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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

Morrison, W. et al. (2000) “Pathogenesis and diagnosis of infections with Mycobacterium bovis in cattle”, Veterinary Record, 146(9), pp. 236–242.
Bourne, J. et al. (2000) “Bovine tuberculosis: towards a future control strategy.”, Veterinary Record, 146(8), pp. 207–210.
Hagenaars, T. et al. (2000) “Feed-borne transmission and case clustering of BSE”, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 267(1440), pp. 205–215.
Bruce, M. et al. (2000) “Cross-Species Interactions Between Malaria Parasites in Humans”, Science, 287(5454), pp. 845–848.
Ghani, A. et al. (2000) “Assessment of the prevalence of vCJD through testing tonsils and appendices for abnormal prion protein”, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 267(1438), pp. 23–29.
Brooker, S., Donnelly, C. and Guyatt, H. (2000) “Estimating the number of helminthic infections in the Republic of Cameroon from data on infection prevalence in schoolchildren.”, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 78(12), pp. 1456–1465.
Howard, S. and Donnelly, C. (2000) “Estimation of a time-varying force of infection and basic reproduction number with application to an outbreak of classical swine fever.”, Journal of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, 5(3), pp. 161–168.
Ferguson, N. et al. (1999) “Antigen-driven CD4+ T cell and HIV-1 dynamics: Residual viral replication under highly active antiretroviral therapy”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 96(26), pp. 15167–15172.
Tuyttens, F. et al. (1999) “Differences in trappability of European badgers Meles meles in three populations in England.”, Journal of Applied Ecology, 36(6), pp. 1051–1062.
Donnelly, C., MaWhinney, S. and Anderson, R. (1999) “A Review of the BSE Epidemic in British Cattle”, in Ecosystem Health. Wiley, pp. 164–173.

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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