Ms Kathryn Wood

After 25 years of medical laboratory experience, Kathryn moved into research administration as the Initiative Manager of the Clinical Infectious Diseases Research initiative (CIDRI) in December 2008. After the success of the Initiative grant which resulted in the completion of 38 CIDRI and Carnegie Foundation doctorates and postdoctoral fellowships in the field of Infectious Diseases, she was appointed as the Operations Manager for the Wellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa, in March 2017. The main responsibilities are to centrally coordinate the activities of the Centre, to support the Director and advise and support the Platform leads and the Steering Committee regarding Centre activities and procedures. Her portfolio within the Centre includes the daily financial management, human resources management, organization of meetings, events and conferences, post graduate student support, general office management and line management of the administrative assistant, the laboratory manager and the communications manager.