Alasdair Munro
Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Pediatric Infectious Diseases, NIHR Clinical Research Facility Southampton and University of Southampton (UK)
Dr Alasdair Munro is a clinical research fellow specialising in pediatric infectious diseases, including early and late phase clinical trials of vaccines and antibiotics. Since March 2020 he has been leading the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health review of published evidence regarding COVID-19 in children, as well as working as senior fellow on a number of phase I – III COVID-19 vaccine candidate clinical trials, including the Oxford vaccine. Dr Munro sits on the NIHR Transmission of COVID-19 in Schools (ToCS) working group .
Dr Munro’s research interests include vaccinology and clinical trials, as well as the transmission of COVID-19 in children and the role of schools in wider community transmission. Other research interests include antimicrobial stewardship and the novel diagnostic methods for infections in children. Dr Munro also works as a clinician in paediatric emergency medicine.