Workshop: a systematic analysis of global infectious disease research investments Event
- Time:
- 9:30 - 12:00
- Date:
- 8 June 2016
- Venue:
- WHO headquarters, Geneva
For more information regarding this event, please email Rebecca Brown at rebecca.brown@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
The ResIn Study aims to assess research funding for all infectious diseases across the G20 countries, with a focus on pneumonia and neonatal infections. We will build up a global map of trends in infectious disease investments and also assess the performance and impact of research by developing metrics that compare investment to the global burden of disease. We will also produce an open-access searchable database, as a tool to: increase transparency, reduce unnecessary duplication of research, increase integrity etc.
Speaker information
Michael Head ,University of Southampton,Joined Southampton in October 2015, and prior to this was at University College London for eleven years and retains a visiting position at UCL, in the Farr Institute for Health Informatics. He is co-founder of the ResIn study and has been involved in leading work on mapping infectious disease research investments since 2006 (initially via the Infectious Disease Research Network). He has research interests in care homes and infectious disease (especially scabies), and also public engagement (he is a regular speaker on the subject of vaccinations and ‘anti-vaxxers’ at Skeptics in the Pub meetings around the UK, and has taken this talk into secondary schools).
Rebecca Brown ,University of Southampton,In 2011, she received a BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Manchester following which she went on to be awarded an MSc in Immunology from Imperial College, London in 2012. While completing her PhD in Clinical Microbiology at Cardiff University, she worked closely with Public Health England to monitor epidemiology of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections, and developed diagnostics and molecular typing methods for human Mycoplasma species.