Topics in Infection: 50 years in Clinical Infection

Friday 31 January 2025, 9:00AM - 6:30PM GMT
Royal College of Nursing, 20 Cavendish Square, London W1G 0RN

Now in its 50th year, Topics in Infection will take place in person on Friday 31 January 2025. The day will run from 9am to 6.30pm (GMT), including a drinks reception.

For this special anniversary year we are planning some great talks to help us showcase progress on key areas of infection over the last 50 years, as well as hearing about topical issues in UK infections. This annual one-day meeting is delivered as a partnership between RSTMH, Barts Health and the UK Health Security Agency. It will bring together microbiologists, infectious disease physicians, infection control personnel and biomedical and clinical scientists to hear updates on recent “hot topics” in all aspects of infectious disease.

This event is in-person only; however, we are hoping to record parts of the event and will be looking to make that available after the meeting for a fee.

Register here 

If you require an invoice to be raised please email amelia [dot] fincham [at] rstmh [dot] org

Speakers

We are delighted to announce our confirmed speakers so far for this year's Topic in Infection:

  • Professor Anna Maria Geretti, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy and North Middlesex University Hospital, London, UK
  • Professor Armine Sefton, Professor of Clinical Microbiology at Queen Mary, University of London
  • Professor Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer for England and chief medical adviser to the UK government, Consultant NHS physician at UCLH and The Hospital for Tropical Diseases.
  • Professor David Heymann, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at LSHTM and a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre on Universal Health at Chatham House, London
  • Dr Jake Dunning, Consultant and Hon. Clinical Associate Professor in Infectious Diseases at the Royal Free Hospital, London
  • Dr John Moore-Gillon, Consultant Physician Emeritus, St Bartholomew’s Hospital.
  • Dr Jolyon Medlock, Medical Entomologist at Public Health England, based at Porton Down
  • Professor Nicola Lewis, Director of the Worldwide Influenza Centre and the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Response Francis Crick Institute and Professor in One Health Evolutionary Biology at the Royal Veterinary College

  • Professor Tom Rogers, Emeritus Professor, Clinical Microbiology, Trinity College Dublin