Jenner Day 2026

At each meeting, investigators from the Institute for Infection and Immunity at City St George’s welcome friends and colleagues from across London, particularly from our major research partners (St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), other universities, UK Health Security Agency, the National Institute of Biological Standards and Controls, the Pirbright Institute, and the Animal and Plant Health Agency.

Presentations from researchers at City St George’s and invited colleagues cover a range of topics in academic and clinical sciences. These presentations feature work on major human bacterial, viral, parasitic and fungal pathogens and highlight our range of research interests; from molecular biology to systems biology, and from diagnostics to therapy and vaccines.

A highpoint of each meeting is the keynote Jenner Lecture, given by a distinguished speaker, whose work has had a major global health impact.

Jenner Day 2026

Jenner Day 2026 will be held on Wednesday 18 November 2026 with registration from 12.30pm in the Boardrooms  (Level 2, Hunter Wing) and a start of 1pm in the Michael Heron Lecture Theatre (Level 1, Hunter Wing) on our Tooting campus.

The Jenner Lecture will be Doctor Mary Ramsey, Director Public Health Programmes at the UK Health Security Agency and Professor of Vaccine Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

About the speaker

Doctor Mary Ramsey is Director for the Public Health Programmes at UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and an Honorary Professor of Vaccine Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

She became responsible for the national surveillance of vaccine preventable diseases and hepatitis in 1994 and since 2013 has taken on additional responsibilities for the design and implementation of all routine vaccine programmes and for the secretariat to the UK’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation.

She has been previously responsible for some EU surveillance schemes and has acted as a temporary advisor to the WHO on immunisation policy. She remains joint chief editor for the UK’s Immunisation against Infectious Disease (Green Book) alongside her broader management roles across a range of infection prevention programmes in her directorate.

Full list of lecturers from previous year

• 2025: Professor Wendy Barclay, Regius Chair of Infectious Disease, Imperial College London
• 2024: Professor Rino Rappuoli, Scientific Director of the Biotecnopolo di Siena Foundation and Head of MAD Lab Toscana Life Sciences
• 2023: Professor Keith Klugman from the Gates Foundation
• 2022: Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, former Deputy Chief Medical Officer
• 2021: Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, University of Oxford
• 2020: Professor Stewart Cole, Institute Pasteur
• 2019: Sir Brian Greenwood, LSHTM
• 2018: Professor Dennis Burton, Scripps Research, Ragon Institute, USA
• 2017: Professor Sharon Peacock, Sanger Institute/LSHTM
• 2016: Dr Marie-Paule Kieny, World Health Organization
• 2015: Professor Antonio Lanzavecchia, ETH Zurich
• 2014: Professor Robin Weiss, University College London
• 2013: Professor Tom Blundell, University of Cambridge
• 2012: Professor Arturo Casadevall, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
• 2011: Professor Philippe Sansonetti, College de France and Institut Pasteur
• 2010: Professor Sir Mark Walport, The Wellcome Trust
• 2009: Professor Myron M Levine, University of Maryland School of Medicine.