Azra Ghani MSc, PhD

Professor Azra Ghani is an infectious disease epidemiologist in the MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis & Modelling at Imperial College London where she heads the malaria modelling research group. Her group’s research takes a biological approach to construct models to better understand the transmission dynamics of malaria both within the human and vector hosts and between hosts. From a public health perspective, the models are used to inform policies on how, where and when to implement different interventions against malaria to aid local elimination, and eventual eradication, of the parasite. Much of this work is collaborative with a wide range of public health agencies.

Professor Ghani obtained an MA in mathematics from the University of Cambridge, a Masters in Operational Research from the University of Southampton and a PhD from Imperial College London. She has previously held Wellcome Trust and Royal Society fellowships at the University of Oxford and Imperial College respectively and from 2004-2007 was a Reader in infectious disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.