Mary Ramsay

Scientific Advisory Panel

Dr Mary Ramsay is a Consultant Epidemiologist in the Immunisation Department at the Health Protection Agency, Centre for Infections in Colindale, London.  Dr Ramsay joined the Agency in 1994 after training in Public Health Medicine and holding an academic post at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, London.  She is responsible for surveillance of polio, measles, Hib and meningococcal disease, hepatitis B and C in England and Wales.  As temporary advisor to the WHO European Office she wrote the strategy for measles elimination in Europe, and provides epidemiological input into ELSM, a European research network for the laboratory surveillance of measles.  Her research interests involve establishing the potential role for new vaccines.