Harish Nair
Professor of Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Global Health
- Usher Institute
- College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Contact details
Address
- Street
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Usher Institute – University of Edinburgh
Old Medical School
Teviot Place - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AG
Background
Trained in clinical Paediatrics and Epidemiology, Professor Harish Nair leads the Respiratory Viral Epidemiology research programme at the University of Edinburgh. He has led several large collaborative projects on global child health and infectious diseases. He currently leads (and is the co-ordinator of) the REspiratory Syncytial virus Consortium in EUrope (RESCEU) and the RSV Global Epidemiology Network (RSV GEN). He is a co-founder of ReSViNET.
Undergraduate teaching
Professor Nair is involved in supervision of MBChB Student Selected Component (SSC) year 5 projects. He also supervises 1-2 MBChB students doing an intercalated degree in Epidemiology and Global Health. Students are generally offered projects that are part of the large research programme that he leads. He generally encourages all his students to take their work to publication and indeed most of his students have published in leading peer-reviewed journals. He also encourages and facilitate his students to do an internship with WHO. Previous students have found these opportunities to be very exciting and have managed to publish manuscripts based on their work at WHO.
Postgraduate teaching
Professor Nair leads the course titled “Epidemiology for Public Health” within the Master of Public Health (MPH) curriculum. He also lectures on the “Global Health Epidemiology” course. He supervises (on an average 2) MPH student dissertations every year.
Professor Nair is currently supervising 6 PhD students in Edinburgh on various topics related to his research interests – viral respiratory infections (2 students); refugee health (3 students); and gender inequities in child health (1 student). He is also co-supervising 2 PhD student projects on viral respiratory infections outwith Edinburgh.
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Project activity
Professor Harish Nair’s projects include work on child pneumonia, RSV, influenza and other infectious diseases like pneumococcus, meningococcus and Clostridium difficile.
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Leveraging the Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System for global respiratory syncytial virus surveillance-opportunities and challenges
In:
Influenza and other respiratory viruses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/irv.12672
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A systematic review of clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of bronchiolitis
In:
The Journal of Infectious Diseases
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiz240
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Association Between Respiratory Syncytial Virus-Associated Acute Lower Respiratory Infection in Early Life and Recurrent Wheeze and Asthma in Later Childhood
In:
The Journal of Infectious Diseases
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiz311
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Global patterns in monthly activity of influenza virus, respiratory syncytial virus, parainfluenza virus, and metapneumovirus: a systematic analysis
In:
The Lancet Global Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(19)30264-5
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Ethical considerations in the use of GPS-based movement tracking in health research - lessons from a care-seeking study in rural west India
In:
Journal of Global Health, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 010323
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.09.010323
Contribution to journal › Review article (E-pub ahead of print) -
A landscape review of the published research output relating to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in North & Central America and Europe between 2011-2015
In:
Journal of Global Health, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 010425
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.09.010425
Contribution to journal › Article (Published) -
National, regional, and state-level burden of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae type b disease in children in India: : modelled estimates for 2000-2015
In:
The Lancet Global Health, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. e735-e747
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(19)30081-6
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Serogroup-Specific Meningococcal Carriage by Age Group: : A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
In:
BMJ Open
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024343
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Global and regional burden of hospital admissions for pneumonia in older adults: : A systematic review and meta-analysis
In:
The Journal of Infectious Diseases
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiz053
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The etiological role of common respiratory viruses in acute respiratory infections in older adults: : A systematic review and meta-analysis
In:
The Journal of Infectious Diseases
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiy662
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)