Infectious Disease Epidemiology

About

Ibrahim Abubakar is a Professor in Infectious Disease Epidemiology. He is director of the University College London (UCL) Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and of the UCL Tuberculosis Centre. He is also head of tuberculosis at Public Health England London UK. Prior to his appointment at UCL he was Professor in Health Protection at the Norwich Medical School University of East Anglia. Helen Stagg is a Senior Research Fellow at University College London where she holds a National Institute for Health Research Postdoctoral Fellowship. Following her laboratory-based PhD in Virology and Immunology from the University of Cambridge Dr. Stagg shifted disciplines into epidemiology. She has broad interests in communicable diseases across vulnerable and neglected population groups as well as the interface between the basic sciences and public health. Ted Cohen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases and in the Institute for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University. He uses mathematical modelling and field studies to address questions about the emergence and control of antibiotic resistant pathogens with a primary research focus on multidrug resistant M. tuberculosis. Laura C Rodrigues is a Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology. Her academic responsibilities include initiating and executing research on the epidemiology of infectious diseases both in England and internationally and development of teaching in epidemiological methods with emphasis on infectious diseases. Laura was born and trained in Brazil and has been in the LSHTM since 1981. Laura sits in the Scientific Advisory Board of the Novartis Institutes for Vaccines and Global Health in Sienna. She leads the LSHTM initiative for collaborations with Latin America co leads the Latina America Network (with Pablo Perel) is the LSHTM academic contact for Science without Borders and is a Science without Borders Professor Visitante Especial in Universidade Federal da Bahia a member of the Medicine Galleries Advisory Board of the Science Museum London and a fellow of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.