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Full NameProfessor Christine Kelly
- genetics, genomics and molecular biology
- infectious disease and the immune system
- one health
- global health/inclusion health
- Medicine
- Pathology
- Public Health
- Health Informatics
- Infectious diseases
- Immunology
- Pharmacology
- Respiratory Medicine
- Rheumatology
- Veterinary Epidemiology
- Veterinary Public Health
My work is carried out within the Centre for Experimental Pathogen Host Research, UCD, Dublin and focuses on research in global health and clinical virology. Clinically, I am an Infectious Diseases consultant and work within the National High Level Isolation Unit in the MMUH, Dublin. I hold a Health Research Board Clinician Scientist Fellowship, which is investigating approaches to improving Irish clinical diagnostic pathways for imported fever syndromes in order to help strengthen national outbreak surveillance. It also comprises a component of pathogen discovery, with plans to validate and assess the diagnostic utility of viral metagenomics. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3239-7714
Out team has a strong focus on academic clinical medicine in the field of global health and we are keen to further incorporate research that collaborates with other One Health specialisms and international institutions in HCID endemic settings, as well as public and patient partners. We work in a supportive environment and particularly encourage researchers from backgrounds that are under-represented in academia.
Current areas of research within the CEPHR global health virology group currently include:
1. Optimisation of clinical diagnostic pathways for diagnosis of imported fever
2. Validation and assessment of diagnostic utility of viral metagenomics for imported fever
3. Validation and assessment of diagnostic utility of PhiPSeq for imported fever
4. Evaluation of the barriers to accessing care and achieving optimal clinical outcomes for women living with HIV in direct provision
5. Assessment of the standard of care provided to patients presenting with imported fever to MMUH
6. Investigation of the role of non-INSTI enzyme resistance mutations in people diagnosed with HIV in the UK
Future priority questions include:
1. Evaluation of clinically translatable agnostic approaches for the diagnosis of imported fever syndromes, including bacterial and helminth infections
2. Characterisation of HIV resistance and optimal treatment approaches in PLWH migrating to Ireland.
3. Understanding optimal approaches to HCID training and simulation in a low risk setting
4. HCID near patient diagnostic approaches
5. Implementation of a experimental anti-viral platform for High Consequence RNA viruses.
6. Design and implementation of an outbreak therapeutics service, including pragmatic clinical studies for vaccine safety and efficacy.
7. Communicable disease prevention and screening in migrant populations
ICAT fellows working with our group benefit from the support of the CEPHR infrastructure. They have access to a wealth of potential co-supervisors, including Professor Paddy Mallon and Professor Mary Horgan.