These projects are part of a new Doctoral Training Programme in Microbial Genomics for Health Protection hosted at the University of Birmingham (UoB) in collaboration with the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). This is funded by NIHR as part of a Health Protection Unit in Public Health Genomics. In addition to the extensive training offered to all PhD students at UoB, the cohort of students on this DTP will receive training and opportunities at both UoB and UKHSA in the area of public health genomics. These projects are funded for UK students only.

• Leveraging genomics for improved metagenomic surveillance of Streptococcus pneumoniae
• Metagenomic Methods Development for Public Health Genomics and Pandemic Preparedness
• Understanding pathogen diversity in maternal and neonatal populations
• Integrating metagenomics into respiratory clinical healthcare pathways
• TB strain effects on resistance and outcomes in England
• Metagenomic methods to profile public health threats in wastewater and freshwater
• Nationwide Clostridioides difficile population dynamics
• Measles public health genomics - understanding measles evolution
• The Last of Us: Developing a Genomic Epidemiology Toolkit for Fungal Outbreaks