Rate My Professor Alison Holmes

Professor Alison Holmes is a Professor of Infectious Diseases at Imperial College London. She holds additional appointments as the David Price Evans Chair of Infectious Diseases and Global Health at the University of Liverpool and serves as a consultant at Hammersmith Hospital. Holmes completed her medical training with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery from the University of Cambridge and St George’s Hospital Medical School, followed by specialization in infectious diseases and general internal medicine, and further studies at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Her research focuses on antimicrobial resistance, infection prevention and control, and antimicrobial stewardship. She directs the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance at Imperial College London and leads the Centre for Antimicrobial Optimisation. In 2023, she launched the Centres for Antimicrobial Optimisation Network (CAMO-Net), a Wellcome Trust-funded international collaboration across 11 countries. Holmes is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (elected 2017) and was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2021 for services to medicine and infectious diseases. She serves on the Executive Committee of the International Society of Infectious Diseases and multiple World Health Organization expert groups on antimicrobial use, resistance, infection prevention, and sepsis. Holmes has contributed to key publications on the mechanisms and drivers of antimicrobial resistance, international cooperation on antimicrobials, and governance approaches to resistance control. She also directs infection prevention and control at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and was appointed inaugural Director of the Fleming Initiative in 2024.