AMR Team

Professor of Paediatric Infectious Diseases

Mike Sharland

Professor Mike Sharland is a globally leading expert in antimicrobial prescribing, resistance and healthcare associated infection in children. He is the lead clinical advisor for the neonatal and paediatric programme of the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP) and Vice-Chair and AMR lead of the Penta Foundation, a global Paediatric Infectious Diseases research network.

He has Chaired the Department of Health’s National Expert Advisory Committee of Antimicrobial Prescribing, Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infection (APRHAI) from 2011 to 2018. He has also been an advisor for the WHO for many years, including being a member of the Expert Committee on the Selection and Use of Essential Medicines and the Chair of the Antibiotic Working Group of the EML/EMLc, which developed the Access/Watch/Reserve (AWaRe) grouping of antibiotics.

Prof Sharland’s principal research interest is optimising the best use of antimicrobials in children. He has a long standing interest in developing the evidence base for the use of all paediatric antimicrobials and has developed a clear research strategy using both cohort studies and clinical trials to improve the evidence base for antimicrobial prescribing. He leads a wide number of clinical projects in the globally with active EDCTP, EU H2020, GARDP, NIHR, MRC, Wellcome Trust funding.

Professor of Paediatric Infectious Diseases

Julia Bielicki

Professor Julia Bielicki is a paediatrician and a researcher at St George’s University of London and the University Children’s Hospital Basel and holds a Masters of Public Health and PhD from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Julia was part of the core team of the Antibiotic Resistance and Prescribing in European Children project, one of the largest international collaborations on antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance in children to date. Her current research focuses on observational and interventional studies that aim to improve childhood antibiotic use in the light of an increasing burden of antimicrobial resistance and the need to conserve antibiotics for future generations. She is involved in several strategic randomised trials investigating optimal antibiotic use in children suffering from pneumonia and in neonates with sepsis. Julia is also leading the NeoIPC programme aiming to identify and implement best infection prevention and control practices in neonatal units.

Clinical Lecturer in Paediatric Infectious Diseases

Louise Hill

Dr Louise Hill joined St George’s in 2015 and is a Clinical Lecturer in Paediatric Infectious Diseases.

Louise’s research interests are focused on neonatal sepsis and strategic antibiotic trials. She co-ordinated the EC FP7 funded NeoVanc trial which compared a neonatal optimised vancomycin regimen to a standard regimen and led on the microbiological sub-analyses. Her PhD focused on the optimisation of vancomycin in treating neonatal Gram-positive sepsis and she was an invited member of the UKHSA Staphylococcus capitis Incident Management Team as a result of this work. She is the co-Chief Investigator for the NeoVanc Long-term Follow-up study which will assess hearing outcomes in NeoVanc participants.

Louise is involved in several global neonatal sepsis prevention and treatment randomised controlled trials, including NeoVTAMR and NeoSep1. NeoSep1, sponsored by the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership, aims to recruit 3000 neonates globally. Louise has led on the extensive feasibility process of potential sites across five WHO regions and has undertaken work to modify neonatal adverse event grading tools to the LMIC setting, adapting them to facilitate grading regardless of the availability of resources, expertise or equipment. Louise was recently invited to speak at a WHO Paediatric Drug Optimization for antibiotics meeting presenting on the challenges and opportunities in conducting neonatal antibiotic trials.

Operations Manager

Tatiana Munera Huertas

Senior Research Fellow

Aislinn Cook

Aislinn is a Senior Research Fellow in infectious disease epidemiology in the antimicrobial resistance team in CNPI and has been a part of the group for the past 5 years. Most of her work focuses on the antibiotic treatment and outcomes of neonatal sepsis and paediatric bloodstream infections and optimising empiric prescribing guidelines. Aislinn also works on projects looking at national and primary care antibiotic use data to inform policies and guidelines.

Alongside her work at SGUL, Aislinn is pursuing a PhD at University of Oxford modelling primary care antibiotic use data the aim of developing a set of tools that can inform national antibiotic prescribing targets based on clinical infection burden.
Aislinn received her MSc in Control of Infectious Diseases from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and her BSc in Biology and Public Health from Tufts University in Boston, USA.

Vaccine and AMR Programme Manager

Hana Forrester

Hana has worked in the field of clinical trials since 2013. She has worked on studies ranging from commercially sponsored studies to investigator-led studies funded by the NIHR, EU and charities. She has experience of coordinating research studies from the application process, through to set up, recruitment and analysis, close out and archiving. Hana spent 4 years working at the Bristol Trials Centre managing studies in colorectal disease, cardiac surgery and ophthalmology. She returned to the CNPI in December 2020.

Data Manager

Filip Djukic

Within Canada, graduated with a Bachelor of Respiratory Therapy (BRT), and worked clinically as a Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) in specific fields such as paediatric critical intensive care and anaesthesiology. Graduated with a Masters (MSc.) in Translational Medicine at St George’s, University of London.

Data Manager for the Centre for Neonatal and Paediatric Infection (CNPI) group.

Current projects: NeoIPC

Reader in Global Health and Infectious Diseases

Catrin Moore

Dr. Catrin Moore’s research focuses on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), often termed the silent pandemic, which is on the increase in many LMICs. Dr. Moore has worked in the Global health arena for over twenty years, she was based in South East Asia running microbiology laboratories for six years. She led the Global Research on AntiMicrobial resistance (GRAM) project in the Big Data Institute in Oxford, partnering with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in Seattle and Tropical Medicine in Oxford, to estimate the global burden of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Dr Moore is a member of the World Health Organization Advisory Group on Critically Important Antimicrobials (AG CIA) for Human Medicine and is a mentor for Fleming Fund Fellows based in Eswatini. Dr. Moore works on studies to improve the use of diagnostic tools, training, and communication in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) focussing on implementing interventions and policy to reduce AMR. She is now based at St George’s, University of London working closely with researchers in a number of LMICs, working on the Antimicrobial Resistance, Prescribing, and Consumption Data to Inform Country Antibiotic Guidance and Local Action (ADILA) project.

Recent publications:
Murray C, et al. Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis. The Lancet, 2022, Jan; 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02724-0.
Henry NJ, Elagali A, Nguyen M, Chipeta MG, Moore CE. Variation in excess all-cause mortality by age, sex, and province during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. Sci Rep, 2022 Jan; 12(1); 1077. Doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-04993-7.

Browne AJ, Chipeta MG, Haines-Woodhouse G, …Moore CE, et al. Global Antibiotic Consumption in Humans, 2000 to 2018: A Spatial Modelling Study. Lancet Planetary Health 2021, Nov 11:S2542-5196(21)00280-1. Doi: 10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00280-1.

Lythgoe KA, Hall M, Ferretti L, de Cesare M, MacIntyre-Cockett G, …Moore, CE et al. SARS-CoV-2 within-host diversity and transmission. Science, 2021; 372 (6539) eabg0821. Doi: 10.1126/science.abg0821.

Salami O, Horgan P, Moore CE, Giri A, Sserwanga A et al. Impact of a package of diagnostic tools, clinical algorithm, and training and communication on outpatient acute fever case management in low- and middle-income countries: protocol for a randomized controlled trial. BMC Trials, 2020; 21 (974); 1-13. Doi: 10.1186/s13063-020-04897-9

Basnyat B, Salami O, Karkey A, Moore C, Giri A, Olliaro P. The Impact of Covid-19 on Health Delivery and Research in South East Asia. BMJOpinion (blog). September 2020.
Moore CE. Changes in antibiotic resistance in animals. Perspectives comment invited by Science, 2019. Science. 2019 Sep 20;365(6459):1251-1252. Doi: 10.1126/science.aay9652.

Schnall J, Rajkhowa A, Ikuta K, Rao P, Moore CE. Surveillance and monitoring of antimicrobial resistance: limitations and lessons from the GRAM project. BMC Med. 2019 Sep 20;17(1):176. Doi: 10.1186/s12916-019-1412-8.

Young BC, Earle SG, Soeng S, Sar P, Kumar V, …Moore CE. Panton-Valentine leukocidin is the key determinant of Staphylococcus aureus pyomyositis in a bacterial genome-wide association study. Elife. 2019 Feb 22;8. pii: e42486. Doi: 10.7554/eLife.42486.

Limmathurotsakul D, Dunachie S, Fukuda K, Feasey NA, Okeke IN,…Moore CE, et al.; Surveillance and Epidemiology of Drug-Resistant Infections Consortium (SEDRIC). Improving the estimation of the global burden of antimicrobial resistant infections. Lancet Infect Dis. 2019; Aug 16. pii: S1473-3099(19)30276-2. Doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(19)30276-2.

Senior Research Project Manager

Jennifer Martin

Primarily supporting the Neonatal and Paediatric AMR Team managing and co-ordinating research projects, working closely with global partners & collaborators.

Research Project Manager

Caroline Albrecht

Caroline is a Research Project Manager currently working on NeoSep1, SNIP-AFRICA, NeoVTAMR, ADEQUATE and NeoVanc LTFU.

Technical Consultant & Project Manager

Michael Thorn

Michael is a technical consultant and project manager working on the ADILA project. His role within this project is to create a geospatially-aware PostgreSQL database to store AMR and AMU data and to then create and manage data pipelines to process, curate, and disseminate these data.

He graduated in Applied Biology at the University of Bath in 1989 and had a subsequent career in information technology within the higher education sector. He worked first at Oxford Brookes University and then at the University of Oxford, building databases and applications to support administrative processes. These included bespoke student record and human resources systems. Over time, he moved into more senior roles, with his ultimate position at IT services at the University of Oxford being Head of Systems Support and Maintenance.

In 2015, Michael joined the Malaria Atlas Project (MAP – www.malariaatlas.org/), which was at the time based in the University of Oxford. He ran a multi-disciplinary team of database designers, computer programmers, map-makers, and research assistants gathering, preparing, and curating the data required for MAP’s geospatial modelling projects.

When MAP relocated to Perth, Western Australia in 2019, Michael joined the GRAM project at the University of Oxford’s Big Data Institute, working with Dr. Catrin Moore to create a geospatially-aware PostgreSQL database to store AMR data.

In January 2021, Michael joined the UK Biobank (University of Oxford) working for Professor Naomi Allen. Michael was responsible for the strategic direction of participant tabular data management as well has running UK Biobank’s two teams of data analysts.

Michael joined the ADILA project at the end of September 2022.

Social Scientist

Lauren Wallis

I support all teams across the CNPI to raise awareness of scientific outputs and current research, share the Centre’s vision, and shape engagement with the public and external collaborators on adult, paediatric, and neonatal research.

Reader in Bioinformatics

Adam Witney

Academic Research Fellow

Shrey Mathur

Shrey is an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Primary Care. He is interested in the role of policy changes to improve antibiotic use in primary care and community settings. With the AMR Team at St George’s, University of London, he is working to better classify antibiotics within the AWaRe framework. At Queen Mary University of London and with colleagues at Zvitambo Institute for Maternal and Child Health Research, he is working to better understand the impact of global cotrimoxazole strategies on child health as well as barriers to uptake of cotrimoxazole prophylaxis for HIV exposed infants in rural Zimbabwe. He divides his week between his clinical role as a primary care physician in East London and his academic roles.

Prior to his current role, Shrey evaluated the evidence base for paediatric antibiotics at St George’s, University of London. In Germany, he has worked on improving prehospital stroke management with Mobile Stroke Units and investigating its applicability to rural and underserved areas. He has completed BSc at McGill University in Montreal and medical training in Prague and the United Kingdom.

Clinical Research Fellow

Mbozu Grace Sipalo

Mbozu Grace Sipalo is a neonatal clinician and early career researcher with multifaceted experience in newborn health spanning clinical practice, implementation research, global health policy, knowledge management with digital communications. She earned her medical degree from Ulyanovsk State University in Russia and subsequently returned to Zambia, where she completed a two-year internship at the country’s largest tertiary hospital, the University Teaching Hospital (UTH).

Following her internship, Dr. Sipalo joined the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) team at UTH, where she pursued a skills-based postgraduate diploma in neonatology. Witnessing the high neonatal mortality rates in Zambia inspired her to further her education with a Master’s in Global Health Policy from the University of Edinburgh, with the goal of strengthening health policies that impact newborn care in high-burden countries.

Before joining the CNPI team, Dr. Sipalo served as one of the Knowledge Management Leads for the Implementation Toolkit for Small and Sick Newborn Care (Newborn Toolkit) — co-created by NEST360 and UNICEF at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Since September 2025, she has been working as a Clinical Research Fellow at CNPI, gaining hands-on experience in conducting global clinical trials on neonatal sepsis in high-burden settings. Dr. Sipalo is passionate about fostering collaboration, partnership, and knowledge sharing in the newborn health space. She is also the founder and co-host of the Global Neonatal Podcast, which aims to amplify the voices of newborn health leaders making remarkable strides in resource-limited settings.

Senior Research Project Manager

Charlotte Sanders

Research Associate

Hossam Almadhoon

Research Project Manager

Gauri Kumar

Gauri is a research project manager currently working on the Fleming Fund-Technical Assistance for Clinical Engagement (TACE) Asia and Africa projects. She is also providing support on the AWaRe1 and NeoSep-ADAPT projects. 

Research Fellow

Dr Kyaw Zay Ya

Kyaw Zay Ya is a Research Fellow at the Global Antibiotic Policy Initiative (GAPi), based within the Centre for Neonatal and Paediatric Infection and the Antibiotic Policy Group at the School of Health and Medical Sciences. He is actively involved in research on antibiotic use and resistance, with primary responsibilities that include data analysis for a large-scale GAPi project aimed at identifying optimal antibiotic exposure targets. A medical doctor and health systems researcher, Kyaw brings over a decade of experience in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), artemisinin-resistant malaria, and antimicrobial resistance (AMR). His expertise spans health systems research, health economics, and public health programme management, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), with professional experience across Myanmar, Sweden, Switzerland, and Singapore.

He holds a PhD (Dr. sc. med.) in Epidemiology and Public Health from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and the University of Basel, Switzerland, and a Master’s degree in Public Health Sciences, specialising in Health Economics, Policy, and Management, from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. He completed his medical degree (Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery) at the University of Medicine I, Yangon, Myanmar.

Research Associate

Annie Heath

Annie Heath is a Research Associate in the Centre for Neonatal and Paediatric Infectious Diseases at City St George’s, University of London. She holds a Master’s in Epidemiology and Population Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a Bachelor’s in Medical Anthropology from the University of Virginia. Her work explores the use of data to improve antibiotic prescribing and inform stewardship interventions predominately with partners in Africa and Asia. Her research interests include maternal and neonatal health, antibiotic use, and infectious diseases.

Senior Research Project Manager

Elise Digga