As one of the four Public Health Agencies of the UK, Public Health England (PHE) plays a key role in the COG-UK consortium. PHE has been central to the national response to COVID-19, and has led this proposal to develop a national capability to sequence SARS-CoV-2 and use this to inform public health interventions.
Public Health England aims to address urgent threats to health in the 21st century. The organisation has been central to the national response to COVID-19, and has led this proposal to develop a national capability to sequence the causative virus and use this to inform public health interventions.
The COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium will be led by Sharon Peacock as a collaborative initiative to capture information on the virus and from patients so as to reduce the impact from the COVID-19 epidemic in the UK.
Contributors:
- Professor Sharon Peacock, Director of the COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) Consortium and Director of the National Infection Service, Public Health England
- Richard Myers, Interim Head of Bioinformatics, PHE Core Bioinformatics Unit
- Professor Saheer Gharbia, Genomics Research Unit
- Dr Tamyo Mbisa, Head of the Antiviral Unit and Clinical Scientist at the Virus Reference Department at Public Health England
- Dr Angie Lackenby, Sequencing Lead, Clinical Scientist, Respiratory Virus Unit, Virus Reference Department, National Infection Service
- Dr Shahjahan Miah, Technical Lead for Sequencing, Respiratory Virus Unit, Virus Reference Department, National Infection Service
- Dr Steven Platt, Bioinformatician, Respiratory Virus Unit, Virus Reference Department, National Infection Service
- Dr Jonathan Hubb, Head of Central Sequencing Laboratory, National Infection Service
- Dr Meera Chand, Consultant Microbiologist
- Dr Gavin Dabrera, Consultant Epidemiologist
- Dr Mary Ramsay, Head of Immunisations
- Dr Daniel Bradshaw, Consultant Virologist
- Dr Peter Muir, Clinical Scientist [LinkedIN] [ORCID] [Researchgate]
- Dr Ian B Vipond, Clinical Scientist [LinkedIN] [Researchgate]
- Mr Richard Hopes, Virology Laboratory Manager Bristol Public Health England [LinkedIN]
- Hannah Pymont, Trainee Clinical Scientist [LinkedIN] [Researchgate]
- Ms Stephanie Hutchings, Trainee Clinical Scientist in Infection Sciences [LinkedIN]
- Dr Frank Schwach, Senior Computational Biologist
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