Michelle Kendall is a Senior Researcher in Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Impact Lead for the Oxford Martin School’s Digital Pandemic Preparedness programme. She is based in Professor Christophe Fraser’s group within the Pandemic Sciences Institute.

Michelle specialises in addressing public health concerns from infectious diseases by developing data pipelines, reproducible open-source analysis, and user-friendly, accessible outputs. She advocates for equitable and effective public health solutions across two project themes: (1) optimising vaccine trials for CEPI priority pathogens, and (2) digital public health and pandemic preparedness.

From early 2020, Michelle was involved in the motivation, design, maintenance and evaluation of the NHS COVID-19 app. Since its decommission in April 2023, she continued to be involved in extracting epidemiological insights from the anonymised NHS COVID-19 app data and advocating for the use of digital contact tracing for mitigation and monitoring of future epidemics.