
Prof Sarah O'Brien MB BS, FRCP, FFPHM, DTM&H
Professor Public Health, Policy & Systems
- Work email S.J.Obrien@liverpool.ac.uk
- About
- Research
- Publications
- Professional Activities
Professional Activities
Conference Roles
- What's on your plate?, by Invitation (Quincentennial Society of the Royal College of Physicians, London, 2016)
- Campylobacter: epidemiology of an enigmatic organism, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (18th International Workshop on Campylobacter and Helicobacter-Related Organisms (CHRO 2015), Rotorua, NZ, 2015)
- Surveillance to link food-producing animals, the environment and human medicine as a progressive measure to limit future resistance problems, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (University College Dublin, 2014)
- Foodborne Viruses, by Invitation (Food and Water Microbiology Proficiency Testing International Meeting, SOAS London, October 2014, 2014)
- What's on the horizon?, by Invitation (Food Safety Conference organised by Food Manufacture, 2014)
- Foodborne Viruses, by Invitation (Leatherhead Food Research, 2014)
- What has changed in 10 years in relation to gastrointestinal illnesses?, by Invitation (Innovet Organising Committee, 2012)
- (How) can surveillance be linked to inspections/audits?, by Invitation (Highfield ABC, 2012)
- Foodborne Viruses: Trends and Control, by Invitation (Campden BRI, 2012)
- Molecular Epidemiological Approaches for Managing Foodborne Disease, by Invitation (Food Standards Agency, 2012)
- There’s a lot of it about! The burden of diarrhoeal disease in the United Kingdom, by Invitation (Institute of Food Research, Norwich, 2012)
- Salmonella and imported eggs and poultry, by Invitation (SfAM, 2012)
- Burden of Illness Studies, by Invitation (Robert Koch Institute, 2011)
- The Second Study of Infectious Intestinal Disease in the Community, by Invitation (Health Protection Agency, 2011)
- Gastrointestinal Zoonoses in the UK: the changing demography of foodborne disease, by Invitation (National Centre for Zoonosis Research, 2011)
- Foodborne Viral Infections, by Invitation (Chartered Institute for Environmental Health, 2011)
- Infection Control Measures for Norovirus, by Invitation (ICAAC, 2010)
- Epidemiology of food-borne infection in the elderly: what has changed and why did it change?, by Invitation (ESCMID, 2010)
Editorships
- Epidemiology and Infection (Member of the Editoral Board, 2010 - present)
- Journal of Medical Microbiology (Associate Editor, 2008 - present)
Examination Roles
- The Open University, BSc (UG, 2011)
- The Open University, PhD (2010)
Organisations I have been associated with
- Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food (2001 - 2017)
- World Health Organisation (2009 - 2015)
Professional Body Memberships
- Royal College of Physicians (Fellow, 2005 - present)
- Faculty of Public Health (Fellow, 1999 - present)
- Royal Society of Medicine (Member, 1992 - present)
- British Infection Society (Member, 1992 - present)
- British Medical Association (Member, 1986 - present)
- General Medical Council (Member, 1986 - present)
Other Administrative or Committee Roles
- Chair, University of Liverpool Research Governance Committee
- Director of the National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit in Gastrointestinal Infections, which is a partnership with Public Health England in collaboration with the Universities of East Anglia and Oxford and the Institute of Food Research
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