Director of The Pandemic Institute, Chair of Neurology and Director of the National Institute for Health and Care Research Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections
Clinical Infection, Microbiology & Immunology
Viral encephalitis - Japanese encephalitis, by Invitation (14th International Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases ICCMID 2004, Prague., 2004)
Viral CNS Infections, by Invitation (Swiss Academic Foundation for Education in Infectious Diseases - 14th Challenge in Virology Seminar 2004, Saanen, Swizerland, 2004)
Vincenzo Marcolongo Memorial Lecture, 52nd Annual Meeting of the ASTMH, Philadeplpia, Pennsylvania, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003)
Neurovirulence of flaviviruses - evidence from clinical epidemiology, by Invitation (Emergence and control of Zoonotic viral encephalitis. The Merieux Foundation Conference Centre "Les Pensieres", France, 2003)
Meet the Professors - Asian Enigmas, by Invitation (American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Annual Meeting. Washington, DC, 2002)
Japanese encephalitis - could we do more?, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (WHO / Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations, Southeast Asia and Western Pacific Regional Working Group's Japanese Encephalitis Meeting: Setting the Global Agenda on Public Health Solutions and National Needs. Bangkok, 2002)
Treatment of Japanese encephalitis with interferon alpha, by Invitation (National Institutes for Health (NIH): Therapeutics for West Nile Virus Infections, sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Washington, DC, 2002)
Encephalitis - a global overview, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Encephalitis Defined. Keele University, 2002)
Flaviviruses and other emerging infections, by Invitation (Oxford 2000 New challenges in tropical medicine and parasitology. Oxford: Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2000)
Arbovirus encephalitis - a growing global problem, by Invitation (Vector Biology Seminar Series. Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, 1999)
Editorships
The Lancet Neurology (Editorial Board Member, 2003 - present)
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and H (Associate Editor, 2000 - present)
Examination Roles
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, PhD (2003)
Organisations I have been associated with
Scientific Advisory Panel of UK Encephalitis Society (2010 - present)
National Nervous System Disorders Specialty Group, NIHR Comprehensive Clinical Research Network (2009 - present)
United States National Institutes for Health (NIH) Workshop on Flavivirus Epitopes. (2009 - present)
Foreign and Commonwealth Office (2008 - present)
Medical Research Council (2008 - 2012)
Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust (2008 - 2010)
National Guidelines for the Management of Children and Adults with Encephalitis (2008 - 2010)
Merseyside and Cheshire Comprehensive Local Research Network (2008 - present)
Member, Guideline Development Group, British Infection Society Guidelines for the Management of Tube (2008 - 2009)
Merseyside & Cheshire Comprehensive Local Research Network (CLRN) (2007 - present)
WHO Japanese Encephalitis Clinical Care Guidelines Writing Committee (2006 - 2007)
Liverpool Neurological Infectious Diseases Service, Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, and Royal Li (2005 - present)
Member, Review Study Section (2005 - 2006)
WHO Disease Surveillance Standards, Japanese Encephalitis Case Definitions Committee (2005 - 2007)
Faculty of 1000 Medicine (2005 - present)
Health Protection Agency Encephalitis Study (2005 - 2010)
WHO Consultation on Immunological Endpoints for Evaluation of New Japanese Encephalitis Vaccines (2004 - 2005)
The Lancet Neurology (2003 - 2010)
United States National Institutes for Health (NIH) (2002 - present)
World Health Organization (2002 - present)
World Health Organization (2002 - present)
World Health Organisation (2002 - 2010)
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (2000 - 2005)
Encephalitis Society (1999 - present)
Professional Body Memberships
Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (Member)
Association of British Neurologists (Member)
Society for General Microbiology (Member)
Other Administrative or Committee Roles
Director of the Institute of Infection and Global Health;