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Coughs and Sneezes Spread Diseases: understanding the spread of respiratory viruses
Dame Anne Johnson is Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at University College London, Co-Director of UCL Health of the Public and President of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS). After training in medicine in Cambridge and Newcastle Universities, she specialised in Epidemiology and Public Health. Her career has focussed on research into the epidemiology and prevention of HIV, sexually transmitted infections and respiratory infections such as Influenza and COVID-19.
She was a member of the Royal Society Delve Committee studying COVID-19 and serves on a number of advisory groups on COVID-19 research. She is an author of the AMS reports on ‘Preparing for a Challenging Winter’ and ‘COVID-19 : Preparing for the Future’.
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