Speakers

Nigel Field is Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Director of the Centre of Molecular Epidemiology and Translational Research at the UCL Institute for Global Health. He leads independent, internationally-competitive research teams focusing on three broad domains, (1) understanding and improving sexual health in the UK (Natsal), (2) investigating how microbes colonise babies and how this affects subsequent physical and mental health (BBS and CGULL), and (3) the control and prevention of emerging zoontic infections in East Africa, working with ecologists, vets, social scientists, vector specialists and communities (COHRIE-Uganda).

Nigel led large, multi-disciplinary, and international groups to write the STROME-ID and STROBE-Metagenomics extensions of the STROBE guidelines, which have established international reporting standards for infectious disease epidemiology endorsed by the EQUATOR network. He is senior editor on a new postgraduate textbook called, ‘Molecular Epidemiology for Infectious Diseases’, and he co-created the UCL MSc in Applied Infectious Infectious Disease Epidemiology in 2019, and has a long-standing track record in training future generations of epidemiogists.