Name:
Professor Catriona Waitt
Organisation:
University of Liverpool
Year elected:
2024
Primary professional setting:
Academia
My PhD explored mortality in pulmonary tuberculosis at the Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Clinical Research Programme (2005-2010). After completing my clinical training in Clinical Pharmacology and GIM in Liverpool, I moved to the Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University, Uganda in 2015 to establish the MILK: Maternal and Infant Lactation pharmacoKinetics programme. This Wellcome-funded Career Development Fellowship includes clinical studies, bioanalysis and pharmacokinetic modelling. I also established the ATtaining EQUity of Access TO Research (At The EQUATOR) community engagement & involvement project. Outputs include several films as well as ‘traditional’ scientific research outputs. For my research and also my efforts to increase visible diversity in research careers, I was awarded the British Pharmacological Society Equality, Diversity and Inclusion prize in 2021, and the American Society of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Dolores Shockley Diversity and Inclusion in Research award in 2024