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Christl A. Donnelly

Christl A. Donnelly

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73252
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2016 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Christl A. Donnelly is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their academic work primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with significant contributions in Infectious Diseases, Modeling and Simulation, Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Clinical Psychology.

The scientist has been involved extensively in COVID-19 related research, covering areas such as COVID-19 epidemiological studies, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, COVID-19 clinical research studies, SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing, viral infections and outbreaks research, data-driven disease surveillance, and COVID-19 and mental health.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Christl A. Donnelly include:

  • Estimates of the severity of coronavirus disease 2019: a model-based analysis, 2020, The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • Report 9: Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID19 mortality and healthcare demand, 2020, Spiral (Imperial College London)
  • Estimating the effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in Europe, 2020, Nature
  • The impact of COVID-19 and strategies for mitigation and suppression in low- and middle-income countries, 2020, Science
  • Suppression of a SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in the Italian municipality of Vo', 2020, Nature

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers in the field. Frequent co-authors include Steven Riley, Paul Elliott, Helen Ward, Graham Cooke, and Caroline E. Walters.

Christl A. Donnelly regularly publishes in several venues, most notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Spiral (Imperial College London)
  • Nature Communications
  • Wellcome Open Research
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Awards granted to Christl A. Donnelly include election as Fellow of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Gregory A Roth;Gregory A Roth;Degu Abate;Kalkidan Hassen Abate;Solomon M Abay

  • Estimates of the severity of coronavirus disease 2019: a model-based analysis.

    Robert Verity;Lucy C Okell;Ilaria Dorigatti;Peter Winskill

  • Report 9: Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID19 mortality and healthcare demand

    N Ferguson;D Laydon;G Nedjati Gilani;N Imai

  • Estimating the effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in Europe.

    Seth Flaxman;Swapnil Mishra;Axel Gandy;H. Juliette T. Unwin

  • Pandemic Potential of a Strain of Influenza A (H1N1) : Early Findings

    Christophe Fraser;Christl A. Donnelly;Simon Cauchemez;William P. Hanage

  • Transmission dynamics of the etiological agent of SARS in Hong Kong: impact of public health interventions.

    Steven Riley;Christophe Fraser;Christl A. Donnelly;Azra C. Ghani

  • Epidemiological determinants of spread of causal agent of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong

    Christl A Donnelly;Azra C Ghani;Gabriel M Leung;Anthony J Hedley

  • Suppression of a SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in the Italian municipality of Vo'.

    Enrico Lavezzo;Elisa Franchin;Constanze Ciavarella;Gina Cuomo-Dannenburg

  • Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Daniel Dicker;Grant Nguyen;Degu Abate;Kalkidan Hassen Abate

  • The impact of COVID-19 and strategies for mitigation and suppression in low- and middle-income countries.

    Patrick G. T. Walker;Charles Whittaker;Oliver J. Watson;Oliver J. Watson;Marc Baguelin;Marc Baguelin

  • Zoonotic host diversity increases in human-dominated ecosystems

    Rory Gibb;David W Redding;Kai Qing Chin;Christl A Donnelly;Christl A Donnelly

  • The Foot-and-Mouth Epidemic in Great Britain: Pattern of Spread and Impact of Interventions

    Neil M. Ferguson;Christl A. Donnelly;Roy M. Anderson

  • Risk Factors for Severe Outcomes following 2009 Influenza A (H1N1) Infection: A Global Pooled Analysis

    Maria D. Van Kerkhove;Katelijn A. H. Vandemaele;Vivek Shinde;Giovanna Jaramillo-Gutierrez

  • Transmission dynamics and epidemiology of BSE in British cattle.

    R. M. Anderson;C. A. Donnelly;N. M. Ferguson;M. E. J. Woolhouse

  • Potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria in low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study.

    Alexandra B Hogan;Britta L Jewell;Ellie Sherrard-Smith;Juan F Vesga

  • Insect population control using a dominant, repressible, lethal genetic system.

    Dean D. Thomas;Christl A. Donnelly;Roger J. Wood;Luke S. Alphey

  • Report 13: Estimating the number of infections and the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in 11 European countries

    S Flaxman;S Mishra;A Gandy;H Unwin

  • Suppression of a Field Population of Aedes aegypti in Brazil by Sustained Release of Transgenic Male Mosquitoes.

    Danilo O. Carvalho;Andrew R. McKemey;Luiza Garziera;Renaud Lacroix

  • Immunity to non-cerebral severe malaria is acquired after one or two infections.

    Sunetra Gupta;Robert W. Snow;Robert W. Snow;Christl A. Donnelly;Kevin Marsh;Kevin Marsh

  • Estimates of the severity of COVID-19 disease

    Verity R;Okell Lc;Dorigatti I;Winskill P

Frequent Co-Authors

Neil M. Ferguson
Neil M. Ferguson Imperial College London
Azra C. Ghani
Azra C. Ghani Imperial College London
Graham S Cooke
Graham S Cooke Imperial College London
Ara Darzi
Ara Darzi Imperial College London
Roy M. Anderson
Roy M. Anderson Imperial College London
Christophe Fraser
Christophe Fraser University of Oxford
Samir Bhatt
Samir Bhatt Imperial College London
Anne Cori
Anne Cori Imperial College London
Wendy S. Barclay
Wendy S. Barclay Imperial College London

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