Meet the Speakers
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Dr Andrew Lee
Dr Andrew Lee is a Professor of Public Health at the University of Sheffield. He is dual-trained in general practice and public health in the UK with considerable experience in communicable disease control. He has held high-level consultant and director roles within the National Health Service in England, local government, Public Health England, and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). He previously led the Africa portfolio for the UKHSA International Health Regulations Strengthening Project across seven countries, and works currently as a Technical Consultant to the International Association of National Public Health Institutes (IANPHI) on global health emergency response and connected leadership. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief for Public Health, a journal of the Royal Society for Public Health. His research interests include health protection, global health, and health service management.
Dr James Meiring
Dr James Meiring is a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Infectious Diseases at the University of Liverpool, based at the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Programme in Blantyre, where he is Associate Group Head of the Salmonella research group. He trained in infectious diseases and medical microbiology in Sheffield, and holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford on the burden and transmission dynamics of typhoid fever in Africa and Asia. His research covers enteric fever, invasive non-typhoidal Salmonella and febrile illness — disease burden, transmission, antimicrobial resistance, and the evaluation of vaccines. He has published widely in high impact journals generating evidence that has informed global vaccine policy. He has co-authored the WHO Vaccine Preventable Disease Surveillance Standards for typhoid, and is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Infection.
Mark Garvey, Consultant Clinical Scientist, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB)
Mark has worked in the field of Infection Control for over 9 years. Mark is a Consultant Clinical Scientist in Microbiology and is currently the Deputy Director of Infection Prevention and Control for the Infection Prevention and Control Service at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB). A strategic management position within Infection Control working with the Trusts operational leads to help deliver the Infection Control service at UHB. Mark is also the Director of the Hospital Infection Research Laboratory, with the main function to investigate hospital infection, providing practical advice to Health service professionals and industry throughout the UK. Mark has more than 40 publications, including in leading journals infection control journals like the Journal of Hospital Infection and Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. Mark’s current research interests include water microbiology focusing on Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Mycobacterium chimaera; general Infection Prevention and Control issues from MRSA to Carbapenemase Producing Enterobacteriaceae.