Francis Drobniewski

Francis is Professor of Global Health and Tuberculosis at Imperial College, London and a Consultant clinical and public health microbiologist and physician. He has 25 years’ experience in clinical and public health aspects of infectious diseases as well as running respiratory disease research programmes focusing on TB/HIV infections, COVID19, molecular diagnostics, vaccines and antimicrobial drug resistance, with integration of clinical, biological and social themes. He was Director of the UK National TB center for 19 years, a consultant to the WHO, and was an NHS Community Foundation Trust Non-Executive Director where he focused on End-of-Life and disability related issues for the Board. He is a member of the NICE committee which determines which drugs will be offered by the NHS. He has lived in Greenwich most of his life, now with his wife and daughter. He hopes to bring some of his clinical, funding and healthcare system experience as a Trustee