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Dr Nicholas C Grassly

Reader in Infectious Disease Ecology
Division of Epidemiology, Public Health and Primary Care

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Medical School
St Mary's Campus

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Dr Nicholas Grassly

I am a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Reader in Infectious Disease Ecology heading the disease ecology research group in the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology. I am interested in uncovering the factors determining the spread of infectious diseases of humans and the effectiveness of different interventions to control their spread - particularly vaccination and treatment - by analysing and collecting disease surveillance and clinical trial data. 

My research aims to be policy relevant and is currently focused on poliovirus transmission during the end stages of global eradication, sexually transmitted infections in developed and developing countries, including the HIV pandemic, and trachoma dynamics as the international target of eliminating blindness due to this infection by 2020 is pursued.

Selected recent publications

Grassly NC, Jafari H, Bahl S et al. Mucosal immunity following vaccination with monovalent and trivalent oral poliovirus vaccines in India. J Infect Dis 2009. 200: 794-801[full text]

Fraser C et al. Pandemic potential of a strain of influenza A (H1N1): early findings Science 2009. 324: 1557-1561. [doi link]

Jenkins HE, Aylward RB, Gasasira A, Donnelly CA, Koleosho-Adelekan T, Abanida EA & Grassly NC The effectiveness of immunization against polio in Nigeria. New Engl J Med 2008. 359: 1666-1674. [full text]

Grassly NC, Wenger J, Durrani S, et al. Protective efficacy of a monovalent oral type 1 poliovirus vaccine: a case-control study. Lancet 2007. 369:1356-1362. [doi link]

Grassly N.C., Fraser C., Wenger J., et al. New strategies for the elimination of polio from India. Science 2006. 314:1150 - 1153. [full text]