It is part of the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at School of Public Health within the Imperial College Faculty of Medicine.
[9] In 2016, Neil Ferguson was serving as director of the MRC Center for Outbreak Analysis and Modeling.
Published in Science, Ferguson's research suggested the outbreak in South America was undergoing a sharp decline, and would "burn itself out" within a year or 18 months.
[11] In 2016, Ferguson published a study in September 2016 raising concerns that wrong implementation of the newly licensed dengue virus vaccine Dengvaxia could increase the number of cases of the disease.
Without any mitigation their forecast showed local health care capabilities vastly overwhelmed by the epidemic wave.