Christine is a graduate of Glasgow University with a BSc Honours and a PhD in medical microbiology. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists. After a Wellcome Foundation Research Fellowship, she was appointed to a lecturer post in the medical school at Glasgow University. In the mid-1990s she moved to a senior role in the Public Health Laboratory Service at Colindale, eventually becoming Deputy Director for Reference Microbiology. In September 2006, she became Executive Director of the Health Protection Agency (HPA) Regional Microbiology Network and in 2010 was appointed as Executive Director for HPA Microbiology Services, a newly established division of the HPA that en.compassed the microbiology services delivered by Porton, Colindale, the eight Regional Laboratories and the five Food, Water and Environmental laboratories.
Next week PHE will host our fifth annual conference at the University of Warwick. As we prepare to bring together the public health community I’m taking a look with PHE colleagues at three key topics which are at the forefront of …
Tuberculosis (TB) is a vital public health problem facing England. Rates have stabilised over the past seven years, but the incidence of TB in England remains high compared to most...
...of the proteome. In PHE, one of the ways that we analyse bacterial proteins is using mass spectrometry (MS) technology. This has helped our scientists to understand more about which...
...or detection of nucleic acid, particularly for the microorganisms that we cannot culture using traditional techniques. Analysing all the complex biological data we are now able to produce often involves...
...bioinformatic capabilities to manage, store and share this data and to link them effectively to clinical and epidemiological datasets. We also have to accept that this is a rapidly moving...
For those who haven't heard of it, Lyme disease is a bacterial infection transmitted by tick bites, with between 900 and 1000 confirmed cases each year in the UK. It...
