Dr Billy Quilty
postdoctoral researcher
Dr Billy Quilty is a postdoctoral researcher specialising in infectious disease epidemiology and mathematical modelling at Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin. He holds a PhD from LSHTM (2023) and MSc in Epidemiology from Imperial College London (2018), and retains an honorary position at LSHTM.
His research includes evaluating pneumococcal vaccine schedules, COVID-19 modelling as part of UK SAGE's SPI-M subgroup, and supporting WHO's 2018 Ebola response. During the COVID-19 pandemic, his work on travel quarantine duration and daily contact testing were cited in UK and US policy decisions, with his research and opinion writing featured in newspapers such as The Guardian.
Currently, he explores artificial intelligence applications in outbreak response and pandemic preparedness, collaborating with WHO Pandemic Hub Berlin, LSHTM, and MSF Epicentre. His research has been funded by WHO, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the National Institute for Health Research.