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ISOBEL ROUTLEDGE
DIDE, Medical School Building, Norfolk Place, Imperial College St Mary’s Campus, London, W2 1PG
[email protected]
EDUCATION
2016 –
PhD Candidate, Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Imperial College London, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Thesis: The epidemiology of malaria approaching elimination in El Salvador
Supervisors: Dr. Samir Bhatt, Professor Azra Ghani
2015 – 2016
MRes Epidemiology, Evolution and Control of Infectious Disease (Distinction)
Imperial College London, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Project 1: Exploring the spatial heterogeneity of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic in England
Project 2: Modelling the effect of focal vector control on the population dynamics of Simulium
damnosum s.l. for onchocerciasis elimination
2011 – 2014
BA Biological Sciences (1st Class)
Wadham College, University of Oxford
Dissertation: Spatial co-evolution of spiteful toxins in Pseudomonas fluorescens
2009 – 2011
A Levels: Biology (A*), Maths (A), Chemistry (A), Spanish (A)
EMPLOYMENT
2014 – 2015
Graduate Development Programme, Wellcome Trust
Qualitative and quantitative analysis on research uptake in policy and practice
Science writing – policy briefings, press releases and blog pieces
Science funding – reviewing small grants, assessing gaps in social sciences/humanities
research related to public health
Event organisation – organised high-profile stakeholder meeting around use of research
in policy and practice, and two seasons of weekly speaker series and film screenings
RESEARCH INTERESTS
My research interests lie in vector-borne diseases and their interaction with environmental, demographic and
social factors. I am particularly interested in spatial epidemiology and global change. From a methodological
perpective, I am interested in integrating mapping and geostatistical methods with mechanistic mathematical
modelling. I also am interested in interdisciplinary approaches which integrate primary data collection in the field
and/or lab with mathematical modelling.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
PhD: Bayesian approaches to parameter estimation, fitting and model selection;
collaboration/negotiation with ministry of health officials (conducted entirely in Spanish);
MRes Projects: R programming, univariate and multivariate statistical analysis, retrospective outbreak analysis,
mathematical modelling of population dynamics, parameter estimation and fitting to data, analysis of large
datasets.
Undergraduate project (12 weeks): Spatial co-evolution of spiteful toxins in Pseudomonas fluorescens. Sterile
technique, environmental sampling and isolation of bacteria (from soil), PCR, gel electrophoresis, inhibition
assays, experimental design, generalized linear modelling.
Research/Curatorial Assistant (8 weeks): Taxonomy, electron microscopy and curation of museum collections of
bivalves and molluscs.
Nuffield Bursary Project (4 weeks): The effect of fluctuating temperatures on the life history of Culex pipiens and
Aedes aegypti. Mosquito collection, rearing and sexing; survival analysis; experimental design.
TEACHING
Oct - Dec 2016
Aug 2016
2014 - 2016
Jun - Aug 2013
Demonstrator, “Principles of Global Epidemiology”, MSc Epidemiology/MPH, Imperial College
London
Leader (devised and delivered), “Disease detectives: An introduction to Epidemiology”, Sutton
Trust Summer School, Imperial College London
Mentor/Tutor (A-Level Biology), The Access Project
Activities Co-ordinator, Oxford and Cambridge Summer School
SCIENCE COMMUNICATION
I am heavily involved in science communication and strongly feel that engaging with a wider audience is
beneficial to my work. I have participated and/or organised science communication/engagement activities at the
following events: Green Man Festival, Wychwood Music Fesitval, Imperial Festival, Science Museum Lates, New
Atlantis (an immersive theatre event about climate change), The Big Bang Fair, Science Saturdays (Oxford
University Museum of Natural History). I have written blog posts for the Wellcome Trust and Bang! Science
Magazine. Recently I was involved in the early stages of The Sound of Contagion, a project between Prof.
Elizabeth Pisani and the Grand Union Orchestra, which uses music to illustrate characteristics of disease and
disparities in attention and funding given to them.
SKILLS
Mathematical modelling; R programming; statistical methods; basic molecular and microbiological techniques
(PCR; sterile technique; bacterial cultures; inhibition assays); basic genetic techniques (sequence alignment;
BLAST search; simple tree building), basic ecological sampling techniques (transects; sampling methods for wide
variety of taxa) ; mosquito sampling and rearing; Spanish (level B2)
FUNDING and ACADEMIC AWARDS
2015 – 2019
2013, 2014
2013
2013
2011
2010
Wellcome Trust Four Year PhD studentship
Wadham College academic scholarship
Wadham College travel grant
Royal Entomological Society Student writing prize
RCUK best use of research, National Science and Engineering Competition
Nuffield bursary
CONFERENCES and COURSES ATTENDED
2016
2016
2016
2015
2013
ASTMH Annual Meeting (attended)
Graduate School: Introduction to teaching and demonstrating
Simulidae symposium, Zaragoza (oral presentation)
Global Health and climate Climate Change, Barcelona (attended)
Field course: tropical rainforest ecology
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
British Ecological Society (2015-present); Society for Biology (2013-2014)
POSITIONS OF REPONSIBILITY
Course Representative, MRes Biomedical Sciences; President, Oxford and Cambridge Judo Club; Organising
Committee, Oxford University Biological Society
REFEREES
Dr Samir Bhatt
PhD Supervisor
Department Infectious Disease
Epidemiology
Norfolk Place, London, W1 2PG
[email protected]
Dr Anne Cori
MRes Project Supervisor
Department Infectious Disease
Epidemiology
Norfolk Place, London, W1 2PG
[email protected]
Prof. Azra Ghani
PhD Supervisor
Department Infectious Disease
Epidemiology
Norfolk Place, London, W1 2PG
[email protected]
Dr David Carr
Line Manager, Wellcome Trust
Gibbs Building, Euston Road, London,
NW1 2BE
[email protected]