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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

Ward, H. et al. (2023) “Design and implementation of a national program to monitor the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies in England using self-testing: the REACT-2 study”, American Journal of Public Health, 113(11), pp. 1201–1209.
Yang, J. et al. (2023) “Determining herd immunity thresholds for hepatitis A virus transmission to inform vaccination strategies among people who inject drugs in 16 US states”, Clinical Infectious Diseases, 78(4), pp. 976–982.
Carrera, J.-P. et al. (2023) “Madariaga and Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus seroprevalence in rodent enzootic hosts in Eastern and Western Panama.”, bioRxiv [Preprint].
Murphy, C. et al. (2023) “Effectiveness of social distancing measures and lockdowns for reducing transmission of COVID-19 in non-healthcare, community-based settings”, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 381(2257).
Whitaker, M. et al. (2023) “SARS-CoV-2 rapid antibody test results and subsequent risk of hospitalisation and death in 361,801 people”, Nature Communications, 14(1), p. 4957.
Pritchard, M. et al. (2023) “Natural immune boosting leads to synchrony in immunity and cyclic outbreaks of disease for pathogens with rapidly waning immunity”, in.
Penn, M. and Donnelly, C. (2023) “Optimality of maximal-effort vaccination”, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 85.
Penn, M. et al. (2023) “Intrinsic randomness in epidemic modelling beyond statistical uncertainty”, Communications Physics, 6.
McCabe, R. et al. (2023) “Alternative epidemic indicators for COVID-19 in three settings with incomplete death registration systems”, Science Advances, 9(23).
Eales, O. et al. (2023) “Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 infection hospitalisation and infection fatality ratios over 23 months in England”, PLoS Biology, 21(5).

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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