Infectious Disease Epidemiology
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The Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology is located on the St. Mary's campus of Imperial College London and promotes interdisciplinary research in the epidemiology, population biology, evolution and control of infectious diseases.
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 Department also hosts the MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling (Director Professor Neil M. Ferguson OBE FMedSci), the Partnership for Child Development (Director Dr Lesley Drake) and the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (Director Professor Alan Fenwick OBE).
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Simulation of the first 240 days of an influenza pandemic starting in rural Thailand |
