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ProfessorFrancis Drobniewski

Chair in Global Health and Tuberculosis

Department of Infectious Disease - Faculty of Medicine

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  • Chair in Global Health and Tuberculosis
    Department of Infectious Disease - Faculty of Medicine
  • Commonwealth Building, Hammersmith Campus, United Kingdom

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • GUEST LECTURE
    SELECTED
    Selected
    Management and Leadership in Healthcare:The realities of quality compassionate leadership rather than poor management
    23 Nov 2022
    MSc in Health Management, City University of London
  • AWARD
    Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology
    14 Feb 2025
    American Society of Microbiology
  • GUEST LECTURE
    How do clinicians help people to do the right thing?
    28 Feb 2024
    University of Malta
  • OUTREACH ACTIVITY
    School Community Outreach
    2 Oct 2023
    Townley Grammar School, London
  • LINK WITH ANOTHER ACADEMIC BODY
    Visiting Professor
    1 Oct 2022 - 1 Oct 2026
    Bournemouth University
  • EXTERNAL COMMITTEE
    NICE Technical. Appraisal Committee
    1 Jul 2022
  • EXTERNAL COMMITTEE
    WHO External Review Group:Consolidated Guidelines on Tuberculosis: Module 3: Diagnosis: Skin tests for the diagnosis of TB Infection
    1 Apr 2022
  • EXTERNAL COMMITTEE
    MRC DPFS Grant Panel
    3 May 2021
  • OUTREACH ACTIVITY
    Presentation to encourage uptake of Covid vaccination (opens in a new tab)⁠
    3 Dec 2020
    Kent Community Health NHS Foundation trust
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  • INDUSTRIAL CONNECTION
    Imperial College Patent
    8 Oct 2020
    UK patent application No: 1914359.3 Screening prior to cardiothoracic surgery
  • OUTREACH ACTIVITY
    TB Book
    24 Sep 2020
  • EXTERNAL COMMITTEE
    South East Region Covid Ethical Advisory Group
    1 Jun 2020
  • LINK WITH ANOTHER ACADEMIC BODY
    Consultant
    1 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2020
    World Health Organisation
  • GUEST LECTURE
    TB Diagnosis-Global Progress, Problem Solved?
    13 Nov 2018
    Federation Infection Societies International Conference
  • EXTERNAL COMMITTEE
    Apothecaries' Prize and 400 Anniversary Committee
    1 Nov 2018
  • LINK WITH ANOTHER ACADEMIC BODY
    Non-Executive Director
    1 Nov 2018
    Kent Community NHS Foundation Trust
  • GUEST LECTURE
    Current and future technical options for the diagnosis of drug resistant tuberculosis
    17 Oct 2018
    Institut Pasteur and Shenzhen CDC
  • GUEST LECTURE
    : Management of mycobacterial infections and associated comorbidities.
    27 Sep 2018
    ESCMID and ESCMID Study Group for Mycobacterial Infections
  • OUTREACH ACTIVITY
    Can we make the world TB-free?
    10 Sep 2018
    Guardian News and Media, Kings Place, London
  • OUTREACH ACTIVITY
    Superbug
    8 May 2018
    Amos Pictures
  • OUTREACH ACTIVITY
    Imperial Festival 2018
    28 Apr 2018
    Imperial College
  • EXTERNAL COMMITTEE
    British Thoracic Society Multiple Drug Resistant Tuberculosis
    8 Jan 2018
  • EXTERNAL COMMITTEE
    WHO rGLC/Europe workshop on new drugs and new treatment regimens
    25 Jul 2017 - 26 Jul 2017
  • GUEST LECTURE
    Tuberculosis:from molecular diagnosis, drug susceptibility testing and genome sequencing to treatment of MDR and XDR-TB.
    22 Jun 2017
    Institut Pasteur
  • LINK WITH ANOTHER ACADEMIC BODY
    Consultant Medical Microbiologist
    12 Jun 2017
    Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Bournemouth Hospital NHS Foundation trust now University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust. Deputy Chairman Quality Committee Chairman Charities Committee