London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

​​Beate Kampmann is Professor of Global Health and the scientific director of the newly established Charite Centre for Global Health and the Institut fur Internationale Gesundheit, Charite Virchow Campus, Charite Universitatsmedizin, Berlin.  

After more than 30 years abroad, she recently relocated to Berlin from a Chair in Paediatric Infection & Immunity at The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), where she directed the Vaccine Centre at LSHTM. Over the last 12 years, she has divided her working time between London and The Gambia, West Africa, where she led the vaccine research at the MRC Unit-The Gambia and still continues to manage her project and PhD student supervision.   

​Beate trained as a clinician-scientist in paediatric infectious diseases in Germany, France, USA, South Africa and the UK and holds an MD from the University of Cologne and a PhD from Imperial College, UK. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in the UK and the West African College of Physicians and an MRC Senior Researcher.   

​​Her translational research portfolio focuses on innate and acquired immune responses to infection and vaccination, including in pregnant women and infants and the conduct of clinical trials of novel vaccines and adjuvants. She is the director of IMPRINT- the IMmunising PRegnant women and INfants network, a UKRI-GCRF-funded multi-disciplinary and global network of scientists, clinicians and public health representatives with a special interest in vaccines for pregnant women and newborns.   

Robert Mboizi is an Investigator and Program Manager at MUJHU Care Ltd/MUJHU Research Collaboration and is a medical researcher with over 15 years of clinical research experience across three African countries (Malawi, The Gambia and Uganda). He is passionate about Maternal and infant vaccines research to reduce morbidity and mortality from vaccine preventable or potentially vaccine preventable diseases. Robert obtained his medical degree at Makerere University medical school in Uganda and second level master in vaccinology and pharmaceutical clinical development from the university of Siena in Italy.

Robert Mboizi is an Investigator and Program Manager at MUJHU Care Ltd/MUJHU Research Collaboration and is a medical researcher with over 15 years of clinical research experience across three African countries (Malawi, The Gambia and Uganda). He is passionate about Maternal and infant vaccines research to reduce morbidity and mortality from vaccine preventable or potentially vaccine preventable diseases. Robert obtained his medical degree at Makerere University medical school in Uganda and second level master in vaccinology and pharmaceutical clinical development from the university of Siena in Italy.

Paul Heath is a Professor and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and St George’s, University of London, where he is the Director of the Vaccine Institute. His training in paediatrics and infectious diseases was at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia; the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford; and St George’s Hospital, London. His research interests are in the epidemiology of vaccine preventable diseases, in clinical vaccine trials, particularly in at-risk groups and in perinatal infections. He coordinates a European neonatal infection surveillance network and the UK Paediatric Vaccine Group (UKPVG), and other work includes national UK surveillance on neonatal infections, maternal immunisation trials, vaccine studies in preterm infants and COVID-19 vaccine trials (including in pregnant women). He sits on national UK committees concerned with meningitis and Group B streptococcus prevention and is a member of the JCVI. He is Chair of the Research Committee of the European Society of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Section Editor of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Journal (maternal & neonatal), NIHR Speciality Lead for Children’s research for South London CRN and a member of the WHO GBS Working Group.