Professional Activities
Conference Roles
- 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;
- Head of the Brain Infections Group