Contact information
susanne.hodgson@paediatrics.ox.ac.uk
susanne.hodgson@ndm.ox.ac.uk
Hannah Hart
hannah.hart@paediatrics.ox.ac.uk
She/Her
Research groups
Susanne Hodgson
BM BCh, MA, DTM&H, PGDipLATHE, MRCP, DPhil, FRCPath
Associate Professor & Consultant Physician
- Lead for Gonococcal Human Challenge Programme
Susanne Hodgson is a clinician scientist with experience in early-phase vaccine development and efficacy testing in the UK and low-income settings. She has a special interest in experimental medicine and controlled human infection studies to assess vaccine efficacy and natural immunity to infection.
She currently leads the Gonococcal Vaccine Project at the Jenner Institute and the Gonococcal Human Challenge Programme at the Oxford Vaccine Group.
Susanne is a practising physician specialising in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology and is a Research Fellow and Clinical Lecturer in Medicine at St Peter's College Oxford.
Recent publications
Moralized, Marginalized and Sanitized: How Stigma Shapes STI Vaccination Development, Policy and Uptake.
Journal article
Firth C. and Hodgson SH., (2026), J Int AIDS Soc, 29 Suppl 2
Development of clinical immunity to Plasmodium vivax following repeat controlled human malaria infection.
Journal article
Hou MM. et al, (2025), Nat Commun, 16
Gonorrhoea: rising cases and antimicrobial resistance.
Journal article
Davis P. et al, (2025), BMJ, 389
Acceptability of the gonorrhoea human challenge model to accelerate vaccine development in UK men.
Journal article
Firth C. et al, (2025), Vaccine, 54