I am a public health medicine consultant and a clinical lecturer in public health medicine in Queen's University Belfast. I led the introduction of Northern Ireland's antimicrobial use and resistance surveillance programme in 2017/18 and I am actively involved in research and initiatives to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing.
My PhD was in genomics, and as a result of this work I became an R user; since completing my PhD in 2012, I have used R for epidemiology and surveillance, mainly using the data.table package for information reshaping and summarising, regression methods for analysis and often using ggplot and Shiny for interactive data visualisation, including mapping.
Through my previous role as Northern Ireland's antimicrobial resistance lead, I have a good working knowledge of technical, informatics and clinical aspects of AMR surveillance.