Awards
- Department of Medicine Teaching Awards for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Supervision, Imperial College London, 2015
- President's Medal for outstanding Contribution to Excellence in Research Supervision, Imperial College London, 2015
- MRC Program grant, MRC-UK, 2012
- Thematic Head of VaccinologyMRC-The Gambia, MRC, 2010
- Director of Pediatric Studies Tuberculosis-Clinical Diagnostics Research Consortium (TB-CDRC), NIH, 2009
- Senior NIHR Research Fellowship, National Institute for Health Research, 2009
- Co-Investigator of the Centre for Respiratory Infection (CRI), Wellcome Trust, 2008
- Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Research Fellowship, Wellcome Trust, 2005
External Positions
- Chair, Chair of Scientific Advisory Board, Wellcome Centre, Vietnam, 2016
- Main organiser, chair and speaker, International Symposium on Neonatal and maternal Immunisation (INMIS), MRC Unit, The Gambia, 2015 - 2015
- Invited guest, Advisory Board to the BMGF on research into maternal immunisation, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2015 - 2015
- Invited guest, MRC Workshop in Novel Tools and Technologies for Vaccines Research, MRC, 2015 - 2015
- Board member, IMI Steering group committee, Innovative medicines initiative, 2015 - 2015
- Expert Review Group, Public Health, Wellcome Trust, 2015 - 2016
- Board member, TbNet steering group meeting, TbNet, 2015 - 2015
- Board member, Meningities Research Foundation Board meeting, Meningitis Research Foundation, 2015 - 2015
- Invited guest, Advisory Board to the BMGF on research inot non-specific effects of vaccines, Oxford University, 2015 - 2015
- Board Member, Wellcome Trust Public Health Board Meeting, Wellcome Trust, 2015 - 2015
- Scientific Advisor, EDCTP Scientific Advisory Board, EDCTP, 2013
- Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board, DZIF Advisory Board, German Centre for Infectious Diseases Research(Deutsches Zentrum fur Infektionsforschung), 2012
- Scientific advisor, HRCSI Malawi Scientific Advisory Board, Health Research Capacity Strengthening Initiative (HRCSI)National Commission for Science & Technology, Malawi, 2012
- Chair, Scientific Coordinating Committee (SCC), MRC-The Gambia, 2010
- Nominated Advisor, Advisory Board, EDCTP TB project of the Staten Serum Institute, Copenhagen, 2009
- Founder & Chair, ptbnet, Paediatric tuberculosis european trialsgroup, 2009
- Member, Stop-TB New Diagnostics Working Group, WHO, 2009
- Paediatric representative, Steering committee, Tuberculosis network European trialsgroup, 2008
- Advisor, Stop TB Core Working Group on New Vaccines, WHO, 2007
- Advisory member, Member of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Tuberculosis (UK), DoH, 2006
Membership of Professional Bodies
- Member, German Centre of translational medicine, 2014
- Member, EDCTP Advisory Board, 2013 - 2014
- Member, STOP-TB New Diagnostics Working Group, 2009
- Member, International Union of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IUTLD), 2009
- Member of the European Society of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, ESPID, 2002
- Member of the Royal College of Paedaitrics and Child Health, RCPCH, 1995
Links with Other Academic Bodies
- Tuberculosis Network European Trialsgroup- TBNET, Research Centre Borstel, Germany, 2008
- Adjunct member of the Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine, IIDMM, 2006
Industrial Connections
- Novartis, ad hoc scientific advisor
- Pfizer, ad-hoc scientific advisor
Fellowships
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, RSTMH, 2007
- Fellow of the Association of Paediatric Academics, APA (GB&I), 2007
- Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, RCPCH, 2007