Population biology principles and emerging novel pathogen threats
I am a population biologist, Professor of Mathematical Biology in the Department of Biology and Fellow at St Peters College. Before Oxford, I held a Royal Society Research Fellowship and completed postdoctoral, PhD and undergraduate training at Imperial College.

In this talk I will introduce ideas from population biology and use them to help us understand emerging and novel pathogen spread. I will review our recent work on defining pandemics, detecting novel pathogens and approaches to controlling these novel threats. I will highlight our covid fieldwork and the advantages/limitations of detection methods for rare pathogens.
Date: 5 February 2024, 13:00 (Monday, 4th week, Hilary 2024)
Venue: Big Data Institute, Old Road Campus OX3 7LF
Venue Details: BDI seminar rooms
Speaker: Prof Michael Bonsall (University of Oxford)
Organising department: Nuffield Department of Population Health
Organiser: Professor Angela Brueggemann (Oxford Population Health)
Part of: Infectious Disease Seminar Series
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Isobel Young