Both Typhoid Fever and invasive non-typhoidal Salmonella (iNTS) have emerged as high burden diseases in subSaharan Africa in recent decades. This seminar discussed the ongoing work towards vaccine prevention of these invasive bacterial diseases, spanning epidemiology, disease pathogenesis, genomics, natural and vaccine-derived immune protection and ongoing clinical trials.
| 12:00 | Registration, with tea and coffee, opens for in-person attendees |
| 12:20 | In-person attendees start to take seats in lecture theatre |
| 12:30 | LIVESTREAM BEGINS Welcome and Introductions | Professor Harish Nair: Co-Head of the Centre for Global Health, Usher Institute |
| 12:35 | Presentation | Professor Melita Gordon, Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Liverpool |
| 13:10 | Q&A session |
| 13:25 | Closing remarks | Professor Harish Nair LIVESTREAM ENDS |
| 13:30 | Close of event |
Speaker
Melita Gordon, Professor of Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Liverpool
Melita Gordon is an NIHR Research Professor and clinical academic, specialty-accredited in Gastroenterology and General (Internal) Medicine, with a career-long commitment to building research capacity and addressing major health problems through equitable clinical research, partnership, and community engagement in Africa.
Melita trained as an undergraduate in Cambridge and Oxford medical schools, did her general medical training in Oxford, Zambia and Belfast, and specialty training in Sheffield, Malawi and Liverpool.
She has focused her research for over 25 years on vaccine-preventable Invasive Salmonella Disease (typhoidal and non-typhoidal) in Malawi, leading a translational and multidisciplinary programme encompassing epidemiology, clinical pathogenesis, pathogen genomics and vaccine clinical trials. She has received research fellowships from Wellcome, UKCRC and NIHR, and was awarded the Sir Francis Avery Jones Research Medal of the British Society of Gastroenterology. She has served as an invited expert on Salmonella vaccines for WHO and GAVI, the vaccine alliance.
Chair
Harish Nair, Co-Head of the Centre for Global Health, Usher Institute
Professor Harish Nair is Co-Head of the Centre for Global Health and Co-Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Population Health Research and Training. He leads the Respiratory Viral Epidemiology research programme at the University of Edinburgh. He has led several large collaborative projects on global child health and infectious diseases. He currently leads (and is the co-ordinator of) the Preparing for RSV Immunisation and Surveillance in Europe (PROMISE), REspiratory Syncytial virus Consortium in EUrope (RESCEU) and the Respiratory Virus Global Epidemiology Network (RSV GEN). He also leads the Infectious Diseases Research Programme in the NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Respiratory Health (RESPIRE). He is a co-founder of ReSViNET. In 2019, Professor Nair was awarded the Principal’s Medal for Exceptional Service by the University of Edinburgh; and the Hind Rattan (Jewel of India) Award by the NRI Society of India.
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