Dr Helen Payne is a Senior Clinical Lecturer at Imperial College London, dividing her time between research, teaching and working clinically as a consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children.

Helen Payne Profile | Imperial College London

She is also an honorary Research Fellow at Stellenbosch University. Dr Payne’s research interests are in congenital and neonatal infection, co-infections and neonatal immune ontogeny. The theme of her work is understanding mechanisms of severe cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease in infants and immune-suppressed young children, with focus upon stratifying treatment approaches, and she is running several studies within this theme.