Med-Vet-Net People – John Threlfall

John Threlfall

Project Manager, 2008 – Present

John has worked in the Health Protection Agency (formerly the Public Health Laboratory Service) for over 30 years, specializing in antimicrobial resistance and molecular epidemiology with particular emphasis on Salmonella infections. He is currently the Director of the HPA Laboratory of Enteric Pathogens, which is the national reference facility for enteric bacterial pathogens isolated from humans in England and Wales, and is based at the HPA Centre for Infections at Colindale.

Until September 2007 John was Joint Project Leader on the EU-funded EnterNet project (now subsumed into the ECDC) and prior to this was Principal Investigator on the EU-funded SalmGene project, which was the forerunner of PulseNet Europe. John has responsibility for the HPA for liaison with the Veterinary Laboratories Agency.

John has previously been Workpackage Leader of Med-Vet-Net WP4 – PulseNet Europe – and the Med-Vet-Net Institute Representative for the HPA.

John Threlfall was appointed Med-Vet-Net Project Manager on 1 March 2008.

John has published over 300 papers in the area of food-borne zoonoses and antimicrobial drug resistance.

John’s assistant is Kalpna Lakhani.