Citation | Prof Donnelly’s research focusses on the development and application of analytical tools to gain insight into the fundamental properties driving the spread of infectious diseases through populations. She is distinguished for her contributions to statistics in the field of infectious disease epidemiology. Her research has had great impact on policy formulation by international agencies and governments in the fields of Ebola, MERS, SARS Bovine TB, FMD, and BSE/vCJD. She has developed new statistical methods to estimate key epidemiological parameters, such as incubation and infectious periods, case fatality rates, generation times and epidemic sizes. |