Professor Ray Borrow PhD FRCPath – Ray is Head of the Vaccine Evaluation Unit at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). He is responsible for the evaluation of serological responses to various bacterial and viral vaccines with a special interest in meningococcal and pneumococcal vaccines. He is also the Head of the UKHSA Meningococcal Reference Unit for England, Wales & Northern Ireland.
He gained his PhD in 1994, his MRCPath in 2003, became an Honorary Professor of Vaccine Preventable Diseases at the University of Manchester in 2009, and Visiting Professor of the Manchester Metropolitan University in 2011. He served as a member of the DHSC Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) from 2006 to 2013 and frequently advises the World Health Organization and companies on meningococcal and pneumococcal vaccines. He is a member of the SAGE working group for meningococci. He has been a Trustee for the Meningitis Research Foundation from June 2017.