Jefferies, Jo - University of Southampton

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Dr Jefferies studied Microbiology at the University of Sheffield and gained her PhD in bacterial genetics from the University of Glasgow. In Scotland she undertook post-doctoral research into the molecular epidemiology of Streptococcus pneumoniae, identifying variants of the key virulence factor and vaccine candidate Pneumolysin. She also worked as a senior research scientist in Scottish Meningococcus and Pneumococcus Reference Laboratory to introduce high-throughput multi-locus sequence typing of S. pneumoniae as a routine service in Scotland and developed an interest in Public Health. In 2007 she took up a post Senior Research Scientist as with the Health Protection Agency, Southampton and Honorary Research Fellow, University of Southampton as a co-investigator on a study with Dr Clarke and Dr Saul Faust to track changes in pneumococci colonising children following introduction of a new conjugate vaccine. She was awarded Honorary Lecturer status in 2010 and obtained in the same year obtained an MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Dr Jefferies is currently undertaking Specialty training in Public Health in the Oxford Deanery and became a member of the Faculty of Public Health a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2013.

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Dr Jefferies has a strong research interest in Health care associated infections and has published on Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections. She is currently lead investigator on a study using data from the Clinical Practice Research Database to understand the burden of post-operative S. aureus infections in surgical patients. She also has an interest in the molecular epidemiology of respiratory pathogens and the use of high throughput genome sequencing to understand bacterial epidemiology in the respiratory niche.