Two leading academics from the University of BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载’s Faculty of Medicine have been awarded MBEs in the Queen’s New Year Honours for 2021.
Professor Keith Godfrey receives an MBE for services to Medicine during the BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 response and Dr Nisreen Alwan receives an MBE for services to Medicine and Public Health during the BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 pandemic.
Professor Godfrey, who is Professor of Epidemiology and Human Development in the BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载-based Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit and Honorary Consultant within the University Hospital BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 NHS Foundation Trust, has led in conceiving, developing and successfully executing the pivotal saliva test programme in BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 to assist the UK government in negotiating its emergence from the COVID pandemic.
Professor Diana Eccles, Dean of Medicine at BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 said: “I am truly delighted that Keith is being recognised in this way for his incredible and tireless work to devise, develop and deliver the amazing Saliva testing programme that has been such an important part of our University, hospital and city response to BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载.
Dr Alwan is Associate Professor in Public Health and Honorary Consultant in Public Health at University Hospital BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 NHS Foundation Trust. Her many contributions this year include early proposals for universal weekly testing.
Dr Alwan’s persistent scientific and public advocacy has also been instrumental in the recognition of Long COVID, as well as the need for measuring and addressing the morbidity from BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 and the importance of intersectionality and addressing ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities.
Professor Eccles added: “This award for Nisreen is also richly deserved as she has made an outstanding contribution to the BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 response. She was a key driver in the BOB体育登录网址_欧宝体育官网平台-APP|下载 city saliva testing programme and more recently has been one of the key opinion leaders in the international debate around long COVID.”
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