male and Female Persons in West Africa”, New England Journal of Medicine, 374(1), pp. 96–98.

Nouvellet, P. et al. (2015) “The role of rapid diagnostics in managing Ebola epidemics”, Nature, 528(7580), pp. s109 - s116.

Winskill, P. et al. (2015) “Dispersal of Engineered Male Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes”, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 9(11), p. e0004156.

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. and Woodroffe, R. (2015) “Badger-cull targets unlikely to reduce TB”, Nature, 526(7575), pp. 640–640.

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”, Veterinary Record, 177(16), pp. 417–417.

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.

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.

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.