Christl Donnelly
American-British epidemiologist (born 1967)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Christl Ann Donnelly (born 1967) is an epidemiologist who was appointed professor of applied statistics at the University of Oxford[4] and a fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford. She is also professor of statistical epidemiology at Imperial College London.[5][6][2][7] She is associate director of the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis.[8] Donnelly was head of the Department of Statistics, University of Oxford from 2022 to 2025.[9][10]
.jpg)
- Oberlin College (BA)
- Harvard University (MSc, SciD)[1]
Frink Medal (2019)
Christl Donnelly | |
|---|---|
Donnelly in 2016 | |
| Born | 19 June 1967 |
| 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) |
| 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 in 1988, and at Harvard University in Boston where, in 1992, she was awarded Master of Science (MSc) and Doctor of Science (SciD) degrees[11] 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),[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,[6] 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[1][24] and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2015.[25] She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2018 New Year Honours.[26]
In 2016 Donnelly won the Suffrage Science award,[27][28] and in 2018 nominated Ruth Keogh for the award at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).[29]