Sharon Peacock is Professor of Public Health and Microbiology in the Department of Medicine. She is on secondment to Public Health England, where she is the Director of the National Infection Service. Sharon is also a Non-Executive Director at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and an independent advisor to the Drug Resistant Infection Priority Programme at the Wellcome. Sharon is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, an elected Member of EMBO, and was awarded a CBE for services to medical microbiology in 2015.