Simon Drysdale
BSc (Hons), MBBS, PgDip PID (Oxford), PhD, FRCPCH, FHEA
Senior Vaccine Clinical Trials Paediatrician
- Senior Lecturer in Vaccinology
- Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology
Vaccines and preventing infections throughout life
Biography
Simon is a senior lecturer and consultant in paediatric infectious diseases and immunology at the University of Oxford and Children’s Hospital, Oxford. He acts as chief and principal investigator on multiple clinical trials investigating novel diagnostics, treatments, vaccines and monoclonal antibodies for a variety of infectious conditions. Simon is a member of several large European collaborative research studies. His main research interests are maternal and infant vaccinology, management, prevention and host susceptibility to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and other respiratory viral infections, and perinatal infections. He is the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) paediatric immunology and infectious diseases college specialty advisory committee (CSAC) training advisor. He also sits on multiple local, national, and international committees related to paediatrics including the UK Department of Health and Social Care’s (DHSC) Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) RSV subcommittee, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s (MHRA) Paediatric Medicine Expert Advisory Group (PMEAG), and he is a board member of the European Society of Paediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID).
Recent publications
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The Epidemiology and Clinical Burdens of Human Parainfluenza Virus Infections Amongst Hospitalized Children Under 5 Years of Age in Jordan: A National Multi-Center Cross-Sectional Study
Abu-Helalah M. et al, (2025), Viruses, 17, 170 - 170
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The recent landscape of RSV vaccine research.
Kelleher K. et al, (2025), Ther Adv Vaccines Immunother, 13
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The Epidemiology and Health Burdens of Influenza Infections Amongst Hospitalized Children Under 5 Years of Age in Jordan: A National Multi-Center Cross-Sectional Study.
Abu-Helalah M. et al, (2024), Vaccines (Basel), 13
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The Epidemiology, Clinical, and Economic Burdens of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections Amongst Hospitalized Children Under 5 Years of Age in Jordan: A National Multi-Center Cross-Sectional Study
Abu-Helalah M. et al, (2024), Viruses, 16, 1867 - 1867
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Prevention of respiratory syncytial virus disease by immunisation.
Benzaken TR. et al, (2024), Archives of disease in childhood. Education and practice edition