Professor Alistair Leanord is a medical Microbiologist at Glasgow Royal Infirmary and Director of the Scottish Microbiology Laboratories, Glasgow who has a research interest in healthcare associated infections and antimicrobial resistance using genome sequencing, informatics and interventional infection control. Current Chair of the UK Advisory Committee on Antimicrobial Prescribing, Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infection (APRHAI) and co-chair of the UK One Health Stakeholder Group.