Christl Donnelly

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Christl Donnelly
CBE FRS FMedSci
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Donnelly in 2016
Born1967 (age 56–57)
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
Awards Suffrage Science award (2016)
Frink Medal (2019)
Scientific career
Fields Epidemiology
Biostatistics
Infectious diseases
Outbreaks
Disease control [2]
Institutions
Thesis The analysis of correlation in longitudinal and spatial data  (1992)
Doctoral advisor Nan Laird [3]
James H. Ware [3]
Website www.imperial.ac.uk/people/c.donnelly OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Christl Ann Donnelly (born June 1967) is a professor of statistical epidemiology at Imperial College London, the University of Oxford [4] and a Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford. [5] [6] [2] [7] She serves as associate director of the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis. [8] In 2022, Donnelly was appointed Head of the Department of Statistics, University of Oxford. [9]

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Education

Donnelly was educated at Oberlin College in Ohio, where she was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree,[ when? ] and at Harvard University in Boston, where in 1992 she was awarded Master of Science (MSc) and Doctor of Science (SciD) degrees [10] degrees in biostatistics [1] supervised by Nan Laird and James H. Ware. [3]

Career and research

Donnelly's research investigates statistical and biomathematical methods to analyse epidemiological patterns of infectious diseases such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), [11] [12] Influenza A virus subtype H1N1, [13] [14] and Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), [15] Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), the Ebola virus disease, [16] zoonoses and HIV/AIDS. [17] She has interests in ecology, conservation, and animal welfare [6] having worked on bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) [18] and Foot-and-mouth disease [19] in cattle, bovine tuberculosis and policies regarding badger culling in the United Kingdom. [20] [21] [22]

Awards and honours

Donnelly was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016 [1] [23] and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2015. [24] She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2018 New Year Honours. [25]

In 2016 Donnelly won the Suffrage Science award [26] [27] and in 2018 nominated Ruth Keogh  [ Wikidata ] at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). [28]

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  21. ↑ Donnelly, Christl (2013). "Policy: Badger-cull statistics carry uncertainty". Nature. 499 (7457): 154. Bibcode:2013Natur.499..154D. doi: 10.1038/499154d . PMID   23846648.
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