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Martin Kiernan has worked in infection prevention and control for 32 years in a variety of settings. He is Reader in Epidemiology at the Richard Wells Research Centre at the University of West London, Conjoint Fellow at the University of Newcastle (New South Wales) and a Clinical Consultant to GAMA Healthcare.
He is a former Nurse Consultant and Deputy Director of Infection Prevention and Control at Southport and Ormskirk NHS Trust in North-West England. In 2020 and 2021 during the COVID pandemic he worked as an Infection Prevention lead at the London Nightingale Hospital constructed inside an exhibition centre at the request of the UK Government. Martin was a member of the Department of Health (England) advisory committee on antimicrobial resistance, prescribing and healthcare-associated infection for ten years, is past president of the Infection Prevention Society (IPS) and was chair of the scientific program committee of the Healthcare Infection Society (HIS) international conferences in 2014, 2016 and 2018. Along with colleagues from Australia, he co-hosts a podcast series called ‘Infection Control Matters’ focusing on the latest research and other topical issues in infection prevention. His research interests centre on environmental hygiene, healthcare-associated pneumonia and urinary catheter-associated infection. He has presented at many international conferences and has published over 60 papers and articles in peer-reviewed journals. |