HPH NOW, July 8, 2005, Department of Biostatistics Announces Winner of Distinguished Alumni Award


	Christl Donnelly

Christl Donnelly, DSc '92, professor of statistical epidemiology in the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Imperial College London, received the Department of Biostatistics' Distinguished Alumni Award this year. As part of the ceremony, she delivered a lecture on "The Science/Public Policy Interface: Fertile Ground for Biostatisticians" on June 1 in Snyder Auditorium.

Donnelly has taken a leading role in working on the epidemiology of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease. Her analyses of the BSE screening programs and of data on clustering of the bovine and human disease variant of this disease have directly advised policymakers in governmental and research agencies. Donnelly also played a key role in the analysis of the foot and mouth disease epidemic in Great Britain in 2001.

--DF

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