Professor Anna Seale

Anna is Senior Program Officer, Maternal Immunization Product Development and Surveillance at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She was previously Professor of Public Health in Warwick and is an Honorary Professor of Public Health at LSHTM.
Anna is clinically qualified and specialized in paediatrics prior to public health. She has worked extensively on perinatal infection, particularly Group B Streptococcus. She has also set-up surveillance platforms, and studied outbreaks, leading an analytical team for the UKHSA (formerly Joint Biosecurity Centre) at the height of COVID-19. She is now based in the UK, having lived for several years in East Africa (Kenya and Ethiopia).