Jennifer Lord
Principal Investigator
Jennie combines data produced by field- and laboratory-based research with statistical and dynamical modelling to address:
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How ecological and environmental context influences vector population and pathogen transmission dynamics
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Implications of vector and pathogen evolution for transmission ecology
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Consequences of anthropogenic change for pathogen transmission and control
Her aim is to contribute to new and improved methods for vector-borne disease surveillance and control, with a focus on mosquito-borne viruses and the trypanosomiases.
Jennie is a quantitative disease ecologist. She completed her PhD in wildlife parasitology at the University of Salford (2005 – 2010). After four years in industry at United Research Services as an ecological consultant (2008 – 2012) she secured a postdoctoral position at the Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida (2012 – 2015). Here she focussed on the transmission ecology of Japanese encephalitis virus in Bangladesh before moving to LSTM to work with Prof. Steve Torr on tsetse and trypanosomiasis (2015 – 2020). Jennie secured the Janet Hemingway Fellowship at LSTM in 2020 which enabled her to set up her own research group.