A Profile of Professor Keith Cartwright
MA BM FRCPath FFPH

Professor Cartwright is the Meningitis Trust's medical director and as such acts as an ex-officio member of the research advisory panel.

He was Director of the Public Health Laboratory at Gloucester from 1981 to 1995 and then Group Director of PHLS South West until the closure of the PHLS in 2003. His final post before retirement in July 2004 was as Head of Intervention Policy and R&D for the newly created Health Protection Agency. His principal research interests have been in the epidemiology, diagnosis and management of meningococcal disease and other severe community-acquired infections. He continues as chairman of the HPA Meningococcus Forum, and is still a member of the UK Department of Health's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation.

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