Institution

University of Cambridge

Based in

United Kingdom , Cambridge

Languages

Danish English French German Swedish

Short Bio

Dr Charlotte Hammer is an applied infectious disease epidemiologist and public health emergency specialist. She is a Fellow at Downing College, University of Cambridge based across the Disease Dynamics Unit and the International Health Systems Group and Research Affiliate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. Charlotte specializes in health protection and outbreak science at human-animal-environment interfaces in complex and fragile settings. Her current primary research interests center around the role that systemic external stressors ranging from ecological destruction to humanitarian emergencies have on disease emergence and outbreak size. 
Charlotte completed a PhD in the Health Protection Research Unit for Emergency Preparedness and Response in the UK and field epidemiology training with the European Centre for Disease Control in Finland. Having worked across academia, national and international public health agencies, policy, and the UN system, she has been involved in public health emergency response, epidemic intelligence, and research in Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Other Expertise

One Health EIDs Zoonoses Emerging Diseases Epidemiology Surveillance Health Security Pandemic Prevention Preparedness and Response Spillover Biosecurity Field Epidemiology Training Planetary Health