Alison Holmes

 

Professor Alison Holmes is co-director, with Professor Jon Friedland, of the Centre for Infection Prevention and Management. As an academic in Imperial College and the Director of Infection for the Trust, her overall vision for the Centre is to see it bridging the implementation gap between research and clinical practice and having a direct impact on patient care and NHS policy in the sphere of healthcare associated infection.

As well as co-directing the Centre, Alison is also directing  workstream 3 - Infection Surveillance with Paul Aylin and Mike Catchpole which aims to develop and use infection surveillance schemes across the whole NHS economy. Together they aim to improve the range, quality and sophistication of how current data used, to establish predictors of infection risk and develop better monitoring systems for at risk groups and prescribing practice, to better prevent and manage infection.

In addition to this Alison is leading work-stream 1(B) for the Centre looking at ‘Behavioural Science and Infection Control’. This Workstream 1 examines the benefits of behavioural sciences and social marketing for producing sustainable change in infection control and antibiotic prescribing behaviours.  The work will provide a blue-print, of how to assess the effectiveness of existing communications and target new successful behaviour-change interventions, for use across the NHS.  In doing so, the research which is being carried out in partnership with Dr Foster Intelligence, aims to produce reduced infection rates and improved antibiotic stewardship.  

 Background

Alison Holmes is Director of Infection Prevention and Control, a Consultant in Infectious Diseases at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and a Professor in Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control at Imperial College.

Her area of interest and research covers molecular epidemiology, antimicrobial prescribing, hospital acquired infection, organisational change to improve patient safety and the delivery infection prevention, models of training and multi-disciplinary working, developing pragmatic surveillance systems, international and refugee health.

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Contact: alison.holmes@imperial.ac.uk or her PA Mary.Findlater@imperial.nhs.uk
Tel: 020 8383 3248