School of Public Health

Infectious Disease Epidemiology

The Department carries out world class research into a wide variety of infectious diseases and pathogens, including AIDS and HIV, SARS and pandemic influenza, the Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (e.g. BSE, Scrapie and vCJD), drug-resistant bacteria (e.g. MRSA) and parasites, childhood viral and bacterial diseases, emerging fungal infections, the epidemic viral infections of livestock (e.g. FMD), parasitic helminth infections and bioterrorism.

The staff in the Department have a broad range of scientific skills including molecular biology, immunology, molecular epidemiology, population genetics, mathematical biology, statistics, demography and clinical medicine. These skills are being applied to many problems in the biology, epidemiology, evolution and control of infectious disease. In many cases the research is of direct relevance to public health policy formulation and risk assessment, both in the UK and internationally.

Given below are generic titles describing potential areas of research within the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology. These opportunities are currently unfunded.

Modelling the evolution of drug resistance in HIV-1 infection and the study of how best to control its establishment within the treated patient.
For an informal discussion, contact Professor Roy Anderson
(Telephone: +44 (0)20 7594 3399, email: roy.anderson@imperial.ac.uk)

 

The role of different vector-parasite combinations in the outcome of programmes for the control of filarial infections.
For an informal discussion, contact Dr Maria-Gloria Basáñez(Telephone: +44 (0)20 7594 3295, email: m.basanez@imperial.ac.uk)

 

Host choice by disease vectors.
For an informal discussion, contact Dr Maria-Gloria Basáñez
(Telephone: +44 (0)20 7594 3295, email: m.basanez@imperial.ac.uk)

 

Studies on the population biology of human onchocerciasis.
For an informal discussion, contact Dr Maria-Gloria Basáñez (Telephone: +44 (0)20 7594 3295, email: m.basanez@imperial.ac.uk)

 

Trachoma transmission and control.
For an informal discussion, contact Dr Maria-Gloria Basáñez (Telephone: +44 (0)20 7594 3295, email: m.basanez@imperial.ac.uk) & Dr Nick Grassly (Telephone: +44 (0)20 7594 3264, email: n.grassly@imperial.ac.uk)

 

River blindness: infection, morbidity, and mortality in the Onchocerciasis Control Programme area in West Africa.
For an informal discussion, contact Dr Maria-Gloria Basáñez (Telephone: +44 (0)20 7594 3295, email: m.basanez@imperial.ac.uk) & Dr Mark Little (Email: mark.little@imperial.ac.uk)

 

Population biology of parasitic nematodes in Bangladesh: a reinfection study.
For an informal discussion, contact Dr Maria-Gloria Basáñez
(Telephone: +44 (0)20 7594 3295, email: m.basanez@imperial.ac.uk)

 

Understanding the role of different commerical sex work topology on the spread of HIV/AIDS in developing countries.
For an informal discussion, contact Dr Marie-Claude Boily
(Telephone: +44 (0)20 7594 3263, email: mc.boily@imperial.ac.uk)

 

The potential impact of HPV vaccine in the prevention of types 16/18/6/11 infections, cervical cancer and warts in Canada.
For an informal discussion, contact Dr Marie-Claude Boily(Telephone: +44 (0)20 7594 3263, email: mc.boily@imperial.ac.uk)

 

Modelling the impact of potential imperfect HIV vaccine among the homosexual community in Canada.
For an informal discussion, contact Dr Marie-Claude Boily(Telephone: +44 (0)20 7594 3263, email: mc.boily@imperial.ac.uk)

 

Monitoring and evaluation of the Avahan project in India: impact assessment and cost effectiveness analyses using enhanced surveillance methods and mathematical modelling of HIV transmission dynamics.
For an informal discussion, contact Dr Marie-Claude Boily
(Telephone: +44 (0)20 7594 3263, email: mc.boily@imperial.ac.uk)

 

Development of a mathematical Modelling platform for Efficacy Trials.
For an informal discussion, contact Dr Marie-Claude Boily(Telephone: +44 (0)20 7594 3263, email: mc.boily@imperial.ac.uk)

 

Control of ebola and gorilla conservation - statistical insights into transmission and the success of interventions.
For an informal discussion, contact Professor Christl Donnelly(Telephone: +44 (0)20 7594 3394, email: c.donnelly@imperial.ac.uk)

 

Statistical aspects of infectious disease epidemiology.
For an informal discussion, contact Professor Christl Donnelly
(Telephone: +44 (0)20 7594 3394, email: c.donnelly@imperial.ac.uk)

 

From influenza to HIV: The epidemiology, evolution and control of emerging viral pathogens.
For an informal discussion, contact Professor Neil Ferguson(Telephone: +44 (0)20 7594 3296, email: neil.ferguson@imperial.ac.uk)

 

Modelling the global evolution of HIV.
For an informal discussion, contact Professor Neil Ferguson(Telephone: +44 (0)20 7594 3296, email: neil.ferguson@imperial.ac.uk)

 

The landscape genetics of global HIV -associated opportunistic disease.
For an informal discussion, contact Dr Matthew Fisher
(Telephone: +44 (0)20 7594 3787, email: matthew.fisher@imperial.ac.uk)

 

Modelling the impact of climate change on Emerging Infectious Diseases.
For an informal discussion, contact Dr Matthew Fisher(Telephone: +44 (0)20 7594 3787, email: matthew.fisher@imperial.ac.uk)

 

Modelling pneumococcal evolution in response to serotype specific vaccines.
For an informal discussion, contact Dr Christophe Fraser(Telephone: +44 (0)20 7594 3397, email: c.fraser@imperial.ac.uk)

 

Bacterial genetics: a synthesis of epidemiology and population genetics.
For an informal discussion, contact Dr Christophe Fraser(Telephone: +44 (0)20 7594 3397, email: c.fraser@imperial.ac.uk)

 

The epidemiology and control of syphilis.
For an informal discussion, contact Professor Geoff Garnett
(Telephone: +44 (0)20 7594 3286, email: g.garnett@imperial.ac.uk)

 

The epidemiology of blood bourne infections in networks of injecting drug users.
For an informal discussion, contact Professor Geoff Garnett
(Telephone: +44 (0)20 7594 3286, email: g.garnett@imperial.ac.uk)

 

Screening and contact tracing in the control of bacterial STIs.
For an informal discussion, contact Professor Geoff Garnett
(Telephone: +44 (0)20 7594 3286, email: g.garnett@imperial.ac.uk)

 

Stochastic models of macroparasite infectious diseases and cancer.
For an informal discussion, contact Dr Mark Little, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health (Email: mark.little@imperial.ac.uk)

 

Epidemiological spatial and population genetic modelling of parasitic transmission and control.
For an informal discussion, contact Dr Edwin Michael
(Telephone: +44 (0)20 7594 3946, email: e.michael@imperial.ac.uk)

 

Exploration of syphilis epidemiology in the UK: endemic disease, outbreaks and social networks.
For an informal discussion, contact Dr Helen Ward
(Telephone: +44 (0)20 7594 3303, email: h.ward@imperial.ac.uk)

 

Replacement, reduction, refinement in the Schistosoma system.
Supervisor: Dr Joanne Webster
(Email: joanne.webster@imperial.ac.uk)

 

Population and evolutionary biology of bacterial pathogens.
For an informal discussion, contact Professor Brian Spratt
(Telephone: +44 (0)20 7594 3629, email: b.spratt@imperial.ac.uk)

 

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