Dr Derek Cocker MBChB BSc MRes PhD DTM&H

Personal Statement

Dr Derek Cocker is an Academic Clinical Lecturer in Infectious Diseases and Global Health. Working within the David Price Evans Group, his current work focusses on evaluating the one heath drivers of antimicrobial resistance.

Derek studied biochemistry and post-graduate medicine in Liverpool before beginning his clinical training in in 2010. He was appointed as an NIHR academic foundation trainee with the Brain Infections Group at the University of Liverpool and went on to complete his senior house officer training in the Mersey deanery. In 2014, he moved to London as a registrar in Infectious Disease and General Internal Medicine. Throughout his clinical training he spent time working in Malawi and Tanzania on a broad range of projects, and in 2017, completed the Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. In 2018 he was awarded a Wellcome Trust clinical PhD fellowship to study the drivers of ESBL antimicrobial resistance in Southern Malawi, under the supervision of Prof. Nicholas Feasey at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Derek was based at the Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme in Blantyre, Malawi for the duration of his clinical PhD studies, and was awarded his PhD in Tropical Medicine in 2022.