Edited by Ibrahim Abubakar, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Director, Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, University College London (UCL), UK, Helen R. Stagg, Senior Research Associate, Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, University College London (UCL), UK, Ted Cohen, Associate Professor in Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases and Institute for Social and Policy Studies, Yale School of Public Health, USA, and Laura C. Rodrigues, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), UK
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.
Ibrahim Abubakar, Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, University College London, UK; and MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, London, UK
Robert Aldridge, Academic Clinical Lecturer, Institute of Health Informatics, The Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research, University College London, UK
Sani Aliyu, Cambridge University Hospital NHS Trust, UK
Koye Balogun, Department of Immunisation, Hepatitis and Blood Safety, Public Health England, Colindale, London, UK
Mauricio Barreto, Instituto de Saude Coletiva, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil; and Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil
Alexandre Blake, InVS and Institute Pasteur, Paris, France
Andrew Boulle, Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research, University of Capetown, South Africa
Mike Catchpole, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm
Theodore Cohen, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA
Mary Cooke, Department of Infection and Population Health, Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, University College London, UK
Barry Cookson, Centre for Clinical Microbiology, University College London, UK
Phil Cooper , St George's University of London, UK
Ken Eames, Centre for the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Nigel Field, Research Department of Infection and Population Health, University College London, UK
Lakshmi Ganapathi, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA
Walter Hass, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany
Paul Hunter, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Charlotte Jackson, Research Department of Infection and Population Health, Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, University College London, UK
Mark Jit, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Anne Johnson, Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care, University College London, UK
Leigh Johnson, Department of Public Health & Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Marc Lipman, Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, University College London, UK
Duncan MacCannell, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Sema Mandal, Department of Immunisation, Hepatitis and Blood Safety, Public Health England, Colindale, London, UK
Punam Mangtani, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Noel McCarthy, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford and Public Health England, London, UK
Emma Meader, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust, Norwich, UK
Andrew Nunn, MRC Clinical Trials Unit at University College London, UK
Patrick Phillips, MRC Clinical Trials Unit at University College London, UK
Molebogeng Rangaka, Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, University College London, UK
Laura C. Rodrigues, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Katie Russell, Centre for Infectious Diseases Surveillance and Control, Public Health England, Colindale London, UK
William A. Rutala, Division of Infectious Diseases, UNC School of Medicine and Department of Hospital Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Health Care, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Tanvi Sharma, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Boston Childrens Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Emily E. Sickbert-Bennett, Division of Infectious Diseases, UNC School of Medicine and Department of Hospital Epidemiology, University of North Carolina Health Care, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Adrian Smith, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, UK
Peter Smith, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Pam Sonnenberg, Centre for Sexual Health Research, Department of Infection and Population Health, University College London, UK
Saranya Sridhar, Jenner Institute, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Helen R. Stagg, Senior Research Associate, Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, University College London, UK
Clarence Tam, Saw Swee Hok School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Frank Tanser, Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, Mtubatuba, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa
Gloria Taxiera, Instituto de Saude Coletiva, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
John Watson, Department of Health, London, UK
David Weber, School of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Laura White, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, USA; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA
Peter White, MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Imperial College, London, UK; and Public Health England, London, UK
Tom Yates, Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, University College London, UK; and Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, Mtubatuba, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa
