Kirsty Le Doare is a Professor of Vaccinology and Immunology at City St George’s University of London. She lives in Uganda where she is a Principal Scientist at Makerere University – Johns Hopkins University (MU-JHU) Research Collaboration. She is a clinician researcher in Paediatric Infectious Diseases and has established a large urban cohort in Uganda as a vaccine platform with her main interest being age-related immune responses to infectious diseases in pregnant women and their babies. She is currently a consultant working with the WHO on maternal immunisations, focussing on Group B Streptococcal vaccines.