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the data are not always sufficient to provide early answers to key scientific and policy questions. Harvard School of Public Health (MSc 1990 and DSc 1992). She then lectured statistics at the Professor Christl Donnelly studied mathematics at (USA), before studying studying before (USA), College Oberlin at mathematics studied Donnelly Christl Professor at This talk will examine how epidemiologists can help public policy makers control disease maker scientist-policy without the of component key a is communication Risk society. to disruption much too interaction Mathematics, as expectations. well of as management an the important in interactive arises process challenge which ideally different actively A involves outset. stakeholder the from groups allows uncertainties and risks quantifying However, us. for decisions make cannot science, indeed or decisions to be made from the most informed perspective possible at a given stakeholders point as in well time. as Thus, makers policy engage and inform to epidemiologists for scope much is there and the public more generally. The analysis of a newly identified disease, or a new strain of a familiar one, is particularly challenging particularly is one, familiar a of strain new a or disease, identified newly a of analysis The as , before in 1995 joining the Wellcome Trust Centre Infectious for Disease Epidemiology at of the . She moved in 2000 with a minded diverse colleagues group (mathematical of modellers, like- statisticians, field workers and laboratory scientists) the Within London. College Imperial at Epidemiology Disease Infectious of Department the form to deputy the was and Modelling and Analysis Outbreak for Centre MRC the in PI a is she department, Group on Cattle TB (1998 to 2007). chair of the Independent Scientific

Health Research Symposium 2010 Health Research K1. Keynote Lecture Lecture Keynote K1.

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