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Alison H Holmes
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Alison H Holmes

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Alison Holmes
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Female
Education
master's degree
Harvard University
Cambridge, Middlesex County, USA
(-1995)
Royal College of Physicians, London
London Borough of Camden, Greater London, United Kingdom
(-1989)
Master of Arts
University of Cambridge
Cambridgeshire, East of England, United Kingdom
(-1985)
Bachelor of Arts
University of Cambridge
Cambridgeshire, East of England, United Kingdom
(-1982)
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Imperial College London
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Greater London, United Kingdom
(2014-)
Imperial College Faculty of Medicine
London, Kingdom of Wessex, United Kingdom
(2009-)
Imperial College London
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Greater London, United Kingdom
(2009-)
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
London, Kingdom of Wessex, United Kingdom
(2007-)
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Biography

Alison Helen Holmes OBE FRCP FMedSci FRCPI is a British infectious diseases specialist, who is a professor at Imperial College London and the University of Liverpool. Holmes serves as Director of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance and Consultant at Hammersmith Hospital. Holmes is on the Executive Committee of the International Society of Infectious Diseases, and she serves on a variety of World Health Organization (WHO) expert groups related to antimicrobial use, Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), infection prevention and sepsis. Her research considers how to mitigate antimicrobial resistance.

Early life and education

Holmes went to school in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Her father was a doctor in Nigeria. Holmes completed her Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degree in medicine at the University of Cambridge and St George’s Hospital Medical School. She specialised in Infectious Diseases and General (Internal) Medicine.

Research and career

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) represents a major threat to healthcare. There are increasing numbers of bacteria that can no longer be treated with antibiotics. At Imperial College London Holmes leads Centre for Antimicrobial Optimisation, a research centre that looks to tackle drug-resistant infection. She is Director of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare Associated Infections and AMR.

In 2023, Holmes launched the Centres for Antimicrobial Optimisation Network (CAMO-Net), a Wellcome Trust funded research collaboration of universities based in 11 different countries, designed to address antimicrobial resistance and support antimicrobial optimisation for use in humans.

Selected publications

Honours and awards

Holmes was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2017.

She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2021 Birthday Honours for services to medicine and infectious diseases, particularly during Covid-19.

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