Faith Osier

Professor Faith Osier has a Chair in Immunology and Vaccinology at Imperial College London where she also serves as Co-Director of the Institute of Infection. She is Past-President of the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS) and Visiting Professor of Malaria Immunology at the University of Oxford.

She previously served as the Executive Director of the IAVI Human Immunology Laboratory at Imperial College London.  She is experienced in the evaluation of naturally acquired and vaccine-induced immune responses against malaria and other infectious diseases.  Her research focuses on Plasmodium falciparum malaria and includes vaccine candidate discovery, the identification of correlates of protection and the mechanisms that underpin immunity.

She has served on multiple international boards and committees at the WHO, Wellcome Trust, United Kingdom Research Innovation (UKRI), MVI-PATH & BactiVac, and is an Official #TOGETHERBAND Ambassador for the UN Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health & Well-being. She is passionate about African scientists as key agents of change, delivering the health interventions the continent urgently needs. Prof Osier was awarded the prestigious Honorary Lifetime Membership of the British Society of Immunology in 2022.