Professor Alison Holmes OBE, FRCP, FRCPI, FMedSci
Director of the Fleming Initiative and the Centres for Antimicrobial Optimisation Network (CAMO-Net) at Imperial College London; and David Price Evans Chair in Infectious Diseases and Global Health at the University of Liverpool

Professor Alison Holmes' research in infectious diseases and antibiotic use has been recognised as outstanding by the NHIR, and she has won two NIHR Senior Investigator awards. As well as her academic career, she is an infectious diseases physician with longstanding experience, holding numerous leadership roles and developing infection prevention and control and antimicrobial stewardship for the NHS. She is Professor of Infectious Diseases at Imperial College & the David Price Evans Chair of Infectious Diseases & Global Health at the University of Liverpool. A Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, her research focuses on infection prevention, optimising antibiotic use, antibiotic resistance (AMR), epidemiology & public health, particularly multidisciplinary approaches to surveillance, development of technologies, point of care innovation, decision support tools & artificial intelligence. She is Director of the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in HCAI and AMR, now into its second commission and Director of the Centre for Antimicrobial Optimisation (CAMO), originally funded by the DHSC. She is also the Lead for the CAMO-Network, a unique global research initiative funded by the Wellcome Trust. She has developed a strong applied infection portfolio of research, whose multidisciplinary nature is demonstrated by funding from the ESPRC and the ESRC, as well as the WHO, NIHR and Wellcome Trust. She has successfully supervised 17 PhDs in the field to completion, with another 16 in progress. Other significant roles which demonstrate her standing as a research leader and expert, and in her ability to translate research include; past President of the International Society for Infectious Diseases, a variety of Governmental advisory roles, past Chair of Fleming Fund Technical Advisory Group, operated by Department of Health and Social Care & The Fleming Fund, past APRHAI expert member, member of the UK’s NICE Antimicrobial health technology evaluation Committee for a value based funding model, Member of WHO Expert groups/Panels. Examples of recent and current international expert advisory roles on scientific panels/boards include the UKRI, the MRC, the European Research Council (ERC), Helmholtz Health Scientific Advisory Board, Singapore’s National Centre for Infectious Diseases and Science Foundation Ireland.

Qualifications, Awards and Fellowships:
2023 & 2018 NIHR Senior Investigator •
2021 OBE for Services to Infectious Diseases and Medicine •
2017 FMedSci Academy of Medical Sciences • 2009 FRCPI •
2002 FRCP London •
1997 CCST in ID & GIM •
1997 MD London (based on NIH funded, Boston based research on the molecular epidemiology of B.cepacia) •
1995 MPH, Harvard School of Public Health
1992-95 The Glaxo Fellowship in Infectious Diseases, Boston University
1991 DTM&H London School of Hygiene &Tropical Medicine
1989 MRCP UK • 1985 MB BS, with Distinction in Medicine, London
1985 MA Cambridge University
1982 BA Hons, Class II.I, Cambridge (part II microbiology & parasitology).