Harish Nair
Bio
Professor Harish Nair is co-Director of Centre for Global Health as well as co-Director of WHO Collaborating Centre for Population Health Research and Training at the University of Edinburgh. He is Chair of Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Global Health at the Edinburgh Medical School and leads the Respiratory Viral Epidemiology Research Group at the University of Edinburgh. He has led several large collaborative projects on global child health and infectious diseases and has raised over £62 million in research grant income and has published over 230 articles, 45 of them in high impact factor journals. He currently leads (and is the coordinator of) the REspiratory Syncytial virus Consortium in EUrope (RESCEU) (http://resc-eu.org/) and Preparing for RSV Immunization and Surveillance in Europe (PROMISE) (https://imi-promise.eu/). Prof Nair is an adviser to the World Health Organisation and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; and a founding board member of ReSViNET. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and Faculty of Public Health (UK). He is a Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate 2021-2023) and received the Barney Graham Award for contribution to RSV Research in 2021.
