Dr Anne Leonard (She/her)

I am a Senior Lecturer at the European Centre for Environment and Human Health. Based in the Environment and Sustainability Institute on Penryn Campus, I work across the disciplines of environmental epidemiology and microbiology to understand how antimicrobial resistant bacteria and pathogens are transmitted in non-clinical environments and the implications for human health. My research spans climate change, sustainability, public health, microbial ecology and evolution, and evidence synthesis, with the ultimate goal of understanding how environmental processes shape the presence and fate of pathogens and resistance genes, and how this affects human health. 

Recent research projects

• BlueADAPT (https://blueadapt.eu/)
• Generating a mechanistic framework of multidrug resistance ecology, evolution and transmission
• Anglo-Canadian collaboration on antimicrobial resistance
• Antimicrobial resistance in bioaerosols: towards a national surveillance strategy
• A new conceptual framework for considering AMR in agricultural and natural environments
• Catchment-scale processes contributing to the transmission of antibiotic resistance
• Quantifying E. coli-borne antibiotic resistance genes in coastal bathing waters using novel Bayesian hierarchical models
• Mapping the evidence for the risks of human exposure and transmission of AMR in the natural environment.
• PIER project (https://www.universityofgalway.ie/pier/aboutpier/)

Qualifications:

• 2023 Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy
• 2016 PhD (University of Exeter)
• 2011 MSc (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
• 2010 BSc (University of Exeter)