Professor Sarah Walker, the Oxford BRC’s Co-theme Lead for Antimicrobial Resistance and Modernising Microbiology, is to receive an OBE.
Prof Walker, Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at the University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Medicine, was recognised for services to academia and the COVID-19 response.
She is the chief investigator and academic lead for the National Covid-19 Infection Survey, a collaboration between the University and the Office for National Statistics (ONS), investigating prevalence and incidence of current and past infections of the virus in the UK.