TOOKEY, PAT

Pat Tookey is a non-clinical epidemiologist at UCL's Institute of Child Health in London working mainly on antenatal screening and infections in pregnancy and childhood. She has been involved with the BPSU since it was established in 1986, and has carried out a number of BPSU studies including surveillance of neonatal herpes, congenital rubella, HIV infection and perinatal HIV exposure, and congenital cytomegalovirus. Pat has run the National Congenital Rubella Surveillance Programme for over 25 years, and maintains a close interest in and commitment to the control of rubella and prevention of congenital rubella. She has managed the National Study of HIV in Pregnancy and Childhood (NSHPC), the UK and Ireland’s surveillance system for obstetric and paediatric HIV, since 1995 and is committed to maximising the use of this rich resource for improving the care of women and children living with HIV, and working with the clinicians and other professionals who look after them. She is a co-investigator on the Collaborative HIV Paediatric Study (CHIPS), and AALPHI (Adolescents and Adults Living with Perinatal HIV Cohort), and a contributing author on the British HIV Association’s Guidelines on management of HIV infection in pregnant women, updated 2014, www.bhiva.org . She is also involved in the review and development of antenatal infection screening programmes (HIV, syphilis, Hepatitis B and rubella susceptibility), and developing methods for auditing antenatal screening outcomes.