Dr Ceire Costelloe awarded NIHR Career Development Fellowship

Dr Ceire Costelloe has been awarded a three year full time fellowship

The NIHR Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) is delighted to announce that Dr Céire Costelloe has been awarded a personal NIHR Career Development Fellowship.

This award offers 3 years full-time funding to individuals who have demonstrated ability to become independent researchers and have significant and successful post-doctoral experience including demonstrated development of research skills in others. The award includes research funding, training and career development and capacity building through provision of a PhD studentship.

Dr Costelloe’s mentors are:

• Professor Alison Holmes, Director of the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) in Healthcare Associated Infection (HCAI) and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)
• Professor Sandra Eldridge of the NIHR Pragmatic Clinical Trials Unit at Queen Mary Univerisity London.
• Other members of the research team include HPRU colleagues Professor Paul Aylin and Dr Susan Hopkins (Public health England) and Dr Sonia Saxena (Department of Primary Care and Public Health)

The research will focus on developing a framework for evaluating interventions targeting antimicrobial resistance (AMR), using routinely collected clinical data and novel causal inference methods. The research addresses calls from the Department of Health, the NIHR and MRC to utilise routinely collected data to evaluate clinical and public health interventions for the NHS and will demonstrate the benefits of using these data to shape future healthcare policy and practice.