Scottish Government Tackling Infections Bioscience UKRI Policy Fellowship

A fellowship will work with SG and stakeholders on infectious bioscience.
The project will collate existing data on the infectious organisms/pathogens that have been identified from multiple sources using public funding. This will involve identifying organisations as the sources of data, recording the design of the surveillance/sampling activity – including the pathogen identified and species sampled etc., manipulating data for analysis, and mapping the infectious organisms/pathogens by year and geographical location. The Fellow will be involved in deciding on the scope of the project which may be defined by available time – e.g. to focus on zoonotic pathogens specifically, or to focus on the most important/prevalent pathogens in each host species/environmental location, and to focus on a specific number of years retrospectively.
The project will identify the organisations holding culture collections/biobanks and will create a database of isolates/strains/variants that could have potential use for genomic studies including Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS).

This project maps out Scotland's collective expertise on a group of infectious disease agents that are transmitted from animals or environmental sources to impact human health, known as One Health pathogens.
The project works with Scottish Government to understand where the expertise lies and the best way of sharing the information so that it can be used effectively.