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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

Riley, S., Donnelly, C. and Ferguson, N. (2003) “Robust parameter estimation techniques for stochastic within-host macroparasite models”, Journal of Theoretical Biology, 225(4), pp. 419–430.
Harney, M. et al. (2003) “vCJD risk in the Republic of Ireland”, BMC Infectious Diseases, 3(1), p. 28.
HAGENAARS, T. et al. (2003) “Dynamics of a scrapie outbreak in a flock of Romanov sheep – estimation of transmission parameters”, Epidemiology and Infection, 131(2), pp. 1015–1022.
Ferguson, N. and Donnelly, C. (2003) “Assessment of the risk posed by bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle in Great Britain and the impact of potential changes to current control measures”, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 270(1524), pp. 1579–1584.
Riley, S. et al. (2003) “Transmission Dynamics of the Etiological Agent of SARS in Hong Kong: Impact of Public Health Interventions”, Science, 300(5627), pp. 1961–1966.
Ghani, A. et al. (2003) “Short-term projections for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease onsets”, Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 12(3), pp. 191–201.
Donnelly, C. et al. (2003) “Extending backcalculation to analyse BSE data”, Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 12(3), pp. 177–190.
Donnelly, C., Ghani, A. and Leung, G. (2003) “Epidemiological determinants of spread of causal agent of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong (vol 361, pg 1761, 2003)”, LANCET, 361(9371), pp. 1832–1832.
Donnelly, C. et al. (2003) “Epidemiological determinants of spread of causal agent of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong”, The Lancet, 361(9371), pp. 1761–1766.
Ghani, A. et al. (2003) “Updated projections of future vCJD deaths in the UK”, BMC Infectious Diseases, 3(1), p. 4.

Contact Details

College Affiliation: Fellow at St Peter's College

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

Office: 2.13

Pronouns: She/Her

Personal 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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