Rosanna Peeling is currently Professor/Chair of Diagnostics Research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Director of the International Diagnostic Centre (IDC). Trained as a medical microbiologist, she was Research Coordinator and Head of Diagnostics Research at the UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases in Geneva and Chief of the National Laboratory for Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Canada before assuming her current position. Her research focuses on defining unmet diagnostic needs and facilitating test development, evaluation and implementation in developing countries. She established the IDC to advocate the value of diagnostics, foster innovation, and accelerate access to quality-assured diagnostics to improve global health.
She contributed to many WHO Guidelines and served as a member of the Global Validation Advisory Committee for the Elimination of Mother-to-Child-Transmission of HIV and Syphilis, the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on In Vitro Diagnostics (SAGE IVD), and the WHO COVID-19 Advisory panel for developing Target Product Profiles for diagnostics. She is a member of the Africa CDC COVID-19 Pandemic Laboratory Working Group and facilitated the establishment of the Africa CDC Biobanking Network for the evaluation of diagnostic tests for diseases of epidemic potential. She served as a member of the US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine’s Committee on Public Health Interventions and Countermeasures for Advancing Pandemic and Seasonal Influenza Preparedness and Response.
