George Shirreff
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CV

Work experience

2025-present Post-doctoral researcher at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Epidemiology and modelling of viral respiratory infections at the Hospices Civils de Lyon
2020-2025 Post-doctoral researcher at Institut Paster/Université de Versailles Saint Quentin
Epidemiology and modelling of respiratory viruses and hospital contact behaviours
2019-2020 Consultant epidemiologist at Ausvet Europe/Swiss Tropical Public Health Institute
Mathematical modelling of national malaria incidence and intervention scenarios in Benin and Cameroon
2017-2019 Senior technical adviser at Clinton Health Access Initiative
Scientific support and capacity building for malaria elimination in Southern Africa
2016-2017 Senior analyst at AIMIA Inc
Analysis of consumer behaviour using propensity-matching models
2016 Flying epidemiologist at Médecins Sans Frontières
Epidemiological support and planning for Bukavu mission, Democratic Republic of the Congo
2014-2016 Research associate at Imperial College London
Vaccine epidemiology relating to poliovirus elimination efforts in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria
2012-2014 Post-doctoral researcher at ETH Zürich
Modelling and phylogenomics of HIV drug resistance

Education

2008-2012 PhD in HIV epidemiology and genomic modelling at Imperial College London
2007-2008 MSc in Modern Epidemiology at Imperial College London
2003-2006 BA in Biological Sciences at University of Oxford

Teaching

2022, 2023, 2025, 2026 Université de Limoges Master 2 Santé Publique parcours OneHealth - 20h
2025, 2026 Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 Master Leading international vaccinology education (LIVE) - 3h
2022 Université de Grenoble Master 2 infectious disease modelling summer school - 5h
2019 National Malaria Control Program, Namibia Data analysis in R and Excel - 18h

Skills

Mathematical modelling
Data analysis
Statistical inference
Mapping and geospatial analysis
Machine learning
Teaching, developing course material
Programming (R, C++)
REDCap survey development
Web scraping
Linux, bash and SLURM
SQL
English: native
French: C1

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