Infectious Disease Team

We support science to bring innovative solutions to combat infectious disease in the most affected communities. 

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Our work advances the discovery, development and optimisation of interventions to control and combat infectious diseases. The research we fund also helps us to understand how and why infectious diseases emerge or escape control.

We focus on two important threats to infectious disease control: drug-resistant infections and diseases impacted by environmental change.

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Meet the team 

  • Alexander Pym

    Director of Infectious Disease

    Wellcome

    Alexander leads the Infectious Disease team at Wellcome, a global charitable foundation which supports science to solve urgent health challenges.

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  • Esme Mroz-Dawes

    Senior Programme Manager

    Wellcome

  • Kiern Dhillon

    Executive Assistant

    Wellcome

  • Yasmin Jones

    Team Coordinator

    Wellcome

  • Sinead Mathias

    Team Coordinator

    Wellcome

Prevention

  • Charlie Weller

    Head of Prevention, Infectious Disease

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  • Shobana Balasingam

    Research Lead, Human Investigations and Challenge

  • Deborah King

    Research Lead, Vaccines

  • Pete Gardner

    Research Lead, Antibodies and Immunity

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  • Helen Groves

    Research Manager, Vaccines

  • Nimisha Raj Sharma

    Research Manager, Human Investigations and Challenge

  • Deeva Agravat

    Research Manager, Human Investigations and Challenge

  • Jeanette Hayes

    Research Manager, Vaccines

  • Sophia Wang

    Research Manager, Vaccines

  • Dr Colleen Loynachan

    Research Manager, Antibodies and Immunity

Epidemics and Epidemiology

  • Josie Golding

    Head of Epidemics & Epidemiology

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  • Titus Divala

    Research Lead, Epidemics

  • Dr Ana Cehovin

    Senior Research Manager, Microbial Communities and Reservoirs

  • Dr Natsuko Imai

    Senior Research Manager, Disease Tracking

  • Petra Fay

    Research Manager, Microbial Communities and Reservoirs

  • Bethan Hamilton

    Research Manager, Epidemics

  • Mariska Van der Zee

    Research Manager, Disease Tracking

Interventions

  • Timothy Jinks

    Head of Interventions

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  • Sabrina Lamour-Julien

    Research Lead, Therapeutics

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  • Janet Midega

    Senior Research Manager, Drug Resistant Infections

  • Chibuzor Uchea

    Research Manager, Drug Resistant Infections

Health Systems and Environment

  • Sally Nicholas

    Head of Health Systems and Environment

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  • Divya Shah

    Research Lead, Site and Systems

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  • Dr Jaspreet Turner

    Senior Research Manager, Modelling

  • Emma Maynard

    Research Manager, Climate and Infections

  • Mark Whittaker

    Research Manager, Site and Systems

Our work 

Infectious disease

Learn more about why we're taking on infectious disease and what we're doing.

Latest reports 

Reports

Find out more about our work through our latest reports.

News and opinion