Professor Valerie Isham will give an invited lecture at the Conference on Statistical Methods for Infectious Diseases to be held at the Open University, UK on 23-24 May 2012. The conference will focus on the statistical problems confronting epidemiologists, and the novel statistical methods that might be brought to bear on them. It is aimed at a broad spectrum of epidemiologists, statisticians and modellers working on the various aspects of infectious disease epidemiology.