I’m very fortunate to lead a small but perfectly-formed team of lovely, talented and very dedicated people at the Sanger Institute Genomic Surveillance Unit, together with visiting fellows and students from other institutes.

We aren’t a conventional research group because a major focus of our work is scientific capacity-building, i.e., providing support and creating resources and tools that enable others to do great science and apply it to infectious disease surveillance. Academic publications are not our primary focus, we gauge our success by the scientific outputs and impact of our partners and collaborators, who are mainly based in Africa. Our work is a blend of collaborative science, data and software engineering, training and knowledge-transfer. We work closely with other teams within GSU, particularly Vikki Simpson and Cristina Ariani’s teams, and with many other scientific groups in both the northern and southern hemispheres.

Current members

Former members

I’ve been very privileged to work with the following wonderful people either in my team at Sanger GSU or during my time previously leading a team within the Centre for Genomics and Global Health at Oxford University.