Nationality American Field Epidemiology | Fields Epidemiology | |
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Thesis The analysis of correlation in longitudinal and spatial data (1992) Alma maters Oberlin College, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Institutions Imperial College London, University of Oxford, University of Edinburgh Notable awards Fellow of the Royal Society (2016), Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2015) | ||
Christl Ann Donnelly FRS is a Professor of Statistical Epidemiology at Imperial College London.
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Education
Donnelly was educated at Oberlin College in Ohio, where she was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree, and at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, where in 1992 she was awarded Master of Science and Doctor of Science degrees in biostatistics.
Research
Donnelly's research investigates statistical and biomathematical methods to analyse epidemiological patterns of infectious diseases such as Influenza A virus subtype H1N1 and Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), the Ebola virus disease, zoonoses and HIV. She has interests in ecology, conservation, and animal welfare having worked on Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and Foot-and-mouth disease in cattle, bovine tuberculosis and policies regarding badger culling in the United Kingdom.
Awards and honours
Donnelly was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016 and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2015.