mrc centre for global infectious disease analysis mrc centre for global infectious disease analysis the mrc centre for global infectious disease analysis is a medical research council funded research centre at imperial college london and a who collaborating centre. it is part of the department of infectious disease epidemiology at school of public health within the imperial college faculty of medicine. neil ferguson is the director of the centre, along with four associate directors: christl donnelly, azra ghani, nicholas grassly, and timothy hallett. the centre also collaborates uk health protection agency, and the us centre for disease control. the centre's main research areas are disease outbreak analysis and modelling, vaccines, global health analytics, antimicrobial resistance, and developing methods and tools for studying these areas. the centre was previously called the mrc centre for outbreak analysis and modelling. mrc centre for global infectious disease analysisfounded atimperial college london, faculty of medicineheadquarterslondon, englandwebsitewww.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-infectious-disease-analysis/ covid-19 pandemic response