Kirsty Newman

Kirsty Newman is Research Uptake Manager with the Research and Evidence Division of the UK Department for International Development (DFID). She has a PhD in molecular virology and worked as a research fellow in the immunology department at LSHTM from 2004 to 2008. Since that time she has been working on capacity building programmes at the Wellcome Trust, the UK Parliament and the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications.