Dr Xin Hui Chan, one of OUCAGS’ clinical lecturers, has won the competitive 2024 Barnett Christie Lecture award of the British Infection Association (BIA).
As part of the award, Dr Chan delivered a lecture entitled ‘Drugs for Tropical Infections: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Infectious Disease Physician’ at the FIS/HIS International 2024 conference of the Federation of Infection Societies (FIS). In addition, she will receive £1500.
The Barnett Christie Lecture at FIS award is open to UK- and Ireland-based, clinically-qualified trainees in infection or infection-related specialties who are not in a consultant-level post, as well as some non-clinical post-doctoral scientists.
The award recognises excellence in original research and the panel ranked Dr Chan’s application highest based on her body of research; its quality, novelty, and impact; the lecture proposal; and her career trajectory.
In addition, Dr Chan has been awarded an Excellence and Innovation in Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - Young Investigator Award by ESCMID (European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases). This will be formally presented to her at ESCMID Global 2025, to be held in Vienna, Austria, in April. The award recognises excellence in research and fosters further work at top scientific level. It includes the opportunity to give an honorary lecture at the "Young Investigator Award Lectures" symposium of the ESCMID congress and 5,000 EUR towards professional development activities.
Dr Chan has worked in Southeast Asia, East and West Africa, North America, and Southeast Europe. She serves on WHO committees for drugs for dengue and malaria, the UKHSA Malaria Advisory Group, and the Editorial Boards of Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease and PLOS Global Public Health.
View Dr Chan’s profile on the OUCAGS website.
