Dr. Lydia Drumright
Co-Chairs
Immunology
University of Cambridge
United States of America
Biography
Our research takes a multidisciplinary approach to addressing health problems, with emphasis on utilising modern technologies to advance our understanding of and address health concerns. This involves incorporating health informatics, bench science, mathematics, statistics, and social sciences into classical and molecular epidemiology to develop a better understanding disease transmission dynamics from network-, transmission event-, individual- and environmental-level analyses and utilising these findings to develop more innovative and effective health solutions. Work within my group tends to be directly translational to support policy and public health intervention that will result in reduction of infectious disease burden within communities and specialised settings, such as healthcare facilities. As such, our work is conducted together with Public Health England and the Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust and other NHS trusts. We have applied these methods to the study of HIV, sexually transmitted infections, hepatitis C, tuberculosis, hepatitis A, influenza, norovirus and other healthcare associated infections (HCAIs).
Research Interest
Epidemiology and mathematical modelling
