Christl Ann Donnelly CBE FRS FMedSci[4][5] (born 16 June 1967) is a professor of statistical epidemiology at Imperial College London, the University of Oxford[6] and a Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford.[7][8][1][9] She serves as associate director of the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis.[10]
Christl Donnelly | |
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.jpg) Donnelly in 2016 | |
| Born | 16 June 1967[2] |
| Nationality | American |
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| Awards | Suffrage Science award (2016) Frink Medal (2019) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Epidemiology Biostatistics Infectious diseases Outbreaks Disease control[1] |
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| Thesis | The analysis of correlation in longitudinal and spatial data (1992) |
| Doctoral advisor | Nan Laird[3] James H. Ware[3] |
| Website | www |
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[11] degrees in biostatistics[2] 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),[12][13] Influenza A virus subtype H1N1,[14][15] and Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS),[16] Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), the Ebola virus disease,[17] zoonoses and HIV/AIDS.[18] She has interests in ecology, conservation, and animal welfare[8] having worked on bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)[19] and Foot-and-mouth disease[20] in cattle, bovine tuberculosis and policies regarding badger culling in the United Kingdom.[21][22][23]
Awards and honours
Donnelly was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016[2][4] and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2015.[5] She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2018 New Year Honours.[24]
In 2016 Donnelly won the Suffrage Science award[25][26] and in 2018 nominated Ruth Keogh at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).[27]