Epidemiology and Mathematical Modelling provide vital mathematical and statistical tools to study the spatial spread of epidemics in populations.
Mathematics and simulation are essential tools in infectious disease control, enabling decision-makers to explore control policies before implementing them, interpret trends, and predict emerging threats. Over recent years technological advances and worldwide efforts are speeding up developments towards better global surveillance for combating pandemics of emergent and re-emergent infectious diseases. Here at Cambridge our researchers, extending from medicine and molecular biology to computer science and applied mathematics, are teaming up to develop new models and applied tools for rapid assessment of potentially urgent situations.
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Research groups are found across several university departments and local research institutes, and include:
- Disease Dynamics Research Group (Dept Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics)
- Disease Dynamics Unit (Dept Veterinary Medicine)
- Antigenic Cartography Group (Dept Zoology)
- Epidemiology and Modelling Group (Dept Plant Sciences)
- Epidemiology and Immunology of Human Schistosomiasis Group (Dept Pathology).
- Institute of Public Health, which includes the internationally renowned MRC Biostatistics Unit.
Department of Medicine, CITIID.
Molecular microbiologist; enteric infections in developing countries with an emphasis on Norovirus, Shigella spp. and Salmonella Typhi.
Research Associate on the ‘Humanitarian Crises, Population Displacement and Epidemic Diseases, 1901-2010’ project.
Development of real-time systems for the tracking of pandemic influenza outbreaks.
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Molecular epidemiology and evolution of bacterial pathogens particularly Streptococcus pneumoniae
Department of Land Economy.
Economics of Infectious Disease including strategic epidemiology, social experiments, atefactual experiments, and mass drug administration for disease control.
Research Facilitator, Cambridge Academy of Therapeutic Sciences
Facilitates research activities between academic and industry partners via funded exchange programs, educational.
Department of Engineering
Engineering design: including process management, change management, healthcare design and inclusive design.
Exploring the potential for serogroup replacement following the introduction of MenAfriVac in the African meningitis belt
Department of Plant Sciences
Mathematical modelling of the spread, detection, evolution and control of crop and tree diseases.
Programme leader
Statistical methods in epidemic modelling
Senior Research Associate (Mathematical & Computational Biology)
+44 1223 339381
MRC Fellow in Biomedical Informatics
Junior Research Fellow at Homerton College
CJ Martin Biomedical Research Fellow, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Sam's work combines microbiology, immunology and computational analysis to interactions between the microbiota and pathogen
Department of Plant Sciences
Epidemiological modelling to predict the spread of plant disease epidemics and to identify and optimise economically and ecologically sustainable strategies for disease management.
A consultant in infectious diseases with an interest in primary and secondary immunodeficiencies and transplantation.
Clinical microbiology, development and spread of resistance to antimicrobial and antiviral agents.
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Graduate Student
Disease dynamics and ecological drivers, particularly of bat-borne viruses and other emerging pathogens.
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP)
Mathematics of infectious diseases,viral bioinformatics,influenza modelling
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Host-pathogen interactions and the molecular basis of virulence.
Professor in Microbial Genomics & Veterinary Science
Director of Studies in Clinical Veterinary Medicine (Churchill College)
+44 1223 337636
Viral evolution and transmission
Graduate Student: Working on mathematical and computational modelling of systems in immunology.
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Research Fellow (JRF)
Outbreak surveillance and response systems, particularly those in Sub-Saharan Africa.
PhD Student
Using mathematical models to evaluate and inform immunisation strategies with MenAfriVac in the African meningitis belt
Mathematical models for the evolution of influenza that link the within- and between-host scales
AXA Research Fund Fellow
Public policy evaluation; Health economics
Group Leader at Quadram Institute
Epidemiology, evolution and dynamics of foodborne and zoonotic bacteria, with a particular focus on antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
Director of the Cambridge Ancient Parasites Laboratory
Senior Research Associate, McDonald Institute, Department of Archaeology
Hospital Consultant (specialist) in NHS
I'm a graduate student and administrator in the Pathogen Evolution group. I'm interested in flu and vaccines.
Professor of comparative oncology and genetics
Studying the spatial distribution of anthrax in Uganda using ecological niche modelling.
My interests are sustainability of HIV services in Africa, fungal infections in Uganda and HIV/STI management
Investigator Statistician
in the "Statistical methods in epidemic modelling" programme
MRC Biostatistics Unit
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Postdoctoral Research Associate assisting Professor Mark Holmes
Population based, public health and genetic epidemiology studies of chronic infectious and non-infectious diseases.
Department of Pathology
Mathematical analyses of viral genomic data to predict function and drug targets
Department of Zoology
Evolution and population dynamics of antigenically variable pathogens, particularly influenza viruses but also malaria, HIV, and HCV.
PhD Student, Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics
Mathematical modelling of population dynamics of infectious diseases such as influenza
WSI/Department of Veterinary Medicine
PhD Student
Applied statisticianinvestigating transmission in endemic diseases such as Streptococcus pneumoniae
Principal Research Associate, Department of Veterinary Medicine
Academic Director Cambridge-Africa, Department of Pathology
Honorary Epidemiologist at Public Health England
Research Associate, Department of Zoology
Mathematical modelling of biological systems, dynamical systems
Department of Genetics
Research Associate studying the impact of antigenic and genetic diversity of dengue virus (DENV) on driving DENV's transmission and disease risks.
Wellcome Trust and Royal Society Henry Dale Fellow
Principal Investigator
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Molecular evolution of pathogens
BBSRC PhD student
Infectious disease dynamics at the human-animal interface
Department of Veterinary Medicine
Veterinarian, epidemiology with interests in the infection dynamics and control of zoonotic diseases in Africa and globally.
Digital Epidemiology: Modelling of Epidemic Spread using Human Mobility Data from Sensors and Mobile-Phones
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