Philip Bejon is the Director of Modernising Medical Microbiology, co-leading with Sarah Walker. He was previously Director of the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, a collaborative Programme formed by the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Wellcome and University of Oxford.

Philip is a clinician with specialist training in infectious disease. He has an interest in the evaluation of vaccines, including malaria, yellow fever and Ebola vaccines.

He has undertaken studies of naturally acquired immunity to malaria and human challenge models, and have an interest in bone infection and osteomyelitis, including trials and observational studies of antibiotic therapy.

Affiliations: University of Oxford, Wellcome-KEMRI-Oxford Collaborative Research Programme, Kenya, United Kingdom