DrChristine Kelly

Dr Christine Kelly is a Principal Investigator at Infection Research Ireland at UCD (formerly Centre for Experimental Pathogen Host Research, CEPHR), where she received over 1 million funding under the HRB’s prestigious Clinician Scientist Fellowships (CSF) scheme to study diagnostic pathways for imported fever. She has undergone extensive academic training beginning with an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship in 2012, through the University of Liverpool and based in Malawi, investigating HIV-associated neurocognitive impairment. She was then awarded the prestigious Wellcome Trust Training Fellowship in Global Health, again based in Malawi and investigating persistent immune activation and endothelial damage in patients presenting with HIV and advanced immune suppression. She completed specialist training in Infectious Diseases and General Internal Medicine in Ireland, carried out sub-specialisation in Clinical Virology through a fellowship at the Virus Reference Department, UKHSA and works as Consultant in Infectious Diseases in the National Isolation Unit at the Mater Hospital in Dublin (MMUH), where she subspecialises in clinical virology. She is interested in supporting trainees and forming collaborations in the areas of clinical virology and global health.