The Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiologyhttp://www1.imperial.ac.uk/publichealth/departments/ide/ is based at Imperial College London

Imperial College London

Imperial College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, specialising in science, engineering, business and medicine...

 and carries out research including the modelling of infectious disease

Infectious disease

Infectious diseases, also known as communicable diseases, contagious diseases or transmissible diseases comprise clinically evident illness resulting from the infection, presence and growth of pathogenic biological agents in an individual host organism...

s and molecular epidemiology

Molecular epidemiology

Molecular epidemiology is a branch of medical science that focuses on the contribution of potential genetic and environmental risk factors, identified at the molecular level, to the etiology, distribution and prevention of disease within families and across populations. This field has emerged from...

 of pathogen

Pathogen

A pathogen gignomai "I give birth to") or infectious agent — colloquially, a germ — is a microbe or microorganism such as a virus, bacterium, prion, or fungus that causes disease in its animal or plant host...

s. It is headed by Professor Sir Roy Anderson

Roy Anderson (zoologist)

Sir Roy Malcolm Anderson FRS is a leading British expert on epidemiology. He has mathematically modelled the spread of diseases such as new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and AIDS...

 and Professor Brian Geoffrey Spratt. It houses the MRC

Medical Research Council (UK)

The Medical Research Council is a publicly-funded agency responsible for co-ordinating and funding medical research in the United Kingdom. It is one of seven Research Councils in the UK and is answerable to, although politically independent from, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills...

's outbreak centre headed by Professor Neil Ferguson, the Partnership for Child Development

Partnership for Child Development

The Partnership for Child Development is an organisation based at Imperial College London that seeks to improve health and nutrition in school-age children and youth in low-income countries, and thereby improve their education...

 headed by Dr Lesley Drake, and the Schistosomiasis

Schistosomiasis

Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease caused by several species of trematodes , a parasitic worm of the genus Schistosoma. Snails often act as an intermediary agent for the infectious diseases until a new human host is found...

Control Initiative headed by Professor Alan Fenwick.