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The IDRN Steering Group has had representation from all the London Medical Schools, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the Health Protection Agency, the Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit and the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry.

This senior academic and industry team brings extensive experience to guide development of the IDRN.

Current steering group members
(*) indicates part of the IDRN secretariat

Steering Group Member Profile
Professor Chris Bartlett Former Director, Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, Visiting Professor UCL Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Professor Pete Borriello Director, Centre for Infections, Health Protection Agency
Professor Jackie Cassell Professor of Primary Care Epidemiology, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Professor Janet Darbyshire Director, Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit
Mr. David Dunn Biostatistician, Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit
Professor David Edwards Senior Scientific Advisor, Department of Health
Dr. Peter Godfrey-Faussett Senior Lecturer, Clinical Research Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Consultant Physician, Hospital for Tropical Diseases
Dr Jonathan Green Head of Bioinformatics Unit, Centre for Infections, HPA
Dr. Andrew C Hayward(*) Senior Lecturer, UCL Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Dr. Michael Jacobs Wellcome Advanced Fellow and Honorary Consultant Physician in Infectious Diseases, Centre for Hepatology, Royal Free and University College Medical School
Professor Anne Johnson(*) Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, University College London, and Chair of the IDRN Steering Committee
Dr Meng Khaw Consultant in Health Protection, North East Health Protection Unit
Dr. Helen Maguire Regional Epidemiologist for London, Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, London
Dr Kathryn O'Brien GP & Clinical Lecturer, Department of Primary Care & Public Health, University of Cardiff
Professor Howard Thomas Professor of Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine


Previous steering group members

Previous members of the Steering Group include:
Dr Barry Peters (until 2008) Guys and St Thomas' NHS Trust
Dr Richard Tiner (until 2008) Director, Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
Dr. Natascha Crowcroft (until 2007) Consultant Epidemiologist, Immunisation Division, Health Protection Agency
Professor Don Jeffries (until 2006) Professor of Virology and Head of the Department of Medical Microbiology, St. Bartholomew’s and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry

Professor Robert Booy

(until 2005)

Head of Department, Department of Child Health, St. Bartholomews and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry

Professor George Griffin

(until 2005)

Dept. of Infectious Diseases, St George’s Hospital Medical School

Dr. Philip Mortimer

(until 2004)

Virus Reference Division, Health Protection Agency, Colindale

Mr Nick Partridge

(until 2004)

Chief Executive, Terrence Higgins Trust

Dr Mary Ramsay

(until 2004)

Consultant Epidemiologist, Health Protection Agency


IDRN Co-ordinating Centre Secretariat

The IDRN Co-ordinating Centre Secretariat has the following members:
Mr Mike Head Network Manager
Ms Mary Cooke Network Research Assistant
Miss Cherry Constantine Network Administrator