As one of the four public health agencies of the UK, the UK Health Security (UKHSA) plays a key role in the COG-UK consortium. UKHSA 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 the proposal to develop a national capability to sequence the causative virus and use this to inform public health interventions.
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
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-health-security-agency
