Diane Ashiru-Oredope Ph.D., Lead Pharmacist, AMR, UK Health Security Agency; Deputy Chief Scientist, RPS; Honorary Chair and Professor of Pharmaceutical Public Health, University of Nottingham
Professor Diane Ashiru-Oredope, a Credentialed Consultant Pharmacist is Deputy Chief Scientist for Royal Pharmaceutical Society and Lead Pharmacist for Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infections, UK Health Security Agency. She is also Honorary Chair & Professor of Pharmaceutical Public Health at University of Nottingham.
Diane chairs the English Surveillance Programme for Antimicrobial Utilisation and Resistance (ESPAUR), National Planning for World AMR Awareness Week and is lead for the Antibiotic Guardian campaign.
An antimicrobial pharmacist by background, Diane has led or significantly contributed to projects that have shaped national and international policy in tackling antimicrobial resistance, including UK AMR national action plan, WHO policy guidance on integrated antimicrobial stewardship activities and the global Antibiotic Guardian campaign. From 2016 until March 2022, she was advisor and Global AMR lead for the Commonwealth Pharmacists Association. In her CPA role as Global AMR lead, she co-led the development of and was the technical programme lead for the Commonwealth Partnerships for Antimicrobial Stewardship, which continues to operate across eight African countries.
She is research active and contributes proactively within academia including successfully leading or significantly contributing to more than 120 peer-review publications as well as delivering several invited presentations nationally, globally and writing several blogs, newspaper articles and editorials. She is on the editorial board of BMC Public Health Journal and was previously an Editor of the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Journal. She was recently awarded a 4-year NIHR Senior Clinical and Practitioner Research Award.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (FFRPS and FRPharmS) and the Commonwealth Pharmacists Association.