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Professor Robert Heyderman

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Professor David Goldblatt

Co-Director

Mr Steven Kuo

Research Unit Manager
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Mr Rodrick Sambakunsi

MPRU Public Engagement Manager
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Dr Asia-Sophia Wolf

Research Associate in Mucosal and Vaccine Immunology
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Dr Brenda Kwambana-Adams

Research Associate in Bacterial Pathogenesis and Genomics
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Dr Elizabeth Chan

Research Associate in Bacterial Pathogenesis and Genomics
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Dr John Ojal

Research Fellow in Infectious Disease Modelling

Dr Caroline Weight

Research Associate in Molecular Microbiology

Dr Andrea Gori

Research Associate in Bacterial Genomics

Modupeh Betts

PhD Student

Chikondi Peno

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Akuzike Kalizang'oma

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Deus Thindwa

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Mr Todd Swarthout

Senior Research Fellow - Epidemiology; Principal Investigator
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Commentary on the use of flu and pneumococcal vaccines to reduce COVID-19 mortality published in Vaccine

19 Jun 2020

Paper on GBS lineage specific genes associated with virulence published in mBio

15 Jun 2020

Global Health Network hosts open workshop on COVID-19

27 May 2020

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2020 Short Course on Epidemiological Evaluation of Vaccines

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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National Institute for Health Research

This research was commissioned by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Global Health Research Unit on Mucosal Pathogens using UK aid from the UK Government. The views expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care.
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