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 coordinator of the German Field Epidemiology Training Program and MSc in Applied Epidemiology at the Robert Koch-Institute. Charlotte specialises 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 in order to increase Global Health Security and mitigate and reduce future pandemic risk.
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.