Researchers across Imperial are developing innovative systems for global surveillance and outbreak analysis.

Researchers in this field include:  

  • Professor Paul Aylin: Applied data linkage, syndromic surveillance and modelling
  • Professor Darius Armstrong-James: Fungal population genomics
  • Dr Gabriel Birgand: National surveillance system (France) for AMR, IPC and AMS in the community and nursing homes
  • Dr Sara Boyd: Resistance surveillance
  • Dr Nick Croucher: Mathematical modelling of AMR, including the impact of vaccination 
  • Dr Frances Davies:  Developing and using new methods to track the spread of resistance
  • Professor Francis Drobniewski: Understanding outbreaks and global spread of TB and mycobacterial diseases
  • Professor Mat Fisher: Emerging pathogenic fungi
  • Dr Jonathan Otter: Healthcare-associated infection surveillance
  • Dr Elita Jauneikaite: Genomic investigations of outbreaks and global spread of bacterial pathogens
  • Dr Johanna Rhodes: Fungal global surveillance network using genomics; real-time analysis of outbreaks
  • Dr Anand Shah: Global spread of antifungal resistance and global AMR epidemiology and surveillance in chronic lung disease
  • Dr Calvin Tiengwe: SMART Livestock project: molecular diagnostics and geospatial mapping to track the spread of drug-resistant Trypanosoma species in livestock; modelling of resistance dynamics and prediction of future spread via real-time resistance hotspot maps and tsetse vector spatial distribution data
  • Dr Yu Wan: Genomic surveillance, outbreak investigation, and evolution analysis of bacterial pathogens