Skip Navigation | ANU Home | Search ANU | Directories

Dr Katie Glass BSc (UWA), PhD (Cantab) Current Position: NHMRC Research Fellow (Graduate Studies Convenor) Contact Details: (Building 62, ANU map) National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health The Australian National University Canberra, ACT, 0200 Australia T: +61 2 6125 2468 F: +61 2 6125 0740 E: Kathryn.Glass@anu.edu.au

Research Interests

• Mathematical modelling of infectious disease transmission

• Effects of vaccination on disease outbreaks

• Ecological models of vector-borne disease transmission

• Modelling intervention strategies for emerging infectious diseases

• Methods for estimating parameters from early outbreak data

• Assessing control measures as part of influenza pandemic preparedness
  

Selected Recent Publications

Glass K, Becker N, Clements M. Predicting case numbers during infectious disease outbreaks when some cases are undiagnosed, Statist. Med, 2007; 26, (1): 171-183.

Glass K, Becker N. Evaluation of methods to reduce international spread of SARS, Epidemiol. Infect. 2006; 134: 1092-1101.

Wang J, McMichael A,Meng B, Becker N, Han W, Glass K, Wu J, Liu X, Liu J, Li X, Zheng X. Spatial dynamics of an epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome in an urban area. Bull. WHO. 2006; 84: 965-968.

Becker NG, Glass K. The impact of imported infection. In: Sleigh AC, Leng CH, Yeoh BSA, Hong PK and Safman R (eds). Population Dynamics and Infectious Disease in Asia, World Scientific. 2006: 73-96.

Becker NG, Glass K. Controlling emerging infectious diseases like SARS, Math. Biosci. 2005; 193, (2): 205-221.

Glass K. Ecological mechanisms that promote arbovirus survival: a mathematical model of Ross River virus transmission, Trans. R. Soc. Trop. Med. Hyg, 2005; 99, (4): 252-260.

Glass K, Grenfell BT. Waning immunity and subclinical measles infections in England. Vaccine 2004; 22: 4110-4116.

Park AW, Wood JLN, Daly JM, Newton JR, Glass K, Henley W, Mumford JA and Grenfell BT. The effects of strain heterology on the epidemiology of equine influenza in a vaccinated population. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London B 2004; 271: 1547-1555.

Glass K, Kappey J, Grenfell BT. The effect of heterogeneity in measles vaccination on population immunity. Epidemiology and Infection 2004; 132:675-683

Glass K, Grenfell BT. Antibody dynamics in childhood diseases: waning and boosting of immunity and the impact of vaccination. Journal of Theoretical Biology 2003; 221:121-131.