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Nicholas Grassly is a Professor in the Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London. He heads the Vaccine Epidemiology Research Group and co-leads the vaccines theme for the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, focusing on vaccine trials and disease surveillance in low- and middle-income countries.
He studied biology at Oxford University and trained in epidemiology at Imperial College London.
His research integrates epidemiological analysis and laboratory testing to optimize disease prevention for pathogens including polio, rotavirus, and typhoid. Key areas include rapid diagnostics for poliovirus surveillance, environmental wastewater monitoring, vaccine clinical trial design, causes of oral vaccine failure, and typhoid epidemiology, spanning disciplines from public health to evolutionary biology.
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He teaches MSc (Epidemiology), MPH, and undergraduate biomedical courses at Imperial College London, with research funded by the MRC, Wellcome Trust, Royal Society, WHO, and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
He leads the Vaccine Epidemiology Research Group and maintains affiliations with the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Vaccine Research Network, Climate and health initiative, and Institute of Infection.
