Professor Diane Ashiru-Oredope

Lead Pharmacist, Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infections, UK Health Security Agency

Professor Diane Ashiru-Oredope, a Credentialed Consultant Pharmacist is Lead Pharmacist for the Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infections, UK Health Security Agency. She is also Deputy Chief Scientist for Royal Pharmaceutical Society and Honorary Chair & Professor of Pharmaceutical Public Health at University of Nottingham. An antimicrobial pharmacist by background, she chairs UKHSA’s English Surveillance Programme for Antimicrobial Utilisation and Resistance (ESPAUR) and the National Planning Group for World Antimicrobial Awareness activities in England and the UK Antibiotic Guardian campaign. She is research active and continues to contribute proactively within academia including successfully leading or significantly contributing to more than 100 peer-review publications as well as delivering several invited presentations nationally and globally and writing several blogs, newspaper articles and editorials. She is currently on the editorial board of BMC Public Health Journal and was previously an Editor of the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy and Antibiotics Journals. She is a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (FFRPS and FRPharmS) and the Commonwealth Pharmacists Association.