Alison Holmes OBE FMedSci is Professor of Infectious Diseases and Director of the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare Associated Infections and AMR, UK and the Centre for Antimicrobial Optimisation (CAMO), at Imperial College London, UK. She is the David Price-Evans Chair of Infectious Diseases and Global Health at the University of Liverpool, UK. She is also the current President of the International Society for Infectious Diseases. Alison is an NIHR Senior Investigator and has a longstanding career in the NHS. She serves on WHO Expert groups related to antimicrobial use, AMR, infection prevention, sepsis, and COVID-19. She leads a large international, multidisciplinary infectious disease research programme, including collaborative programmes funded by NIHR, ESRC, UKRI and Wellcome Trust on the improved management and prevention of infections, particularly focusing on the optimising of antimicrobial use and addressing antimicrobial resistance through the integration of social sciences, the application of innovative approaches and technologies and the development of precision medicine.