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]

Christl Donnelly
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

Education

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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

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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

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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

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  1. ^ a b Christl Donnelly publications indexed by Google Scholar  
  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  
  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.