HPA - Centre for Infections - David Brown
Dr David W G Brown MBBS MSc FRCPath FFPH
David Brown is director of the Virus Reference Department, Health Protection Agency. After training in medicine at Middlesex Hospital and in clinical virology in Birmingham and London, he worked on a Wellcome Trust project in South India. For the last 15 years he has worked as a public health virologist with an interest in developing and evaluating viral diagnostics for management of patients with and outbreaks of viral gastroenteritis in the UK and internationally. More recently this has focused on using molecular epidemiological techniques for investigating the burden and pattern of gastroenteritis viruses. He has a broad interest in the development of new surveillance programmes for a range of vaccine preventable diseases.
