George Shirreff is a post-doctoral researcher in infectious disease epidemiology and modelling at Institut Pasteur and Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations (CESP) at INSERM. He works closely with Dr Lulla Opatowski (Institut Pasteur, UVSQ, INSERM) and Dr Laura Temime (CNAM).
His focus is on the epidemiology of viral transmission and how this is influenced by the host population and interactions between viruses. He uses a range of statistical inference tools to fit models to complex datasets.
His current main focus is on the seasonality and patterns of interaction between major respiratory viruses at the host and population level. He also studies patterns of inter-personal contact within hospital environments and how this contributes to the risk of hospital-acquired infections.