Professional Activities
Some activities outside the UK include being the past president of the International Society of Infectious Disease (ISID), being an expert member of Singapore's National Centre for Infectious Diseases since 2021 and a member of the Independent Scientific Advisory Board member of the Wellcome Trust Vietnam Major Overseas Programme since 2016. In Europe, activities include serving as a past member of the ERC Advanced grants evaluation panel and being a current expert member on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres since 2020.
Within the UK she is a Director of an NIHR Health Protection Research Unit, the prior Chair of the Fleming Fund’s Technical Advisory Group (Department of Health and Social Care), a former Board Member of the Wellcome Trust’s Surveillance & Epidemiology of Drug-resistant Infections Consortium (SEDRIC) and a former member of the Government Advisory Committee on AMR, Prescribing and HCAIs (APRHAI).
Other selected National Roles and Committee Memberships include: National expert witness House of Commons Science and Technology. Select Committee inquiry: AMR Inquiry, July 2022; Chair of the BIA's ACCIA (Advisory Committee on Clinical Impact Awards) committee, March 2022; NICE Expert Advisory Group 2017 - 2018, De-linking Reimbursement of Antimicrobials from Volumes Sold: Implications for NICE Appraisal (Framework for value assessment of new antimicrobials - Implications of alternative funding arrangements for NICE Appraisal, published Sept 2018).