Christl Donnelly

Christl Donnelly
CBE FRS FMedSci
Donnelly in 2016
Born1967 (age 56–57)
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
AwardsSuffrage Science award (2016)
Frink Medal (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsEpidemiology
Biostatistics
Infectious diseases
Outbreaks
Disease control[1]
Institutions
ThesisThe analysis of correlation in longitudinal and spatial data (1992)
Doctoral advisorNan Laird[3]
James H. Ware[3]
Websitewww.imperial.ac.uk/people/c.donnelly Edit this at Wikidata

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][1][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]

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[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),[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]

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Awards and honours

Donnelly was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016[2][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]

References

  1. ^ a b Christl Donnelly publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b c d Anon (2017). "Donnelly, Prof. Christl Ann". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U4000451. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ a b c Christl Donnelly at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Edit this at Wikidata
  4. ^ "Professor Christl Donnelly - Department of Statistics, University of Oxford". Retrieved 22 February 2019.
  5. ^ "Christl Donnelly — Oxford Big Data Institute". Bdi.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
  6. ^ a b "Professor Christl Donnelly". London: Imperial College London. 2016. Archived from the original on 15 April 2016.
  7. ^ Christl Donnelly publications from Europe PubMed Central
  8. ^ "Governance". Imperial College London. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
  9. ^ "MPLS Division hosts welcome reception ahead of new academic year". MPLS. 3 October 2022.
  10. ^ Donnelly, Christl Ann (1992). The analysis of correlation in longitudinal and spatial data (DSc thesis). Harvard University. OCLC 84042479.
  11. ^ Okell, Lucy C; Verity, Robert; Katzourakis, Aris; Volz, Erik M; Watson, Oliver J; Mishra, Swapnil; Walker, Patrick; Whittaker, Charlie; Donnelly, Christl A; Riley, Steven; Ghani, Azra C; Gandy, Axel; Flaxman, Seth; Ferguson, Neil M; Bhatt, Samir (2020). "Host or pathogen-related factors in COVID-19 severity? – Authors' reply". The Lancet. 396 (10260): 1397. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32212-1. ISSN 0140-6736. PMC 7598447. PMID 33129392.
  12. ^ Dighe, Amy; Cattarino, Lorenzo; Cuomo-Dannenburg, Gina; Skarp, Janetta; Imai, Natsuko; Bhatia, Sangeeta; Gaythorpe, Katy A. M.; Ainslie, Kylie E. C.; Baguelin, Marc; Bhatt, Samir; Boonyasiri, Adhiratha; Brazeau, Nicholas F.; Cooper, Laura V.; Coupland, Helen; Cucunuba, Zulma; Dorigatti, Ilaria; Eales, Oliver D.; van Elsland, Sabine L.; FitzJohn, Richard G.; Green, William D.; Haw, David J.; Hinsley, Wes; Knock, Edward; Laydon, Daniel J.; Mellan, Thomas; Mishra, Swapnil; Nedjati-Gilani, Gemma; Nouvellet, Pierre; Pons-Salort, Margarita; Thompson, Hayley A.; Unwin, H. Juliette T.; Verity, Robert; Vollmer, Michaela A. C.; Walters, Caroline E.; Watson, Oliver J.; Whittaker, Charles; Whittles, Lilith K.; Ghani, Azra C.; Donnelly, Christl A.; Ferguson, Neil M.; Riley, Steven (2020). "Response to COVID-19 in South Korea and implications for lifting stringent interventions". BMC Medicine. 18 (1): 321. doi:10.1186/s12916-020-01791-8. ISSN 1741-7015. PMC 7544529. PMID 33032601.
  13. ^ Cox, D.R.; Donnelly, Christl (2011). Principles of Applied Statistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-64445-8.
  14. ^ Fraser, C.; Donnelly, C. A.; Cauchemez, S.; Hanage, W. P.; Van Kerkhove, M. D.; Hollingsworth, T. D.; Griffin, J.; Baggaley, R. F.; Jenkins, H. E.; Lyons, E. J.; Jombart, T.; Hinsley, W. R.; Grassly, N. C.; Balloux, F.; Ghani, A. C.; Ferguson, N. M.; Rambaut, A.; Pybus, O. G.; Lopez-Gatell, H.; Alpuche-Aranda, C. M.; Chapela, I. B.; Zavala, E. P.; Guevara, D. Ma. E.; Checchi, F.; Garcia, E.; Hugonnet, S.; Roth, C. (2009). "Pandemic Potential of a Strain of Influenza A (H1N1): Early Findings". Science. 324 (5934): 1557–1561. Bibcode:2009Sci...324.1557F. doi:10.1126/science.1176062. PMC 3735127. PMID 19433588.
  15. ^ Donnelly, Christl A; Ghani, Azra C; Leung, Gabriel M; Hedley, Anthony J; Fraser, Christophe; Riley, Steven; Abu-Raddad, Laith J; Ho, Lai-Ming; Thach, Thuan-Quoc; Chau, Patsy; Chan, King-Pan; Lam, Tai-Hing; Tse, Lai-Yin; Tsang, Thomas; Liu, Shao-Haei; Kong, James HB; Lau, Edith MC; Ferguson, Neil M; Anderson, Roy M (2003). "Epidemiological determinants of spread of causal agent of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong". The Lancet. 361 (9371): 1761–1766. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(03)13410-1. PMC 7112380. PMID 12781533.
  16. ^ WHO Ebola Response Team (2014). "Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa – The First 9 Months of the Epidemic and Forward Projections". New England Journal of Medicine. 371 (16): 1481–1495. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1411100. PMC 4235004. PMID 25244186.
  17. ^ Donnelly, Christl; Leisenring, Wendy; Kanki, Phyllis; Awerbuch, Tamara; Sandberg, Sonja (1993). "Comparison of transmission rates of HIV-1 and HIV-2 in a cohort of prostitutes in Senegal". Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. 55 (4): 731–743. doi:10.1007/BF02460671. PMID 8318928. S2CID 189886732.
  18. ^ Anderson, R. M.; Donnelly, C. A.; Ferguson, N. M.; Woolhouse, M. E. J.; Watt, C. J.; Udy, H. J.; MaWhinney, S.; Dunstan, S. P.; Southwood, T. R. E.; Wilesmith, J. W.; Ryan, J. B. M.; Hoinville, L. J.; Hillerton, J. E.; Austin, A. R.; Wells, G. A. H. (1996). "Transmission dynamics and epidemiology of BSE in British cattle". Nature. 382 (6594): 779–788. Bibcode:1996Natur.382..779A. doi:10.1038/382779a0. PMID 8752271. S2CID 8205375.
  19. ^ Ferguson, N. M. (2001). "The Foot-and-Mouth Epidemic in Great Britain: Pattern of Spread and Impact of Interventions". Science. 292 (5519): 1155–1160. Bibcode:2001Sci...292.1155F. doi:10.1126/science.1061020. PMID 11303090. S2CID 16914744.
  20. ^ Donnelly, Christl A.; Woodroffe, Rosie (2015). "Bovine tuberculosis: Badger-cull targets unlikely to reduce TB". Nature. 526 (7575): 640. Bibcode:2015Natur.526..640D. doi:10.1038/526640c. PMID 26511569.
  21. ^ Donnelly, Christl (2013). "Policy: Badger-cull statistics carry uncertainty". Nature. 499 (7457): 154. Bibcode:2013Natur.499..154D. doi:10.1038/499154d. PMID 23846648.
  22. ^ Anon (2006). "Christl Donnelly: Making the paper. Badger behaviour complicates attempts to control TB in cattle". Nature. 439 (7078): xi. doi:10.1038/7078xia. ISSN 0028-0836. S2CID 40243725.
  23. ^ Anon (2016). "Professor Christl Donnelly FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 30 April 2016. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    "All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 25 September 2015)
  24. ^ Anon (2015). "Professor Christl Donnelly FMedSci". Acmedsci.ac.uk. London: Academy of Medical Sciences. Archived from the original on 30 April 2016.
  25. ^ "Christl DONNELLY Order of the British Empire". thegazette.co.uk. The London Gazette.
  26. ^ Science, Suffrage (11 October 2016). "Maths and Computing 2016: A Day in the Sun for Bletchley Park Winners". suffragescience.
  27. ^ Science, Suffrage (7 October 2018). "Maths and Computing 2018: Nomination Speeches". suffragescience.
  28. ^ "Dr Ruth Keogh receives Suffrage Science award". LSHTM.


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