Aislinn Cook
Biography
Aislinn is a part-time DPhil student working with Koen Pouwels and Ben Cooper focusing on optimal antibiotic use. Her DPhil research focuses on deriving novel methods for estimating optimal national antibiotic use levels, providing some of the first estimates of optimal AWaRe antibiotic need for 186 countries. Her DPhil also includes work on surveillance of infections and antibiotic use in Africa and Asia.
Alongside her DPhil, Aislinn works as a senior research fellow in the Antibiotic Policy Group at City St. George's University of London on a range of projects focusing on national antibiotic policy, antibiotic stewardship in hospitals and primary care and empiric antibiotic treatment and infection prevention in neonates. She also co-leads the WHO Collaborating Centre for Antimicrobial Policy and Stewardship.
Aislinn has an MSc in the Control of Infectious Diseases from LSHTM and a BSc in Biology and Community Health from Tufts University.