Speakers

Dr Imai-Eaton is a Research Lead in the Infectious Disease Strategic Programme at Wellcome Trust where she is responsible for developing the epidemic preparedness and response, surveillance, and pathogen genomic sequencing portfolio of research investments.

She has a background in infectious disease epidemiology and modelling. Prior to joining Wellcome, she spent 10 years at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Modelling at Imperial College London, United Kingdom. She was responsible for coordinating the Centre’s outbreak response, providing real-time outbreak analysis of Ebola Virus Disease outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

In her role at the Wellcome Trust, Dr Imai-Eaton served as an observer in the Technical Working Group (TWG) of the Research Prioritization for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence.