Full Name
Prof Anna Seale
Hospital/Organisation/Company
Gates Foundation
Speaker Bio
Anna is Principal Officer, Maternal Immunization Product Development and Surveillance at the Gates Foundation. She is an Honorary Professor of Public Health at the University of Warwick and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Anna is clinically qualified and specialized in paediatrics prior to public health. She has worked extensively on the epidemiology of perinatal infection, particularly Group B Streptococcus. She has set-up surveillance platforms in East Africa, and studied outbreaks, leading an analytical team in the Department of Health, UK, at the height of COVID-19. She currently leads the Maternal Immunization and Group B Streptococcus Vaccine Initiatives at the Gates Foundation. She is now based in the UK, having lived for several years in East Africa (Kenya and Ethiopia).
Anna is clinically qualified and specialized in paediatrics prior to public health. She has worked extensively on the epidemiology of perinatal infection, particularly Group B Streptococcus. She has set-up surveillance platforms in East Africa, and studied outbreaks, leading an analytical team in the Department of Health, UK, at the height of COVID-19. She currently leads the Maternal Immunization and Group B Streptococcus Vaccine Initiatives at the Gates Foundation. She is now based in the UK, having lived for several years in East Africa (Kenya and Ethiopia).
