The role of modelling in Public Health England
Professor Miller joined the Public Health Laboratory Service (now the Public Health England) as a medical epidemiologist in 1978 working in its Epidemiological Research Laboratory (ERL) at Colindale, London. The ERL had a long history of vaccine-related research and Professor Miller was recruited to work on the large post-licensure safety and efficacy studies of pertussis vaccines that were being conducted following the collapse of the UK whooping cough immunisation programme in the mid 1970s. This experience prompted her continuing interest in the risks and benefits of vaccination programmes and organising trials of new vaccines. She has been involved with trials of acellular pertussis, MMR, Hib and more recently the new meningococcal C and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines. Her other interests include seroepidemiology and mathematical modelling, vaccine safety studies and viral infections in pregnancy. Prof. Miller served as Head of the Immunisation Department at the Health Protection Agency in the UK for 15 years.
This is the final seminar in the special seminar series in infectious disease modelling, organised alongside the shortcourse “An Introduction to Infectious Disease Modelling and its Applications”. It will describe how mathematical modelling has been used to guide national policy on vaccination by Public Health England.
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