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Calum Semple

Professor Calum Semple
OBE PhD FRCPCH FRCPE FFPH FHEA

Professor of Child Health and Outbreak Medicine, Consultant Respiratory Paediatrician at Alder Hey Children's Hospital
Clinical Infection, Microbiology & Immunology
Part of
Institute of Infection, Veterinary & Ecological Sciences
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences

Contact

M.G.Semple@liverpool.ac.uk

The International Severe Acute Respiratory and emerging Infection Consortium's Comprehensive Characterisation Collaboration (ISARIC4)

Professional Activities

2023- cont. NIHR Advanced Fellowship Award Panel
2020-2021 UKRI MRC-NIHR COVID-19 Rapid Research Award Panel
2017-2020 NIHR Advanced Fellowship Award Panel
2014-2017 NIHR Postdoctoral Research Award Panel
2009-2014 NIHR Doctoral Research Award Panel

Seconded to DH PanFlu Preparedness and Planing Programme 2008-9
Seconded to DH PanFlu Implementation Group 2009-12
Seconded to DH Clinical Countermeasures group 2011-12
Honorary Consultant to DH and PHE for Clinical Countermeasures continues
Secretary of State's Working Group on Meningococcal Disease 2017
New & Emerging Respiratory Viral Threats Advisory Group, NERVTAG, 2014-23
International Severe Acute Respiratory & Emerging Infection Group, ISARIC, 2013- cont.
Covid-19 Clinical Information Network (CO-CIN) 2020-22
Member of SAGE for covid-19 emergency 2020-22
Elected Distinguished Fellowship of Faculty of Public Health 2022

performance https://youtu.be/e0l3S04TfFY

Selected Professional Activities

Editorship

  • Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses (Senior Editor, 2013 - present) (Editorship)
  • PlosONE (Editorial Board Member PLoS ONE, 2007 - 2013) (Editorship)

Event Role

  • Outbreak! Ebola, MERS and Monkey Pox - What Hollywood didn't tell you at Pint of Science: Outbreak! Ebola, MERS and Monkey Pox - What Hollywood didn't tell you, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, The Baltic Social, 27 Parliament Street, Liverpool L8 5RN, 2019) (Event Role)

External Administrative or Committee Role

  • Member of The Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) Gov.UK, Invited (Her Majesty's Government, 2020 - 2022) (External Administrative or Committee Role)
  • New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG), HMG UK, Invited (Her Majesty's Government, UK GB & NI, 2014 - present) (External Administrative or Committee Role)

Internal Administrative or Committee Role

  • Elected Member of Senate (University, 2019 - 2022) (Internal Administrative or Committee Role)

Media Appearance

  • Answering children's questions about the Covid jab, BBC Radio 4 Today Programme (Best of Today) (Invited, September 2021) (Media Appearance)
  • The Big Questions, BBC One (January 2021) (Media Appearance)
  • Debate Night, BBC Scotland (Invited, November 2020) (Media Appearance)

Professional Body Membership

  • Faculty of Public Health (Fellow by Distinction, 2022 - present) (Professional Body Membership)

Editorships

  • Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses (Senior Editor, 2013 - present)
  • British Medical Journal (Reviewer Board Member, 2012 - present)
  • Medikidz - Medical Information for kids (Editorial Advisor, 2009 - present)
  • MORE - McMaster Online Rating of Evidence (Sentinel Reader , 2008 - present)
  • PlosONE (Editorial Board Member PLoS ONE, 2007 - 2013)
  • Pediatric Infectious Diseases Journal (Regular Reviewer, 2004 - present)
  • Pediatric Research (Regular Reviewer, 2003 - present)
  • Physicians Information & Educational Resource (PIER) (Reader and reviewer, 2003 - present)
  • Annals of Tropical Paediatrics (Reader and reviewer, 2002 - present)
  • Archives of Disease in Childhood (Reader and reviewer, 2002 - present)
  • Journal of Infectious Diseases (Regular Reviewer, 2002 - present)
  • Postgraduate Medical Journal (Regular Reviewer, 2002 - present)
  • Pediatric Pulmonology (Regular Reviewer, 2002 - present)

Event Roles

  • Outbreaks at Meet The Scientists, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, World Museum Liverpool, 2019)
  • Outbreak! Ebola, MERS and Monkey Pox - What Hollywood didn't tell you at Pint of Science: Outbreak! Ebola, MERS and Monkey Pox - What Hollywood didn't tell you, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, The Baltic Social, 27 Parliament Street, Liverpool L8 5RN, 2019)

Examination Roles

  • University of Liverpool, MBChB (UG, 2019 - present)
  • Queen's University Belfast, UK, MBBS (UG, 2018)
  • Queen's University Belfast, UK, MBBS (UG, 2017)
  • Queen's University Belfast, UK, MBBS (UG, 2016)
  • Queen's University Belfast, UK, MBBS (UG, 2015)
  • Queen's University Belfast, UK, MBBS (UG, 2014)
  • Queen's University Belfast, UK, MBBS (UG, 2013)
  • University of Oxford, MBBS (UG, 2009)
  • University of Oxford, MBBS (UG, 2008)
  • University of Oxford, MBBS (UG, 2007)
  • University of Oxford, MBBS (UG, 2006)
  • University of Oxford, MBBS (UG, 2005)
  • University of Oxford, MBBS (UG, 2004)
  • University of Oxford, MBBS (UG, 2003)
  • University of Oxford, MBBS (UG, 2002)

External Administrative or Committee Roles

  • Member of The Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) Gov.UK, Invited (Her Majesty's Government, 2020 - 2022)
  • New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG), HMG UK, Invited (Her Majesty's Government, UK GB & NI, 2014 - present)
  • Regional Academic Advisor, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
  • University Representative, Senior Appointments Advisory Committee, Mersey Deanery NHS (2018 - 2019)
  • Secretary of State's Meningococcal Disease Working Group (2017 - 2018)
  • WHO Scientific Technical Advisory Committee -Emergency Events (2016 - 2017)
  • DH Clinical Countermeasures (2014 - 2015)

Grant Application Assessments

  • External Post-submission (National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), 2019 - present)

Internal Administrative or Committee Roles

  • Elected Member of Senate (University, 2019 - 2022)

Media Appearances

  • Answering children's questions about the Covid jab, BBC Radio 4 Today Programme (Best of Today) (Invited, September 2021)
  • The Big Questions, BBC One (January 2021)
  • Debate Night, BBC Scotland (Invited, November 2020)
  • https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08tl7v6, BBC Radio 4 Today Programme (Best of Today) (Invited, October 2020)
  • Measles: vaccines down, cases rising, UK loses Measles free status, BBC1 & BBC World Service (Invited, August 2019)
  • BBC Breakfast, BBC 1 & BBC World Serivce (Invited, June 2019)

Professional Body Memberships

  • Faculty of Public Health (Fellow by Distinction, 2022 - present)
  • Royal Society of Medicine (Fellow, 2008 - present)
  • Royal College of Paediatrics & Child Health (Fellow, 2007 - present)
  • Higher Education Academy (Fellow, 2006 - present)
  • European Respiratory Society (Member, 2002 - present)
  • American Thoracic Society (Member, 2002 - present)
  • Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh) (Fellow, 1998 - present)
  • General Medical Council (Registered Practitioner, 1995 - present)
  • British Medical Association (Member, 1995 - present)
  • Society for General Microbiology (Member, 1989 - present)

Publication Reviews

  • Referee (Clinical and Experimental Immunology, 2002 - present)