Research themes

The Centre conducts research in a broad range of subject areas and with a large number of collaborators, both within Imperial and externally. The scope of this work can broadly be categorised into four research themes:

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Preparedness and Response to Emerging Threats

Our research focuses on developing and applying methods to support timely risk assessment, including short-term forecasting to support demand management and medium-term scenario modelling to support policy making.

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Global health analytics

Research and policy guidance on the control of infectious diseases that contribute most to ill-health and premature death worldwide

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Vaccines and Therapeutics

The Centre retains a strong focus on vaccines and therapeutics across multiple disease areas, which span the whole development pipeline from discovery science, clinical trials, through to impact monitoring and programme optimisation.

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Pathogen Genomic Epidemiology

Phylodynamic and evolutionary modelling are a core focus of the Centre, where we focus on developing and optimising methods to enable the inference of epidemiological parameters from genomic data.

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