Samuel K. Sheppard
University of Oxford · Principal investigator
Microbial genomicist studying pathogen evolution, host adaptation, transmission and antimicrobial resistance.
People
People
Sam Sheppard leads CCC, with coordination spanning genomics, epidemiology, microbiology, sequencing, economics and One Health.
Coordinating investigators
Martin Antonio
MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM · Molecular microbiology
Uses molecular technologies for infectious-disease diagnosis, outbreak investigation, surveillance and antimicrobial-resistance research.
Frances M. Colles
University of Oxford · One Health
Campylobacter researcher studying host ecology, poultry colonisation and One Health approaches to reducing transmission.
Kanny Diallo
CSRS, Côte d’Ivoire · Molecular epidemiology
Molecular epidemiologist working on bacterial meningitis, genomics and infectious-disease surveillance in West Africa.
Andrew Farlow
University of Oxford · Global health economics
Economist working across global health policy, antimicrobial resistance, vaccines, epidemic preparedness and evidence-based intervention design.
Ozan Gundogdu
LSHTM · Enteric microbiology
Microbiologist studying Campylobacter physiology, pathogenesis and control using molecular and omics approaches.
Matthew Hitchings
Swansea University Medical School · Genomics & sequencing
Microbial genomicist using high-throughput sequencing, comparative genomics and bioinformatics to study microorganisms.
Mohammad Jahangir Hossain
MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM · Clinical epidemiology
Clinical epidemiologist focused on diarrhoeal disease, infectious-disease surveillance, outbreak investigation and vaccines.
Ben Pascoe
University of Oxford · Pathogen genomics
Campylobacter genomicist studying evolution, transmission and antimicrobial resistance for surveillance and control.
Abdul Karim Sesay
MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM · Genomics
Genomics specialist building sequencing capacity and public-health genomics in The Gambia and across West Africa.
Stella Ifeanyi Smith
Nigeria · Molecular epidemiology & AMR
Medical microbiologist specialising in molecular epidemiology, antimicrobial resistance and infectious-disease microbiomes.
Brendan W. Wren
LSHTM · Microbial pathogenesis & vaccines
Studies bacterial pathogenesis, genome biology and glycoengineering, including development of glycoconjugate vaccines.
Project team and collaborators
Field and research colleagues across partner institutions. Coordinating investigators are listed above and are not repeated here.
University of Oxford · IOI
- Madison Goforth ↗DPhil researcher · Campylobacter genomics and metagenomics
- Ahmed Taha Aboushady ↗DPhil researcher · antimicrobial-resistance surveillance
LSHTM · London vaccine team
- Burhan Lehri ↗Postdoctoral researcher · vaccine development
MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM
- Henry Badji
- Bakary Conteh
- Samba Juma Jallow
- Md Rafiquzzaman
- Sessinou Benoit Assogba
- Binta Faye
Nigeria · partner teams
- Abraham Ajayi
- Utibeima Udo Essiet
Côte d’Ivoire · CSRS
- Amelan Marie-Flore Didia
- Kouassi Firmin Missa
- Sylvain Gnamien Traoré