Speaker
Andrew Hayward
Affiliation: UCL

Dr Andrew Hayward is co-director of the UCL Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology; Co-Chair of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Tuberculosis Guideline Development Group. His Health Protection research spans tuberculosis, influenza, acute respiratory infection, antimicrobial resistance and infections in hard to reach groups. He led the UK’s first population-based study of tuberculosis molecular epidemiology and collaborated on the first national study which led to introduction of the HPA National Strain Typing Service. He led the MRC/Wellcome Flu Watch study which was the world’s first national-level community cohort study of influenza transmission and immunity.