Founded at | Imperial College London, Faculty of Medicine |
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Headquarters | London, England |
Website | www |
The MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis is a Medical Research Council funded research centre at Imperial College London and a WHO collaborating centre. It is part of the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at School of Public Health within the Imperial College Faculty of Medicine.[1][2] Neil Ferguson is the director of the centre, along with four associate directors: Christl Donnelly, Azra Ghani, Nicholas Grassly, and Timothy Hallett.[3][4] The centre also collaborates UK Health Protection Agency, and the US Centre for Disease Control.[5] The centre's main research areas are disease outbreak analysis and modelling, vaccines, global health analytics, antimicrobial resistance, and developing methods and tools for studying these areas.[6] The centre was previously called the MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling.[7]