Infectious disease
Learn more about why we're taking on infectious disease and what we're doing.
Infectious Disease Team
We support science to bring innovative solutions to combat infectious disease in the most affected communities.
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.
Meet the team
Alexander leads the Infectious Disease team at Wellcome, a global charitable foundation which supports science to solve urgent health challenges.
Connect with Alexander:
Kiern Dhillon
Executive Assistant
Yasmin Jones
Team Coordinator
Sinead Mathias
Team Coordinator
Prevention
Charlie Weller
Head of Vaccines, Infectious Disease
Katherine Andrea
Major Initiatives Programme Lead, Infectious Disease
Deborah King
Research Lead
Pierre Balard
Research Lead
Shobana Balasingam
Research Lead
Jeanette Hayes
Research Manager
Sophia Wang
Research Manager
Deeva Agravat
Research Manager
Sophie Higham
Research Manager
Sarah Griffiths
Project Officer
Epidemics and Epidemiology
Josie Golding
Head of Epidemics and Epidemiology, Infectious Disease
Janet Midega
Research Lead
Dr Natsuko Imai-Eaton
Research Lead
Dr Ana Cehovin
Senior Research Manager
Petra Fay
Research Manager
Mariska Van der Zee
Research Manager
Bethan Hamilton
Research Manager
Lena Obiri-Yeboah
Project Officer
Clinical Research
Florian von Groote
Head of Clinical Research
Chibuzor Uchea
Research Manager
Zinal Shah
Project Officer
Vector Control and Therapeutics
Sally Nicholas
Head of Vector Control and Therapeutics, Infectious Disease
Connect with Sally:
Dr Jaspreet Turner
Research Lead
Sumi Robson
Senior Research Manager
Megan Neary
Senior Research Manager
William Garrood
Senior Research Manager
Mark Whittaker
Research Manager
Katherine Davis
Research Manager
Lauren Hyland
Project Officer
Strategy Integration
Esme Mroz-Dawes
Head of Strategy Integration, Infectious Disease
Vikki Brophy
Programme Manager
Clara Fons
Programme Manager
Policy
Jeremy Knox
Head of Policy, Infectious Disease
Antonia Lombardi
Senior Policy Officer
Rebecca Manaley
Policy Adviser
Our work
Latest reports
Reports
Find out more about our work through our latest reports.
