Professor Diane Ashiru-Oredope

Professor Diane Ashiru-Oredope, a Credentialed Consultant Pharmacist is Lead Pharmacist for the Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infections, UK Health Security Agency. She is also Deputy Chief Scientist for Royal Pharmaceutical Society and Honorary Chair & Professor of Pharmaceutical Public Health at University of Nottingham.

Professor Ashiru-Oredope, chairs the English Surveillance Programme for Antimicrobial Utilisation and Resistance (ESPAUR) and the National Planning Group for World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week.

An antimicrobial pharmacist by background, Diane has led and significantly contributed to several projects that have shaped national and international policy in tackling antimicrobial resistance, including Start Smart then Focus, WHO policy guidance on integrated antimicrobial stewardship activities and creating the global Antibiotic Guardian campaign in 2014. From 2016 until March 2022, she was advisor and Global AMR lead for the Commonwealth Pharmacists Association. In her CPA role as Global AMR lead, she co-led the development of and was the technical programme lead for the Commonwealth Partnerships for Antimicrobial Stewardship, which continues to operate across eight African countries.

She is research active and continues to contribute proactively within academia including successfully leading or significantly contributing to more than 120 peer-review publications as well as delivering several invited presentations nationally and globally and writing blogs, newspaper articles and editorials. She is currently on the editorial board of BMC Public Health Journal and was previously an Editor of the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy and Antibiotics Journals. She was recently awarded a 4-year NIHR Senior Clinical and Practitioner Research Award.

She is a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (FFRPS and FRPharmS) and the Commonwealth Pharmacists Association.