Director (Interim): Clinical and Emerging Infections &
Deputy Director: HCAI, Fungal, AMR, AMU, & Sepsis Division
Clinical & Public Health Group
Director of WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference & Research on Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infections
UK Health Security Agency, United Kingdom
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Colin Brown is an Infectious Disease & Medical Microbiology attending physician working at UK Health Security Agency on a portfolio of clinical and emerging infection, antimicrobial resistance and global health. His time is currently split between treating patients with clinical infections (including high consequence infectious diseases) at the Royal Free Hospital in London, working on domestic infection policy in healthcare-associated infection and antimicrobial resistance activities as Deputy Director of the Clinical Public Health Group (Head of the healthcare-associated infection and antimicrobial resistance Division), and as interim Director of Clinical and Emerging Infections. He has worked on global health security supporting several African countries for many years improve their infectious disease diagnostic capabilities for emerging infections. He is co-Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference & Research on Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infections, and UKHSA Director for the Imperial College London NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance. He was national incident director for UKHSA's response to the winter Group A Streptococcal surge in 2022.