Honours and Awards

Awards

Thematic Head of Vaccinology MRC-The Gambia, MRC. 1 Jul 2010.

Senior NIHR Research Fellowship, National Institute for Health Research. Jul 2009.

Director of Pediatric Studies Tuberculosis-Clinical Diagnostics Research Consortium (TB-CDRC), NIH. Dec 2009.

Co-Investigator of the Centre for Respiratory Infection (CRI), Wellcome Trust. Oct 2008.

Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Research Fellowship, Wellcome Trust. Sep 2005.

External committees

Scientific Coordinating Committee (SCC), MRC-The Gambia. Chair. 1 Dec 2010 -

ptbnet, Paediatric tuberculosis european trialsgroup. Founder & Chair. Apr 2009 - Web link

Steering committee, Tuberculosis network European trialsgroup. Paediatric representative. Oct 2008 -

Stop-TB New Diagnostics Working Group, WHO. Member. 2009 -

Advisory Board, EDCTP TB project of the Staten Serum Institute, Copenhagen. Nominated Advisor. Oct 2009 -

Stop TB Core Working Group on New Vaccines, WHO. Advisor. Feb 2007 -

Member of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Tuberculosis (UK), DoH. Advisory member. Oct 2006 -

Memberships of professional bodies

Member, International Union of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IUTLD). 2009 -

Member, STOP-TB New Diagnostics Working Group. 1 Jul 2009 - Web link

Member of the Royal College of Paedaitrics and Child Health, RCPCH. 1995 -

Member of the European Society of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, ESPID. 2002 -

Links with other academic bodies

Tuberculosis Network European Trialsgroup- TBNET, Research Centre Borstel, Germany. Steering Group Member. Oct 2008 - Web link

Adjunct member of the Institute of Infectiosu Diseases and Molecular Medicine, IIDMM. collaborator and contributor to scientific proposals at the IIDMM, teaching and PhD supervision. Mar 2006 -